It has begun

When The 13th Floor talked about I spit on your grave remake a few days ago it didn´t expect to come back to this film as soon as it has happened. The remake of the eighty´s controversial film will be screened these days at the UK´s Frightfest in London. Nevertheless, the movie that the viewers will be seeing is not the cut the filmakers wanted to show.

According to Screen Daily, the The British Board Of Film Classification (BBFC) has cut the film to recieve a "18" rated, which would be the same of an Rated R in the U.S.A. David Cooke, Director of the BBFC,  explained why they had to edit the movie: “The cuts to this version of I Spit on Your Grave, which the Board has required, remove elements that tend to eroticise sexual assault (for example, through the use of titillation), as well as other elements that tend to endorse sexual assault (for example, by encouraging viewer complicity by the use of camcorder footage, filmed by the rapists, during the various scenes of sexual assault).  With these cuts made, the film’s scenes of very strong terrorisation and sexual violence remain potentially shocking, distressing or offensive to some adult viewers, but are also likely to be found essentially repugnant and aversive. The Board takes the view that, with these cuts, they are not credibly likely to encourage imitation.”

The guys of Arrow in the Head do not agree with the reason given by Cooke, as they think the movie never intend to "eroticed" the rape and neither "encourages viewer complicity".  The 13th Floor remembered a few days ago how the original movie was banned in so many countries and we argued that nowadays the viewers has a more open mind to recieve a film like this one. Apparently, we were wrong.