Certifiable censors
After years of speculation, the grandaddy of all graphic novels, Watchmen, is finally hitting the big screen. Across the water, the British Board of Film Classification has given it an 18s cert, while here, after some pleading from Paramount Pictures, our own board has made it 16s.
This despite the fact that, according to the Brits, the film contains one rape scene and is filled with graphic violence, including one scene in which " a man is stabbed through the arm, with it forcefully twisted and broken, as the knife is shown penetrating his arm and emerging from the other side."
"In another, a man is shown being struck in the head with a meat cleaver followed by repeated bloody sight of the cleaver striking the head."
Blood, cleavers, knives? Sounds like our kind of movie - see you at the flicks!
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