Britain bans Japanese horror filmBritain's film censors on Wednesday banned the Japanese sadistic horror film "Grotesque", saying its tale of extreme torture featured unrelenting brutality and minimal narrative. The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC BBFC British Board of Film Classification BBFC British Board of Film Censors ) rejected the DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , meaning it is unclassified and therefore cannot be legally supplied anywhere in Britain, with anyone doing so risking a heavy fine and imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. . "Grotesque" focuses on the sexual assault, humiliation and extreme torture of a male and female victim, the board said. The protagonist inflicts serious injuries on the restrained couple, including amputation amputation (ăm'pyətā`shən), removal of all or part of a limb or other body part. Although amputation has been practiced for centuries, the development of sophisticated techniques for treatment and prevention of infection has greatly , eye gouging, castration castration, removal of the sex glands of an animal, i.e., testes in the male, or ovaries and often the uterus in the female. Castration of the female animal is commonly referred to as spaying. and disembowelment dis·em·bow·el tr.v. dis·em·bow·eled or dis·em·bow·elled, dis·em·bow·el·ing or dis·em·bow·el·ling, dis·em·bow·els 1. To remove the entrails from. 2. To deprive of meaning or substance. . "The torture becomes even more extreme, leading to the gory and violent death of both hostages," the BBFC said. The board rejects films only rarely, preferring to give advice about how appropriate cuts would achieve the preferred certificate. "Unlike other recent torture-themed horror works, such as the 'Saw' and 'Hostel' series, 'Grotesque' features minimal narrative or character development and presents the audience with little more than an unrelenting and escalating scenario of humiliation, brutality and sadism," said BBFC director David Cooke. "The chief pleasure on offer seems to be in the spectacle of sadism (including sexual sadism) for its own sake." The distributors, who were hoping to receive an 18-certificate for the straight-to-DVD film, can appeal against the decision. 
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