Certificate

For part of our evaluation we have to give an age rating for Beggars Hollow by the bbfc. It's been quite difficult deciding on what to rate our film, but I think we've all come to the conclusion that 15 would be the best rating for us.
Due to lots of controversy on horror films rated 12A, such as The Woman in Black, we decided that 12A would not be suitable for us. The Woman in Black had to eventually change their rating to 15 as many complaints were made about the film rating, and due to this we felt the same may happen to us as it has been our main inspiration.
We also decided that 18 would not be appropriate for our film, as we did not use any gore, strong violence or strong sexual content. Our film is not 'hardcore' enough for an 18 rating, and by giving ourselves one we would limit our target audience also.

Here are the ratings on horror:

• 'Moderate physical and psychological threat is permitted at 12A or 12A as long as horror sequences are not too frequent or sustained and the overall tone is not disturbing.'
• 'At 15 there can be strong threat and horror as long as there is no sustained focus on sadistic or sexualised threat.'
• 'At 18, horror films may contain very strong horror, gore or sustained threat.'