Alien: Romulus Rated 15 in UK

[R0mulu$]

Finally a rating on BBFC in the UK. Rated 15 for Strong Horror, Gore, Language. Kinda wished for an 18 rating because of Fede being involved with the gore being mean spirited eg Alien 3, but oh well.

https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/alien-romulus-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdiwmza3

[Slutty Badger]

Finally a rating on BBFC in the UK. Rated 15 for Strong Horror, Gore, Language. Kinda wished for an 18 rating because of Fede being involved with the gore being mean spirited eg Alien 3, but oh well.

https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/alien-romulus-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0xmdiwmza3

Covenant is a 15 and is just about as gory as a film can get within the constraints of that rating, so I'm okay with it.

[GrimmVision]

I'm curious of the rating system by the BBFC? Both Aliens and Resurrection are rated an 18? But all of the other entries in the franchise are rated a 15? That's a bit bizarre, right?

[AlienatedPredator]

Just a sign of the times. Even young kids these days are completely desensitized to every kind of horrific, cruel violence imaginable. Shitty parenting at its finest.

[Slutty Badger]

I'm curious of the rating system by the BBFC? Both Aliens and Resurrection are rated an 18? But all of the other entries in the franchise are rated a 15? That's a bit bizarre, right?

I thought they were all rated 15 now.

[TheBATMAN]

Yeah a 15 today is the equivalent of what an 18 would have been in times gone by. The BBFC very rarely rate films 18 these days.

[aliens13]

Yeah a 15 today is the equivalent of what an 18 would have been in times gone by. The BBFC very rarely rate films 18 these days.

Did Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead have been rated 18 by the BBFC?

[GrimmVision]

I'm curious of the rating system by the BBFC? Both Aliens and Resurrection are rated an 18? But all of the other entries in the franchise are rated a 15? That's a bit bizarre, right?

I thought they were all rated 15 now.

Yeah, sorry, their initial ratings were 18. I just looked under the home releases or their respective pages and those were brought down to 15.

Yeah a 15 today is the equivalent of what an 18 would have been in times gone by. The BBFC very rarely rate films 18 these days.

Did Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead have been rated 18 by the BBFC?

Fede's Evil Dead is rated 18, yes. But it should be given the rape scene and the 50,000 gallons of blood they used.

I don't expect Romulus to be nearly as over the top in its brutality and gore as The Evil Dead lends itself to being, even with Evil Dead's more recent, more serious iterations.

[BigDaddyJohn]

I just hope violence to be impactful in this one, not just cool gory effects. I wanna feel pain.

[Slutty Badger]

I just hope violence to be impactful in this one, not just cool gory effects. I wanna feel pain.

I'm more of the "hope it has a good story" persuasion.

[Feral_PRED]

I just hope violence to be impactful in this one, not just cool gory effects. I wanna feel pain.

After rewatching Fede's Evil Dead, I am pretty sure that we're going to suffer.

[cucuchu]

Just took a few minutes and looking at the way they rate films , the ratings are very subjective it seems. Even in the last 5 years of releases they have different descriptive phrasing for their rating reasoning, it's not very consistent.

Something could have insane, over the top gore but I could understand a 15 rating but then I see they gave 'The Coffee Table' a 15 and I for certain would personally put it at an 18 (DO NOT READ if you ever plan on watching it)

Spoiler

with how realistic of a scenario it is and the dread of it all, a man falling apart as he deals with his baby that has been torn to pieces by glass, the head he can't bring himself to pick up as he tries to hide what happened from his wife returning from the store, and the tension from her being so happy to finally have a child in her 40's and then this shit happens, she's gonna find out, it's all very real the way it is shot

[close]

I imagine Romulus will be impactful gore and, and like someone mentioned without sexual violence it's probably not gonna to merit an 18 these days based on what I've seen just going through their ratings I've the last 5 years.

[Darkness]

Looking at the listings, surprisingly, the only two films in the series to still be rated an 18 are Aliens and Alien Resurrection.

[Kane's other son]

Alien as a franchise was never about the gore.

[343]

Looking at the listings, surprisingly, the only two films in the series to still be rated an 18 are Aliens and Alien Resurrection.

Maybe the ratingsystem was different back then?