Target Audience: '18' Guidelines

The BBFC don't have specific guidelines for 18 certificate films and so instead I just looked into more case studies and why they're rated an 18.

SCREAM:

There are frequent scenes of strong bloody violence in which people are killed after being terrorised, stalked and chased by a masked figure wielding a large knife. Most of the killings involve characters getting stabbed, shot or having their throat slashed with strong bloody detail. There is a scene in which a character attempts to crawl through a cat flap and has her head decapitated by a garage door.

After doing research I found that generally films which are rated at an 18 contain strong bloody violence, extreme violence, extreme gore, sexual violence...

This research rules out the certificate 18 for my own horror film because I don't want it to include anything too disturbing and I think a lot of horror films tend to be rated 15.