Attack The Block

-Attack The Block is a British horror movie.It is set in a South London housing estate and follows a group of teen muggers, who form an unlikely alliance with a nurse they have robbed, when aliens attack their tower block.

-The characters, the tone of the work and the general address, that it had strong appeal to older teenage viewers.The film contains frequent strong language from the start, with over 50 uses of 'f**k' and some uses of 'motherf****r' throughout. Under current BBFC Guidelines, where only infrequent strong language is permitted at 12A, the work was automatically therefore a 15 category within the first reel.

-The violence, gore and threat in the film are strong, with some scenes of bloody injury as human characters are bitten, scratched, attacked and killed.

-The BBFC Guidelines at 15 state that 'drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse'. Examiners had to consider whether the volume of drugs references ‘normalise’ drug taking, or merely reflect the world of the film where some characters take drugs and others are more critical of it. They also had to bear in mind precedents for soft drug taking and dealing in works classified 15.