In the controversy stakes eclipsing even The Human Centipede by a sizeable margin, the elusively titled A Serbian Film has been both praised and angrily condemned and was notoriously pulled from this year's FrighFest due to the number of cuts demanded by both the BBFC and Westminster Council, who stated that 'a film of this nature should not be shown in its entirety'.

Scripted by Serbian horror film critic Aleksandar Radivojevic (screenwriter of the award winning Tears For Sale), the debut feature from director Srdjan Spasojevic is an allegorical, taboo shattering film that according to Tim Anderson bloodydisgusting.com "follows French cinema pioneers Gaspar Noe (Irreversible) and Virginie Despentes (Baise-moi) in destroying the status quo regarding on-screen violence and sexuality." A twisted tale of an adult film star's horrifying descent into an almost unimaginable hell, Radivojevic himself describes the film as "a diary of our molestation by the Serbian government… It's about the monolithic power of leaders who hypnotize you to do things you don't want to do."

Milos (Srdjan Todorovic) is a retired porn star leading a normal family life with his wife Maria (Jelena Gavrilovic) and six-year old son Petar in tumultuous Serbia, trying to make ends meet. Aware of his problems, Layla (Katarina Zutic), a former co-star, introduces Milos to Vukmir (Sergej Trifunovic), a mysterious, menacing and politically powerful figure in the porn business who wants Milos to star in his latest project and is willing to pay him a fee that will provide financial support to Milos and his family for the rest of their lives. The only condition is that Milos signs a contract insisting on his absolute unawareness of the scripted scenes they are about to shoot.

Encouraged by his wife to accept the job, Milos turns up for the first day of shooting and is immediately drawn into a maelstrom of unbelievable cruelty and mayhem devised by his employer, the ‘director' of his destiny.
It soon becomes apparent that Vukmir and his crew will stop at nothing to complete his insane vision. The only way for Milos to escape the living cinematic hell he's entered and to save his family life is to sacrifice everything to Vukmir's art – his pride, his morality, his sanity, and maybe even his own life.

Deliberately confrontational and shocking, that Sam Ashurst in Total Film as "a stylishly shot, brilliantly written film, packed full of Oscar-worthy performances," but cautioned in the ver next paragraph, "be warned, it won't ever leave you. There are images in this film that will forever be tattooed on your mind's eye; no matter how much you wish you could remove them."

It may then come as a surprise that A Serbian Film has secured a UK cinema release from Revolver Entertainment on 10th December 2010, which will be just in time for that Christmas trip to the cinema. It should be noted, however, that those BBFC enforced cuts will remain and involve the removal of 4 minutes and 12 seconds of material which have been described by the BBFC themselves as being required "to remove portrayals of children in a sexualised or abusive context and images of sexual and sexualised violence which have a tendency to eroticise or endorse the behaviour."