The opening scene sets a morality-free tone: A couple is merely having sex … until it becomes clear that the sex is being viewed on television … by a child … who is the son of the male porn star on screen. The key words are “unthinkable terrors.” (Beware of spoilers on the film's litany of horrors.) Pursuing the foreign director and producer of A Serbian Film would be difficult logistically, so instead the prosecutor charged Sala - who programmed an adults-only screening in 2010 - with exhibiting “child pornography.”ĭirector Srdjan Spasojevic described the pitch for the film by email: In order to secure wealth for his family, a retired porn star plunges back into the depths of hard-core film production, “only this time, his diabolical employer has unthinkable terrors in store for him.” But is it illegal?Ī prosecutor in Barcelona has filed charges against Ángel Sala, the head of the nearby Sitges Fantasy and Horror Film Festival, which takes place every October and is among the world's most prestigious showcases for extreme cinema. Incorporating all manner of taboo from pedophilia to necrophilia into a wildly over-the-top political parable, this Film is definitely extreme. Many movies have aimed to portray the darkest recesses of the human imagination, but few have gone as far as A Serbian Film.