A Serbian Film is one of the newest and apparently most grotesque of the kind of protest-sparking, boundary-pushing horror films that always make waves. This particular film, which follows a retired porn star who slides back into the industry under a bizarre contract to support his family, has accumulated a particularly massive amount controversy with its premise that comes a cross as a more interesting version of Saw that exchanges violent death-traps for violent sexual-scenarios, all in service to a tortuous look at the corruption of the powerful.
We’re pleased to be one of the first to bring you the UK-specific trailer, announcing the film’s release into cinemas on the 10th of December, and on DVD/Blu-ray the 3rd of January. Check it out…
The filmmakers have also launched a new website to celebrate the film molesting its way into the UK, with plenty of materials and a big collection of reviews and articles detailing the fervor over the films’ content.
I don’t want to say I’m “looking forward” to seeing the film exactly, but I am desperate to get my hands on it. Hopefully we’ll be able to bring you a review that deeply analyzes and critiques the baby shenanigans and bedtime wonders that supposedly make up the film’s crazier moments. This is all assuming I don’t watch A Serbian Film and start to cut off my own pieces.
I wish I had more news about an American presence for the film beyond festival appearances, but alas- not yet. We’ll certainly keep you updated though… Until then, enjoy the full synopsis, enlargeable poster and stills below.
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.


14 comments
I just realized that the director character is "Goran " from Savior, badass. He finally got his Luke Perry sideburns.
Why doesn't this mention that the Serbian Film playing in the UK will be heavily, monstrously edited down from the version that 'scares' Renn so much? Probably because Renn, a 19 year old halfwit who wouldn't know how to do a Google search if Vagina of the Day depended on it, has no idea.
Why is it that CHUD is no longer giving me good information? I don't come here for the blooper reels of site staff. Is it too much to ask that the article about the UK release of Serbian Film include any of the history of Serbian Film in the UK, such as how it was pulled from UK FrightFest at the last moment due to the government asking for major cuts?
Somehow, I misread "retired" as "retarded" in that first paragraph. I think I just invented a more fucked-up movie.
Yeah, it seems like you need to be more informed about the cuts to the film Quantum. You seem totally oblivious to it being pulled from FrightFest as well meaning that Renn should have told you more about the film's UK history. On a site with probably 99% US readers.
The film is pretty good and has a good deal to say about voyeurism and war and the pornography of war journalism (given that porn is broadly about spectacle focused on an unknowable and abstract other for specific effect and the same argument could be made about war journalism) but it is a bit over the top in places. It still upset me quite a bit but unintentional humour creeps in now and then. Seven and a half out of ten.
Keith, you're not the only one who read "retarded" in the description of the movie.
The poster should say, "If you have an interest in seeing a newborn baby raped, seeing a man unknowingly ass-rape his own son, and seeing a man decapitate a woman while he has sex with her, this movie is for your dumb, sick ass!" Oops…SPOILER ALERT!
You can download the unedited screener if you absolutely have to see this piece of shit. Don't pay for it. It will only encourage them to make more of the same.
99% US readers? Doubtful. 4m12s of cuts to the UK version film, for the record.
Man this movie is brutal. It makes Salo look like Weekend at Bernies. TWO, no less. It fucked me up.
This film has a US distributor, Invincible Films. The film will be cut to receive an r-rating and get a theatrical release in America. Showtime has already agreed to show the r-rated version on cable television. The dvd will be released uncut in the US.
I think this is a film that needs to have its more explicit elements spoiled. (I haven't seen it, but) I understand that it contains scenes of ultra-extreme brutality – including a newborn baby being raped. As a new father, I do not want to watch the depiction of a baby being raped. If I were to watch this film and come across such a scene unawares, I'd be fucking angry. People need to be informed before choosing to watch content of that nature. I don't begrudge anyone else's right to watch stuff like that, but I will never, ever watch this film.
Why the fuck would people actually pay money to watch this deranged bullshit?
To comment #12 and everyone else that's asking: Because it's a really, really well-made film. Forget the horrible stuff (although once you see it you won't be able to) and just look at it from a purely formalist point of view. Everything about it, the direction, both of the composition and of the actors, the cinematography, the score….they are honestly all top notch. And that makes it even MORE unsettling: so much love and care went into this movie. Don't just dismiss it because of its content. I don't blame you for not wanting to see it, because I can't honestly ever actually RECOMMEND it to anyone, but to call it 'bullshit' sight unseen is kinda dumb to me. It's most definitely not.
I watched the uncut screener of this film last night, I consider myself a pretty tough minded, when it comes to cinema.
I have NEVER had a movie affect me so badly emotionally, and i've seen my fair share of "video nasties".
I agree that it is an exceptionally well crafted movie, and for this reason I couldnt stop watching (even tho i wanted to at the sign "home for orphaned and abandoned children").
There were no real surprises for me, I knew where the film was going (apart from identity of masked accomplice) but i was still curled up in a ball, wanting to be sick and in tears by the end of it, and I'm a 36 year old man!
Today I have been left with what i can only describe as Post Traumatic Stress, I am haunted by the images in this film and they keep flashing to the front of my mind (not an easy thing to deal with when it happens whilst you are cuddling your 2 year old daughter).
You may read this and be facinated and compelled to see it like someone rubbernecking a car crash, don't, this is far worse! I truly wish I hadn't watched it. Do yourself a favour,
NEVER WATCH THIS FILM
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