British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill

I can trade the hon. Gentleman Russ Meyer titles—““Faster, Pussycat…Kill! Kill!”” is another example that would meet his criteria. The Russ Meyer films are not to my taste, but I do not have any great objection to them—they are comic strips really. My hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury has to think carefully about a much more serious matter. I shall give two examples of the sort of films that cause me concern. The first is the ““Saw”” series—““Saw””, ““Saw II”” and ““Saw III””. The other is the ““Hostel”” series—““Hostel”” and ““Hostel part 2””. They show scenes of graphic torture and are known as torture porn. They are highly unpleasant, and because they are quite big-budget films, they are highly realistic. They are not grainy B movies; these are mainstream, big-budget Hollywood movies that are selling tickets by the million. They are some of the most successful films in the past couple of years. Those films should arguably have been cut more than they were, although I accept that a subjective judgment needed to be made about that. A more concerning point, to which I do not have an answer, is the fact that millions of our fellow citizens chose to go to watch them. My hon. Friend must accept that if his Bill were to pass, he would be addressing not the kind of films watched by a small number of rather strange people, but the kind of films watched by huge numbers of people who get enjoyment from them.