Warner Brothers VS. BBFC - Gremlins

After a debate, we realised that there can be a huge communication defect between the makers and the BBFC officials. When talking about the popular film Gremlins, we realised that the BBFC would have had the better option in making it a 15 because of the violence and the content shown. In 1984, Warner Brothers created Gremlins in order to show children an element of violence without revealing to much but when the BBFC got shown the movie, they instantly decided that the content was too intense to be show to children under the age of 15. By using the cute character of Gizmo to entice younger children, Warner Brothers soon got carried away in the making of the horror elements in the film. As there is no sexual content, continuous swearing and visible drug and alcohol usage, Warner Brothers thought the classification would be as good as PG. The BBFC thought different.