Director explains truth behind why ‘most disturbing’ horror banned in 46 countries is so ‘vile’

The director of a documentary exploring behind-the-scenes of the most notorious movies ever made has explained why the flick is not 'vile for vile’s sake'.

In 2010 Serbian director Srđan Spasojević would team up with writer Aleksandar Radivojević to create a film so extreme that it has been banned 46 countries and had to undergo serious cuts before the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) would even consider releasing it.

Titled A Serbian Film, the story follows a Miloš, an aging pornographic actor who takes one final job in a bid to secure his family's finances. However, when he learns the job entails extreme violence, torture, necrophilia, rape, and murder he refuses.

Miloš attempts to leave but is ultimately drugged, waking up several days later to discover he was forced into performing extreme acts of sexual violence on anyone put in front of him, including his own six-year-old son.

So you can see why the film caused so much uproar upon release.

Fifteen years on and the film has now been revisited by US film producer Stephen Biro, who's utilised behind-the-scenes footage to create A Serbian Documentary.

According to Biro, he hopes the documentary will bring a new perspective to the gruesome film and explain the reasons why Spasojević and Radivojević decided to depict such violent imagery on-screen.

Speaking ahead of A Serbian Documentary's release in an interview with Metro, Biro explained how the 2010 film isn't just 'vile for vile’s sake', but instead closely intertwined with the history of Serbia.

"Serbia went through genocide. That was the whole point of the movie," he explains.

"That’s why there are scenes in there that for normal people are a lot."

Biro goes on to add that the violence in the film is meant to be a metaphor of the horrors people face in post-war societies.

"It’s vile for the sake of what the people dealt with in Serbia," he states.

A new documentary has revisited A Serbian Film

"It’s like what Srdjan says at the end of the documentary: Humankind deserves worse than what I’ve depicted."

This is a view which Spasojević has himself explained in the past, with the director previously explaining to LADbible why it was important to him for A Serbian Film to be centred around porn.

"Why not a baker, why not a lawyer?" he explained. "It would be all the same. The guy would end up in the same place, raped in the gutter. No-one cares.

"Humankind failed to create a nice place on this planet... when you have a family, it cannot survive on its own, it cannot win that battle - a family is influenced by everything around it."