• Director(s)

    Roy William Neill

  • Production Year

    1934

  • Date

    02/09/1934

  • Genre(s)

    Horror, Mystery, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    69m

  • Cast

    Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Dorothy Burgess

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BLACK MOON

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BLACK MOON is a 1934 US mystery thriller in which a woman finds herself drawn back to the Caribbean island where she was born.…

BLACK MOON is a 1934 US mystery thriller in which a woman finds herself drawn back to the Caribbean island where she was born.

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The Black population of a fictional island in the Caribbean is portrayed as violent and dangerous, partaking in human sacrifice and ‘blood worship’. Other characters refer to the local people using outdated and racist terms such as ‘negroes’, ‘blacks’ and ‘monkey chasers’, and in one scene a Black man is addressed as ‘boy’.
additional issues
There are scenes of mild threat, including ones in which a brainwashed woman is persuaded to offer her young daughter as a ritual sacrifice. The woman is seen raising a machete above the child’s head before another person intervenes. Several people are shot, and another person is fatally struck in the back by a knife, with fleeting bloody aftermath detail. There is brief undetailed sight of a hanging body and of a human foot sticking out of a lava pit in the aftermath of implied off-screen murders. Other issues include infrequent very mild references to adultery and ‘living in sin’, and a passing undetailed reference to suicide.

  • Director(s)

    Roy William Neill

  • Production Year

    1934

  • Date

    02/09/1934

  • Genre(s)

    Horror, Mystery, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    69m

  • Cast

    Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Dorothy Burgess

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The BBFC determined this content to be unsuitable for classification at the time it was submitted.
Unsuitable for classification
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia Picture Corp. Ltd
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Classified Date:
21/10/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Powerhouse Films UK
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The Black population of a fictional island in the Caribbean is portrayed as violent and dangerous, partaking in human sacrifice and ‘blood worship’. Other characters refer to the local people using outdated and racist terms such as ‘negroes’, ‘blacks’ and ‘monkey chasers’, and in one scene a Black man is addressed as ‘boy’.
additional issues
There are scenes of mild threat, including ones in which a brainwashed woman is persuaded to offer her young daughter as a ritual sacrifice. The woman is seen raising a machete above the child’s head before another person intervenes. Several people are shot, and another person is fatally struck in the back by a knife, with fleeting bloody aftermath detail. There is brief undetailed sight of a hanging body and of a human foot sticking out of a lava pit in the aftermath of implied off-screen murders. Other issues include infrequent very mild references to adultery and ‘living in sin’, and a passing undetailed reference to suicide.

  • Classified date

    21/10/2024