• Director(s)

    David Greene

  • Production Year

    1969

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    105m

  • Cast

    Clare Sutcliffe, Bryan Marshall, Jenny Agutter

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I Start Counting

strong sex references, threat, sexual threat, nudity

I START COUNTING is a 1969 British drama in which a teenager begins to suspect that her adult brother is a serial killer.…

I START COUNTING is a 1969 British drama in which a teenager begins to suspect that her adult brother is a serial killer.

threat and horror
There are scenes of strong threat when a girl discovers the dead body of her friend and is then chased by the killer.
sex
A 14-year-old girl experiences romantic and sexual feelings towards her adult brother by adoption, who does not return her feelings. In one scene she imagines him kissing her, and in another she fantasises about him walking into the room while she takes a bath; there is no visible nudity, and her fantasies go no further. In other scenes we see men and boys staring at teenage girls’ exposed underwear when their skirts ride up. In a moderate scene of sex, a teenager finds a man lying on top of a woman in bed while the woman moans and scratches at his back.
sexual violence and sexual threat
When a teenage girl flirts with a grown man, he reacts with anger and pins her under his body in order to frighten her. A teenage boy makes crass but non-graphic comments about sexual violence.
nudity
There are brief images of naked women, featuring breast and rear nudity, in posters on the wall of a workshop.
additional issues
In a flashback sequence a child finds a dead woman lying in a small pool of blood after an off-screen accident. Another scene contains brief visual and verbal references to attempted suicide. There are infrequent moderate references to drugs and drug dealing. There is also infrequent use of discriminatory terms (‘retarded’, ‘bent’), as well as mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘tart’).

  • Director(s)

    David Greene

  • Production Year

    1969

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    105m

  • Cast

    Clare Sutcliffe, Bryan Marshall, Jenny Agutter

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Classified Date:
01/07/1970
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Triumvirate Films
strong sex references, threat, sexual threat, nudity
Classified Date:
01/03/2021
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
BFI Video
threat and horror
There are scenes of strong threat when a girl discovers the dead body of her friend and is then chased by the killer.
sex
A 14-year-old girl experiences romantic and sexual feelings towards her adult brother by adoption, who does not return her feelings. In one scene she imagines him kissing her, and in another she fantasises about him walking into the room while she takes a bath; there is no visible nudity, and her fantasies go no further. In other scenes we see men and boys staring at teenage girls’ exposed underwear when their skirts ride up. In a moderate scene of sex, a teenager finds a man lying on top of a woman in bed while the woman moans and scratches at his back.
sexual violence and sexual threat
When a teenage girl flirts with a grown man, he reacts with anger and pins her under his body in order to frighten her. A teenage boy makes crass but non-graphic comments about sexual violence.
nudity
There are brief images of naked women, featuring breast and rear nudity, in posters on the wall of a workshop.
additional issues
In a flashback sequence a child finds a dead woman lying in a small pool of blood after an off-screen accident. Another scene contains brief visual and verbal references to attempted suicide. There are infrequent moderate references to drugs and drug dealing. There is also infrequent use of discriminatory terms (‘retarded’, ‘bent’), as well as mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘tart’).

  • Classified date

    01/03/2021