Picnic At Hanging Rock

threat and horror

An unsettling tone pervades the film as the disappearance of the women - which is never explained - and speculation about what happened to them has psychological effects on various characters. A scared young woman screams as her friends move out of her sight into what she perceives as danger. A group of young women assail one of the missing school students who has been recovered, insisting hysterically that she must know something of what happened to the others. Amidst the speculation there are claims that the women were abducted.

suicide and self-harm

The body of a woman is found in a greenhouse with the implication that she had fallen through its roof from a height intending to kill herself. There is no injury detail. It is also implied that another character took their own life in an off-screen incident.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There is discreetly expressed speculation that the missing women were victims of molestation or sexual violence, but a doctor who has examined those who have been recovered gives assurances that this is not the case and that they are “intact”.

additional issues: There is mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘bugger’), as well as very mild terms (‘Jesus’, ‘hell’). There are mild sex references. There is mild injury detail. There is brief sexist behaviour as a young man wolf-whistles at a group of young women and makes comments about their figures to a male friend. An indigenous man is referred to as an 'Abo', and a woman is called 'fat'; the film does not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour. There are scenes of smoking in a historical context.

Classified Date:

19/07/1976

Version:

2D

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

G.T.O. Films

unsettling scenes, sexual violence references, suicide references

Classified Date:

28/03/2023

Version:

2D

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Second Sight Films

threat and horror

An unsettling tone pervades the film as the disappearance of the women - which is never explained - and speculation about what happened to them has psychological effects on various characters. A scared young woman screams as her friends move out of her sight into what she perceives as danger. A group of young women assail one of the missing school students who has been recovered, insisting hysterically that she must know something of what happened to the others. Amidst the speculation there are claims that the women were abducted.

suicide and self-harm

The body of a woman is found in a greenhouse with the implication that she had fallen through its roof from a height intending to kill herself. There is no injury detail. It is also implied that another character took their own life in an off-screen incident.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There is discreetly expressed speculation that the missing women were victims of molestation or sexual violence, but a doctor who has examined those who have been recovered gives assurances that this is not the case and that they are “intact”.

additional issues: There is mild bad language (‘bloody’, ‘bugger’), as well as very mild terms (‘Jesus’, ‘hell’). There are mild sex references. There is mild injury detail. There is brief sexist behaviour as a young man wolf-whistles at a group of young women and makes comments about their figures to a male friend. An indigenous man is referred to as an 'Abo', and a woman is called 'fat'; the film does not endorse discriminatory language or behaviour. There are scenes of smoking in a historical context.

Classified Date:

21/11/2007

Version:

2D

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Second Sight Films

Contains mild horror, threat, language and sex references

Classified Date:

05/11/2007

Version:

2D

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Second Sight Films

Classified Date:

06/06/2003

Version:

2D

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Pathe Distribution

Paperwork Remarks:

Abridged version

Classified Date:

18/02/1999

Version:

2D

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Polygram Video Ltd

Classified Date:

03/12/1993

Version:

2D

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Electric Pictures

Classified Date:

04/04/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Second Sight Films

Classified date

28/03/2023
Language

English

Director(s)

Peter Weir

Production Year

1975

Genre(s)

Drama

Approx. running minutes

119m

Cast

Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse