Hate Crime (2012) on Netflix
A Jewish family moves into a new neighborhood and gathers to film its youngest son's birthday celebration. Crystal-meth-crazed neo-Nazis break into the home.
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Plot summary
The family is Jewish and has only recently moved into the neighborhood, and the youngest son's birthday is being filmed when neo-Nazis, high on crystal meth, force their way into the house. The intruders hold the family and subject them to beating and sexual assault, delivered along with racist invective, while the camera keeps recording. The story is told through that footage. The film premiered at the Pollygrind Film Festival, where it won awards for Best Transgression Film and Most Horrifying, and a later video-on-demand release in the United Kingdom was refused a certificate by the British Board of Film Classification, which cited the unremitting focus on abuse and the racist language used.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hate Crime (2012)
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- In March 2015 the British Board of Film Classification refused to issue a certificate to the film for a video-on-demand release, saying its unremitting focus on physical and sexual abuse, aggravated by racist invective, would risk potential harm and be unacceptable to broad public opinion.
- Bressack said that as a Jewish man and a victim of anti-Semitic hate he made a horror film depicting the very thing that haunts his dreams, to remind people that racial violence is on the rise, and that it saddened him to learn censorship was still alive and well.
