Srdjan Spasojevic’s A Serbian Film has become particularly well-known over the years for its explicit content and vile subject matter. It’s become a controversial topic for critics and audiences. Horror fans can’t decide if the movie has earned its use of shock value by being a disturbing political satire – or if it simply is just too much. Apparently eBay believes the latter.
Earlier last week a multitude of props from the film were put up for sale on eBay. This includes a prop designed to look like a baby for one rather horrific scene of the film. Now it appears eBay has not only banned the auction, but the website has removed all of the listings as well.
“They have even refused to sell the costumes, stuffed toys and well, you know, the other stuff,” Unearthed Films said in a statement.
There isn’t any clear-cut reason for the removal but it’s not surprising. Many horror film buffs may notice eBay will remove their listings for more bizarre titles like the German Nekromantic films. If they’re willing to remove those, it sure enough isn’t shocking they’d remove a lifelike baby prop from a really disturbing movie.
As a counteraction, Unearthed Films has set up their own website which will auction off the items free of eBay’s control. In fact, as they’ve worded it, they’ll be “unable to enforce their narrow-minded morality test.”
Here’s the infamous baby prop below, which originally had a starting bid of $6,000.
“The Baby that shook the world! This is the original screen used Baby from A Serbian Film that featured in One of the most talked about, praised and condemned, censored and celebrated, and downright disgusting scenes in cinema history. This rare one of a kind prop can be yours if the price is right.”