The first scene, from 55seconds in, demonstrates the supernatural violence shown in the series, as well as the mild horror in the form of seemingly unstoppable beings killing innocent people. The second scene from 2.00mins in demonstrates the highly choreographed fight scenes that are frequent in Charmed, this scene depicts very strong physical violence and use of a weapon, in the form of an Athamé, a small, serrated ceremonial dagger, a weapon used frequently by different characters throughout all 8 series. The use of weapons, and graphic scenes of stabbings, spontaneous combustion, and explosions and the aftermath of the violence, where injuries, and blood are often dwelled on has meant that, although on pre-watershed, the series as a whole has been categorised as a 15 by the BBFC.
These graphic scenes from Charmed show us the use of weapons, portrayal of injury and scenes of horror from across all the series of Charmed. BBFC guidelines say that in a 15, 'should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury', however, in the context of the show, this man who is on fire is a demon, and is portrayed as a "bad guy" and all of his actions are clearly disapproved off, before this scene, which is in self defence, within the show demons are shown to look like humans but with a alternate look, like the bottom left picture hidden within, and so are not presented as human beings, and so some ethical issues are taken away by the sub-human nature of the demons. Although violence is common, Charmed portrays gender equality, rather than the three sisters being cleaners, or stay at home mothers we see all four with well payed and respected jobs, Prudence was a prominent auctioneer, Piper owns a night club of which she is the manager, Phoebe is a journalist and writes an advice column in a large newspaper, and Paige, the youngest is to begin with, a social worker, before giving up her to job to focus on her true calling, witchcraft.
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