Banned Movie Posters
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Published
03/20/2011
... and reasons why
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Banned in UK for allegedly glamorizing the use of guns and violence and was deemed unsuitable for children. -
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The billboard features sizzler Elisha Cuthbert in various states of abduction, torture, confinement and finally termination. After torrents of complaints, the ads were pulled by the producers who claimed a printing cockup. -
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Featuring a sweet highschool student with a set of vaginal dentures. -
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Swiftly ruled by ASA to be pornographic and offensive. Well the producers pretty much asked for it. -
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Condemned for showing Paris fashion pioneer and tobacco enthusiast Coco Chanel (Audrey Tautou) taking a smoke. -
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the Australian horror flick's stomach churning poster was deemed too gruesome to hang on bus shelters -
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Banned by MPAA for being unacceptable and gruesome. -
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Posters for the comedy were banned from UK's public transport because the title was judged to be to sexually offensive. -
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The knife wound on the cheek and the words' SLASH-TASTIC KILLER THRILLER. THE BLOOD FLIES OFF THE SCREEN! were enough for UK's ASA -
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The poster was banned by two Israeli cities who did not want the word sex on display. The distributer refused to remove sex from the posters and compared it with removing Coca from Coca Cola. -
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The Poster for the Hong Kong exploitation flick is still banned in China for obvious reasons. -
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Banned by MPAA for depicting violence towards an individual. -
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Banned from the London Underground (LU) for the fear of upsetting the commuters. The producers protested as the movie was filmed in the LU network with their own permission and posters of other 18+ horror movies were allowed on the tube. LU later realized the contradiction and lifted the ban. -
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Park Chan-wook's vampire offering had its posters banned in Korea for depicting a priest in a sexual situation. -
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The MPAA didn't fancy the hood and censured the poster for depicting torture, which wasn't appropriate for children to see -
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Banned because this particular arrangement of toys was considered offensive and obscene. -
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Two of the three for the action flick were banned by the UK watchdog Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for suggesting a direct aggression that could be seen to glamorise the use of guns and violence. -
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Banned as a part of MPAA's Hooded Menace Inquisition. -
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Looks quite innocent on the first glance. Take a look at the bottom. This poster is banned in the US
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