Halloween Movies: 5 horror movies that have been banned for their strong scenes

There is no better day of the year than Halloween to watch a good horror movie.

And there are horror movies for all tastes. The cinematic references of the genre have left nothing unexplored.

For lovers of atmospheric horror rather indie There are titles like The Witch or mid summer; for those linked to classic fears, those of the universe of The spell; for those chasing strong emotions, they could be, why not, some of these that we will examine below.

Here, 5 horror films banned in at least one country due to their ultraviolent or offensive content.

The exorcist

The exorcistfrom William Friedkin, may be the most popular horror movie of all time. There aren’t many others who dispute this position.

The popularity of the film has not only to do with its excellent and innovative technical and narrative development, but also with the curiosity that historically provokes the viewing of banned films.

The Exorcist received the most restrictive classification of all, the “R” from the Motion Picture Association of the United States.

In Singapore, for example, it was banned for violating the law banning the screening of “films that denigrate any religious group” and “language that denigrates religion or is religiously profane”. Malaysia also did not screen it.

In the UK, although the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) initially showed it in theaters, it was reclassified in 1984 and banned four years later.

Hostel: part II

The plots of the first two films of the trilogy inn they are not very friendly towards Europe.

In both, a group of Americans flies to the Old Continent and it is in those lands that they find torture and death. In the first scene of the terror is Slovakia and in the second Rome.

The bad press the original Hostel gave to Eastern Europe was bearable. Not so the tip for the second. Hostel: part II it was not screened in Germany and, already crossing the ocean, not even in New Zealand.

Cannibal Holocaust

Italian Ruggero Deodato Nothing is held back in Cannibal Holocaust: his film is suffused with unstoppable explicit violence and depicts a real slaughter of animals.

So realistic are the deaths seen Cannibal Holocaust that there is a myth that the film is a snuff film, that is, a film that shows real murders. For this Deodato was accused of killing his actors, a crime that the director had the responsibility to fight by bringing one of them (alive) to court.

The film was not only banned in Italy. It has also been censored in 40 other countries, including Australia, Norway, the UK and Ireland. The United States banned it for five years after its premiere, showing it for only a few weeks in 1985 and only republishing it in 2005.

The last house on the left

A year earlier The exorcist, Wes Craven premiered a story that the Swede had already filmed Ingmar Bergmann with several less doses of blood and violence. Treats, like many films of the subgenre Rape and revenge (Rape and Revenge), about two girls who are kidnapped, raped and killed and then there is revenge against the savage attackers.

The film was censored in the US, UK and Australia for its scenes of graphic violence, rape and humiliation.

The Texas chainsaw massacre

One of the films that together with Halloween gave rise to the subgenus cutter was The Texas chainsaw massacre. In ’74, what did he do Tobe Hopper he had no point of comparison.

At this point, it goes without saying that the nightmare adventure of five friends in the home of a completely insane family contains scenes of extreme violence.

It was not possible to see it for periods in cinemas in Brazil, Chile, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Malaysia, Singapore, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand and parts of Germany, to name but a few.

Bonus Movie: Revenge

The postscript to this list is take revenge. Why do we separate it from the rest? Because although it could be distributed, it arrived in some theaters after endless attempts and not as the director wanted.

The ’78 film about a woman who is raped by four men, survives and then demands her revenge includes, among other scenes of extreme violence, a 25-minute rape.

It wasn’t until some footage was removed that Motion Picture awarded him an NC-17 rating and he was finally able to see the light of day in some cinemas.