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I have to say, that Last Exorcism poster is pretty impressive. Crap movie though.

So basically, blood, boobs, or butts is verboten, eh?

I can answer that, DamnYankees. Taxi to the Dark Side was banned because the MPAA had some sort of post 9/11 rule against people with hoods over their heads. The Shoot Em Up poster was banned in the UK for aggressive violence, aka, it looks like the gun is being pointed at the person looking at the poster. Weird, yes?

Something like that; the Hills Have Eyes poster was banned for similar reasons. And yes: Something to do with Abu Ghraib.

I don't get Thirst.

My assessment of Taxi to the Dark Side is a terrorist shouldn't be casting the red, blue and white behind him.

And I'm rather surprised that Ali G's hand is not lower so that the middle and ring finger could be perfectly out of view by being inside...

RE: The rule about people with hoods on their head.

So it makes a difference which cheeks you cover up?

Or as my little niece asked my zaftig sister, "Mommy, why are you wearing your butt crack under your chin?"

Aaaaand, thank you for that.
I could live the rest of my whole life wondering what was going on in that header pic because I will not see that movie. Ever.

The majority of people are just too fucking sensitive! If you are offended over something like a movie poster then you have mental issues and these mental issues are not caused by movies or anything else! I am so sick and tired of censorship! If you don't like something then don't watch, listen or read it, it's that fucking simple! And what these whiny stupid worthless babies that fight for things and people that they hate to get censorsed cannot realise is that one of these days it will be something they like or even themselves that will be! Get a life you fucking offended over anything pieces of shit!

Nancy, sweetie, honey, baby, the point of a movie poster is that it is advertizing which is strategically placed in public places so it will be seen by WHOMEVER IS THERE. You know, like a small child on the subway.

That's funny, I was just going to say that one oddly disturbs me the most. I think because I imagined what that would look like if the skull was fleshed out.

Thanks, @DamnYankees, *I* did the HHE2 poster, and I was really bummed when it got pulled. I'm quite proud of it. The banning received a decent amount of protest on Bloody Disgusting - that warmed my heart a little.

You know, it just bothered me that we can apparently put hoods on prisoners during detainment without trial, but not on a body model who's getting paid and going home to a hot meal.

Mrs. Julien, thanks for that. I was recently in a horrible car accident and a lot of these pictures immediately make me think of that. So I am pretty much ok with not having to run into one of those full-sized on a wall when I'm not expecting it.

Also I know a lot of little kids and I don't want to have to explain any of these. Although I was wondering about the Shoot'Em Up poster too.

Artemis, the final destination 5 poster is a flensed skull being penetrated by rebar, (reinforcing mild steel bars with ridges to provide better hold to drying concrete), rather than bolts.
Ginger. Sorry your poster was banned, it was way better than HHE2.

Thanks mohshard, it was a bummer, but it did make me feel a little edgy. I'm too much of a good girl in real life.

That is the edited Thirst poster that was allowed. The one that was banned showed her spread legs on either side of him.

http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/30942/thirst-poster-banned-then-revised-korean-market

Nancy, honestly, how do you think that your advice of "don't like it, don't watch it" could be followed when it comes to a poster? They're put in public places, are they not? It's there, you've seen it, it can't be unseen. Or should people blindfold themselves every time they take the subway?

Shoot Em Up poster was not banned in the UK. I've seen those posters at bus stops. If there was one thing that they hadn't changed in order to release them, it's the guns pointing at the person watching. Those are pretty distinctive.

Meanwhile I have absolutely no idea what is wrong with the poster for Taxi To The Dark Side. I'm inclined to presume the issue was the content of the movie rather than the content of the poster.

I do not watch or read horror, because it opens a door in my subconscious, and what is let out is far, far worse than anything I might see on screen. I don't want to know that my brain can go to that place, and I take great care to protect myself from that particular level of macabre imagery. Hence, I do not wish to see graphic movie posters without warning, so I don't mind that some of these have been deemed too upsetting to put on the side of a bus or a billboard on the highway. With enough warning, I can shut off my reactions and preserve the illusion that I am a decent human being who would never consider carving something up just to see it squirm.

Wow so if I would not have been the Nancy asking people if they would like to have their personal life exposed and being harrassed every single seconds of their life then I should took valium because I said to people to stop being offended over stupid things like movie posters? Okie dokie klingonfree. As for the other people who also talked to me but without being a fucking dumbass, yes I am a fan of horror movies but even if I would not be I would still say the same thing. So what if kids see these? It will not screw them up and it will not make them violent either! These posters and these movies are fiction and fiction is not real.

It's not about censorship, it's about protection of public places from images that may offend. If I want to look at any of these I can see them on the Internet or buy them if I want to hang them in my home.

Protection of public spaces? Protection from what exactly? These are just posters! Posters are not alive! Posters are not dangerous! And again if you are offended over a movie poster then you have issues.

If you don't want to explain things to children then don't have any children! Kids asks questions, that is how they learn. No parent will die just because they explained to their child that a movie poster is just a movie poster and no parent will die because they had to explain to their child the difference between real and fake violence. And like I said if someone is hurt in any way by things like that then they have issues and these issues are not at all caused by the things that freaks them out (Reba's post is a PERFECT example of that!!!!)!