4 BANNED FILMS

THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT Wes Craven's 1972 horror film was banned in the United Kingdom till 2002 due to its graphic sexual and violent content. The film tells the story of two girls trapped by four escaped convicts who repeatedly rape, torture and murder their unfortunate victims. The film which was made for a paltry $90,000, was a huge hit in the United States of America. THE TIN DRUM The film adaptation of Gunter Grass' novel of the same name was banned in Oklahoma USA and Ontario Canada for containing a scene which depicted minors having sex. So stringent was the ban that even people who owned a videotape of the film were threatened by prosecution. The film itself is a meditation on the profound existentialist crisis Europe found itself in during the rise of Naziism culminating in World War II. GROTESQUE Koji Shiraishi's 2008 film Grotesque was banned in the United Kingdom and the ban hasn't been overturned yet. The film narrates the story of a young Japanese couple Aki and Kazuo who are snatched off the streets by a psychopathic madman who has abducted them then proceeds to degrade, torture and multilate them without any plausible reason being divulged by him. SCARFACE Howard Hawks’ classic story of a gangster and his ruthless ways was banned in 5 states and five other cities due to extreme violence in the United States. Hawks even shot an alternate ending for the film. When the censors refused to relent he re-instated the original ending and released the movie in the states it was not banned in, making a killing