i am the devil
and i am here to do the devil's work
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
horror movies that had to be censored i
mean i guess i'm a pretty sick guy for
this list we'll be looking at scary
flicks which had to be censored to gain
theatrical releases and or an r rating
we'll also be including those movies
which eventually had an unrated release
on home video what do you make of movie
censorship let us know in the comments
below
number 10 scream there are certain rules
that one must abide by in order to
successfully survive a horror movie wes
craven and his team of filmmakers had
one heck of a time getting screen
released the motion picture association
of america or mpaa threatened an nc-17
rating if they didn't make some
significant cuts as the movie was
reportedly too intense for a theatrical
release lucky for you there's a bonus
around but poor steve i'm afraid
up to eight different versions of the
movie were made and submitted to the
mpaa and some of the movies death scenes
were censored but the mpaa still wasn't
impressed and the nc-17 rating remained
nice solid r rating on our way to an
nc-17
now
things have changed and
lately we're just sort of edited for
television finally the head of dimension
films personally contacted the
association and persuaded them to
release the edited product with an r
rating the full uncut version was a
later released on home video jesus this
place is back tonight man
we had a run in the mass murder section
number nine evil dead
i will rip your soul out daddy
the original evil dead had quite the
reputation it was rated x in the united
states heavily edited in the united
kingdom and even outright banned in some
countries the 2013 reboot kept this
spirit intact and maintained the high
level of violence
of course this caused some controversy
of its own just a few months before its
premiere at the south by southwest film
festival director fede alvarez revealed
that the movie had been given the
dreaded nc17 rating by the mpaa why did
you lock me out of here
they were forced to censor some of the
more extreme bits of violence in order
to obtain an r rating and by extension a
theatrical release luckily for gore
hounds these cuts were later reinstated
into the unrated version i had to do it
so much better now number eight the
devil's rejects for many the devil's
rejects is one of rob zombie's better
movies it's also one of his most
sadistic and that's saying something
mr stop
please
stop stop
[ __ ] i have just started this is a
really nasty film that follows the
depraved firefly family the mpaa
repeatedly gave the movie an nc-17
rating telling zombie that it was more a
problem with the immoral tone than
specific acts of violence what's the
matter kid don't you like clowns that
said they also took significant umbrage
with the motel scene and zombie was
forced to cut to two full minutes from
the sequence please mister this is
insane boy
the next word that comes out of your
mouth better be some brilliant mark
twain [ __ ] because it's definitely
getting chisel on your tombstone after
eight different submissions and some
heavy edits the movie was finally rated
r for sadistic violence strong sexual
content language and drug use
number seven freaks a legendary horror
film from the early 30s freaks had quite
the difficult production the test
screenings were catastrophic as people
literally ran out of the theatre and
voiced their displeasure with the
movie's content
make me one of you fearing the public's
response mgm cut out 30 minutes of
footage from the film meaning the
theatrical product was only 64 minutes
long this was done without the consent
or approval of director todd browning
you're always using that for an
executive burden
for an alibaba buy unfortunately the
censored footage has long been lost and
the edited product is all we have
regardless of the edits the movie was
still met with a hostile reaction and
was banned in the uk 30 years they did
not ask to be brought into the world
but into the world they came
their code is a law unto themselves
[Music]
offend one
and you offend them all
number six the hills have eyes
it's breakfast
time
a remake of the wes craven classic the
hills have eyes is one of the most
brutal and relentlessly dour horror
movies of the 2000s there's a lot of
grotesque stuff here and it was all a
bit much for the mpaa the movie was
originally slapped with an nc17 owing to
the savagery of its violence and the
filmmakers had to censor about 30 scenes
to make it suitable for theatrical
release
some of the altered scenes including the
burning of big bob the camper attack on
brenda and the shooting of lin basically
the initial raid on the carter family is
entirely different in the unrated
version
number five my bloody valentine once
hit him twice
cancel a dancer it'll happen thrice few
horror movies have been butchered quite
like the original my bloody valentine
both paramount pictures and the mpaa
were very strict about the content of
the movie and it required an enormous
amount of editing in order to pass with
an r rating didn't stop the party
stop the party
what damn party every single death scene
was censored to some degree and the
producers were not happy it's been
suggested that paramount was very
skittish about the movie as friday the
13th had received a large amount of
backlash owing to its graphic violence
it wasn't until 2009 that much of the
violent footage was reinstated for a
special edition dvd sarah be my bloody
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number four hostel made during the
height of the torture sub-genre hostel
remains one of the most infamous movies
of the 2000s
i always wanted to be a surgeon
directed by eli roth hostel is about a
group of tourists getting kidnapped and
horrifically maimed the theatrical
version is provocative enough and to
think that this was edited down the
original cut was given an nc17 rating
for its extreme sexual content which
reportedly included real intercourse all
right
hey i told you man i'm the king of the
swing
as this verged into adult film territory
the mpaa explicitly banned the movie
from theatrical release roth had to cut
about 20 minutes out of the film before
it was finally given the okay
i get a lot of money for you
and that make you my [ __ ]
number three american psycho it's
amazing what just 18 seconds of footage
can do for the senses most people
probably don't listen to the lyrics but
they should because it's not just about
the pleasures of conformity and the
importance of trends it's also a
personal statement about the band itself
hey
paul based on brett easton ellis's
iconic novel american psycho is about a
wall street banker and serial killer
named patrick bateman funnily enough it
wasn't all the blood and serial killing
that the mpaa had a problem with it was
the sexuality do you like phil collins
i've been a big genesis fan
ever since the release of their 1980
album
duke
in one scene patrick enjoys the company
of two sex workers this sequence caused
a lot of problems with the mpaa and the
movie was given an nc17 rating as a
result the filmmakers cut only 18
seconds of footage from the scene to
attain the more desirable r rating the
uncut version is now widely available on
blu-ray
number two saw he doesn't want us to cut
through our chains
he wants us to cut through our feet this
classic horror movie effectively
kick-started the torture sub-genre that
populated the mid-2000s and all things
considered it's actually quite tame at
least compared to what came after for
example spiral had to be submitted to
the mpa 11 times before it was finally
given an r rating that was just a
diversion to get us out of the precinct
the first saw was also originally hit
with an nc-17 and the filmmakers were
forced to censor various graphic shots
to attain an aura live or die
make your choice for example the scene
involving amanda and the bear trap was
heavily censored and some of the more
grisly visuals were cut the uncensored
version was later released on dvd for
all to enjoy is enjoy the right word
when it comes to this kind of stuff
there was someone standing outside here
watching through this people
looks like our friend jigsaw likes to
book himself front row seats to his own
sick little games
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number one the texas chainsaw massacre
while violent slashers are commonplace
today a movie like this was virtually
unheard of in 1974.
toby hooper shot the movie without
explicit violence in the hopes of
obtaining a pg rating however the mpaa
was outraged by the movie's content and
gave it the polar opposite x look what
several minutes were cut to obtain an r
rating but before it was theatrically
released a distributor actually
re-inserted the censored scenes back
into the movie you gotta do what you
gotta do i i just can't take no pleasure
and kill it
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just some things you gotta do
don't mean you have to like it the movie
faced similar issues around the world in
australia it was edited down to 77
minutes but was still refused by the
country's censorship board a censored
version was also released in iceland
following its initial ban that's the
last goddamn hitchhiker i ever feel
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