Horror movies banned for being too disturbing

The Evil Dead

It's more than a little amusing that a film so campy and over-the-top as The Evil Deadwould be a cause of concern for censors. Originally screened for the BBFC in 1982, the movie split the opinions of officials, with the board "divided between those who felt the film was so ridiculously 'over the top' that it could not be taken seriously, and those who found it 'nauseating.'" The board determined that the film would need 49 seconds' worth of cuts before its release. 

Shockingly, even in its edited form, The Evil Dead managed to land store owners in legal trouble, with a number of copies seized by authorities and some defendants pleading guilty to charges of supplying an obscene article. The movie wasn't released uncut in the U.K. until 2001, after initial furor—spurred on mostly by religious critics and so-called "pro-family" advocates—died down enough for the BBFC to concede that it wasn't so obscene after all.