Horror movies banned for being too disturbing

Hostel & Hostel: Part 2

Lots of Europeans may have had an issue with the first Hostel for making the continent seem like a depraved tourist death blender, but it was only in Ukraine that the movie pushed enough buttons to get itself banned. Both Hostel and its sequel were outlawed in the country for excessive cruelty, as well as for portraying the neighborhood as a place where tourists are routinely tortured for money. (It's actually a place where governments waste time fretting over the kind of horror movies people watch.) Despite the ban, the movie is still legally available for private viewing—just don't let them catch you screening it in the front yard.

Beyond Ukraine, the uncut version of Hostel: Part II is banned in Germany and New Zealand, and the film was only released in Malaysia and Singapore after undergoing cuts to its more extreme scenes of torture, violence, and death. And though the film isn't banned in the country, as recently as 2007, politicians in the United Kingdom have argued that images from the film could (and perhaps should) be deemed illegal. As a mark of how absurd these censorship crusades often are, one politician who spoke out against the movie conceded in the process that he'd never even seen it.