Welcome to watch mojo And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 horror movies that had to be censored.

Pretty sick guy for this list will 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.

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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 round but poor steve.

I'm afraid up to eight different versions of the movie were made and submitted to the M.

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And some of the movies, death scenes were censored but the M.

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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 later released on home video, jesus.

This place is back tonight man we had a run in the mass murder center.

Number nine.

Evil debt 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 NC 17 rating by the M.

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Hey we're trying to help you're out of control.

No, you got violent and we didn't know what else to do.

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.

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.

Stop, stop, stop.

I have just started.

This is a really nasty film that follows the depraved firefly family.

The M.

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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.

Don't you like clowns that said they also took significant umbrage with the motel scene and zombie was forced to cut 2 to 4 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 ship because it's definitely getting chiseled on your tombstone after eight different submissions and some heavy edits.

The movie was finally rate are for sadistic violence, strong sexual content language and drug use.

Number seven freaks.

A legendary horror film from the early thirties, freaks had quite the difficult production.

The test screenings were catastrophic as people literally ran out of the theater and voice their displeasure with the movie's content.

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 tod browning.

You're always using that for an excuse for an alibi by 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.

Offend one And you offend them all.

# six the hills have eyes.

It's Breakfast Time, a remake of the West Craven classic.

The Hills have Eyes is one of the most brutal and relentlessly dour horror movies of the two thousands.

There's a lot of grotesque stuff here and it was all a bit much for the M.

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The movie was originally slapped with an NC 17 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 you did it twice cancel the dancer.

It'll happen thrice few horror movies have been butchered quite like the original.

My bloody valentine.

Both.

Paramount pictures and the M.

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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 that had received a large amount of backlash owing to its graphic violence wasn't until 2009 that much of the violent footage was reinstated for a special edition.

DVD Gone away.

Harry warden made you.

No four.

Hostile.

Made during the height of the torture sub genre.

Hostile 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 cuts was given an NC 17 rating for its extreme sexual content which reportedly included real intercourse.

Alright, only, hey, I told you man, I'm the king of the swing as this verged into adult film territory.

The M.

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A 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 then make you my bitch.

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 bret 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 M.

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Had a problem with.

It was the sexuality Collins 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 M.

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And the movie was given an NC 17 rating.

As a result, the filmmakers cut only 18 seconds of footage from the scene to attain the more desirable are rating the uncut version is now widely available on blu ray Number two Sore, he doesn't want us to cut through our chains.

He wants us to cut through our feet.

This classic horror movie effectively kickstarted the torture sub genre that populated the mid two thousands 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 M.

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Aleve In 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 R.

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 peephole 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.

All violent slashes 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 M.

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Was outraged by the movie's content and gave it the polar opposite X.

Several minutes were cut to obtain an R.

Rating.

But before it was theatrically released, a distributor actually reinserted the sense of scenes back into the movie.

You've got to do what you gotta do.

I just can't take no pleasure in killing 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.

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