13 Controversial Horror Movie Posters That Were Banned from Public Display
John Squires
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As you can imagine, the folks at the MPAA aren’t exactly the biggest supporters of the Saw films, which have been promoted with a whole lot of gruesome imagery. Oddly enough, it was this fairly harmless poster for Saw 2 that pushed them over the edge, deeming the depiction of two severed fingers completely unacceptable.
After pulling the poster, Lionsgate replaced it with basically the same piece of art, showing the same two fingers much more close up, which the MPAA was happy with – I suppose it wasn’t the fingers that bothered them so much as it was the fact that they clearly weren’t attached to a hand in the original art. Interesting to note that the original art was used on the cover of the film’s soundtrack.
As is the case with many banned posters, slight changes were made to the original art in order to get it past the ratings board, which saw the removal of Tae-ju’s legs, the covering up of her cleavage, and the modification of Sang-hyeon’s hands. Still looks like they’re getting it on to me, but the minor changes did the trick, and the Board approved the new art.
