Top 10 Banned Films

Photo credit: Dennis Dimister

Photo credit: Dennis Dimister

4. Mikey

Generally, scary movies about kids are tame fare-mostly creepy English children grinning scarily as the house creaks around them and their terrified nanny screams in fear. Not so with Mikey, following the nine-year-old kid who murders his family and friends in a series of increasingly brutal and unbelievably horrible murders. The movie was banned in the UK upon it’s 1992 release following the death of James Bulger, and was received with some unease by viewers elsewhere.

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  • Butgh

    I was expecting another list of guilty pleasure movies paired with a whole lot of whining about a critic’s job being to tell you which movies are just good films period. Instead, though a couple entries were like that, the rest were just baffling. (You do know that Unforgiven won the Oscar, right?) At first I was wondering how I’d missed the reception that was just hands-down bad, but by The Wizard of Oz, it was pretty clear that this was just mistaking one or two negative reviews for “negative reception.” There’s basically no movie on the planet that didn’t get a negative review at one point or another. And for the record, Speed racer is not 1/10 the movie The Matrix Reloaded is, and not just because The Matrix Reloaded is alright.

  • Dan Cochran

    The Last Temptation is a film that could only be made about Christianity – any other religion would have (rightly) claimed that this film was defaming and just-plain-lying about them.

  • lbatfish

    I was visiting my parents in Appleton, WI (the hometown of both me and the actor once known as Bill Dafoe) at the time that “Last Temptation of Christ” was released, and was disgusted that even there, the theaters wouldn’t show what I thought was his best performance ever. Sad.

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