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Originally Posted by Kieran Seymour
The Abyss isn't banned in the UK.
The problem has always been that it was a real rat and not an effect.
James Cameron thought it was okay to subject an animal to what was effectively drowning for the purposes of entertainment. The law here in the UK says that treating animals in that manner is unacceptable, so that scene had to be cut for cinema release in 1989 and it was also cut for the VHS and DVD releases. Disney were apparently fine with the cut being retained for the planned Blu-ray and 4K UHD release last year, but it was Cameron himself who put his foot down and refused to allow it. End result: it wasn't released in the UK.
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Weird.
I wonder when real liquid breathing came out? It does exist now. A snag is the density of current working liquids, so uses are limited.
There is a long history of cinema killing animals, if they drowned the rat.
I think 1950s Disney killed lemmings, who don't migrate over cliffs as the Disney supposed documentary showed.
Defining "filth" is even harder than "pornography". Explicit sex is easier to define and not all nudity is pornography, except maybe in USA TV & movies?
Perhaps this thread is nearly pointless.