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8. Animal Cruelty - The Abyss

James Cameron's The Abyss features a memorable scene where Hippy's (Todd Graff) pet rat is submerged in liquid oxygen, whereby it's demonstrated that the rodent can survive immersed in the liquid because of the oxygen content, despite Hippy's protests.

The scene was nevertheless cut out of the UK version of the film due to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) having strict rules against depicting the crime of animal cruelty in films. The UK is a nation of animal lovers, after all.

Though this rule is typically reserved for egregious instances such as Cannibal Holocaust, where real animals were killed on-screen without necessity, in the case of The Abyss it was deemed that an impressionable person could watch the scene and then imitate it by drowning their own pet rodent.

The scene isn't particularly pleasant considering how anxious the rat seems, and it goes on for a solid minute full of lingering glances at the rodent scrambling around in the confined liquid space, but even so, the BBFC were rather erring on the side of caution here.