10 Brutally Violent Films The Censors Tried To Ban

5. Contamination (1981)

It€™s hard to imagine anyone taking issue with this low-budget Alien rip-off because aside from a few gory sequences it€™s one of the least offensive titles on the DPP list. When submitted to the BBFC in 2004, the uncut version was granted a €œ15€ certificate. Set for budgetary reasons on Earth, Contamination€™s alien is a rubbery cyclops whose glowing eggs (actually painted balloons) detonate when they reach a certain temperature, showering anyone nearby with a toxic liquid that causes their bodies to explode. Got that? Using a coffee plantation as a front for smuggling the eggs all around the world, the creature intends to annihilate life on the planet but reckons without the attentions of Ian McCulloch, a former astronaut sent to put the kibosh on the scheme. McCulloch had previously appeared in the notorious Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) as well as the very similar Zombie Holocaust (1980), which must€™ve been the reason why the film was branded a Video Nasty in October 1983. In order for it to become legally available, distributors had to remove nearly 3 minutes of exploding bodies in order to bring the movie into line with British tastes.