10 Films Cinemas Refused To Play (And Why)

The trailers for Slender Man made it look like your average modern horror movie, certainly nothing that seemed overly offensive or controversial. But the film had a dark story behind it, something that prompted a few cinemas to not play it.

In May 2014, two young girls (Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser) lured a third (Payton Leutner) into a forest located in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where they stabbed Leutner 19 times with a large kitchen knife. Fortunately, Leutner survived the attack and returned to school a few months later, and the two perpetrators were given life sentences.

Weier and Geyser said that they carried out this horrific crime in an attempt to please Slender Man, and thought that by killing someone, they would become his servants.

Now, the Slender Man movie isn't actually based on this event, but the fact that the title character inspired two teenage girls to try and murder their classmate was enough of a link between fiction and reality that two Wisconsin cinemas - The Avalon and the Fox Bay Cinema Grill - refused to play the Sony release entirely, feeling that it hit a little too close to home.

We can't say we disagree with that decision, and it's not like they missed out on a top-class movie, either.

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Did any of these cases impact your movie-going habits? Know any other films that were given the cold shoulder by theatres? Let us know in the comments section!