10 Horror Movies That Got Banned From Certain Countries
7. Land Of The Dead - Ukraine
20 years after George A. Romero made his third ...of the Dead movie, the legendary madman was back with film number four.
Land of the Dead starred Simon Baker, Dennis Hopper, and John Leguizamo among others, and was set in a world where survivors of a zombie outbreak took shelter in a mini-society in Pittsburgh.
You can make your own jokes about how living in Pittsburgh is worse than an apocalypse.
Across Europe, the film mostly got given an 18 rating by the various classification boards. The UK actually gave it a 15 to start off with.
One country was not happy with Romero's work though and banned the movie from being screened. Ukraine's Culture Ministry claimed that depictions of cannibalism in the movie were insensitive.
Memories of The Holodomor, a vast famine that resulted in several documented cases of humans eating each other, were still "still fresh in our society", according to one spokesperson for the Ministry.
As a result, Land of the Dead never saw the light of day in the country. Ukrainians would have to look to other means in order to get their zombie fix.