10 Movies Where The UK Version DELETED The Best Scenes
3. The Hunger Games - Bloody Violence
Shifting gears a little bit, our next entry doesn't necessarily involve specific scenes being sliced out of a project altogether. However, it did see some rather vital details get erased by the time British audiences were exposed to the end product.
One of the key selling points of the cinematic adaptation of The Hunger Games was the fact that the book didn't hold back when revealing the genuine threat that was waiting for all who entered the titular fight to the death.
Yet, feeling that the version of the first entry into the franchise that was submitted to them was a little too graphic for a 12A feature, the BBFC requested that a ton of the brutal violence be toned down. So, things like blood splattering out of the torsos of dispatched tributes, red body fluid being left behind on knives and bricks, and even the sight of Katniss Everdeen being threatened at knife point were all left out of the U.K. cut.
Again, the later released Blu Ray included the hard-hitting version the rest of the planet witnessed, bringing the real severity and viciousness of Suzanne Collins' world to life in the way it was originally supposed to.