13 Shocking Movie Posters That Were Banned

11. Saw II

This simple, elegant and bloody gory poster was the ingeniously creative way Lions Gate chose to market the sequel to the hugely popular first Saw movie. With so much pressure to come up with more inventive traps and show it all off in advance of the film's release, they went with a far more muted, but no less effective campaign by chopping off a pair of fingers.

The MPAA didn't see the ingenuity behind the artwork though. After initially missing it when it was first released on the net, they sent out a release belatedly to say that it was simply unacceptable. The replacement was nowhere near as efficient, but having a banned poster at least fed into the film's marketability.