13 Shocking Movie Posters That Were Banned

6. Bad Lieutenant

Though there has been something of a movement more recently to decrease the use of guns on posters more, the MPAA's regulations on such things have always been a little confusing. Sometimes they'll ban things outright for glamourising gun-use (or prompt painful last-minute Photoshopping fixes), but then other times posters with guns on just sail past censorship.

That wasn't the case for this graphic (but actually terrible) poster for Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant sort-of-remake, which went further than just showing a gun being "sexily" pointed at someone outside of the frame. Apparently, the MPAA were turned off badly by the sight of actual violence going on in the poster and banned it.