geez no wonder these wound up on the
cutting room floor welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten deleted
movie scenes that cross the line can’t
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
Channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at deleted
scenes that were removed from their
respective films due to controversy or
for being a little too heavy for the
final product we’re looking at both film
scenes that were removed and scenes that
were planned but never shot number 10
Steve’s guts scream the opening scene of
scream is scary enough without a bunch
of guts littering the place Wes Craven
had an immense amount of difficulty in
securing an R rating for scream he had
sent up to 8 different versions to the
MPAA all of which came back with an
nc-17 rating due to the movie’s intense
violence one of the problematic scenes
was Steve’s death in the original cut
Steve’s organs can be seen falling out
of his stomach the MPAA stated that the
organs could not be seen moving
prompting Wes to remove the organ shot
to focus solely on Steve’s dying face
however the organ shot was later
reinstated for various home video
number nine Katie slashes her own throat
paranormal activity Paranormal Activity
certainly does not have a happy ending
but it could have been much darker of
course your opinion as to whether or not
cutting the scene was a good call likely
depends on how dark you like your
endings in the theatrical version a
bloody and demonic looking Katie walks
into the room and lunges at the camera
hmm pretty eating however an alternate
ending was shot by Paramount that sees
Katie smiling at the camera before
slitting her own throat and dropping out
of frame they eventually decided against
this ending probably because it left no
room for sequels but it can still be
found on the DVD number 8 cocoons alien
alien is known for being one of the
scariest sci-fi horrors of all time but
if you think it couldn’t get any scarier
think again there was going to be a
sequence that saw Ripley coming across
alien cocoons imprisoning Dallas and
Brett she then has a quick conversation
with the barely conscious Dallas before
burning him alive within the cocoon the
image of Dallas trapped in the cocoon is
incredibly haunting and disgusting and
the act of Ripley setting them on fire
is grotesque the scene was cut for
pacing reasons although a shortened
version of it appears in the director’s
cut for the morbidly curious among you
number seven the theater shooting
gangster squad cup it’s not for sales
like a dog with rabies you just gotta
put him down there was a scene in the
original cut of gangster squad where in
various character shoots submachine guns
at a crowd in Grauman’s Chinese Theater
however just two months after the
trailer dropped James Holmes shot up a
movie theater in Colorado killing 12 and
injuring 70 in the wake of the tragedy
the trailer for Gangster Squad was
pulled and the scene was completely
removed from the film the movie’s
release date was later bumped back to
accommodate the necessary reshoots while
the scene itself may have been
relatively tame compared to some others
on our list today we have to commend
Warner Brothers for pulling it out of
respect for the victims and their
number six the taming party Zootopia
please just find a way out oh I did for
me
Zootopia is arguably one of Disney’s
heaviest and most mature movies as it
tackles some incredibly difficult
subject matter like corruption racism
and xenophobia however it could have
been a whole lot darker one planned but
abandoned concept saw Judy and Nick
sneaking through something called a
taming party today my little Morris is
no longer a cub today he becomes a big
bear that is right
said taming party involved a young bear
being gifted a shock collar something
that all predators must wear to keep
their predatory instincts at bay it’s a
fascinating scene that shows how much a
film can change from conception to final
product and it’s a brutally sad look
one of the scariest and most well known
scenes of Jaws is young Alex’s death we
don’t see much save for a brief fountain
of blood but it is still an incredibly
disturbing scene and it could have been
much worse the scene was originally shot
with jaws emerging from the water and
biting into the young boy old pictures
can even be found online of the
mechanical shark and the dummy that was
created to stand in for the young actor
however the scene was altered to be far
less graphic which is probably for the
best
John’s made a huge impact without having
to explicitly show a child being chomped
number four Bruce’s suicide attempt The
suicide may just be a tad too difficult
and scary for the youngins a scene was
shot for The Incredible Hulk
that saw Bruce traveling to the Arctic
Circle in an attempt to commit suicide
the scene sees human Bruce kneeling in
the snow and taking out a gun he then
cocks it before turning into the Hulk
and crushing the gun in his hand however
the director and various Marvel heads
thought the suicide attempt was far too
dark for young audiences and the scene
was omitted from the final product
number 3 the famous sacrifice scene
by the imago de la temple of doom is
often seen as the inferior Indiana Jones
movie at least of the original trilogy
mostly due to its dark violence and
while the infamous heart ripping scene
helped lead to the creation of the pg-13
rating the original idea could have
pushed the movie into our territory
after Nicoise codons revealed that the
original scene saw his character being
lowered into a pit of lava similar to
how he is in the theatrical version
however the plan was to have his body
slowly disintegrate upon contact with
the lava until only his face remained
floating on the surface unsurprisingly
this idea was later scrapped for being
too disturbing number 2 the eyeball
scene from beyond censors must have a
thing with eyeballs as an eyeball scene
was also cut from divergent for being
too violent one particularly nasty scene
and from beyond sees dr. Tillinghast
biting out a doctor’s eyeball and
sucking her brains out through her
bloody eye socket yeah I almost puke
just saying that director Stuart Gordon
has stated that he was fiercely
reprimanded by the MPAA
and was forced to edit the scene robbing
it of its intended intensity the Unrated
cut has subsequently been released in
all its gory detail horror buffs may
love it but the average viewer is likely
to prefer the MPAA approved version
number one baby evans strangles himself
the butterfly effect means
that my plan didn’t work and I’ve
already infant deaths are always a
tricky subject 2017 it was set to have
an infant death but they decided to
abandon the idea probably because it was
too disturbing she’s saying a lot for a
movie wearing an alien creature eats
children in the theatrical ending of the
butterfly effect evan burns his journals
after satisfactorily resetting the
timeline however the original ending was
much darker in the director’s cut evan
travels back in time and strangles
himself in the womb with his own
umbilical cord while some may argue it’s
the more fulfilling ending others may
say that watching a baby commit suicide
is just a little too much do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and be sure
to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
cutting room floor welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten deleted
movie scenes that cross the line can’t
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
Channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at deleted
scenes that were removed from their
respective films due to controversy or
for being a little too heavy for the
final product we’re looking at both film
scenes that were removed and scenes that
were planned but never shot number 10
Steve’s guts scream the opening scene of
scream is scary enough without a bunch
of guts littering the place Wes Craven
had an immense amount of difficulty in
securing an R rating for scream he had
sent up to 8 different versions to the
MPAA all of which came back with an
nc-17 rating due to the movie’s intense
violence one of the problematic scenes
was Steve’s death in the original cut
Steve’s organs can be seen falling out
of his stomach the MPAA stated that the
organs could not be seen moving
prompting Wes to remove the organ shot
to focus solely on Steve’s dying face
however the organ shot was later
reinstated for various home video
number nine Katie slashes her own throat
paranormal activity Paranormal Activity
certainly does not have a happy ending
but it could have been much darker of
course your opinion as to whether or not
cutting the scene was a good call likely
depends on how dark you like your
endings in the theatrical version a
bloody and demonic looking Katie walks
into the room and lunges at the camera
hmm pretty eating however an alternate
ending was shot by Paramount that sees
Katie smiling at the camera before
slitting her own throat and dropping out
of frame they eventually decided against
this ending probably because it left no
room for sequels but it can still be
found on the DVD number 8 cocoons alien
alien is known for being one of the
scariest sci-fi horrors of all time but
if you think it couldn’t get any scarier
think again there was going to be a
sequence that saw Ripley coming across
alien cocoons imprisoning Dallas and
Brett she then has a quick conversation
with the barely conscious Dallas before
burning him alive within the cocoon the
image of Dallas trapped in the cocoon is
incredibly haunting and disgusting and
the act of Ripley setting them on fire
is grotesque the scene was cut for
pacing reasons although a shortened
version of it appears in the director’s
cut for the morbidly curious among you
number seven the theater shooting
gangster squad cup it’s not for sales
like a dog with rabies you just gotta
put him down there was a scene in the
original cut of gangster squad where in
various character shoots submachine guns
at a crowd in Grauman’s Chinese Theater
however just two months after the
trailer dropped James Holmes shot up a
movie theater in Colorado killing 12 and
injuring 70 in the wake of the tragedy
the trailer for Gangster Squad was
pulled and the scene was completely
removed from the film the movie’s
release date was later bumped back to
accommodate the necessary reshoots while
the scene itself may have been
relatively tame compared to some others
on our list today we have to commend
Warner Brothers for pulling it out of
respect for the victims and their
number six the taming party Zootopia
please just find a way out oh I did for
me
Zootopia is arguably one of Disney’s
heaviest and most mature movies as it
tackles some incredibly difficult
subject matter like corruption racism
and xenophobia however it could have
been a whole lot darker one planned but
abandoned concept saw Judy and Nick
sneaking through something called a
taming party today my little Morris is
no longer a cub today he becomes a big
bear that is right
said taming party involved a young bear
being gifted a shock collar something
that all predators must wear to keep
their predatory instincts at bay it’s a
fascinating scene that shows how much a
film can change from conception to final
product and it’s a brutally sad look
one of the scariest and most well known
scenes of Jaws is young Alex’s death we
don’t see much save for a brief fountain
of blood but it is still an incredibly
disturbing scene and it could have been
much worse the scene was originally shot
with jaws emerging from the water and
biting into the young boy old pictures
can even be found online of the
mechanical shark and the dummy that was
created to stand in for the young actor
however the scene was altered to be far
less graphic which is probably for the
best
John’s made a huge impact without having
to explicitly show a child being chomped
number four Bruce’s suicide attempt The
suicide may just be a tad too difficult
and scary for the youngins a scene was
shot for The Incredible Hulk
that saw Bruce traveling to the Arctic
Circle in an attempt to commit suicide
the scene sees human Bruce kneeling in
the snow and taking out a gun he then
cocks it before turning into the Hulk
and crushing the gun in his hand however
the director and various Marvel heads
thought the suicide attempt was far too
dark for young audiences and the scene
was omitted from the final product
number 3 the famous sacrifice scene
by the imago de la temple of doom is
often seen as the inferior Indiana Jones
movie at least of the original trilogy
mostly due to its dark violence and
while the infamous heart ripping scene
helped lead to the creation of the pg-13
rating the original idea could have
pushed the movie into our territory
after Nicoise codons revealed that the
original scene saw his character being
lowered into a pit of lava similar to
how he is in the theatrical version
however the plan was to have his body
slowly disintegrate upon contact with
the lava until only his face remained
floating on the surface unsurprisingly
this idea was later scrapped for being
too disturbing number 2 the eyeball
scene from beyond censors must have a
thing with eyeballs as an eyeball scene
was also cut from divergent for being
too violent one particularly nasty scene
and from beyond sees dr. Tillinghast
biting out a doctor’s eyeball and
sucking her brains out through her
bloody eye socket yeah I almost puke
just saying that director Stuart Gordon
has stated that he was fiercely
reprimanded by the MPAA
and was forced to edit the scene robbing
it of its intended intensity the Unrated
cut has subsequently been released in
all its gory detail horror buffs may
love it but the average viewer is likely
to prefer the MPAA approved version
number one baby evans strangles himself
the butterfly effect means
that my plan didn’t work and I’ve
already infant deaths are always a
tricky subject 2017 it was set to have
an infant death but they decided to
abandon the idea probably because it was
too disturbing she’s saying a lot for a
movie wearing an alien creature eats
children in the theatrical ending of the
butterfly effect evan burns his journals
after satisfactorily resetting the
timeline however the original ending was
much darker in the director’s cut evan
travels back in time and strangles
himself in the womb with his own
umbilical cord while some may argue it’s
the more fulfilling ending others may
say that watching a baby commit suicide
is just a little too much do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and be sure
to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos
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