Disney+ Removes Sci-Fi Film Because Of Controversial Rat-Drowning Scene

James Cameron’s 1989 underwater sci-fi flick The Abyss featured a scene in which a panicking rat was plunged into oxygen-rich liquid. It was a sequence that proved so controversial at the time that the United Kingdom’s film board ordered it removed. 36 years later, after a remaster of the unedited version appeared on…Read more...

Jun 17, 2025 - 21:30
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Disney+ Removes Sci-Fi Film Because Of Controversial Rat-Drowning Scene

James Cameron’s 1989 underwater sci-fi flick The Abyss featured a scene in which a panicking rat was plunged into oxygen-rich liquid. It was a sequence that proved so controversial at the time that the United Kingdom’s film board ordered it removed. 36 years later, after a remaster of the unedited version appeared on…

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