Formed in 1954, the purview of the Film Censorship Board is to check and censor films to ensure that they meet the requirements of the Cinematograph Films Act 1952 before they are allowed to be screened in Malaysian cinemas. Currently housed under the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Board continues to perform its duty based on three guidelines; the Film Censorship Act 2002, The Censorship Guidelines and The Specific Guidelines Censorship are used as the yardstick to determine whether a film is fit to be seen by the general populace of Malaysia.
With Gareth Evans' "The Raid 2: Berandal" and Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" being the latest pictures to have been stamped with the seal of rejection from ever being shown in Malaysian cinemas, we look at 15 of the major movies out of the estimated 119 films that had been slammed by the ban hammer of the Board for the sake of protecting Malaysians from harmful content.
