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* ''[[The Brown Bunny]]'' is a film known mostly for being booed harshly at the Cannes Film Festival and the subsequent media catfight between [[Roger Ebert]] and the director. The film was later [[Recut]] and given a wide release, and Ebert gave the recut a three star review.
* ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'' was notorious to a degree that it forced director Ruggero Deodato and the actors to explain that nobody died in production and the gore was just special effects. There is still a great deal of controversy to this day relating to the cruelty against animals.
* [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]'' had sparked protests from religious groups worldwide, including the infamous attack at a Paris cinema where the use of Molotov cocktails injured 13 patrons and brought the theater under heavy repairs for the next three years. The scenes in question were that of Jesus having scandalous relationships with women and fathering children, though there were actually visions Satan made in a vain attempt to convince Jesus not to sacrifice
* Claimed by many to be the reason behind the failure of [[Ghostbusters (2016 film)|the 2016 ''Ghostbusters'' movie]]. The combination of [[Base Breaker]] [[Audience-Alienating Premise]]<ref>a [[Gender Flip]]ped franchise reboot</ref> and the [[Tainted by the Preview|terrible trailer]] actually hurt the film less than the marketing campaign that tried to make the negative initial reception to be [[He-Man Woman Hater|all about misogyny]] and the ensuing social media controversy that make people [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|opt out of seeing the film entirely]].
* Despite being a seminal feature film on its own merit, ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' gained notoriety for reviving the [[Ku Klux Klan]] in 1915. African-American rights groups such as the NACCP protested the film and called it to be banned for its denigrating portrayal of blacks, though regardless of any hot-button debates the film generated and the monster it indirectly created, the film is still highly regarded by film critics and scholars alike. You'd be hard-pressed to watch it outside of YouTube streams and educational film showings though.
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