You're on the Internet, so you're but one errant mouse click away from watching all the horrific violence and perverse sex you can stand. It's hard to remember a time when that wasn't the case -- when there were powerful people between you and legally acquiring your choice of sleaze. But back in the day, putting filth up on a screen was ridiculously hard. So it's kind of appropriate that the ways to thwart that censorship were utterly ridiculous, too.

6 Stanley Kubrick Convinced The MPAA That The Tsunami Of Blood In The Shining Was "Rusty Water"

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Blood has always been a vital element of horror movies, action movies, and living in general. There's just one problem: The Motion Picture Association of America (the name you see on the green screen before every movie trailer) specifically forbids showing "blood or open wounds" in any type of advertisement that might be seen by the general public.

Seriously, think back to any particularly bloody film. Doesn't Uma Thurman spend like half of Kill Bill covered in red? Nope: According to the trailer, she was fixing a car and got some motor oil on her track suit.

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"Sorry, we meant Have A Strong Argument with Bill."

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Similarly, this zombie from the Shaun Of The Dead trailer doesn't have blood on his face -- he simply hasn't shaved in a while.

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He even grew hair on his collar.

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So you might be wondering: If even Tarantino can't get away with showing too much blood in a trailer (it's why the vampires in From Dusk Till Dawn were apparently filled with green juice), then how the hell did Stanley Kubrick put this in a trailer all the way back in 1980?