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Total Film
Entertainment
Emily Garbutt

Disney Plus removes a classic James Cameron sci-fi movie after featuring a "troubling" scene that was cut from previous releases

Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in The Abyss.

The Abyss has been removed from Disney Plus in the UK after a version with a banned scene was added to the streamer back in April.

In the sci-fi movie, which was directed by James Cameron and released back in 1989, there's a scene where a rat is forcibly submerged in fluorocarbon liquid. A real rat was used in the movie's production and, while it's said to have survived, the scene has been banned from cuts of the film shown in the UK since the '80s due to campaigning from animal rights charities like the RSPCA.

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