Ad watchdog reprimands Village Roadshow for ‘extremely terrifying’ trailer

Roadshow Films’ trailer for The Nun has been banned by the ad watchdog for depicting an excessive level of “menace” which, it believed, most people would deem inappropriate.

Ad Standards said the short trailer for the horror movie titled ‘coffin’ was menacing because of the scenes shown where someone is trapped and buried alive, while someone screams for the duration of the promo.

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