Queen Mary zombie ad haunting British kids

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Our friends at England's Advertising Standards Authority have banned a digital poster in the London Underground for a new show called "Bloody Mary" at the London Dungeon, a tourist trap devoted to medieval torture. The poster, which showed Queen Mary I turning into a hideous zombie, scared enough kids to breach fear and distress guidelines, which the London Dungeon says wasn't its intention. Rather, it claims the posters were meant to "show the dark side of her personality."

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