Later DVDs merged into the Video Hits section
 

• Anthropophagous
• The Grim Reaper
• Man Eater

Original video nasty banned in the UK

• The foetus lunch
• The climatic scene of the beast eating his own entrails

Not yet released on UK DVD.

• It has been reported that a joke about Princess Diana has been removed by the distributors when the film was released in the week of her death. When Dr Evil comes up with his ransom plans his first one is to ask for a sum of $1  million dollars otherwise he will tell the world that Prince Charles is having an affair and expose it to the world. Robert Wagner's character then informs him that this has already happened, at which point he says that he should be kept informed of these things as he has been frozen for a period of time.

Several of these deleted scenes were included in the UK cinema/video versions.

• Security guard's family called after he is run over by steam roller
• Security guard's friends having a surprise Bachelor Party at Hooters are called after his head is eaten off by fish
• A Scene featuring Christian Slater as a security guard who's hypnotized by Austin Powers and ordered to go buy him some ice-cream. (Perhaps American audiences couldn't appreciate the 'sherbert' joke.... or Slater didn't want the Americans to see it)

1:38s cut, certificate PG, 114:59s

• The BBFC removed sadistic humour by Harvey Two Face, including the sadistic death of Edward Nygma's boss. A scene where Robin headbuts Two Face was also cut, and a section where Two Face shoots a henchman in his helicopter was trimmed. It is also worth noting that sound effects were also cut from this films.

9s cut, certificate 15, 121:04s

• Catwoman places an aerosol in a microwave but not in the UK version as we may be stupid enough to copy this idea.
• A clown swinging on chainsticks during in attack on Batman has also suffered. The BBFC refuse to allow the sight of chainsticks regardless of their usage.

1s cut, certificate 15, 96:07s (Warner Home Video)

• A double ear clap has been removed for fear of imitation.

Region 2: Warner Home Video (French): Uncut

4s cut, certificate 12, 91:42s

The same cuts apply to the cinema, video & DVD versions

A single 4 sec cut was made to this black comedy, in order to secure a required 12 cert. The cut occurs towards the end, when Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick, are fighting on top of the TV satellite. A couple of shots of Carrey headbutting Broderick have been removed.

2s cut, certificate 15, 110:11s

Same cut version for cinema, video and DVD

• The showdown between Stallone and Snipes has been slightly trimmed to remove an instance of ear-clapping.

Same cuts to cinema, video & DVD versions

The sound effects of some scenes have been over dubbed to tone down the violence.

10s of cuts as per cinema version

Region 2: The UK disc has English and German soundtracks, but even the non-UK edition with English/French/Spanish soundtracks is cut (the runtimes are identical).

• The Deadly Three
• Long Zheng Hu Dou

Pre-cut for DVD. Certificate 18, 96:58s

The Director's Cut was suposedly submitted by Warner Home Video but this turns out to be pre-cut with the removal of the main nunchaku scene. Warners have sensibly decided not to market this version as the Directors cut.

A total of 3:22s (43 cuts) for the video/DVD versions. Certificate 15, 106:58s

The cinema release flopped in the UK (5 cuts totalling 27s for an 18 certificate) so the distributor opted for a video 15 release. The BBFC felt that they had removed the sadistic edge from most of the violence and revealed a good action thriller which proved to have far greater audience appeal.

1. In the opening sequence where Kruger rescues Johnny C, 17s of punches were removed.
2. A scene where they attempt to remove Johnny's tongue was cut.
3. 4s cut where Kruger breaks a mans neck in a fridge door.
4. 1s missing of a scene which has a close up of Kruger as he pumps a second bullet into the body of the dead bad guy to frame them.
5. 3s cut in William Donough's office. He points the gun at Lee and shouts "You have no fucking idea". In the 15 video all that remains is "You".
6. In William Donough's office, 1s is cut where he puts the gun into his mouth and fires.
7. Close up of man with a blade in his neck after Kruger stabs him through the door is missing.
8. We fail to see the guy he then kills flying through the air into a wall.
9. In the video, we see Samaritan hold his witness and appear to smother her. It should show Samaritan shoot her and then kiss her as she dies.
10. Samaritan actually shoots Monroe twice, one of those shots has been cut.
11. Inside the alligator park, the first bad guy gets an arm ripped of. Visual data is lost in the transfer from widescreen to pan-and-scan.
12. 3s cut when Kruger runs out to see the helicopter fly away. In the NSTC Laserdisc, he punches a man and breaks his neck.
13. In the shipyard, 4s is missing when Kruger finishes off two guards after an impressive aerial acrobatics display.
14. After Kruger gets impaled (again!) and is lying under the floor, 3s were cut of his opponents being kneecapped and falling in slow motion.
15. 1s missing when Lee kicks her Russian captor in the face after escaping.
16. 1s missing when Sall shoots a bad guy in the eye. We should see a close up of the man falling back without an eye.
17. 4s are cut from the fight between Kruger and Samaritan, when Samaritan hits Kruger with an iron bar.
18. 45s are missing from this scene and I don't have a clue why: The train ploughs into the car as we see the Baddies screaming and thumping as they try to escape. Kruger stands and watches and when it is over, Johnny C gives a wave and drives off into the sunset.

Region 2: Warner Home Video (French D3): Uncut, 110:00s

• Critical Decision

8s cut, certificate 15, 127:05s

Same cut version for cinema, video & DVD

7s (maybe slightly less) cut, certificate 18, 133:07s (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)

• Archer (John Travolta) asks his daughter whether she has protection and demonstrates a butterfly knife by whirling it around. This demonstration does not pass the censor as the butterfly knife is on their list of no-no's. On the DVD the opening swirl is completely missing (as in the video), however some of the closing swirl is still intact (though still slightly cut) along with the complete sound of the swirling action. This still looks bad, however it looks much better than the video version where at one moment the blade is fully extended, and the next it is closed seemingly with no noise or movement. Also, whereas on the video it was obviously cut due to the sudden music changes, the music on the DVD blends together far better.
• The girl eventually gets to use the butterfly knife by stabbing Archer, but we don't get to see the knife. (Same cuts as video version)

Face/Off was not resubmitted to the BBFC for DVD, therefore the BBFC video cuts must have been reinterpreted. The actual instructions issued by the BBFC demand that all sights of the butterfly knife must be cut where two blades are visible. I guess that the final twirl features only one blade.

See Gallery for pictures of the first of the missing scenes

Region 2: Buena Vista 34515 (French/Dutch/Italian/Portuguese): Uncut at 133:17s

8s cut, certificate 18, 87:22s

Cut for video & DVD

Cut, certificate 12, 124:04s (MGM Home Video)

• Cuts include a potentially lethal punch to the front of the neck and a some headbutts. The BBFC cut unarmed combat techniques where they feel that imitation would pose a serious risk of injury.

The DVD commentary suggests that the following cuts were made at the editing statge:

• At the beginning of the film, when 006 is shot, originally one clearly saw the impact to the head.
• Towards the end of the film, when Onatop is dragged to her death, originally the dragging and death struggle were a bit longer/more explicit.

Region 2: MGM Home Video (Dutch/Germany/Spain/Scandanavia): cut 124:23s. Cuts as in the UK version are restored but footage of the radio telescope falling onto 006, and his screaming, is missing

Not yet released on UK DVD.

There is a shot toward the end where a guy gets an arrow through the neck. In the UK video (& cinema) version, we see a tracking shot revealing the arrow, whilst the US version cuts straight to the guy falling down.

3:41s cut, certificate 18, 89:31s (Video Collection International).

The version submitted in the UK was the heavily censored US R rated version. The BBFC felt that they had to cut this by a further 7s for the video release. The passage of time has not mellowed the BBFC and they have decided to cut this DVD version by an extra minute. These new cuts are apparently substitutions (usually reframing some action off screen or toning down sound effects) and so have not changed the running time. But this is no where near a true representation of the cuts.

A comparison between the unrated US DVD and the UK video release reveals the following cuts

• The opening replay of Frank's (Sean Chapman's) final moments from Hellraiser (11s worth) has been replaced by a close-up of Pinhead saying We'll tear your soul apart.
• The creation of Pinhead loses 7 shots totalling 6s. ie 2 shots of hooks digging into the flesh, 4 shots of a razor slitting his scalp and a shot of the final nail being driven deep into his skull.
• 55s has been deleted from Julia's (Claire Higgins') resurrection; 35s of razor slits, 16s of the victim crawling across the floor and 4s of Julia feeding from the victim's neck.
• The transformation of Channard (Kenneth Cranham) into a cenobite suffers; a 2s loss of an injection of needles, 3s of cheese wire digging into his skin and 4s of a thing forcing its way into his mouth.
• Kirsty's (Ashley Laurence's) encounter with Frank 2 cuts totalling 6s of Frank peeling the skin off his face and a 1s close-up of Julia's hand entering his back to rip his heart out.
• Channard's hospital visit has a 1s cut showing a knife jamming itself into a patients forehead
• Channard's battle with the Cenobites loses 3s of a female cenobite's spear wound in the throat and 8s of Pinhead having his throat cut.
• The climatic scene of Channard's death has 2 cuts totalling 3s, ie a shot of his head being torn in half and his body spurting blood.
• The maggot-slicing scene on the bed is heavily cut, all slicing is eliminated
• All of Tiffany's hallucinations are cut somewhat
• 2s of a hand being severed in Channard's hospital visit scene.
• A dream scene in hell that is only available on Laserdisc/DVD running 1:41s

Region 0: Anchor Bay, DV10331: The uncut and unrated US DVD   boasts a dubious running time of 108:00s. The actual running time is approx 98:00s (PAL equivalent 94:00). There still appears to be some missing footage particularly in the scene showing the creation of Pinhead

4s cut, certificate 18, 89:25s

• Just one brief cut, Julia's (Claire Higgins) first victim "please please" as she hits him with a hammer.

Apparently the above cut only applies to the p&s version of the film, I have heard that the widescreen version was somehow re-edited to avoid the need for the cut

8s cut, certificate 15, 123:14s (Columbia/Tri-Star).

Cuts apply to cinema, video & DVD versions.

• Several short cuts from scene where John Malkovich murders a bank clerk and her flatmate.The snapping of each womans neck has been removed along with 2 minor linking shots.

Region 2: Columbia/Tri-Star (France Netherlands, Germany): uncut

31s cut, certificate 18, 109:14s

The cinema version was rated 15 but the video & DVD versions have been cut and uprated to 18

• A scene has been removed soon after Mel Gibson sees the body of Patsy Kensit in which he kills two guards. The first one is beaten with a chain and the second has his head rammed in a car door (a definite BBFC no-no). There is also a cut close-up of a bad guy being shot in the climatic scene.

In addition further scenes are missing at the behest of the distributors:

• The scene where Mel Gibson pumps the car trunk (and hence the South African agent it conceals) full of bullets is missing
• The scene where a South African agent is crushed by a car hoist.

Region 2: Warner Home Video (French/Italian/Dutch): uncut

Region 2: Warner Home Video (German): cut. The uncut video is rated 18 whereas the DVD is rated 16, runs at 108:00s and hence is surely cut.

1:33s cut, certificate 15, 120:36s

Cuts apply to cinema, video and DVD versions.

• The fight scene towards the beginning of the filme where Jet Li kills an accomplice is missing Jet Li breaking the guy's hand and then stamping on his foot after which he grabs the guy by the face  and knees him.
• In the same scene we  don't get to see the wire being strapped tightly around the guy's throat.
• Towards the end, when the Chinese family is brought to the forgery workshop, and the old character goes to his his uncle, we don't get to see the guy's neck being snapped.   The implication still remains though.
• In the major fight scene in Murtaghs house between Jet Li's thugs, Gibson, Russo and Glover there are many many small cuts to remove scenes of contact. This includes punches, kicks and the knife scenes. A pregant Russo beating a thug is trimmed as is Jet Li kicking Russo in the head as she enters the door.
• The final scene is considerably cut in the same way, including Gibsons repeated Headbutt to Jet Li. Also as in Goldeneye the sound volume is reduced to make the fight impacts less severe.

Also includes a commmentary track This is missing from the UK version possibly because the BBFC butchering would have made some of the comments nonsensical.

Region 2: Warner Home Video (French D3): uncut

Region 2: Warner Home Video (German): cut. The uncut video is rated 18 whereas the DVD is rated 16 and hence is surely cut.

10s cut, certificate 15, 130:29s

Eight headbutts have been removed to tone the film down from 18 to a requested 15. Thanks to Draven for the suggested layout: the cut shots are shown in bold:

1. Fight sequence where the rebel leader, Morpheus (Larry Fishborne), is captured. The scene starts with Morpheus landing on top of Agent Smith in the bathroom.  After which they introduce themselves to one another.  Smith then squeezes Morpheus's knuckles as he moves Morpheus's hands away from his neck. Morpheus then headbutts him as this is all he can do. After this, Smith grabs him by the collar and simultaneously headbutts him three times in a row after which he punches him in the chest.  This throws Morpheus back against the wall behind as per the shitty British version. 
2. Fight scene with Neo in the train station.  Towards the beginning of the fight, there is a shot where Agent Smith kicks Neo which makes him float sideways in the air and then punches him into the wall.  Neo gets up after kicking away Smith.  He then attacks Smith via punching him in a cool martial arts manner. As this is happening, agent smith locks Neo by both his arms and headbutts him twice. 
3. Later in the same fight scene.  After Neo is hurled away into the air after one of Agent Smith's punches at which point he spits out blood (both in the scene and in his chair), he gets up and entices Smith towards him via hand gestures.  after this he trades punches with Smith and then reverses the arm block back to Smith and headbutts him twice in much the same way that had been done to him a little earlier.  Neo then punches Smith in the chin and does the four cool kicks in the air and chokes Smith when he sticks his fingers out into his throat when his punch is blocked. 

Region2: There are 4 R2 versions of which only the UK release is cut

9s cut, certificate 18, 96:15s (Columbia/Tri_star)

• Cuts are reported in the first clash between Mikhail (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and some Russion thugs.The offending shots are of limbs being twisted and bones being broken.

Region 2: Columbia/Tri-Star   (Belgium/Luxembourg):  uncut at 96:26s

4s cut, certificate 15, 102:14s

A single 4 second cut has been made to the video/DVD version of this Wesley Snipes thriller. During the raid on Spikins' house, when Snipes battles one of the assassins in the kitchen, the shot of Snipes breaking the bad guys neck has been removed.

Region 2: Warner Home Video (English, German, Spanish versions, multiple subtitles): uncut

• Above the Law

15s cut, certificate 18, 94:48s

1. During the fight in a bar towards the beginning of the film - when Seagal is searching for his neice - 6 secs of Seagal twice slamming his fist into a thugs nose has been removed.
2. In the finale, when Seagal briefly fights Henry Silva, a 4 sec shot of Seagal breaking Silva's arm - with a loud crunch - has been removed, but the subsequent neck break seems intact.

2:20s cut, certificate 18, 83:57s (Tartan Video)

Tartan have been well stuffed by the BBFC over this one, the cuts are even longer than the video version!.

The video suffered cuts of 1:42s for a running time of 80:39s. I am not sure what version was submitted on the grounds that the running time is longer than the video but maybe this extra footage was that dragged up to pad out the heavily cut US R rated release. There is a mention of a never-before-seen dream sequence on the US laserdisc release so maybe that is the extra material here.

The BBFC have definitely ruined the best scene in film, namely the headless rape. the following cuts apply to the video release but will almost certainly apply to the DVD as well.

• 7s is deleted from West's (Jeffrey Coombs) killing of a zombie in the morgue, ie a close-up of a man being run through with a bone saw. is missing.
• A 5s shot of Dr Hill (David Gale) with a shovel embedded in his neck has been cut from the decapitation scene.
• The headless rape scene offended the censors particularly as it contained the taboo of blood on the breasts. 32s is missing showing Megan Halsey (Barbara Crampton) being stripped and having her arms and legs strapped down.16s is cut showing Hill's decapitated body caressing Megan's breasts. A further 41s is cut showing the disembodied head sticking its tongue in Megan's ear, kissing her breasts and a shot of the head between her legs.
• 3s has been deleted from a shot of West's eyes being gouged and zombie eyes bleeding.
• The shot of a zombie biting off Halsey's fingers has been lost.

The Elite version has a few interesting extras,

• The 16 non-violent scenes used to pad out the US R rated video
• Commentaries from directors and stars
• The bonus dream sequence

Beware that Customs appear to have a ludicrous bad attitude to this one. See the seizures page

15s cut, certificate 15, 130:42s

The Rock caused grief at the BBFC as follows: Sean Connery was adapting his violent talents to the modern mode, throwing knives, breaking necks and spraying bullets into the feet of opposing soldiers in the action adventure The Rock, which was cut by 15s to preserve its 15 on video. Since violent blows are brief, cuts to remove them can be brief but their excision makes a significant difference, It would be interesting to speculate why screen heroes of the nineties have become so coldly callous. One day, perhaps the question may be answered by social historians, but it is a trend that sits rather oddly with Britain's new culture of compassion.

1. Confrontation in the morgue where John Patric Mason (Sean Connery) knife-throwing into a soldier's neck is totally eliminated, along with the line you must never hesitate.
2. Connery shooting a guard in the foot is trimmed.
3. A 2 second zoom of the above soldier when the generator falls on him after Mason shoots it.
4. Connery breaking a guard's neck loses the sound of the breaking.
5. The gun battle near the end has been trimmed for blood letting, when Major Tom Baxter (David Morse) gets shot in the stomach and General Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris) receives a hit to his left shoulder.

Region 2:

• Warner Brothers (French/Dutch/Italian): cut: this version has a BBFC certificate printed on the disc so unfortunately the cut UK version. Poor French people, fancy having to suffer censorship by the English.
• Warner Brothers (German/Spanish/English): cut: The cuts made to the German disc are different from the British cuts: all scenes cut from the British disc are there, but the scene with Cage shooting a man in the cable car has been trimmed and a shot of a soldier impaled on a pole has been removed.

• La Sindrome di Stendhal
• Stendhal's Syndrome

Cut by 2:47s, Certificate 18, 110:42s

The UK DVD release in June 99 was accidentally the uncut version. It was soon withdrawn though. The uncut version can be identified by the disk artwork (but not the box unfortunately). The uncut release is a black and white design, whilst the later cut release is a red and black design.

Pre-cut by the previous video distributors, Guild Pathe with 11 cuts totalling 2m:47so.

1. In the rape of Anna (Asia Argento) by Alfredo (Thomas Kretschmann) 12s are removed that show Alfredo rolling a razor blade around in his mouth and then removing it. A couple of response shots from Anna are also effected.
2. 14s have been removed from the subsequent rape of another woman whilst Anna is still watching.A shot of Alfredo holding a gun next to the victims face. The infamous slow motion close up of a bullet being fired through the victims mouth and face has been removed along with the view though the newly made hole.This cut is rather ineptly done as Anna screams and then gets covered in blood without any obvious reason.
3. An entire scene lasting 100s has been eliminated showing Anna returning home to a rather cold and unfriendly reception from her family. Scene setting only.
4. Alfredo moves on to another rape of a woman in a dress shop.10s of Alfredo hitting the woman in the face have been cut along with another 6s of a slow motion bullet going off by the womans head. The bullet reflects an image of Alfredo as it passes him by.
5. Anna gets raped again in Alfredo's hideout but we miss 11s of the action, Some screaming by Anna, s hot of Alfredo from Anna's point of view and Anna being hit in the face.
6. In this version, Anna suffers 10s less of a razor blade being drawn down her cheek and she loses a view of Alfredo.
7. Eventually Anna gets the upper hand and she gets to give Alfredo a beating with her gun. She hits him 6 times in the original but only 4 times in this version.

Special Features:

• Director's Cut
• Interviews
• Theatrical trailer
• Interactive Tour of Troma Studios
• Troma Intelligence Test 2
• Troma Digital comic book
• Troma Public Service Announcements
• Secret hidden "easter eggs"
• Commentary track by Director Dario Argento

Banned

The heavily cut R rated version has an 18 cinema certificate. The BBFC required further extensive cuts for a video certificate but the distributors turned down the offer. The video is therefore banned.

This seems to be the old US X rated version restoring around 5 mins of cuts required for the R rated version. However the history books suggest that 1 minute of this version was cut at the pre-production stage at the suggestion of the BBFC.  This may explain some rather untidy editing, eg there is an obvious jump cut which comes just after David Warner has belted Susan George across the face and she is seen recovering by leaning against the sofa.

The case proudly boasts that the film is 'Banned in the UK'.

There appears to be no problems with customs when importing this one.

43s cut, certificate 15, 97:11s

This film exists in both a cut 15 version and an uncut 18 version. For some reason the cut version was selected for the DVD release

• Tenebrae
• Unsane
• Shadow
• Sotto Gli Occhi dell'Assassino

Cut for a cinema 18 certificate by 3s. Has never appeared on state sanctioned video or DVD for fear of savage treatment from the BBFC.

6s+ cut, certificate 12, 114:02s

Cut for cinema release and suffered an additional 6s of cuts for video. In addition, there have been further sound pre-cuts throughout the video. The video version was presumably then used for the UK DVD

• Reduced impact sounds in fight at Carver's (Jonathon Price's) studio party
• Reduced impact sounds in Chakra torture scene
• Reduced impact sounds in fight in bike shop
• Reduced impact sounds of Wai Lin's (Michelle Yeoh's) kung-fu kicks
• Reduced sound of man being scalded by steam
• Reduced sound of Carver being hit by an engine and then his death scream
• Reduced impact sounds of Bond's (Pierce Brosnan's) climatic fight scene
• Cuts to scene where Michelle Yeoh dispatches one of the bad guys by means of a throwing star.
• Removed scene of Michelle Yeoh taking throwing star from a hidden compartment in her shoe
• Cuts to scene where Bond stamps on a man's face

Region 2: MGM(French/Italian/Dutch): Uncut  114:09s with English soundtrack

Trainspotting

14s cut, certificate 18, 89:25s (Polygram)

Polygram had to delay the release whilst required cuts to the details of the drug taking process were omplemented. If you see blood swirling in the syringe before the "Perfect Day" sequence, it's the original uncut version of the film.

It appears that Polygram had in fact pressed a version for release in several countries. This of course was the uncut version. The distributors had been a little bit over presumptive and had printed 18UK on the rim of the disk and so it clearly was intended for the UK. It had to be repressed for UK release with the 14s cuts required for the video version.

Region 1: Miramax/Disney Home Video: Uncut with original soundtrack, American English subtitles!

Region 1: Alliance Video: Uncut Canadian version with more extras than the US version.

Region 2: Polygram, international pressing available in Belgium, France and Spain: Uncut with original soundtrack. (http://www.dvdzone2.com)

1s cut, certificate PG, 108:21s

Same cuts for cinema, video & DVD versions

Two apparently muffled sexual swearwords deleted.