BBFC Cuts B: Ba

Baba Yaga Reloaded

• Baba Yaga
• Baba Yaga, The Devil Witch
• Black Magic
• Kiss Me Kill Me
• The Devil Witch

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Reloaded version uncut at:

Original version uncut at:

UK: The Reloaded version was passed uncut by the BBFC for:

•  UK 2008 Argent/Shameless R2 DVD at UK Amazon

See article from dvdtimes.co.uk:

For this 2009 release the film has been re-cut by Farina himself, returning the majority of the deleted materials to their rightful locations, most notably with a politically driven pre-credits graveyard sequence, of which the chances of being warmly received in the USA are about nil.

Most of the other material that was deleted either underscores the lesbian elements or can simply be seen as padding.

The two censor-mandated full frontal nudity cuts have also been restored. It would be unfair to claim that the reinstating of these scenes turns a flawed film into a masterpiece, but they do make the film slightly more cohesive as a whole, and lead to certain scene transitions seeming a little less jarring.

Summary Review: Surreal Tangents

Strange things have been happening to Valentina, a young and beautiful professional photographer, ever since she made the acquaintance of Baba Yaga, a mysterious older woman who gave her a lift home late one night.

This movie has just confused the hell out of everybody since it's based on a comic strip Valentina few outside of Italy have read and few in Italy probably understood. Valentina is a photographer who through the agency of a magic camera falls under the spell of a strange lesbian witch, Baba Yaga. That's the basic plot, but it goes off on so many bizarre and surreal tangents that the movie itself is almost impossible to describe.

This movie definitely isn't for everybody, but if you're on this site reading this review  I expect you'll probably like it.

• US 2012 Blue Underground Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon for release on 28th February 2012
• US 2003 Blue Underground R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• UK 1974 cinema release titled Baba Yaga, The Devil Witch

The BBFC cuts were:

• Two full frontal shot of Carroll Baker were deleted

Disputes at the production company saw material deleted at odds with the wishes of the director.

The submitted running time was noted as 80:53s = 77:39s PAL

Babes of Baywatch

Baby Cart to Hades

• Kozure Ôkami: Shinikazeni mukau ubaguruma
• Baby Cart
• Lend a Child
• Lend an Army
• Lightning Swords of Death
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
• Lupine Wolf
• Sword of Vengeance, Part III

The BBFC cut the 1999 Artsmagic video/DVD by 20s

• Cut to edit violence during the attempted rape of 2 women by a samurai gang and their subsequent killing by Kanbei

The Complete Lone Wolf & Cub Boxset released in 2009 by Eureka is uncut but there is no record of a resubmission to the BBFC.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: An astonishing, great film

An astonishing, great film. Wakayama Tomisaburo does not just act, he embodies. To me, this amazing actor is Lone Wolf of the Kazure Okami comic book series (itself a masterpiece). I can never get enough of looking at him.

There is a simple scene in this film, in which Lone Wolf and his son are sitting in an inn drinking tea. The silence, the graciousness and subtle charm of the gestures, the unhurried and measured quality of the shot, create a moving experience for the viewer.

Most people focus on the violence of these films -- which is done beautifully -- but for me, the most important thing is the simple, pure, and usually wordless characterization of the relationship between father and son.

Babylon 5: Messages from Earth

Babylon AD

The Canal Studio Version or Extended Edition or Raw & Uncut Version or Harder Cut was passed 15 for the 2008 DVD without BBFC cuts.

Babylon A.D. is an adaptation of Maurice G. Dantec's science fiction novel Babylon Babies. It is set in a post-apocalyptic society and tells the story of Toorop; a veteran soldier turned mercenary who is hired to transport a young girl from Russia to Canada.

This DVD version has been passed 15 because of at least eight uses of strong language and moderate violence. Guidelines for 15 allow frequent use of strong language (eg 'fuck'), unlike guidelines for 12 or 12A where the use of strong language must be infrequent.

The versions for the cinema and another DVD release were passed 12A and 12 , respectively, because they were identical in content, in containing only one use of strong language and moderate violence.

In all other respects, this version is the same as the other two. This work also contains frequent use of moderate language – including bitch, shit and arse. The moderate violence featured is of the standard action movie fare and includes explosions, impressionistic fight scenes and gun battles. There are occasional bloody moments including a brutal cage fight between the main character and a vicious gladiator and another scene which features a slow-motion bullet entering the body of woman. These moments in the work are infrequent and do not linger on bloody injuries. Their inclusion is largely mitigated by the fantastical science-fiction context and well-contained within 15 guidelines which say that violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury.

See also pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

The Babysitters

• Twin Sitters

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 1995

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum:

• At 32 mins - The finding of two little boys in joke hanging was reduced by removing initial long shots and close ups of faces, resuming on long shots of twins in doorway with boys` feet dangling foreground.
• At 38 mins - In scene by swimming pool, all close ups of coiled orange cable, plug-in socket, cable uncurling, and plug pulled out of socket were removed.
• At 66 mins - Shot of black gloved hands twisting and banging man`s head against balustrade was removed.
• At 79 mins - After oriental twins kick man behind them, the attack with repeated kicks on two other men was removed, resuming on corridor shot.
• At 81 mins - When black twins take turns to punch man in face, blows were reduced to one punch only.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Back in Action

• Coup de force

Previous BBFC cuts were waived when the Hollywood DVD was submitted in 2004. This is now the full uncut version as banned by the BBFC in 1994

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

See review from IMDb: A definite winner

Good chemistry between the two leads, Lots of action. A definite winner.

This is an excellent "B" movie. Blanks and Piper work really well together. The story is decent. But story doesn't count, action does. And there is more than enough action to keep people happy. Blanks and Piper are good in the numerous fight scenes.

Overall a really good movie that any action fan should check out.

The BBFC commented:

The distributors resubmitted the video shorn of 7.5 minutes of the most brutal violence, after which a further 1.5 minutes was cut by the Board, removing most of the remaining kicks to the head and face, the smashing of heads against walls, floors and pillars, the biting of ears and glamorising of weaponry.

Two of the rejected videos in 1994 (the other is Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor) featured karate but each went beyond acceptable standards in the quantity and intensity of potentially lethal kicks to the head and bone-crunching blows and twists to the limbs, back and neck. Since this form of macho heroics is likely to appeal to teenagers with a record of violent offending, cuts did not seem a practical proposition. The Board has always been concerned about films in which heroes meet viciousness with viciousness, inflicting pain and injury on others as if it were the only remedy for villainy.

Back to Melrose Place

The Back-Up Plan

Uncut version is available at:

PG-13

The International Version was passed 15 uncut for

• UK 2010 Sony R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA PG-13 Rated for:

• US 2010 Sony RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2010 Sony R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• UK 2010 Sony R2 DVD
• Uk 2010 cinema release

Thanks to Gavin Salkeld. The BBFC commented:

• The Back Up Plan was seen by a senior examiner in advance of its formal submission and a number of changes were suggested, including the removal of several strong sex references. The film was duly passed '12A'.

Backlash

Bad

• Andy Warhol's Bad

The BBFC cut the 1977 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb

• Cut to remove all close up footage of pornographic magazine material
• Edits to the finger removal scene
• Edits to shots of a dead baby.

Bad Blood

See Viper

Bad Boy Bubby

Cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2007

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available via UK Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

Cut by 3s for the cinema version and 20s for video. The BBFC site suggests that the cuts were the same for both versions so perhaps different implementations of the required cut.

From DVD Times:

The BBFC cut one shot, nine minutes in: Bubby is sitting in a chair, tugging at a string which is around his cat’s neck. The cat seems to be resisting, which is presumably why the BBFC considered that it was distressed, making the shot fall foul of the Animals Act.

This cut unfortunately removed the following dialogue:
Bubby: Where cat from?
Mother: Outside.

This blurred a plot point, as this was the first indication that there is an “outside”.

Bad Boys

R Rated

The Theatrical Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2007 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2002 Universal R2 DVD
• UK 1983 cinema release

The US release is uncut and MPAA Rated for:

• US 2011 Lions Gate Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2008 Lions Gate R2 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 1987 Warner VHS

The cuts were uncontentious and were for timing reasons. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Bad Dreams

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

1988 US horror by Andrew Fleming with Jennifer Rubin and Bruce Abbott. See IMDb

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Shout! Factory Killer Double Feature R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2006 Starz/Anchor Bay R1 DVD

Summary Review: Underrated Entertainment

Bad Dreams is very much a product of the t 80s and horror filmmaking style at that time. The film tell the story of the sole survivor of mass suicide at an interesting hippielike commune/cult led by a David Koresh type leader.

Yet Bad Dreams is a cut above most other for many reasons. The film is filled with surrealistic arresting images-in particular, the house where the mass suicide took place is an intriguing looking building, tragically beautiful. The acting is better than in most horror films. Jennifer Rubin is especially good.

In short, Bad Dreams is a must see.

The BBFC cut the 18 rated 1989 video from Film and Video by 22s.

Cuts details from IMDb:

• to remove closeup shots of self-mutilation with a knife and a scalpel
• to reduce a scene where a man is repeatedly hit by a car.

It has been shown on Zone Horror and others uncut uncut suggesting that the BBFC would now waive the cuts

Bad Education

• La mala educación

NC-17

Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2005 Pathe R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2004 cinema release

The US release is uncut and MPAA NC-17 rated for:

• US 2005 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon

There is also a cut pixellated R Rated US release to avoid

Bad Girls

Passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2004 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 1994 Fox VHS
• 1994 cinema release

This UK release is reported to be the uncut version also noted as Unrated for US release.

There is also a cut US R Rated Version missing 27s of 2 of Drew Barrymore's scenes where she flashes her breasts

Bad Girls Dormitory

Uncut at:

Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Code Red Maria's B-Movie Mayhem Double Bill R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Grimy

Inmates at a women's prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout.

If you want some 80s NYC sleaze, you can't go wrong with this. Sporting a lo-fi BASKET CASE aesthetic, BAD GIRL'S DORMITORY is rife with dirty NYC alleys, grimy apartment buildings, and basements with peeling paint. I love it. The acting is universally bad but lead Zuris, who looks a bit like Marilyn Chambers, is actually decent.

pre-cut
33s

• UK 1986 Odyssey VHS

Bad Influence

The 2003 MGM DVD release was cut by 28s by the BBFC with the following comment: Compulsory cut to remove dangerous imitable technique.

The 1990 cinema release and 1991 video release from Entertainment in Video suffered similarly but implemented differently.

Thanks to Bleach, from cuts details on IMDb

• Removed "dangerous imitable technique" during the scene where Alex attempts to kill Michael by connecting the car lights to the petrol tank.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Excellent

A movie that keeps you in suspense from it's very beginning deserves to be called "excellent".

Rob Lowe's magnificent performance as a charismatic player is so convincing you may notice at the end that you have not even moved while watching it...

James Spader's roll as a decent hard working professional who innocently finds himself, suddenly involved in a homicide case, is terrific as well. Love, sex, passion, hate...and even murder are perfectly combined in this movie...

Highly recommended...

Bad Lieutenant

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2003 Pathe R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA NC-17 rated for:

• US 2010 Lions Gate R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2009 Lions Gate R1 DVD at US Amazon

Bad Lieutenant is banned completely in Ireland. If you are thinking of buying it in the US beware of a butchered R rated version prepared especially for our moral guardians at Blockbuster Video.

Review from UK Amazon: It doesn't come much better

Sometimes your need to explore the bad. Not sugar coat it, not make it all-right-in-the-end feelgood hollywood crowd-pleasing, but take a character and a situation and follow them both through to their rightful conclusion.

And make no mistake, this is totally about badness - Keitel's character is as corrupted to the core as a human being can be. And we witness it all close up.

But can someone like him be ultimately redeemed? I'll leave you to find out. Be prepared to be shocked, to witness total corruption and despair, and to witness one of the best performances an actor can give.

This film will take you way beyond your comfort zone - but is a tour de force of vital, raw cinema. I still shudder now when recalling it and how I felt at the ending. It doesn't come much better than this.

• UK 1995 Guild VHS

The video version suffered the bad timing of being released soon after the James Bulger media panic.

1. Rape of the nun: cut: scene where nun's pants are removed revealing pubic hair.
2. Injecting heroin: cut: close-up of Zoe Lund's arm as she injects herself.
3. Injecting heroin: cut: Keitel drinking as he watches Zoe.
4. Injecting heroin: cut: another shot of Zoe's arm with the needle in it.
5. Injecting heroin: cut: close up of Zoe's face.
6. Injecting heroin: cut: Zoe drawing liquid from spoon. (still present in the trailer!)
7. Injecting heroin: 31s replaced by crude dissolve: Zoe injects Keitel.

Led Zepplin threatened legal action against a track sounding slightly like "Kashmir". The offending song has been removed from 4 points in the video.

1. Street drug dealing just before Keitel arrives to buy crack: now no music at all.
2. Nun's rape originally to backing track "signifying rapper": now church organ music.
3. Long tracking shot following Keitel into the hospital: now no music at all.
4. End credits: now have Abel Ferrara himself singing.

• UK 1992 cinema release

Bad Santa

• Badder Santa (unrated version)

Unarted

The Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2005 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD

Note that there is also a Director's Cut that is shorter than the unrated version and hasn't been issued in the UK

The Unrated region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The Unrated + Director's Cut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

The Unrated region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

See cuts details from dvdcompare.net

DVD Compare reports that the UK DVD release is basically the Unrated Version but is missing the mention of Willie's penis in the opening exchange with the security guard.

From cuts details on IMDb

The unrated cut includes these changes:

• There's an alternate take of Willie leaving the mall at the start of the movie with a more vulgar exchange with the security guard. Willie retorts that his penis as the only content of his pants and asks whether the guard wants to see it.
• There's a whole new subplot at the beginning of the movie with Willie stealing a car and robbing someone's house, and then going to a strip club and bringing a stripper home before hearing the phone message telling him it's that time of year again.
• There is more footage of Willie having sex in the dressing room.
• The pinball scene with the underage girl is extended with more thrusting.
• There's more swearing and berating in the food court scene.
• There's some more footage of Willie yelling at The Kid after losing a game of checkers.
• The jacuzzi sex scene is slightly longer.
• The scene with Willie confronting a security guard outside the mall is extended.
• A small extension of the Granny Death scene.
• An extended car death scene.
• A longer shoot out at the mall

R Rated

• UK 2005 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD
• UK 2004 cinema release

Bad Teacher

Unrated

The US Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Sony R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

• UK 2011 Sony R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The BBFC commented:

• Contains strong language, once very strong, strong sex & drug references

R Rated

• UK 2011 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

• Contains strong sex references and language, drug use and moderate nudity

Bagdad Cafe

• Out of Rosenheim

The longer German Version was passed 12 uncut for:

• UK 2002 Arrow R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• UK 1989 Vestron VHS
• UK 1988 cinema release

Baise-Moi

• Fuck Me
• Rape Me

The US/Canada release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2005 Remstar R1 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

The BBFC cut 12s for an 18 rating for:

• UK 2002 Universal R2 DVD
• UK 2002 Feature Film Company R2 DVD

The BBFC commented: Cuts required to two sequences of sexual violence involving strong sexual imagery:

• explicit close up of sexual penetration of woman during rape scene
• sight of gun being pressed into man's anus prior to being fired

Contains hardcore segments even after being censored by the BBFC

Review from UK Amazon: Crude but exhilarating

This is an extreme film, and a glance at the many reviews on here will demonstrate that it provokes extreme reactions.

All these people comparing Baise-Moi to Thelma and Louise and finding it wanting by comparison are missing the point. Baise-Moi has much more in common with films like Natural Born Killers and Rafal Sielinski's Fun, and viewers who won't enjoy the nasty music, nasty violence and nasty sex should stick to safe, predictable Hollywood production-line films.

Baise-Moi is a crude but exhilarating walk on the wild side which definitely won't be to most people's taste, and that's fine. For those with stronger stomachs, this will be a cult film to watch repeatedly.

• UK 2001 cinema release

The BBFC explained:

• Cut required to an explicit close-up shot of a penis penetrating a vagina during a violent rape sequence.

Balram vs Tharadas

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to remove sight of bloody injuries and weapons

Bamboo House Dolls

• Nu ji zhong ying
• Bamboo House of Dolls
• Bamboo Women's Prison

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1975 cinema release

• Wedding Planners

Passed PG uncut for:

• UK 2011 Yash Raj DVD

There are no subtitles on this release so the obscure swear word remains obscured and the film was given a PG rating.

• UK 2010 cinema release

An unheard obscured swear word on the soundtrack was translated as f*** in the subtitles. This earned the otherwise PG film a 12A rating

Band Camp

See American Pie Presents Band Camp

The Banker

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004

Banned from Television

• Banned from Television Uncensored!

Rejected by the BBFC in February 1999 with the following justification:

The main consideration for the Board was the question of harm referred to above. In short, does the work have the potential for anti- social influence?

In the Board's view it does. It is a compilation of scenes of extremely violent death, injury and mutilation, many of which are repeated in slow-motion. The commentary draws attention to the grislier aspects and in effect invites enjoyment at human suffering. The inclusion also of sex scenes reinforces the impression that the purpose of the video is to provide entertainment. There is no attempt to justify the images by placing the incidents in any other journalistic or educational context. Whatever current relevance the images might have had when they were originally photographed has been lost in the general compilation of horrors. The Board is conscious that a particular genre that has always been identified as entirely unacceptable is that of so-called 'snuff movies'. Their main identifying feature is that at least one of the participants is actually killed.  Banned from Television is only different in that, instead of a death being created for the work, actual death and injury is collated from a wide range of pre-existing sources to create the work.

The Board has concluded that the video is potentially harmful because of the influence it may have on the attitudes and behaviour of a significant proportion of likely viewers. The instinct of concern and compassion for the suffering of others is a basic social necessity. So is respect for the dignity of real human life. By presenting actual human death and mutilation as entertainment, the work, in the Board's view, has the potential to erode these instincts. There is a danger of it falling into the hands of young and impressionable persons (whatever its classification) and of some significant brutalising effect on their attitude to human life and pain.

The Board has considered the possibility of cuts as a remedy for these difficulties. It has concluded, however, that they would be unlikely to modify the tone and effect of the work acceptably.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Gruesome Reality

This fifty-four minute DVD contains twenty-five chapters with situations ranging from an undercover police video at a strip club to a shark attack on a student, from a collapsing tower at a Deep Purple concert in Chile to several scenes of police brutality in South America. The most gruesome scene involves a woman who, in a hurry to get wherever she needed to go, accidentally jogs into a speeding train. You can see from the video clip of the accident why she failed to stop in time, but it is still brutal to watch and highlights the reason your parents always told you to look both ways before crossing the street. When I read about this scene before purchasing the DVD, I knew exactly the footage I would see because one of those cable channels that always show various documentaries covered this train accident in a program some time ago. Of course, on cable the scene cut away right before impact. Here you see it from start to finish, and it is a powerful statement on how carelessness has the potential for tragic consequences.

Barb Wire

cut

R Rated

The cut US R Rated Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2008 Universal R2 DVD
• UK 2006 Universal R2 DVD

Unrated

• UK 1996 Polygram VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2002 Universal R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

2:04s have been added for the Unrated Version. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• Extended pre-credits scene showing more of Barb stripping in a club. This scene also extends into the credits.
• More of the dancing half naked lesbians in a night club

cut

R Rated

• 1995 cinema release

Barbarian Queen

• Queen of the Naked Steel

R Rated

The cut R Rated Version was passed 18 with previous cuts waived for:

• UK 2002 Prism R2 DVD

The US release is MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Shout! factory Sword and Sorcery Collection R1 DVD

• UK 1985 Medusa VHS

From IMDb. The BBFC made heavy edits to:

• scenes of nudity
• scenes showing scarred women's breasts, and
• shots of a naked woman bound in a forest.

Barbarian Queen 2

• Barbarian Queen 2:  The Empress Strikes Back

Barbed Wire Dolls

• Women Behind Bars
• Frauengefängnis
• Caged Women
• Women's Penitentiary IV

Uncut version is available at:

The Switzerland release is uncut for:

• CH VIP R0 DVD via UK Amazon

See review from IMDb: Comical, disorienting and depressing

Women in Prison movies come in several styles, ranging from tongue-in-cheek camp to disturbingly sadistic shockfests. Barbed Wire Dolls is a Jess Franco flick, so, as expected, it doesn't really fit into any pigeonhole. Overall, it feels like watching a repressed old man's secret fantasies, re-enacted half-assedly over the course of a three-day weekend by Franco's friends in exchange for a free flight ticket. The extremely low budget is clearly visible in every aspect of the movie, including the film quality, which is barely a step above that of a Mexican soap opera or 80s late-night infomercial.

Watching Frauengefangnis is like performing an experiment on yourself. The painfully slow pace, downbeat soundtrack, eternal scenes of pointless verbal abuse, mock torture, and idiotic dialog gradually turn your brain into glue. The movie is so sleazy, depressing, and confusing, that it's almost unwatchable in one sitting.

The creepy effect of this movie doesn't come from graphic violence, as there is none. What's disturbing is how tame and lifeless everything feels, given what's supposed to be taking place. For example, it's unnerving to watch a woman laugh while she gets tortured. The laughing isn't part of the script, but on more than one occasion, actresses in this movie unintentionally crack up throughout what's supposed to be a torture or a rape scene. The effect it at once comical, disorienting and depressing. It really has to be seen to be believed.

• UK 2004 Anchor Bay R2 DVD titled Barbed Wire Dolls

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts required to remove explicit sight of sexual activity (digital penetration) in order to achieve an 18 classification. An R18 uncut was not available for this non-sex work.
• The explicit imagery was not deemed to have a sufficient narrative justification in the Jess Franco work Barbed Wire Dolls, which blurred the line between erotic drama and sex work.

The BBFC kindly provided a further clarification:

According to our Guidelines, you cannot show unsimulated sex at '18' if it is a 'sex work' (ie a work whose main purpose is to sexually arouse). Real sex in a 'sex work' makes it 'R18'. However, this Jess Franco film is not a 'sex work'.

According to our Guidelines, explicit real sex may only be shown at '18' if (i) it is not a sex work (see above) and (ii) the sex is exceptionally justified by context.

In this case the Board did not feel that the explicit sex was exceptionally justified by context so it was not judged acceptable at '18'. Of course, the explicit sex could have been permitted at 'R18' on its own. However, an 'R18' without cuts was not a realistic option in this case, not so much because it wasn't a sex work  but because the violence and sexual violence that we permitted at '18' would not be permissible at 'R18'. So, if we had permitted the explicit sex at 'R18' (which we could have) we would have had to make additional cuts for 'R18' (to violence and sexual violence) that would not have been required at '18'.

• UK 1977 cinema release titled Caged Women

• UK 1976 cinema release titled Caged Women

Bare Behind Bars

• A Prisão

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Alternative Cinema/Blue Underground R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Tongue-in-cheek

It is more laugh-out-loud funny than erotic. It is very tongue-in-cheek and doesn't take itself seriously for an instant. The acting is deliberately bad, over-the-top and cartoonish. And that is actually its saving grace, because it makes you laugh at the silliness of it all.

Just sample the scene of the horny inmates using a makeshift pulley to slowly winch a dildo in between their cells at night. Then there's the infamous pineapple dildo.

Thankfully the women in this prison are almost all deliciously hot and spend most of the time happily naked. And that includes the guards.

To top it off, this version comes with hardcore elements fully integrated into the whole. The X-rating is justified. We are treated to blowjobs, dildo insertions, strap-on action, and full penetrative sex.

• UK 2010 Arrow R0 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Company chose to make cuts to remove explicit sight of unsimulated sexual activity (in this case, sight of fellatio and vaginal penetration by penis and dildo) in order to achieve an 18 classification. An uncut R18 classification was available.

The BBFC further commented in the 2010 Annual Report:

Bare Behind Bars is a Brazilian sexploitation film set in a women's prison run by a sadistic female warden. Under current Guidelines the scenes of sexual violence are no longer considered a harm risk. The film does not endorse sexual violence. Bare Behind Bars is a film which is showing its age, and the representations lack credibility by contemporary standards.

Scenes of real sex, however, were not contextually justified and cuts were required to those scenes before the film could be passed at the 18 classification.

• UK 1994 Redemption VHS

The BBFC commented:

A Women's prison video in which the female prisoners were coerced, degraded and brutalised. Bare Behind Bars was more insidious (than Sadomania) in its degradation, since inmates were portrayed as a herd, indistinguishable in their nakedness like animals in a cage. Imprisoned physically and psychologically, they were sexual objects, not subjects, instinctual creatures for whom sex remained the only release. Its appeal rested primarily on the spectacle of naked women en masse, at the mercy of cruel authority, the meagre narrative moving through image after image of violation - by sex, by medical examination, by crude sex toys, by razor blades, by rats. If the film lacks the peaks of evil or atrocity that characterise Sadomania, it substitutes a relentless reduction of all that is human or valuable in these woman as individuals. It distorts the way women are thought of by the male viewer in his search for sexual gratification, reinforcing myths about female sexuality which must be damaging to the viewers, to their future sexual partners, and, by extension therefore to society. The Board will continue to apply the harm test to material of this sort.

An unsuccessful appeal against this decision was heard by Video Appeals Committee in 1995.

Basic Instinct

Unrated

The European Version/Unrated Version/Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2008 Technicolor/Optimum RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2008 Technicolor/Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2003 Momentum R2 DVD
• UK 2000 Universal VHS
• UK 1992 Guild VHS (maybe a bit short)
• UK 1992 cinema release

The US release is uncut and MPAA unrated for:

• US 2007 RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2006 Lions Gate R1 DVD at US Amazon

Avoid the US R Rated version which has been cut by 46s. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Basic Instinct 2

The UK release proclaims that it is the uncut version but there is no mention of this release in the BBFC database. However the uncut status is confirmed in article from dvdcompare.net

• UK 2006 EIV R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2006 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon

cut

R Rated

• UK 2006 EIV R2 DVD
• UK 2006 cinema release

The cut US R Rated Version is missing 2 minutes of plot and just a little sex. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Basket Case

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 1999 Tartan R2 DVD via UK Amazon

• UK 1999 Tartan VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2011 Image RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2001 Image 20th Anniversary R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Cult horror trash classic

It's gory with really cheesy 80's special effects. However, it is an interesting idea. The two brothers are clearly deeply connected to each other (or, at least they were...). The emotional conflict between the two (particularly the more able brother's desire to date) is intense and understandable.

Overall, it's one of those films that you probably should watch. Get a friend who won't hate you when it's over, come to an agreement that this is intentionally quite trashy, and have fun watching a truly original, truly bizarre flick.

• UK 1987 Palace VHS

From cuts details on IMDb

• The scene where Duane watches a kung-fu film is missing shots of 'chain-sticks' from the kung-fu film itself.
• The second doctor's death scene is missing a shot of him spitting blood as well as the climatic shot of blood splashing on his face.
• The death of the female vet shortens shots of Belial clawing her face, the terminating shot of the scene showing the vet with scalpels sticking in her face is deleted.
• Shots of the noisy neighbour being clawed to death by Belial are cut; this sequence was originally intercut with two other scenes making the editing at this point awful due to these cuts.
• The infamous scene where Belial 'romances' Duane's girlfriend is the worst to suffer cuts- after she wakes up the entire scene has been removed bar a brief shot of her being strangled. In addition the shot of Belial on top her dead body and Duane's attempts to pull him off her is missing.

• UK 1982 cinema release

Basketball Diaries

• Streets of New York

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

Passed 18 uncut with pre-cuts restored for:

• UK 2002 4 Front VHS
• UK 2000 Columbia/TriStar/First Independent R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• UK 2000 Columbia/TriStar VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2010 Palm Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2004 Palm R1 DVD at US Amazon

pre-cut
47s

• UK 1996 First Independent VHS

47s cut by the UK distributor, First Independent:

• Dream sequence where kids are shot in school was removed in response to the Dunblane school massacre in Scotland.

R Rated

• UK 1995 cinema release

Batman & Robin

Thanks to Frosby. There are no BBFC cuts so perhaps the cut was made by the distributor:

I have seen both Region's 1 and 2 of this film and found at cut of about 5 to 10 seconds where George Clooney and Arnie tug and tussle for Mr Freeze's ice weapon, Clooney says to Mr Freeze didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with guns and cuts straight to batman lifting freeze in the air with the barrel of the gun.

Batman Begins

From SBBFC

The sound editing was altered following a BBFC 'advice viewing'. The sounds of crunchy implied headbutts were reduced to lessen the impact of the violence which enabled the work to be granted a 12A certificate.

Thanks to Gavin

My friends and I checked with the BBFC and the film is definitely NOT cut in any way. The info on SBBFC is incorrect. Just to be clear - the UK version is NOT edited, and all sound effects are loud and clear. I have also compared the waveforms of the R2 DVD to the R1 edition and they are identical.

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

See Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker

Batman Forever

The cuts were waived for the 12 rated 2005 Warner DVD/Blu-ray

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

Same cuts to cinema and video versions up to 1997

Thanks to Gavin & Rewind for the following cuts list. Voluntary cuts by the distributor to ensure a PG rather than a 12 rating.

• A shot of a cutting torch being picked up just after the main logo is missing.
• Two Face's reply after the guard says “You said you'd let me live” is missing Nothing better than live bait to trap a bat!
• After the “punctual funeral” line, Two Face shouting Kill the Bat! has been removed from the soundtrack and replaced with music and guards grunting
• When the elevator dings just before Batman exits, Two Face’ shout of “Blast him!” is not present in the UK version.
• The fight outside the elevator has lost a lot of sound effects, as well as a sequence where Batman drops his leg sharply onto a thug’s chest, complete with a loud thud
• Batman delivering a backward headbutt and breaking a thug’s nose in extreme close-up has been removed
• Close-ups of kicks to midriffs and faces are also missing
• Two Face’ lines in the helicopter about the acid have been removed
• In the sequence where the helicopter pilot is killed, Two Face emptying an entire clip into the helicopter pilot has been trimmed, along with shots showing the bullets riddling the pilot’s body from the front. The cut UK version has only three shots fired, and the pilot is shown slumping from behind
• The death of Nygma’s boss does not show him stopping on the window ledge, and hanging in terror, before Nygma runs over and says Fred, babe! You are fired! Or should I say...terminated? With this, he pulls the hat off him and he falls down, but this is all cut from the UK print
• Two Face’ line in the circus big top is cut from the UK version – Our new act for your personal amazement; we call it - Massacre Under The Big Top!
• A shot of Nygma laughing at the above line is also missing
• When the Mayor asks what Two Face wants at the circus, his reply is shortened from Batman. Bruised, broken, bleeding. In a word, dead! to simply Batman
• The UK version is missing the sequence where Bruce Wayne kills one guard on the right side of the big drum by coming up behind him, breaking his neck, and smacking him in the face as he falls
• When Two Face flips his coin before killing the Graysons, after his evil laugh he goes on to say Their kind of day, which is missing in the UK version
• As the bomb is raised through the roof of the circus, a quick sequence of Bruce flipping a guard over and kicking him hard in the gut is missing
• When Two Face accidentally kills two of his men in the car, their screams have been cut short in the UK version, and a shot of the driver’s terrified face has been removed
• The fight at Nygma’s party loses some impact sounds
• Shortly after this, Batman makes a guard do the splits and another crack accompanies this, but the sound has virtually been eliminated from the soundtrack
• A small crack has been greatly reduced in volume as Batman twists a thug’s arm backwards
• Robin throwing Two Face a vicious headbutts after the line, “This is for me!” has been replaced in the UK version, by removing the punch Robin throws after he says This is for my brother! and reinserting in place of the headbutt

Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The US release featuring the Director's Cut is uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated for:

• US 2011 Warner R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2002 Warner R1 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

PG

• UK 2001 Warner VHS

See cuts details on IMDb

Following attacks from politicians on violent films aimed at children, Warner Brothers. pushed the release date back and recut the film to a tamer version, toning down some of the violence in the original cut sent out in screener tapes.

Batman Returns

Uncut version is available at:

PG-13

Passed 15 uncut with previous cuts waived for:

• UK 2008 Warner R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated for:

• US 2010 Warner R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2009 Warner R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Passed 12 after 7s of BBFC cuts with some previous cuts waived for:

• UK 2005 Warner R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Compulsory cut required to remove a potentially dangerous imitable technique

The chainsticks cut has been waived but the aerosol in the microwave cut remained. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• Catwoman places an aerosol in a microwave but not in the UK version as we may be stupid enough to copy this idea.

Note that the 2005 DVD still carried a 15 rating due to DVD extras being 15 rated.

Thanks to Adam, Oct 2007: The version playing on FilmFour is uncut and shows Catwoman putting a couple of aerosols in a microwave.

• UK 1994 Warner VHS
• UK 1992 Warner VHS

The 1992 cinema cuts still apply. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• 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.

• UK 1992 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• 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.

Battle Creek Brawl

• The Big Brawl
• Battle Creek
• Sha shou hao

The US release is uncut and R Rated for:

• US 2004 20th Century Fox R2 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The BBFC explained:

• Cut required to sight of dangerous imitable technique (double ear clap) [From a fight between Iron Johnson and Fijo Atashi].

Battle Doll Angelic Layer I Don't Want To Lose! I'm Believing In Hilaru

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Company chose to remove some uses of derogatory language referring to mental and physical disability for PG category

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

• Colonization of the Planet of the Apes

The US release features the Extended Cut for:

• US 2008 20th Century Fox 40th anniversary Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb:

The 10 minutes longer unrated version is compared with the Theatrical Version

• 8'03: the score continues to its original ending for 25 seconds with extra footage of General Aldo approaching on a horse.
• 13'37:the chase of the teacher of the apes is longer by 20 seconds.
• 26'57: the mutant chief is walking around in his HQ and has more dialogue (30 sec)
• 29'38: the entry into the forbidden city of the ape scout party with Caesar is 40 sec longer with more dialogue.
• 34'32:the escape from the forbidden city shows more footage and dialogue of the apes.
• 42'06:the scene were Cornelius is "shot" by a human boy is beginning earlier, making it clear that the shooting is a game - which makes more sense since no mutant party had yet approached the ape city (15 sec).
• 46'47:Extra scene: the mutant chief tells his lieutenant to fire an atomic missile on Ape City when he give the signal. This adds to the tension, and it is odd that this element was left out. (1'16)
• 56'43:the assault by the mutants is shown 45 sec longer. (In this sequence there are three more smaller cuts that reduce the battle scene by 40 additional sec and there is no musical score.)
• 1'02'18: Extra scene where the mutant chief calls "Sergeant York". (1 min)
• 1'07'57: again, parts of the assault are cut by almost 40 sec.
• 1'08'50: there are additional shots and dialogue before the mutants lay the smoke screen.
• 1'09'29: 15 sec extra of the battle.
• 1'10'00: more battle footage cut. (20 sec)
• 1'16'00: the scene were Aldo kills the mutant chief and his followers in the school bus was cut in the Theatrical version.
• 1'22'10: the fight between Aldo and Caesar is longer.
• 1'24'00: Extra scene where the advisor talks the mutant lieutenant out of firing the atomic missile. (only with this sequence reinserted the odd cut from the Caesar conversation with the humans to the ending sequence makes a little more sense and looks better)

10:01s

Unrated

• UK 2003 20th Century Fox DVD R2 DVD
• UK 1988 Film and Video VHS
• UK 1973 cinema release

The theatrical version cut to obtain a US PG-13 rating

Battle Royale

• Batoru rowaiaru

Unrated

UK: The Special Edition was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2010 Arrow Limited Edition (Theatrical + Special) R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2010 Arrow Limited Edition (Theatrical + Special) R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2004 Palisades Tartan R0 DVD
• UK 2002 Palisades Tartan R0 DVD

US: The Special Edition is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Anchor Bar  (Theatrical + Directors Cut for both BR I & BR II) Blu-ray at US Amazon for release on 20th March 2012
• US 2012 Anchor Bar Complete Collection (Theatrical + Directors Cut for both BR I & BR II) R1 DVD at US Amazon for release on 20th March 2012
• US 2012 Anchor Bar Blu-ray at US Amazon for release on 20th March 2012
• US 2012 Anchor Bar R1 DVD at US Amazon for release on 20th March 2012

The 2002 Special Edition is an extended version. It was said to be a request by fans and is not the Director Approved version. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• UK 2011 ArrowDrome R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2010 Arrow Limited Edition (Theatrical + Special) R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2010 Arrow Limited Edition (Theatrical + Special) R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2010 Arrow R0 DVD
• UK 2002 Tartan R0 DVD
• UK 2001 cinema release

US: The Theatrical Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Anchor Bar Complete Collection (Theatrical + Directors Cut for both BR I & BR II) Blu-ray at US Amazon for release on 20th March 2012
• US 2012 Anchor Bar Complete Collection (Theatrical + Directors Cut for both BR I & BR II) R1 DVD at US Amazon for release on 20th March 2012

Battle Royale 2

• Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka
• Batoru rowaiaru II: Rekuiemu
• Battle Royale II
• Battle Royale II: Requiem
• Battle Royale II: Revenge

UK: The Extended Version (Revenge Version) was passed 18 uncut albeit with 8s of BBFC cuts noted for:

• UK 2006 R0 Tartan DVD at UK Amazon

I think these cuts can be discounted. The BBFC commented on the 8s of cuts:

• One cut was required to remove the Japanese text and English subtitle which state: "This film is restricted to aged 15 and over," in order to avoid confusion.

US: The Extended version is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Anchor Bar Complete Collection (Theatrical + Directors Cut for both BR I & BR II) Blu-ray at US Amazon for release on 20th March 2012
• US 2012 Anchor Bar Complete Collection (Theatrical + Directors Cut for both BR I & BR II) R1 DVD at US Amazon for release on 20th March 2012

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com. The Extended Version contains additional storylines but also includes some additional violence.

• UK 2004 Tartan R2 DVD
• UK 2004 cinema release

Battlefield Earth

• Battlefield Earth: A saga of the year 3000

The Theatrical Version was passed 12 uncut for:

• 2008 Optimum DVD

• 2001 Warner DVD

• 2001 Warner DVD
• 2000 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• cut to remove the sight of a head butt during a fight in a jail

Battlestar Galactica: Razor

• Razor

Unrated

The Unrated Extended Version was passed 15 without cuts for the 2008 Universal DVD

From cuts details on IMDb:

The Unrated Extended Version has additional scenes, extended gore and violence, and "R-rated" language not shown in the TV  Version

The German Extended Version has an extra uncontroversial 10s scene. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Bay of Blood

• Reazione a Catena
• Blood Bath
• Antefatto
• Bloodbath
• Bloodbath Bay of Death
• Bloodbath Bay of Blood
• Twitch of the Death Nerve
• Carnage
• Before the Fact: Ecology of a Crime
• The Ecology of a Crime
• L'Ecologia del Delitto
• Before the Fact
• Last House on the Left Part 2
• New House on the Left

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

UK: Passed 18 with BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2011 Arrow/ArrowDrome R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2010 Arrow R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2010 Arrow R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 1999 Simitar R0 DVD via US Amazon

There is an English language version and an Italian language version. Dialogue scenes were shot twice but there is no real difference between the two beyond the language.

Summary Review: Granddaddy of all slasher movies

Bay of Blood is often called the "Granddaddy of all slasher movies". After watching Bay of Blood you can definitely see where Friday the 13th (made in 1980) got a lot of it's ideas. Saying that, Bay of Blood does not possess the single element that defined the slasher film, the indestructible, omnipresent killer.

The movie succeeds almost entirely thanks to Mario Bavo, who serves as both director and cinematographer, with his typical stylish flare which heavily influenced the great Dario Argento, his eye appealing use of color and interesting editing techniques, which include a lot of blurry dissolves give Bay of Blood an almost dream-like, surrealistic feel.

• UK 2000 Film 2000 R2 DVD
• UK 1994 Redemption VHS

1. The first murder of a teenage girl loses 2s in 2 cuts, the first of her throat being cut from behind and the other of a graphic hatchet blow to the head.
2. 21s (nearly the entire scene) is cut from a boy dying with a machete embedded in his face.
3. 3 cuts totally 9s diminish the death of couple impaled with a spear whilst making love. We love the blood welling from the wounds and their writhing whilst impaled.
4. 11s has been cut from the death of Simon being forced up a wall by a spear impaled in his stomach.

R Rated

• UK 1972 cinema release