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Beach of the War Gods

Cut by the BBFC for 1973 cinema release. Uncut in the US

Summary Review: Visually Stunning

The famous swordsman Hsia Feng gathers five other fighters and rallies the local fishermen to fight off a band of Japanese pirates.

Since this is a Golden Harvest production the sets, costumes and props are well made. The directing by Wang Yu is superb, his visual style of camera angles and the use of slow-motion is just like the movies are made today. The fight-choreographing is sharp, and visually stunning.

• 2014 Shout! Factory [Jimmy Wang Yu Collection] R1 DVD at US Amazon

Hong Kong: Uncut for:

• HK Joy Sales R0 DVD via UK Amazon
• HK Joy Sales R0 DVD via US Amazon

• UK 1973 cinema release

Beach Red

The 1967 X rated cinema release was cut by the BBFC. UK home video releases are now uncut.

Promotional Material

Cornel Wilde produced directed and starred in this sincere, hard-edged look at World War II that doesn't flinch from the horrors of battle. The action takes place during a single American campaign to take an island held by the Japanese.

The usual cliché characters are replaced by believable portrayals, such as the captain (Wilde) who loves his wife but hates the war, the sergeant (Rip Torn) who gets sadistic pleasure out of battle, the minister's son (Patrick Wolfe) who keeps remembering the girl he left back home and the Southern illiterate (Burr DeBenning) who finds a place for himself in the Marines.

• 2014 101 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 27th October 2014
• 1997 Warner VHS

• 1967 cinema release

Bear Club

• Cachorro

Uncut in Europe but cut for an R rating in the US.  However there is also an Unrated and uncut version in the US.

Summary Notes

Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and big circle of friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When it appears as though it might become a permanent arrangement, however, Pedro turns to his friends for guidance as he and 9-year-old Bernardo begin to forge a household together.

Unrated

• 2006 Tla Releasing R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Bear Island

The BBFC passed a short version PG without cuts for the 1986 RCA/Columbia video

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

See La Bete

The Beast in Heat

• SS Hell Camp
• La bestia in calore
• Horrifying Experiments of the S.S. Last Days
• SS Experiment Part 2

Uncut version is available at:

Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Not released in the UK since. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.

Summary Review: The Good Old Days

A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor (Magall) creates a genetic, mutant human Beast (half man/half beast). The Beast is a rapacious, squat, mongoloid sex fiend which she uses to torture and molest female prisoners while the Nazis watch. The vertically challenged beast is kept on a diet of mega-aphrodisiacs. There is plenty of sadistic titillations, gore and nudity in this Nazi sub-genre exploitation flick.

Ahhh, the good old days when absolutely nothing was safe or sacred to the exploitation movie merchants.... Here we have, in my opinion, probably the most tasteless example of the Naziploitation picture, a genre that more or less died shortly after this "movie".

Anyway, about the movie. For the uninitiated, start with Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS . If you can "enjoy" that bit of nastiness, then perhaps consider taking on this "unique" take on a forgotten film genre. Just don't watch it with your mom or girlfriend or aunt or grandma etc...

• 2014 Full Moon Nazi Basterds and Bombshells R0 DVD at US Amazon
• US 2004 Exploitation Digital R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1982 JVI VHS

Released on video in June 1982 by JVI. Banned in October 1983 when it was added to the official video nasty list . It r emained on the DPP list throughout the scare and so became one of the (rarest) collectable DPP39s

The Beast in Space

• La bestia nello spazio

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

US: The XXX Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Private Screening R1 DVD via UK Amazon

The XXX Version:

• contains alternative hardcore shots of the beast Onaf raping Sondra
• a hardcore sex scene between Madison and Sondra
• extra shots of Onaf's prosthetic penis.

Summary Review: Sexual Energy

Without stating the obvious, the film is a mess. But that's where the fun begins. There is no real telling of what is happening, but one might surmise some of the possibilities. Ultimately this film is riding the coattails of two other films: The Beast (La Bete) and Star Wars . How you might imagine to combine these two films into one heap of psuedo-science-fiction with a touch of pornography? Its not easy, and watching this is not very easy either.

There are hardcore scenes in this version, but its really not erotic or sexually interesting. While the film is already cut-up to an incomprehensible mess, the hardcore footage does not help matters much either.

pre-cut

• UK 2012 Shameless Sexploitation [+ Satan's Baby Doll + Love Goddess of the Cannibals] R0 DVD
• UK 2010 Argent/Shameless R0 DVD

This version is based upon the XXX Version but the 'real' hardcore was pre-cut. However it is slightly better than the Unrated Version in that:

• The beast raping Sondra is extended with some extra softcore material rescued from the hardcore version.
• There are extra shots of Onaf's prosthetic penis.

Beast Wars Transformers: The Spark

Thanks to Sic

Cut in 2001 to obtain a PG

A headbutt was cut (13.45s in)from the start of a fight between cheetor & Black Arachnia because it's a dangerous technique of course I'm sure the subsequent series of punchs and kicks to the side of the head are perfectly safe.

The Beast Within

Cut by the BBFC for VHS, then uncut on DVD. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

In the beginning of the movie you see a woman getting raped by a man-creature of some sort. The movie takes place years later when the child that was a result of that rape is on the rampage looking for a girl to rape to start the process all over again.

R rated

• 2014 Arrow Video (RB) Blu-ray/(R2) DVD Combo at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2013 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2001 MGM R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1986 Warner VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• The opening & closing rape scenes are missing glimpses of the women's breasts and of bloodied bodies
• Michael's (Paul Clemens) attack on Edwin (Logan Ramsey) is missing the shot of the killer quivering as he gnaws into the victim's throat.
• A shot of Edwin's mangled body is missing when it is discovered by the Judge (Don Gordon).
• Michael snarls at the camera with a bloodied mouth during a flashback that is missing.
• Eventually the Judge gets his head ripped off but we don't get to see the blood pouring out nor the head rolling off the neck stump.

The Beastmaster

• Beastmaster - Der Befreier

The Director's Cut was passed 15 uncut for the 1998 Mainline video (and Five Star DVD).

There is also a heavily cut US Theatrical Version

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb

• Edits to shots of impaled bodies
• Edits to the puncturing of a ring containing an eyeball
• Removed all footage of topless nudity during Kiri's bathing scene.

The submitted running time was noted as 118:18s = 113:34s

Beat Girl

• De aanlokster

Cut by the BBFC for a 1960 X rated cinema release. uncut and 12 rated on home video.

Summary Notes

Paul, a divorced architect, marries Nichole, a woman from Paris. His teen daughter Jenny has fallen in with the English beatnik scene and likes to hang out in cave-like clubs to listen to jazz and rudimentary rock'n'roll. Jenny takes an immediate dislike to her step mother, who is not that much older than she, and goes out of her way to make life miserable for Nichole. When Jenny discovers that Nichole is a friend of one of the strippers from the dance hall across the street, she investigates and uses Nichole's sordid past to embarrass her father. Meanwhile Jenny attracts the lecherous eye of Kenny, the owner of the dance hall.

• 2016 Bfi RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

• 2007 Orbit Media video
• 1998 Second Sight Films VHS

• 1960 cinema release

From IMDb:

The original UK cinema version was described by the BBFC as the product of squalid and illiterate minds and the film suffered extensive cuts to all striptease/dancing sequences and the scene where the teenage gang lies on a railway line. Later UK releases and TV showings were fully restored and uncut.

Beat Street

• Beatstreet

BBFC category cuts were required for a PG rated cinema release in 1984. Uncut 15 on VHS and 2002 DVD. Uncut 12 from 2008 DVD. Uncut and PG rated in the US.

Summary Notes

An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.

MPAA

• 2008 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon titled Beat Street

• 2002 ILC Prime R2 DVD titled Beat Street
• 1986 Rank VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA PG rated for:

• 2003 MGM R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1984 cinema release titled Beatstreet

Thanks to Compboy1972

See Hardcore 18s list: Beauty

Beauty and the Beast

G Rated

The Special Extended Edition was passed U uncut for:

• UK 2010 Buena Vista R2 DVD/RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2002 Buena Vista R2 DVD
• UK 2001 IMAX cinema release

The US release featuring the Special Extended Edition is uncut and MPAA G Rated for:

• US 2010 Buena Vista R1 DVD/RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com .

• The extended version features an extra song, Human Again and also a bit of extra linking plot to tie in with the song.
• The animation includes new backgrounds to some scenes

• UK 1992 cinema release

Because of the Cats

• Brutalization

Cut by the BBFC for 1975 cinema release and also cut in the US for am R rating. The uncut version is Unrated

Summary Notes

A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.

An interesting, little known and entertaining film includes scenes which are not for the squeamish even by today's standards. This caused censorship problems for the film makers when it was originally released way back in the 70s and understandably repels a lot of viewers.

• 2014 One 7 Movies R0 DVD at US Amazon

• 1975 cinema release

Bedazzled

• Stanley Donen's Bedazzled

Passed A uncut for 1967 cinema release after discussing blasphemy concerns. Passed PG uncut for 1988 VHS but 12 uncut for DVD in 2003.

More details in Podcast Episode 33 from bbfc.co.uk

Summary Notes

Stanley is a short order cook, infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works at Wimpy Bar with him. Despondent, he prepares to end it all when he meets George Spiggott AKA the Devil. Selling his soul for 7 wishes, Stanley tries to make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist. As each fails, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for. He also meets the seven deadly sins who try and advise him.

• 2005 Second Sight Films video

Just in passing, the  BBFC note for the 2003 12 rating a different rating reason than discussed in the podcast, where the 12 was said to be for imitable suicide techniques. The BBFC also note:

This work has been approved under the Different Versions At Different Categories policy 2004.

The Podcast does mention that there were two variants with a different opening being considered in 1967 but it is not clear if this is the reason for the different versions comment.

• 1988 CBS/Fox VHS

UK: Passed A (PG) uncut for:

• 1967 cinema release

The Bedroom

• Uwakizuma: Chijokuzeme
• An Aria on Gaze
• Shisenjô no aria
• Shisenjiyou no Aria
• Unfaithful Wife: Shameful Torture
• Uwakiduma: chijokuzeme

The BBFC cut 13s from the 1996 Visionary video.

Thanks to Bleach:

• At 32.5 mins - After man grabs woman walking along street, remove all sight of him pulling her tights and underwear down to her ankles, resuming on medium close up of her facing wall.

Bedtime

Banned by the BBFC for 1967 cinema release

• 1967 cinema release

Summary Notes: Inbetweeners

Film begins at the end of one act of love-making and ends at the beginning of the next. It is a dialogue between two people who are neither in love nor married to each other.

See Hardcore 18s List: Bedways

Bee Movie

Thanks to Haydn

The cinema release was cut in 2007 with the following BBFC comment: The distributor was required to make one cut, in a film aimed at younger viewers, of a potentially dangerous and easily imitated technique involving materials that are readily available in the average household (specifically, turning household items into a flame thrower). An uncut classification was not available to the distributor.

The film was released with the aerosol replaced by a harmless shower-head.

Beerfest

Unrated

UK: The Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2006 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2007 Warner R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2006 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 2006 cinema release

The cinema version was cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove scene of sexualised asphyxiation in order to achieve the requested '15'. An uncut '18' was available'.

The BBFC explained further in their 2006 Annual Report:

The film contained a brief, comic sex scene that included sight of a man being asphyxiated with a plastic bag. The clear detail, together with the potential for harm amongst teen viewers for whom the dangers of sexual asphyxiation might not be clear, seemed to warrant an '18' certificate.

But as Kirei points out, the same scene would perversely be banned from an R18 film.

Before Night Falls

Passed 15 uncut with BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2011 Lions Gate Online
• UK 2011 Lions Gate video

• UK 2002 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• UK 2001 Fox Pathe R2 DVD
• UK 2001 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

• Compulsory cut required to sight of real animal cruelty (live bird caught in noose)

The Beguiled

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1971 cinema release. Then 15 uncut on home video.

Summary Notes

During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit.

• 2014 Universal Pictures Clint Eastwood Blu-ray Collection R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 4th August 2014
• 2007 Universal R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2003 Universal R2 DVD
• 1988 CIC VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2015 Universal Studios [7 Movie Collection] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2010 Universal Studios R1 DVD at US Amazon released on 1st June 2010

• 1971 cinema release

From IMDB. The BBFC cuts were:

The leg amputation scene was edited by the censors for the film's original UK cinema release. Later releases were uncut and rated 15.

Behind Convent Walls

• Interieur d'un Couvent
• Interno di un convento
• Sex Life in a Convent
• Within a Cloister

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2003 Nouveaux Pictures DVD

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon for released on 30th March 2010

The submitted running time was noted as 95:45s = 91:55s e

See Justin Bieber's Believe

See La belle noiseuse

Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens

• Ultra Vixen

The BBFC cuts were waived for:

• 2005 Freemantlemedia/Arrow 2005 R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2001 4 Front VHS
• 1999 Polygram/Universal VHS
• 1999 Troma VHS

Review from UK Amazon : Ultra-Fun

This is a Russ Meyers film, his final full length film as director and as usual his fascination for the female form is in abundance.

The movie is based in a small town USA and centers around the married couple of Lammar and Levonna and the sexual frustration of Levonna, here on in ensues a fantastic comedy soft porn romp in which the couple meet various colourful charactors along the journey to help cure Lammar's bedroom leanings, ending up in the fantastic Church of Rio Dio Radio where in lies Eufaula Roop, who has to be seen to be believed.

This movie was not the best received Meyers movie at the time of release however its safe to say that it has now gained cult status.

• 1979 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb :

• substantial edits to all of the sex scenes
• cut shot of Lamar's exposed genitals following a groin kick.

Bent

A shorter version was passed 18 without cuts for:

• UK 2010 Park R2 DVD/Blu-ray
• UK 2003 Cinema Club R2 DVD
• UK 1998 VCI VHS

The US release was rated NC-17 but there is also a cut R Rated version

• UK 1997 cinema release

Beowulf

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

The Director's Cut was passed 12 uncut for:

• UK 2008 Warner Online
• UK 2008 Warner R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2008 Warner R2 DVD via UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Paramount R0 Blu-ray  at US Amazon
• US 2008 Paramount R1 DVD at US Amazon

1:30s

PG-13

• UK 2008 Warner Online
• UK 2008 Warner R2 DVD
• UK 2007 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

20 cuts adding up to 1:30s were made to sex and violence with the aim of toning the US release down to PG-13.

Bergerac: Low Profile

The Abridged Version was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2007 2 Entertain DVD

• UK 2007 2 Entertain DVD

Bernard: Vol 1 Episodes 1-26

BBFC cut 5s when submitted in 2008. Cut required to remove sight of the main character touching the bare ends of two live electrical cables together. A higher classification at which this could have been passed would be inappropriate for this work and was not made available.

Berserker: The Nordic Curse

The Best of Rocko's Modern Life: Volume Two

Cut by the BBFC for DVD

• UK 2013 Content Partners video

The BBFC commented:

Cut required to remove sight of a potentially imitable technique in a work aimed at children (in this case sight of a pet dog being placed inside a tumbler dryer and spinning around, without any indication of potentially harmful consequences).

US: The Best of Me was rated PG-13 for sexuality, violence, some drug content and brief strong language in September 2014

US: The Best of Me Special Edition was also rated PG-13 for sexuality, violence, some drug content and brief strong language in October 2014.

The MPAA noted that these two version had different content.

Best of the Best

• Fei hu jing ying zhi ren jian you qing
• Fei foo jing ying ji yan gaan yau ching

Cuts of 16s were inflicted on the 1998 video from Missing in Action.

Thanks to Bleach:

• Sight of chainsticks were removed from two scenes.

The import Region 0 DVD from Megastar (English subtitles) is uncut

Best of the Best II

An 'unabridged version' was submitted in 2005 without BBFC cuts.

It has all the nunchakus restored but is missing some shots of James throwing up when he is fighting Tommy, and the shot of James finger being blown off. Also a bad guy getting shot is let off with less bullet wounds than in the uncut version. About 6 seconds cut. All appear in the UK video.

This seems to be the version shown on Sky

The Swedish DVD from Midget Entertainment is fully uncut

The duel between Tommy (Philip Rhee) and the Asian, ponytailed gladiator has been severely shortened for the U.K prints.  A lengthy segment of the fight in which the gladiator uses two pairs of silver nunchakus is missing.

The scene lasts twice as long in the uncut version, which has been shown in the past on Sky. The version currently screening on Bravo, however, appears to be the same as the video except for an extra shot of James (Tommy's native brother) having his finger blown off - which isn't in Sky's print.

Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back

The BBFC cut the 1996 EIV video and 2007 ILC Prime DVD by 44s for a 15 rating.

From cuts details on IMDb

• cuts to the scene where Margo is assaulted and her clothes cut with a knife to reveal her bra.

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

See review from IMDb : Bad Film, Great Fun

I really enjoyed it, in a campy way. Tommy turns up in some rural town and steps right into a race war. Tommy is basically given reason after reason to take on guys of 4 or more and throw them through various fruit stalls, ticket offices, coffee tables, and french windows.

The gorgeous Gina Gershon does her best as a choir teacher helping Tommy out, but whenever she needs to be helpless it kinda doesn't work because she now plays such strong, female roles.

The acting and direction are seriously questionable but this film is obviously about fight scenes and they are entertaining enough, from the moment we see Gershon's house is full of glass tables, flimsy bookcases and china filled cabinets we know we are in for a treat.

Terrible, patronising attitude toward racial issues but, hey, its got a rocket launcher and plenty of flying kicks.

The Best of the Martial Arts

• The Best of the Martial Arts Movies
• Deadliest Art: The Best of the Martial Arts Movies

No cuts listed by the BBFC but at the very end the narrator says: we've saved the best for last, here is Bruce Lee fighting with the deadly nunchaku in Enter the Dragon . The clip begins with Lee beating up a few of the guards, then he knocks one over in to some water and it fades out and ends, surprise, surprise, no nunchaku!

The import Region 0 DVD from Universe Laser & Video Co is uncut and available at AsianDiscs

The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival

• The Best of the New York Film Festival

Banned by the BBFC for 1975 cinema release but was later passed X after cuts. Also cur for 1987 VHS

Summary Notes

An explicit compilation of short films with just as strong scenes of sexual activity filmed during festival parties. Compilation of 5 short prize winners from previous festivals:

• Introduction
• Eyetoon
• Baby
• The stripper
• 4. Norien ten (uncredited direction)
• Life with video

Thanks to Rustin Mann on The Melon Farmers' Forum:

One of the shorts is directed by Penelope Spheeris. The story line is of a meek pharmacist hatching a plot to snag his loud sex-loving "hot" neighbour by making a simulated sex tape.

• UK 1987 Moira Maher VHS

• UK 1975 cinema release

• UK 1975 cinema release

Best Pair of Legs in the Business

Cut for its A rated cinema release. Followed by a very short 2006 DVD and a longer 2013 12 rated DVD

best
available

• UK 2013 Network R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 15th July 2013

Not confirmed what version is released here but it is 12 rated and the longest, so presumably it is the available.

pre-cut

• UK 2006 Sound & Media Video

• UK 1974 cinema release

See La Bete

A Better Tomorrow III

• A Better Tomorrow 3
• A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
• Ying hung boon sik III jik yeung ji gor

The Extended Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2005 Medusa R2 DVD

There is also a Taiwan Version running 10 minutes longer than the Extended Version. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• 1995 MIHK VHS
• 1990 Justmatch VHS
• 1990 cinema release

Betty Blue

• 37.2° le matin
• 37.2 Degrees in the Morning
• 37.2 le matin

There exists a Theatrical version and a Director's Cut. neither troubled the BBFC. Both are MPAA Unrated

Unrated

• UK 2013 Second Sight [Director's Cut + Theatrical] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2013 Second Sight [Director's Cut + Theatrical] R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2004 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1993 Fox VHS
• UK 1992 cinema release

US: The Extended Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2009 Cinema Libre R1 DVD at US Amazon

The extra material is uncontentious and edits were made for timing reasons. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Unrated

• UK 2013 Second Sight [Director's Cut + Theatrical] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2013 Second Sight [Director's Cut + Theatrical] R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1987 Film & Video VHS
• UK 1986 cinema release

US: The Theatrical Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2009 Cinema Libre RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Betty Page: Bondage Queen

• The Classic Films of Irving Klaw

The BBFC passed the 2009 Digital Classics DVD 18 uncut

Review from US Amazon : Queen of Curves

The new DVD : Betty Page Bondage Queen will be a desirable addition to any Bettie Page fan but I suppose that I was expecting the whole disk to be unpublished shots of the Queen of Curves as the title suggests. The several short movies presented are black and white films taken of some of Irving Klaw's models in their undies, being bound and gagged by Klaw's sister.

Betty appears in a few and in many stills. The exclusive commentary by Bettie Page is a short written page or two, not the audio file I hoped for. I enjoyed the movies of the models in their bras and panties, dark nylons and ultra high heels as they tried to walk in them but a more truthful title for the DVD would have been Irving Klaw's Bondage and Fetish models, Featuring Bettie Page.

The BBFC stated that this video was rejected on the grounds that the Board's guidelines state that mild fetishism may be represented, but in Irving Klaw we have scenes of women trussed, bound, gagged, spanked, shackled, handcuffed, slapped, tethered and suspended. Such sequences of bondage, restraint and gagging (proffered as masturbation material) are very extensive and unacceptable. The distributor of this material has decided to re-edit two versions of Betty page's work by photographer Irving Klaw that will not breach our guidelines. We are awaiting their resubmission.

Beverly Hills Ninja

Cuts reduced to 3s when resubmitted in 2002. A double ear clap was removed so that the certificate would stay as a 12.

The Beyond

• L'Aldila
• Seven Doors of Death
• E tu Vivrai nel Terrore: L'Aldila
• And You Will Live in Terror: The Beyond

Cut by the BBFC for cinema release. Then the same version was banned as a video nasty. Passed uncut on DVD. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US but there is also a cut R rated version.

Summary Review: Fulci Lives

The Beyond is one of Fulci's best films. The film takes place in modern day Louisiana as a woman oversees the the renovation of an hotel that she inherits. Strange and gory things start to happen and poof the hotel just happens to be over one of the 7 doors to hell.

Very bloody with a slightly incoherent plot the film is a lot of fun and I suspect that no Fulci fan should be without their copy. Visually I think this is Fulci's best film (that I've seen) and the acting is what you'd expect.

Unrated

• UK 2011 Arrow/ArrowDrome Gates of Hell Trilogy R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2011 Arrow R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2011 Arrow R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2010 Cornerstone R2 DVD
• UK 2002 Protected/Vipco R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2015 Grindhouse RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2008 Grindhouse R0 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 1992 Vipco VHS
• UK 1987 Elephant VHS

• UK 1982 Vampix VHS

Released on pre-cert video in March 1982. This was then b anned as a video nasty in November 1983 but was later dropped from the list in April 1985

UK: Passed X after 9 BBFC cuts totalling 1:39s for:

• UK 1981 cinema release

The cuts were.:

• 18s have been cut from the prologue, ie the man being killed for witchcraft is missing several severe chain whippings. It is also missing shots of his hands showing he is nailed to the wall.
• The eye gouging of a drainage mechanic has lost 6s of the gouging
• 4 cuts totalling 43s have been imposed on the attack of (very unconvincing) spiders on a librarian. These include shots of the spiders biting his lip, nose and tongue and also of them pulling his eye out.
• 5s has been cut from a cleaning lady being impaled on a nail through the eye.
• 26s are missing from the blind girl's throat being ripped out by a dog. this includes shots of blood gushing from the wounds and shots of her ear being bitten off.
• 1s is missing from a child's head exploding after a gunshot.

Beyond Bedlam

Passed 18 after BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2003 Cinema Club R2 DVD
• UK 2000 VCI VHS
• UK 1995 Polygram VHS
• UK 1994 Columbia/TriStar VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• A punch was removed from a fight scene
• Cut for drug abuse

• UK 1994 cinema release

Beyond Justice

Several shots of a twirling butterfly knife have been removed along with a few horse trips.

Beyond the Darkness

• The Final Darkness
• Buio Omega
• Buried Alive

See trailer from youtube.com

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2010 Shriek Show RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2002 Shriek Show R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Honest Horror

A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions.

The film is also packed with a series of extreme gore scenes that are effective and really well-done. All of a person's fingernails are pulled out with pliers in an act of pure sadism and the corpse dismemberment is a sickening, uncompromising gore sequence as it is completely and utterly cut to pieces and dumped into acid, complete with gruesome close-ups provided of the flesh-less pieces immersed in acid.

One of the strongest films to ever get through in the European sleaze genre, it's got a lot to look forward to. Due to the subject matter and extremes presented, this is one for the strongest-willed of Exploitation fanatics, while those who have no desire for these films should avoid.

• 1989 VPD VHS

See Shock

Beyond the Mat

R Rated

The BBFC passed the US R Rated Version 15 without cuts for the 2000 cinema release and 2000 Universal DVD

There is also an Unrated Director's Cut that adds 4:51s of uncontentious material.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Passed 12 uncut for:

• UK 2006 Warner R2 DVD

• UK 2000 Warner VHS
• UK 1987 Warner VHS

• UK 1979 cinema release

From IMDb:

• edits to blood spurts from gunshot wounds

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

• Más allá del valle de las muñecas

Cut by the BBFC for X rated 1970 cinema release. Cut again for 18 rated 1989 VHS. Passed 18 uncut since 2003 DVD. Uncut and MPAA NC-17 rated in the US.

Summary Review: Camp Classic

This film is a sequel in name only to Valley of the Dolls (1967). An all-girl rock band goes to Hollywood to make it big. There they find success, but luckily for us, they sink into a cesspool of decadence. This film has a sleeping woman performing on a gun which is in her mouth. It has women posing as men. It has lesbian sex scenes. It is also written by Roger Ebert, who had become friends with Russ Meyer after writing favorable reviews of several of his films.

What more could one ask for? Valley of the Dolls took itself seriously with hilarious effects. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (supposedly not related) was more of a spoof that played straight with seriously hilarious effects. Both are camp classics and at this price, this DVD is nearly impossible to pass up.

• 2016 Arrow Video (RB) Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon
• 2006 20th Century Fox DVD
• 2003 20th Century Fox DVD

• 2006 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1989 CBS/Fox VHS

• New opening credits were required for this release, as the BBFC would not allow the shot of a gun being rubbed along breasts in the opening scene.
• Paul also suggests that a drug taking scene via a pipe may have been cut as it is about 50s

• 1970 cinema release

Beyond Tomorrow

• Beyond Christmas

pre-cut

The 2009 E1 DVD was passed uut by the BBFC. It is a colorised and shorted version titled Beyond Christmas.

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

See review from IMDb : Colorized

Fox Home Entertainment has once again attempted to improve upon a classic. BEYOND TOMORROW gets the colorizing and retitling treatment, retitling the film (BEYOND Christmas).

The company has also chopped out about 5 minutes of material from the movie. Granted, they include the material in the Extras as deleted footage, but that only begs the question, What was the point of deleting it at this time, to begin with?

Some of the deletions, such as the sequence where Arlene Terry's ex-boyfriend clashes with her new leading man, destroy the emotional impact of the showdown between the two men and Arlene during the film's finale. To first-time viewers unfamiliar with the film, the jilted lover's appearance at the end comes almost out of the blue, causing confusion as to who he is.

In spite of these alterations/deletions, the box proudly announces the film is fully restored. Sorry, Fox, but the term restoration does NOT mean alteration or condensation. And with the various advances in such technology, it is amazing to see how artificial the colorization still looks, at least on this film.

The original running time was noted as 84:36s