Unrated

The BBFC passed the US Unrated Director's Cut 15 uncut for the 2010 Lions Gate Blu-ray

The Director's Cut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon
The Director's Cut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

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R Rated

Same cut version for the 1996 cinema release, 1997 Columbia/TriStar video, 1999 Columbia/TriStar DVD (and Sky)

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.

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

The BBFC cut the 1991 RCA/Columbia video by 2:41s

From cuts details on IMDb

• Cut to edit scenes of fighting and violence including blood spurts and an eye gouging.

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

See review from IMDb: Dirk Ramsey is the MAN

This has got to be one of the funniest films of all time; featuring the most underrated action hero ever to grace the silver screen. For those of you who have yet to watch this masterpiece, Dirk Ramsey is the MAN! He is far superior to Spiderman; his intellect makes Batman look like a dunce, while his strength, even Superman would struggle against the might that is Ramsey. And did I mention that he oozes sex appeal? Throw in sleazy Eric Estrada as his side-kick Victor, and you have all the ingredients for one hell of a viewing. Also, all the 'ladies' on offer apart from Cat and Tracey Collins, are porn stars in real life, you've gotta love this film.

See Barbed Wire Dolls

• Caged - Le prede umane
• Caged Women in Purgatory

A heavily pre-cut was resubmitted by New Age in 1992 and the BBFC cut a further 3:43s. The total cuts add up to something around the 20:49s mark

The same cut version was released by MIA on DVD in 2001

• Axe
• Lisa, Lisa
• The Axe Murders
• California Axe Murders

See listing under the title Axe

• Caligola

The BBFC cuts were waived for the 2008 Freemantlemedia DVD

See full article from the sBBFC:

In 2008, the full uncut version of Caligula was resubmitted to the BBFC for DVD release. The passage of nearly 30 years had significantly diminished the film's impact and after careful consideration it was decided that it could now be classified '18' uncut.

This decision accords with the BBFC Guidelines, which state that At '18', the BBFC's guideline concerns will not normally override the wish that adults should be free to chose their own entertainment, within the law.

Although there are scenes in Caligula that some people will find shocking, offensive or disgusting, the film does not contain any material that is illegal in terms of current UK law and nor does it contain any material that is likely to give rise to harm for adults audiences, most of whom will be well aware of its controversial reputation.

The DVD version was classified '18' uncut with the consumer advice Contains strong violence, sexual violence and strong real sex.

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

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

This version is perhaps is historically at the point where Bob Guccione edited together a version from the material directed by Tinto Brass but before he decided that it could be improved by adding hardcore footage. So orgy scenes etc are the original softcore as directed by Tinto Brass.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The heavily pre-cut US R rated version was submitted in 1990 and then 1998

A couple of brief shots of genital detail and sight of nurses cradling babies and phallic shaped bottles were reinstated from the the previous cut release and were allowed to remain.

Many of the cuts were not related to sex & violence but to shorten the running time and deal with continuity issues over sex and violent scenes that were cut. See details on IMDB

James Ferman commented in Photoplay: Even before it could be considered for a certificate some 8.5 minutes had to be cut to make it legal. There are scenes of perverted violence that I wouldn't have thought would ever have been seen in this country, in clubs or anywhere else. A lot of the sex was just straight sex, but more explicit than has ever been passed here. They took out another 3 or 4 minutes and replaced it with lesser material to make it acceptable for the X certificate.

11 minutes of cuts including:

• Views of Drusilla's vulva removed from several pints in the film
• Sights of babies sucking phallic-shaped bottles removed
• Much reduced scene of bootlace being tied around soldier's penis.
• Hardcore action inserted into orgy scenes taken out
• The sight of wine streaming out of soldier's bladder after being hacked with a sword removed.
• Torture shots deleted, a stake into a vagina and several bloodied genitals.
• Male blow job and masturbation deleted
• Priestess bathing loses hardcore cunnilingus and insertion
• Blood of recently ex virgin bride deleted as was greasing of the buttocks and suggestion of fisting for the similarly road tested bridegroom
• A Lesbian scene lost all hardcore and explicit images
• Death of Proculus lost a stabbing and the subsequent humiliation of being pissed on and castrated.
• The sight of Caligula torturing a mouse was deleted.
• A childbirth scene is missing an emerging head.
• Hardcore elements of prison scene deleted
• Hardcore elements of brothel scene deleted
• Explicit detail removed from scene of women with pearl adorned vulvas

• Caligula 2: The Untold Story
• Caligula: La Storia mai Raccontata
• Emperor Caligula
• Emperor Caligula: The Garden of Taboo
• L'Imperatore Caligula
• The Emperor Caligula: The Untold Story

The BBFC rejected the extensively cut cinema version when it was submitted for VTC video in 1987

The original contains hardcore scenes and is available on Italian DVD. A longer version was released in Germany.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb:

The submitted film that had been pre-cut by the distributors to remove 14 minutes of hardcore footage and a bestiality scene featuring a horse, and then cut by a further 8:42s secs by the BBFC. These included:

• all footage of dildos
• Caligula raping a virgin in a forest
• a wife and child being slaughtered
• a man's tongue being removed
• close ups of sex scenes.

• Caligula's Spawn

The BBFC cut the 2010 Third Millenium DVD by 24:32s. Compulsory cuts required for requested 18 to remove scenes of threat, humiliation, torture and abuse, sexual and sexualised violence, in a sex work.

The BBFC added in their 2009 Annual Report:

Some works submitted with a request for an 18 classification tread a fine line between being an erotic drama, with strong sex scenes set within an equally strong narrative context, and being a sex work, where the main purpose of sex scenes is sexual stimulation. Caligula's Daughter was just such a work. Its storyline, which revolved around the enslavement and subjugation of young women, was outweighed by the frequency of its extended scenes of sexual fondling and simulated sexual activity. With the latter dominating the work, it was judged to be an 18 level sex work. As a consequence several cuts were made to scenes where the sexual activity was combined with elements including lack of consent, use of restraint, or sexual humiliation of the female characters.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon

• Forbidden Love

The BBFC passed the 2003 Salvation DVD 18 uncut

Noted as Unabridged Version or US Version

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

• Una Vela para el diablo
• It Happened at Nightmare Inn
• Nightmare Hotel
• Nightmare Inn

The DVD was passed uncut in 2008

The BBFC banned the 1973 cinema release

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

Review from UK Amazon: Classic exploitation

The Candy Snatchers is a totally awesome movie. There is nothing to hate in this classic exploitation. Fantastic plot with fine one liner dialogue and a wicked black sense of humour!

The acting is way above average for a 70's low budget pic. I was thrilled from start to finish, dare I even say that this is probably the best exploitation movie I have seen to date!

Tarantino must have seen this movie countless times, there are at least two scenes in the candy snatchers which reminded me of Kill Bill 2 and Reservoir Dogs!

The Candy Snatchers is the way to go if you REALLY want to see a classic from an era that will undoubtedly ever come again!

Although this is an exploitation movie, this movie is very light on violence and nudity, and I am glad it is! You don't need to be extreme to make a great exploitation movie.

The Candy Snatchers stands proud in my dvd collection. 10/10

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum:

Cut when submitted in 1986

• At 37 mins-In scene in which several gangsters threaten half-naked women shortly after man says " None of your business", all sight of moustachioed man walking down line holding knife against bare breasts and a woman`s neck was removed, resuming on sight of woman being pushed to the ground.
• At 38 mins-Directly after, when woman on ground has hand shoved up her pink nightdress, all sight of her nipple exposed in medium close up and being fingered was removed. Also removed was all sight of knife actually cutting breast on screen, resuming on shot of blonde woman watching, holding her hand over mouth.
• At 44 mins-In sequence in which black man in burgundy hat thrusts villain`s hand into sink waste disposal unit, second shot of hand in and surrounded by blood was removed.
• At 64.5 mins-In scene in which black man in white suit enters flat, held shot of dead blonde woman with bloody bullet hole on her left breast was removed, resuming on passing shot of dead man on sofa next to her.

• Clive Barker's Candyman

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R Rated

UK/US versions suffer the same cut R rated version including the Universal  'Collectors Edition' DVD release of 2006

Uncut by the BBFC but pre-cut by the distributors due to MPAA interference to achieve an R rating. Thanks also to Bill

• Cuts to a more graphic rocking of the doctor as he violently headbutts the table when Tony Todd's character Candyman is tearing away at his flesh. The screams of the doctor are reduced for sound impact too. C4 have always shown this film uncut and the distributor Columbia Tristar can be blamed for these cuts due to MPAA interference of which Tristar are a member of. The R1 version is cut the same, but the sound impact is not as severely reduced probably due to the prologic soundtrack
• Unrated workprints (bootlegs) of Candyman also contain a more graphic beating of Virginia Madsen's character 'Helen' in the toilets by the black youths who enter into the toilet and who kick her several times on the floor while she bleeds profusely from the head wound inflicted from the blow by the hook of the main youth. This is cut in all regular prints
• In the uncut print you can see Candyman's hook emerging from the doctor's stomach as he tears away ferociously and the blood spurts towards Virginia Madsen. This is not in R print, but is in the earlier VHS!

Thanks to David

I bought the Special Edition of Candyman on the Tiglon label on R2 in Turkey and was extremely happy to find that it is uncut. The DVD video is much better than previous releases as well as the audio being vastly improved instead of previous monaural surround. Todd's superbly deep bass voice booms now! Anyway the good part is that it must have been taken from an uncut master or VHS source and remastered. I checked it with my uncut VHS taped from C4's showing several years ago and it matches. Great stuff!

All the previous MPAA cuts are intact. The violent jerking forward of the psychiatrist, the three or more main blood spurts( but they are quick!), the reaction shot of Madsen as his blood spurts on her face are all there and his screams are not lessened for sound impact as before. There is a mistake on the back cover as it says runtime 99mins(this must be a quote refering to R1 NTSC speed), anyway at PAL rate it runs 95 mins 14 seconds with the Propaganda label at end.

On the commentary it is mentioned that the MPAA kept rejecting it as an NC17, as they hated the spurting blood in this scene- 68 mins at PAL frame- but they are all there in this R2 release. There is a God!

Thanks to David, July 2009:

Take a look at pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com which discusses the "unrated" German VHS of Candyman.

Now my Turkish Tiglon version seems to be missing the shots shown at 1.10.35-1.10.37 (NTSC I assume compared with unrated PAL speed) and final shot at bottom of page-back of doctor getting killed. In the so called harmless replacement shots of a shocked Virginia Madsen strapped in the chair the Turkish one shows her getting blood splattered on her face-missing in US R print (but could someone please confirm this- been a while since I saw US version) and missing too (going by their pictures here) of this German so called unrated VHS, which by the way is a bit shorter than Tiglon Turkish version to amount of 37 seconds, but contains more graphic violence as confirmed by pictures.

This appears to an alternate version to both R2 Turkish and R rated one. the German version appears to show more stock footage of doctor's death scene which has never appeared in our old UK VHS version/or DVD and the 'complete' version which C4 showed several times years back.

See also comparison from cosmos.net.au which details variations in Australian releases

• Apocalisse Domani
• The Cannibals are in the Streets
• Invasion of the Flesh Hunters
• Savage Apocalypse
• Slaughterers
• Cannibals in the City

The BBFC cut 2s from the 2005 Cinema Club DVD and 2010 Optimum DVD: A compulsory cut was required to remove sight of animal cruelty (in this case, a rat being set on fire with a flamethrower)

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

Review from US Amazon: Horror and action

Interesting and disgusting mix of horror and action from the director of Castle of Blood Antonio Margheriti. What makes it work is that there is some nasty gore scenes like the infamous shotgun wound scene and eating chunks out of human flesh, a cool if cheesy funk soundtrack with a war theme that almost sounds like the theme to "G.I. Joe", a grisly twist in the end and the film is also a metaphore on how the horrors of vietnam can affect a soldier and this is one of Quentin Taratino's personal faves.

It was an early casualty of the press panic and was added to the DPP list of banned videos in July 1983. It remained on the list until the end of the scare.

• Cannibal Feroz
• Make them Die Slowly
• Let them Die Slowly
• Woman from Deep River
• Die Rache der Kannibalen

Pre-cut by 6:51s when submitted in 2000. It was further cut by the BBFC by 6s: Cut required to sight of small animal on end of rope banging against side of a jeep

From cuts details on IMDb:

• The pre-cuts removed most of the gore footage
• All elements of actual cannibalism ie the cannibals picking at the dead bodies have been removed.
• When Zora Kerowa is killed, this edited version plays as though she has disappeared, never once showing either the actual event of the aftermath of the famous "hooks through the breasts" death.
• All but one of the animal deaths are missing, and the death of the pig appears trimmed.
• Also cut is John Morghen's arm being lopped off
• 2 castration scenes have been deleted
• John Morghen removing a native's eye with a knife.

An e-mail from the BBFC explained further:

Cannibal Ferox was passed '18' by the BBFC in 1983 after approximately 7 minutes of cuts to remove scenes of cruelty to animals, sexual violence and some of the film's more extreme moments of violence. Before the introduction of the Video Recordings Act in 1984, the BBFC issued a number of such "informal" video certificates but once the VRA came in to effect (at the beginning of 1985), all such "informally" classified videos had to be judged again under the precise terms of the VRA.

By this stage, both the BBFC cut and uncut versions of Cannibal Ferox (both were released on video in the UK) had been successfully prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. It was therefore not possible for the BBFC to provide a formal classification at this stage since our cut version (as well as the uncut version) had been found obscene. The BBFC-cut version of Cannibal Ferox was seen again for classification last year and was finally approved at '18' earlier this year after one brief cut for animal cruelty. The classified version will be the version passed in 1983. By today's standards the cut version of the work was judged to be acceptable at '18' and the previous conviction was not felt to be significant today. The cut version was removed from the DPP list at a later date and there have been no prosecutions since the early 1980s.

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

Review from US Amazon: Delivers the Goods

Whether the film itself really has any merit depends on personal taste really. For my money, this is not a patch on Deodato's excellent Cannibal Holocaust, which is just as gory and a hell of a lot more realistic, with believable actors and an intelligent script. In comparison, Ferox seems like just an exploitative rip-off. But taken in its own terms, Cannibal Ferox does deliver the goods (I'm talking gore-wise) with hard-to-watch sexual violence accompanying genuine animal deaths. The music is cheesy, and again not up to the standards of Holocaust, but it grows on you.

Overall, this Holocaust rip-off is obviously a must-buy for Italian cannibal/gore fans. People new to the genre may do best to check out Cannibal Holocaust first, as it is cinematically far better although harder to watch. But if you're in the mood for a little mindless gore, and don't mind certain scenes looking a tad unrealistic not to mention the laughable dialogue, you could do far worse.

Cannibal Ferox was listed as a video nasty in July 1983 and both the cut and uncut versions were successfully prosecuted. The cut version was eventually removed from the list.

Replay first released an uncut version in August 1982.

It was listed as a video nasty in July 1983 and both the cut and uncut versions were successfully prosecuted. The uncut version stayed listed throughout the panic so became a one of the collectable DPP 39's.

• Nudo e selvaggio
• A Baixeda dos Dinosauros
• Massacre in Dinosaur Valley
• Perdidos no Vale dos Dinossauros
• Stranded in Dinosaur Valley

Cut in 2002 and justified by the BBFC as follows:

• Cannibal Massaker
• Holocausto Cannibal
• Nackt und Zerfeischt

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Grindhouse R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Review from imdb: Very well written plot

Cannibal Holocaust was, first and foremost, a disgusting movie with more violence than I have ever seen. Despite this, it is also one of my favorite movies. It gives a feeling of Blair Witch done right, even though there are some very obviously contrived scenes in which nobody is holding the camera, but despite some small cosmetic problems this is the best horror movie I have ever seen.

Unlike most "shock" films, such as the Guinea Pig movies, Cannibal Holocaust has a very well written plot and a definite progression. The focus is still on making the audience ill, but we don't even see any violence until fairly late in the movie, so the emphasis on plot is much stronger. The story told is a deep one, showing the lengths at which people will go for some goal, the example given being fame and fortune. The theme is reflected in parallel story lines through the second half of the movie, as Alan and his crew go to more and more desperate lengths for fame, and the professor struggles against a big media company to suppress the release of their footage. Even in a "meta" sense, we see the theme appear once again in the lengths the director of Cannibal Holocaust itself went, going so far as to kill and butcher four animals on camera.

The BBFC cut 5:44s from the 2001 Protected DVD. Cuts required to scenes involving real cruelty to animals and to eroticised sexual violence

The BBFC explained further:

Cannibal Holocaust was not formally submitted to the BBFC until 2001, largely because its reputation as a 'video nasty' and its long history of prosecutions for obscenity seemed to preclude the issuing of a BBFC certificate. When it was submitted for video and DVD release the BBFC examined the film very carefully in terms of its own published Guidelines.

The film's presentation of strong sexual violence infringed the Board's strict policy on rape and sexual violence which states that 'Where the portrayal eroticises or endorses sexual assault, the Board is likely to require cuts at any classification level'. Furthermore, in common with a number of Italian films of the same period, the scenes of cruelty to animals were clearly unsimualted and deliberately orchestrated by the filmmakers. UK law prohibits the public exhibition of cinema films if animals were cruelly mistreated during their making and the BBFC applies this test also to videos and DVDs.

Nonetheless, the BBFC recognised that the film, although strong, could be made acceptable, subject to the removal of the above scenes. The distributor therefore agreed to make five minutes 44 seconds of cuts to remove unacceptable elements, after which the film was passed '18' for video and DVD release.

• The killing of a muskrat has been deleted
• Our intrepid adventurers witness the riverside murder and mutilation of a woman presumably by her husband. We don't get to witness:
  • the girl being dragged through the mud and having her legs forced apart
  • the girl struggling and being raped with a wooden dildo
  • the man raising a mudball with spikes and the subsequent shot of genital mutilation
• Another woman getting raped on the river bank has been removed
• The disembowelling of a giant turtle has been predictably deleted
• A monkey gets his head sliced open and its blood is drained into a bowl...but not in the censored version
• The kicking of a tethered pig has been removed and its subsequent shooting and death
• The rape one of a native girl by 3 men has been reduced
• The cannibals eventually overpower the adventurers. The woman in the party gets stripped and raped but not in the UK version.
• The woman's death scene is missing nudity shots.

Go Video pre-cut their February 1982 release

It was quickly labelled as a video nasty in July 1983. It stayed on the list throughout the panic so is one of the collectable DPP39s

• Natura Contro

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 2002 by Michael Lee/Vipco with the justification: Cut required to sight of real animal cruelty (a monkey hit with a blow dart)

Thanks to Hell2Pay:

I haven't exactly clocked out the film on the DVD, but I have purchased the VIPCO (UK) DVD for Cannibal Holocaust II, and there is indeed footage of monkeys (more than one) being hit with a blowdart.

Now, there's probably a good explanation for this (possibly more graphic shots of monkeys being hit were removed and some less graphic ones kept),

• The Apartment on the 13th Floor
• La Semana del Asesino
• Week of the Killer

The BBFC cut 3s when the Redemption Films video was submitted in 1993

• The cuts were to a scene of throat slashing

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

Review from US Amazon: Pseudo-sleazy

Real slaughterhouse footage and scenes of dirty urban slums set the tone for this stark and obsessive Spanish horror flick.

A slaughterhouse employee named Marcos gets attacked by a cabdriver who takes objection when he and his girlfriend are making out in the back seat, and Marcos kills him. This sets in motion a week of killing, first to cover up the cabdriver's death, and afterward to keep the bodies piling up in his bedroom a secret.

He tries to dispose of the body parts at the slaughterhouse, but he can't do it fast enough and soon the stench of the corpses is becoming a problem, and Marcos slips further and further into madness. Weird, pseudo-sleazy film that works even though it doesn't even attempt to live up to its title - there's *no cannibalism*.

The dubbing is pretty bad and there's not much gore (most of the nastiness happens off-screen), but there's plenty of atmosphere and a sense of desperation builds in Marco's apartment. 

It's not big on splatter, but it's still worth a look for Eurohorror fans.

It was banned as a video nasty in July 1983. It stayed on the list throughout the panic and became one of the collectable DPP39s. The cover was a flimsy slip case that didn't last long so adding to the rarity of a mint condition cover.

• Terreur Cannibale

Passed 18 uncut for International Trading in 2003

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

Review from US Amazon: Fails Miserably

Cannibal Terror fails miserably on all accounts.

The first thing that sets Cannibal Terror apart from other films in the genre is that its a Spanish/French co-production. This proves that cannibal exploitation films should be left to the Italians as this shameful bandwagon effort is an insult to people looking for a bloody, exploitative good time.

Cannibal films aren't known for great plots this film literally has no plot. Some lowlife criminals kidnap a girl and run into Cannibals in a jungle. Almost the entire film is filler with pointless, boring dialogue. There is only two gore scenes but nothing viewers haven't seen in this genre before and better. The worst aspect of the film is the cannibal tribe itself as they don't even look like jungle tribal members. It's a bunch of extras from all different races and hairdos. Some of the tribal members are fat, middle aged white men and there is even one tribal member with 70's style sideburns!

I do not recommend buying this film. Only buy if your an absolute completist or you are into torturing yourself.

Banned as a video nasty in July 1983, probably down to the title. Removed from the DPP list in September 1985

• Carquake

The BBFC cuts were waived for the 2004 DVD

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

• I Racconti di Canterbury
• Les Contes de Canterbury

The cinema cuts have been waived since the 2001 BFI DVD

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon for release on 27th April 2009
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon for release on 27th April 2009

R Rated

The US R Rated version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for the 2007 cinema release and 2007 Optimum DVD.

The film started life as a thriller with much less gore. This Thriller Version is still available in Spain.

See pictorial Thriller Version details from movie-censorship.com

But then the producers decided to catch the torture bandwagon and shot extra material for an R Rated Version.

And then also an extra 3 minutes for an Unrated Version with an alternative ending.

See pictorial R/Unrated Version details from movie-censorship.com. Note that the author of this report prefers the R Rated Version over the Unrated Version.

Cut in 2002 with the following BBFC comment: One cut required to strong expletive in order to achieve requested 'PG'. Current reclassification policy does not normally allow a work to be classified at a different category if a different version of the same work work was previously classified after July 1994.

The uncut version was passed in 2008

The uncut region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Released with the misleading tag International Version. It is a softcore version with a few hardcore snippets

The BBFC passed a short version as 15 without BBFC cuts for the 2009 BFI DVD

Same cuts to cinema and all video versions, 1987 & 2003

The cinema release and 1987 video releases were cut but no cuts noted for the video version of 2003

Same cuts to cinema and all video versions, 1987 & 2003

Cut for the 1957 cinema release but no video cuts noted.

Cinema version cut back in 1975 and the same cuts carry on to the video releases of 1987 & 2001

The Carlton version of 2003 is a similar length to the previous cut version but is no longer noted as cut in the BBFC database

The BBC cut the cinema release and these cuts seem to have persisted since for:

• 2007 Optimum R2 DVD
• 2006 TPC R2 DVD
• 2001 Warner R2 DVD
• 1997 Warner VHS
• 1988 Warner VHS
• 1964 cinema release

The submitted running time for the cinema release was noted as 92:05s = 88:24s

The BBFC cuts are described at cuts details from dvdcompare.net:

• In they are a very backward people change Backward to Bashful
• Remove the line He was Liqui - dicking
• The sequence in which Mark Anthony falls on top of Cleopatra on the bed, must stop before we see him wriggling his legs.
• Remove Lover, and shorten the scene when Mark Anthony comes out of the room so as to get rid of the suggestion that he is physically exhausted.
• In the sequence in which the mute is being discussed remove the dialogue lines I expect he works in a harem, they cut them out so that they can't talk to the girls. Also remove the line: No wonder Mark Anthony has ants in his pants
• Remove I bet you didn't know you had it in him

Cut back in 1960 for cinema and the same cuts carry on to the Warner video releases of 1988 & 2001

The Optimum Releasing version of 2006 is a little longer and no longer noted as cut in the BBFC database

Cinema version cut back in 1965 and the same cuts carry on to the Warner video releases of 1988, 2001 & 2006 (TPC)

The Optimum Releasing version of 2006 is a similar length to the previous cut version but is no longer noted as cut in the BBFC database

Cut way back in 1962 and the same cuts carry on to the Warner video releases of 1986 & 2001

The Optimum Releasing version of 2006 is a little longer and no longer noted as cut in the BBFC database

The cinema release and 1987 video releases were cut but no cuts noted for the video versions of 2001 & 2003

The cinema release and 1987 video releases were cut but no cuts noted for the video version of 2003

Cut way back in 1963 and the same cuts carry on to the Warner video releases of 1988 & 2001

The Optimum Releasing version of 2006 is a little longer and no longer noted as cut in the BBFC database

The same cuts apply to the cinema release of 1970 and video release from 1987 & 2003

Cut way back in 1959 and the same cuts carry on to the Warner video releases of 1988 & 2001

The Optimum Releasing version of 2006 is a little longer and no longer noted as cut in the BBFC database

Cut way back in 1959 and the same cuts carry on to the Warner video releases of 1988 & 2001

The Optimum Releasing version of 2006 is no longer noted as cut in the BBFC database

Cut for the 1970 cinema release but no video cuts noted.

Cinema version cut back in 1968 and the same cuts carry on to the video releases of 1987 & 2001

The Carlton version of 2003 is a similar length to the previous cut version but is no longer noted as cut in the BBFC database

The BBFC cut 1:31s from the 1990 Trans Atlantic Pictures video/DVD.

From cuts details on IMDb

• Heavy edits to the rape scene

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R Rated

The US R Rated Theatrical Version was passed 18 uncut for the 1995 cinema release, 1996-7 CIC Video and 2005 Universal DVD.

Cuts were made to secure the R rating and this cut version seems to have become the only version internationally available.

• The torture scene was slightly trimmed by the MPAA (Tony Dog's eye-ball popping out was cut) to avoid an NC-17 rating.

• Ian Fleming's Casino Royale

Cut for a 12A/12 rating for the 2006 cinema release and 2007 Sony DVD/Blu-ray

Cut on BBFC advice in 2006: This film was originally seen by the BBFC in an unfinished version, for advice as to the film's suitability at '12A'. The BBFC advised the company that the torture scene placed too much emphasis on both the infliction of pain and the sadism of the villain for the requested '12A' category. When the completed version of the film was submitted for classification, reductions to the torture sequence had been made, including the removal of lingering shots of the rope, close shots of Bond's facial reaction and the substitution of a more distant shot of the beating compared to the original version. This re-edited version of the scene was considered acceptable at '12A', where the Guidelines permit violence provided there is no dwelling on detail or emphasis on injuries.

See Gavin Salkeld's Detailed cut list for details of the cuts made to appease both MPAA & BBFC.

The releases in Scandinavia, Netherlands, Japan and Australia are all uncut

Thanks to Floyd:

The Region 3 DVD is uncut, but there’s nothing graphic in the torture scene. There are a couple of lingering shots, most notably where Le Chiffre lands the rope gently on Bond's shoulder.

In the cut version when there is a distant shot of him walking around Bond he says ‘you‘ve taken care of your body’, and then in the next shot he’s swinging the rope before hitting Bond.

In the uncut version however, he lands the rope on his shoulder, and he leans over to him and says, ‘such a waste’.

The sound seems to be cut down as well of Chiffre swinging the rope before striking Bond, but nothing really shocking.

It seems that the hopes of an uncut US release are premature. The Irish 15A is the same version as the UK release. It appears that the German version has suffered even more cuts than the US/UK versions to achieve a 12 rating.

Perhaps the uncut version may have to wait on the (inevitable) Directors Cut.

The BBFC passed the 2008 Film 2000 DVD uncut.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb

• Cut to remove shots of mutilated female bodies
• a woman's breast being bitten
• footage of a woman's body being sexually eaten
• a scene of a cat being dragged through a hatch door.

Shown uncut on Zone Horror so presumably would now be passed uncut if it were to be resubmitted.

R Rated

The US R Rated Theatrical Version was passed 18 without cuts for the 1989 cinema release, 1990 RCA/Columbia video, 1993 VCI video, and 2000 Columbia/TriStar video/DVD.

There is also a US Unrated Extended Version with 2 6 minutes of 2 extra uncontentious scenes.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004

Cut for both cinema and Entertainment in Video versions. (submitted 1989/90)

Andre DeBoya (Thomas Milan) forces Mary (Kelly McGillis) to strip. He forces his gun into her mouth and then runs it over her body pressing it into her nipple. Too strong for the feeble UK constitution though.

Shown uncut on BBC2

• Un Gatto nel cervello
• Nightmare Concert

The BBFC passed the 2003 International Trading DVD 18 uncut

From Justin: I am glad to report that the International Trading version is not only uncut, but is longer than my Italian print Un Gatto Nel Cervello'

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

See review from IMDb: Nasty gore-fest

Cat in the Brain is one of the goriest horror movies ever made. There is a lot of blood and gore, including chainsaw butchery, bloody stabbings and numerous decapitations.

The film is also interesting as "self parody" of Fulci, but the gore and violence is the key element in it. Some of the gore FX were taken from own Fulci's movies.

Highly recommended, especially if you like extreme cinema!

The Tartan Video was rejected in February 1999 with the following justification:

The Board carefully considered this low-budget Italian horror video in the light of the usual tests. It has over the years, in this context, expressed concern about images which bring sex and violence together. The BBFC Draft Guidelines for Classifying Films and Videos (published in July 1998 in the BBFC's last Annual Report) identify sexually violent material as potentially harmful. The Guidelines explain that the Board is stricter with scenes of sexual violence on video than film, because of their potential to be played over and over at home. Sexual violence may only be shown providing the scenes do not offer sexual thrills.

A Cat in the Brain contains many sequences involving gross violence committed against women, often in a context with clear sexual overtones. It invites the viewer to relish the detail of the violence and killings. Women are even presented as enjoying the violence visited on them. The work switches between the three levels of "actual" film-making, the "Director's" own nightmares and the murderous attacks of the villain. However, the Board found that the main effect of this device was to enable the frequent portrayal of brutal and detailed violence, particularly towards women.

The Board concluded that the video was potentially harmful because of the influence it may have on the attitudes and behaviour of a significant proportion of its likely viewers, whatever classification it was given. The Board considered the possibility of cuts as an acceptable remedy. It concluded, however, that the sheer quantity of the violence rendered such an approach ultimately fruitless since it would be unlikely to change the general tone or approach of the work.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove use of strong language from dialogue to gain a PG,

• Il gatto a nove code
• Cat o'Nine Tails

The BBFC passed the 2005 Blackhorse DVD 15 uncut.

Note that there is also a shortened US video version.

The UK 18 rated version is missing 2 dialogue scenes. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• Braun telling the Superintendent that he would like to quit and return to Germany
• Manuel and Giordini speaking about finding Braun's body

• Catacombs: la prigione del diavolo
• Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice

Cuts to remove a sequence in which a priest is punished for his gluttony by Christ. In the sequence removed by the Board, a statue of Christ came alive and stabbed the priest to death with a nail he had pulled from his ankle.

• Backtrack

The Theatrical Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2007 Lions Gate R2 DVD
• 2003 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD
• 2001 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD
• 1991 Vestron VHS
• 1990 cinema release

From version details on IMDb

The Theatrical Version was disowned by director Dennis Hopper and is credited to Alan Smithee.

There is also a Dennis Hopper approved Director's Cut only available on US VHS titled Backtrack.

Pre-cut by the distributors to maintain a PG. A character scratching his crotch has been deleted.

• Diary of a Desperate Housewife
• Sexual Aberrations of a Housewife

The cinema release was cut by 5:00s when submitted in 1985.

The video/DVD hasn't been released in the UK but there is an uncut 2008 region 0 release available at US Amazon

Review from IMDb

After being gang raped and then having sex with her husband, a woman (Vicky Adams) discovers that marital sex is a lot better when the relationship is open. This is an extremely rare film from Jess Franco but it's really a straight love story and not a sleazy effort. Franco treats the subject matter with full respect and tries his best to tell an honest story about marriage and the film remains interesting throughout, although not too much really goes on. Lina Romay has a small part as a sex teacher.

The BBFC cut 1:53s from the 1994 Warner video

• A scene is cut showing Maya touched by the bad guy who then proceeds to cut away some of her clothes with a knife

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

See review from IMDb: Some good moments

Unusual for Michael Dudikoff, he plays a foul-mouthed character, an ex-Green Beret who now works for an American oil company in a foreign country. The F word flies left and right from the Dudemeister's mouth as he winds up the only survivor of a massacre at the refinery he's there to inspect.

Not one of my favorite Dudikoff films, but there's some good moments throughout. The opening titles are pretty cool, with the credits set against a montage of oil fields with some cool music playing, Keren Tishman is gorgeous in her (to date) one and only film role, and the long climactic fight between Dudikoff and Todd Curtis is well-executed. But, it doesn't make the list as one of my favorite Dudikoff films.

The BBFC state that a re-edited version was passed without cuts. Comments on the Anchor Bay Forum suggest that a softened TV version was submitted

Passed with cuts in 1998 for MIA Video Entertainment

Cuts to rape scene

The cinema release was cut in 2005 with the following BBFC statement:  Cut required to remove sight of animal cruelty, specifically a cock fight

• Dragon Bruce Lee

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2005

The BBFC cut 1:39s in 2008: Cuts were required to two scenes of animal cruelty (in this instance of organised cockfighting scenes),

A shorter US version was cut by 14s for:

• 2008 Optimum R2 DVD

The BBFC explained:

• The distributor was obliged to remove scenes involving cruelty to animals, that is illegal horse falls in a manner likely to cause injury or death

Same cuts to cinema and video versions.

• Cut to remove a head-butt. The distributors were offered a 15 - a certificate they accepted for the first film - but they chose to cut it for a 12A instead. The BBFC's annual report singles this out as being a particularly unacceptable head-butt. Oddly, it wasn't reinstated for the DVD or video version - not even the version that's packaged with the original and is therefore a 15 anyway.
• The US theatrical version was edited for violence and sex to avoid a R rating. This version was the basis for all international releases. For US home video the film was released in its original theatrical version (North America only) and in a special "unrated" version (worldwide except UK). The unrated version contains a few more scenes of sex and violence, including an extended "Pussycat Dolls" dance number, some shots of characters lying still when dead or unconscious, and more graphic depictions of some of the characters' demises. Also included in this version are two instance of characters spitting blood from their mouths during a fight and a reference to the first film. During the fight with the Irish mob on the freighter, Dylan puts her legs in the air while seated in an attempt to distract her attacker, similar to how she delayed a fight in the first film.

The uncut & unrated region 1 DVD is available for import via UK Amazon

Other cuts restored but 14s of cuts to horse trips remain when resubmitted in  2004

• There are 4 cuts of horse trips, 3 when Chato ambushes the posse early on to scare them off and 1 later when he shoots Victor French's horse

The BBFC explained about the rape scene that the passage of time had reduced the impact of the images to a significant degree, making the prospect of harm more remote.

• There are 4 cuts of horse trips, 3 when Chato ambushes the posse early on to scare them off and 1 later when he shoots Victor French's horse
• The video lost a shot of Charles Bronsons squaw being carried into a hut before her rape losing sight of her bare buttocks.
• After the rape she is carried outside naked and covered with a blanket. A shot of Simon Oakland tearing away the blanket and exposing a full frontal shot of the woman has been removed as well as his leering at her body.
• The most extensive video cut is to the scene where Jack Palances posse burn a wounded old Indian alive. In the video version the scene is edited so that you are led to believe that the Indian is dead as he is being burnt and so subsequent footage of Jack Palance shooting the Indian to end his suffering has been removed.
• A shot of Simon Oakland being hit full in the face with a large rock is missing

Recent BBC showing have been less cut than the video but they have lost a shot of Richard Jordan's corpse with a burned out fire which had been lit between his legs and the shot of Simon Oakland being hit full in the face with a large rock.

The US region 1 DVD seems to be well censored but the German R2 MGM DVD (which has an English language track) is the full uncut version including the horsefalls

The BBFC cut the 2010 cinema release for a 15.

This film was originally sent to the BBFC at the script stage. Based on a reading of the script the BBFC informed the company that the film was generally likely to fall within the desired 15 classification. However the company were advised that some scenes had the potential to take the film to 18 , or be otherwise problematic, dependent on how they were shot. In particular the BBFC advised that scenes featuring child actors should not be filmed in such a way as to sexualise the performers. It was also advised that scenes featuring suicides should be kept discreet and that novel detail which could be copied should be avoided. In a couple of cases the company were advised that specific lines of sexual dialogue should be removed or changed for the 15 classification.

A version of the film was subsequently submitted to the BBFC prior to formal submission and most recommendations from the original script had been addressed.

On formal submission of the finished version the changes remained evident and the film was classified 15.

The BBFC explained their 15 rating:

Chatroom is a drama about a group of teenagers who meet on an online forum. The film was passed 15 for a suicide theme and strong sex references.

The film deals with the dangers of online interaction, especially relating to vulnerable individuals. It deals with subjects such as bullying and sexual predators targeting the young, as well as websites and forums that showcase and promote suicide. There are scenes that feature a girl jumping out of a window, a young boy taking a drug overdose after he has been the victim of online bullying and another teenager hanging himself. However, none of these sequences linger on the fate of the victims or offer novel instructional detail. Furthermore, the film depicts the deaths as shocking and offers a critique of the malign influences that caused them. There is also a scene in which one of the leading characters deliberately cuts himself in the arm but this is contextualised by the audience knowing that he has a history of self-harming, which points to his mental state and explains his actions in the film's narrative. Again, no undue detail is presented and this, as well as the suicide scenes, meet the requirements of the BBFC Guidelines at 15 which state that dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied. The Guidelines at 15 also state that No theme is prohibited provided the treatment is appropriate for 15 year olds. In the case of Chatroom, the appropriate treatment is provided by the warning elements of the film and by the highlighting of the dangers of an online world.

The strong sex references in the work occur in the context of online sex chat and paedophiles posing as children or teenagers to lure the unwary. However, these references also have contextual justification in terms of illustrating the potential dangers of the online world. At 15, the BBFC's Guidelines state that There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour, but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable unless justified by context.

The film also contains infrequent strong language.

The BBFC cut the 2010 Optimum DVD by 8s: Cuts were made to remove sight of unsimulated cruelty to animals (a boar being chased and attacked by dogs; a live deer strung up and struggling on a frame; a live eel being cooked).

The BBFC cut 2s from the 2007 Nice 'n' Naughty DVD.  Distributor chose to remove clear sight of man's fingers penetrating vagina. An R18 uncut was available to the distributor.

The hardcore version runs at 159:15s so the total cuts are at least 77:21s

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R Rated

The US  R Rated Version was passed without BBFC cuts for the 15 rated 2000 cinema release and 18 rated 2001 EIV DVD.

From cuts details on IMDb

The movie had to be re-cut five times in order to achieve an R-rating. Most significant cuts include:

• graphic sexual activity during the climactic orgy sequence
• The death of a character named Annette The originally scripted scene showed her having her throat slowly pushed onto a pane of glass. The scene was filmed and very brutal, done all in one graphic cut. However, she shot was later replaced with her character's head split open in the front door. That scene was still trimmed heavily. In unrated versions the top of her head erupts and a splash of blood flies across the doorjamb.
• Rod's death had more blood
• Timmy's death was an on screen kill that featured gruesome spurting blood.
• A character's death at the climatic orgy was nixed for time and MPAA constraints. A male character's throat was slashed open.

• Megavixens
• Three Ways to Love

BBFC cuts were waived for the 2005 DVD release on the Arrow label

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Thanks to Bleach:

• Remove all sight of bloody body of naked woman.

• Stephen King's Children of the Corn

The cinema and version have all been passed without BBFC cuts. However the version submitted has always been the US theatrical version.

Review from imdb

The director's initial cut was much longer than the version that eventually made it to theaters and video. Amongst the missing footage:

• A longer prologue where several other adults are killed, most noticeably a deputy whose throat is slashed and then stabbed in the chest, and a farmer who is hacked to death outside his barn by a group of pick-axe wielding kids.
• A scene between Sarah and Job's parents before the slaughter. They talk over the breakfast table about Sarah's drawings of the upcoming massacre and how they think something awful is about to happen.
• A scene where Isaac prays to He Who Walks Behind The Rows only to receive a horrific vision of his impending fate.

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2005 MGM DVD

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available via UK Amazon for release on 15th September 2009

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon for release on 15th September 2009

Review from UK Amazon: A Doll Possessed

This film has an interesting storyline, and I think that the idea of a serial killer possessing a doll is great.

Okay Chuckie is evil, yet there are moments in the Chuckie films where he makes me laugh, such as the scene in the second film, where he buries a good guy doll. The way he laughs at that moment and the way he looks at the same time, I find quite funny.

This film starts of in the early hours of the morning, with Charles Lee Ray. He is chased by a cop, who follows Charles into a toy shop. There Charles is shot and fatally wounded. To avoid death Charles gets his hands on a good guy doll and mutters a voodoo chant, transferring his soul into the good guy doll.

Later that morning, a woman buys that doll as a present for her son Andy's 6th birthday. Charles in that doll, calls himself Chuckie. That evening, Andy's babysitter is pushed through the window, and Andy claims that Chuckie did it.

Soon Chuckie is shot and to his surprise feels pain and actually bleeds. He learns from an old friend of his, who taught him the voodoo chant that he's becoming human again, and to get out of the good guy doll, he needs to transfer his soul into the body of the first person he revealed his secret to; which was his true identity. And that person is Andy.

This is a great film that mustn't be missed.

The BBFC cut the 1989 cinema release (12s) and 1989 Warner Home Video (7s)

• Cuts are to the electrocution of the doctor including a shot of the boy falling over some apparatus and two thrusts of the electrocution gadget on the doctors head.

Shown Uncut on Bravo & Sci-Fi Channel

• The offending scene occurs during a gang fight where the censors would rather like us not to see the use of a butterfly knife.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts were required to scenes of actual animal cruelty (cock fighting)

• The Raven: Chosen One

No BBFC cuts to the 1999 Screen Multimedia DVD.

There are several versions including a cut US R Rated release and an uncut Unrated US version. The Running time suggests that this release is one of the shorter cut versions

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

Review from US Amazon: Too Silly

This film is a pretty bad one. It has the aura of a late night erotic thriller but is just too silly.

If you are a Troma fan, you may be able to get through some of the silly parts. One of my favorite quotes in the film is Shawna Sand-Lamas You have the power.  She has my vote for funniest low budget beauty that cannot act at all. Her scenes look like she's in pain trying to get her lines out. Carmen Electra shines in this film though (probably due to her surrounding actors).

I was hoping for a more action filled superhero film in the lines of The Demolitionist and Black Scorpion, but it wasn't. As a matter of fact there isn't much butt stomping by Electra in her nice superhero outfit at all.

The film tries to take itself a little too seriously most of the time, when it could have been made to be a hilarious low budget sexy action film. It should appeal to people that like late night erotic thrillers and don't mind miniscule budget movies.

• Christina y la reconversión sexual

The 2006 DVD submission was cut with the following BBFC comment: Distributor was required to remove sight of horse's head apparently being struck by motor bike

Thanks to MM:

The satellite channel, Movies 4 Men is  currently screening an uncut version

• Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnof Zoo

All cuts waived for the 2000 Second Sight vide/DVD and 2009 Arrow DVD.

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

See review from IMDb : Disturbing

I really wasn't prepared for this film, or was I? I had been recommended it, and told it was disturbing, but it certainly had a massive effect on me.

Christiane F is the true story of a girl who gets seduced by the German nightlife and David Bowie, and slowly drifts onto heroin.

There are several disturbing parts of this movie. The heroin/prostitution scenes are disturbing, but I didn't get disturbed by these as much as I did the story. The media would have us believe that heroin users and dealers are monsters and don't have a right to live. The people in this movie are real, and easy to identify with.

I definitely recommend this movie

Cut when video submitted by Polygram in 1986

• Cuts were for supposedly instructional shots of heroin preparation and injection.

• The Chronicles of Narnia

An extended cut of the movie was released on 2006 Buena Vista DVD.

From version details on IMDb

The extended edition included the following scenes:

• The new Disney logo at the beginning of the film.
• More parents and children crying at the train station. Also more interaction between the kids and Mrs. Pevensie.
• A scene on the train with Lucy and her toy dog.
• A new shot of the wardrobe before the cricket scene.
• More of the Pevensies running from Mrs. Macready.
• Extra shots of the Pevensies exploring Narnia for the first time.
• More of the Pevensies following Mr. Beaver to his home.
• Lucy finding a fish frozen in the ice around the Beaver's dam.
• More of Edmund crossing the Witch's courtyard.
• Some added shots of the wolves searching the dam.
• Several shots of the snow melting and the Pevensies and the Beavers walking through Narnia as it transforms into spring.
• A few new shots of Susan practicing archery.
• As the gryphons attack the Witch's troops with rocks, a group of bat-like creatures rush into the air and attack them.
• A few extra shots of the two armies colliding.

The Extended Version region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The Extended Version region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

Unrated

The Director's Cut was passed 15 uncut for the 2005 Universal DVD.

From version details on IMDb:

• A earlier introduction to Kyra, being forced into one of the empty hellhound cages on cremetoris.
• The sub-plot of the Furyan energy is completely restored, several instances of these scenes are visible in the trailer for the film but not contained in the theatrical version of the film.
• Riddick, while in cryo-sleep aboard Toombs' Skif en-route to Helion Prime is approached in a vision by Shirah (Played by Kristin Lehman as in the game "Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay"), and she starts to tell him about Furya before he is interrupted by his arrival at Helion Prime.
• The Purifier's speech to the captured people of Helion Prime is longer (Director David Twohy on the commentary comments that this is the complete version as originally intended).
• Vaako and Dame Vaako's discussion about the Lord Marshall being promoted to full death is extended, continuing with him and her discussing his demise and foreplay.
• After Dame Vaako queries Aereon about Riddick, she discusses what she learns with Vaako over a telepathy/communication with him on the transport.
• The fight sequences between Riddick and the Necromonger armies on the surface of Crematoria is completely unedited, containing full sound effects of the fight and is more visually brutal.
• After the fight on the surface of Crematoria, Riddick is surrounded by Necromongers and Vaako is about to shoot him when Shirah re-appears to him and reveals the truth about what happened on Furya, the revelation sending out a blast from Riddick, knocking all the soldiers down and leaving Riddick unconscious - A shot of this "blast" can be seen in the trailer.
• The ending is more abrupt, Riddick says "you keep what you kill" instead of Vaako, and Aereon's voice-over is not included.

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

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts required to remove sight of actual animal cruelty (in this case cocks fighting).

The same cuts apply to the 1993 Warner video and the AA rated cinema release of 1970. The cuts were applied differently though

• Cheng shi lie ren

Not cut by the BBFC but the distributors of the 2001 release, deliberately mistranslated a joke about AIDS to ensure a 12 rating

From version details on IMDb

The song-and-dance sequence which made references to Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer and The New Kids on the Block was not subtitled on the US DVD. The UK dubbed version of the film cut the sequence out completely, confusing the viewer in regards to why the singers show up later in the film.

Note that there is a Japanese Version that has an extended anime title sequence and a bit of product placement with a Nikon camera.

Same cut version for cinema and video

• Horror Hotel

The BBFC passed the Extended Version/City of the Dead Version 15 uncut for:

•  2007 Redemption R0 DVD via UK Amazon

• 2004 Classic Entertainment R0 DVD
• 2003 Waterfall R0 DVD

From version details on IMDb

This version is missing:

• most of the cursing made by Elizabeth Selwyn to the villagers during the opening burning
• some of the conversation between Driscoll and Barlow as they discuss belief in the supernatural.

• Paura Nella Citta dei Morti Viventi
• Fear in the City of the Living Dead
• The Fear
• The Gates of Hell
• Twilight of the Dead

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 18 rated 2001 Protected DVD and 2010 Arrow DVD/Blu-ray

The uncut region 0 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

Review from UK Amazon: One of Fulci's Best

Written and directed by the Italian horror master Lucio Fulci. The film follows a young woman who has a vision foretelling the gates of hell opening under the New England town of Dunwich. She voices her concerns to a journalist and the pair set out together for the town, where a lot of strange things have been happening. They soon discover an army of zombies that have returned with a quest for revenge after being burned at the stake hundreds of years ago.

City Of The Living Dead has a great atmosphere present throughout the film, which when combined with the appropriate and effective sound track generates a feel that's perfect for a horror. The effects and make-up used in the film are great and would still hold up today even after all this time. It's obvious that a lot of imagination and creativity has been put in to the creation of the Zombies. There are a couple of great scenes in the film that will really make your stomach turn, and looking back it's possible to tell that they may have inspired more modern film makers.

Naturally I could point out plenty of errors and mistakes, and the plot is a little thin. Certain things don't make sense, certain things don't add up, but in the end does any horror film make complete sense, but more to the point would you want it too. The acting leaves a lot to be desired, and the script is far from perfect, but the sheer atmosphere alone is enough to compensate. Dunwich really seems like a creepy town as opposed to a set.

But what counts the most in a film like this is the gore, and there is plenty of it here. If you're looking for a brutal gore packed and entertaining horror film you've found it. City Of The Living Dead is a perfect example of what the horror genre is about.

When released after the VRA, 4 additional cuts totalling 1:29s were eventually inflicted by the BBFC to achieve an 18 video certificate. This version with a total of 2:21s missing was released by Network Distribution in 1986, Elephant in 1987 and Vipco in 1992

• All 53s of a girl vomiting up her intestines has been deleted
• 8s is deleted from Michele Soavi's head being ripped off and his brains spilling out
• Sandra falls victim to a zombie who has a penchant for brains, but 10s of this is not shown
• Without her brains, Sandra (Janet Agren) attacks Peter (Christopher George) and takes his. 9s of cuts prevent us seeing the meal

The 1:01s cinema cut still applied

• The cut was applied to the infamous scene where John Morgan gets his head drilled.

A single cut of 1:01s was required for the 1981 cinema X certificate

• The cut was applied to the infamous scene where John Morgan gets his head drilled.

Cut when submitted in 2003 with the following BBFC statement: Compulsory Cuts. Caption required on screen warning against imitating dangerous stunts (fireworks inside a van), and distributor required to remove footage of child being thrown (imitable behaviour)

Cut when submitted in 2003 with the following BBFC statement: Compulsory cut required to remove sight of a young child jumping from a high roof into the arms of an adult on the ground below. Distributor also required to place warning captions onscreen, warning against imitation of dangerous stunts.

BBFC cut 4s from the 2 Entertain Video in 2008: Distributor chose to make a dialogue cut (moderate sexual reference) in order to obtain a PG category. An uncut '12' was available.

The BBFC passed the 2006 Warner DVD 12 uncut

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

From cuts details on IMDb:

• Removed the closeup of Calibos stabbing a man's back with a trident
• shortened the scene where Calibos is stabbed in the stomach by Perseus

R

The BBFC passed the 2005 Home Entertainment Corporation DVD 18 without cuts.

It seems that the latest releases were once cut for an MPAA R Theatrical Rating but that this cut has been adopted as the director's preferred version.

From article in trade magazine RRP by Allan Bryce:

Mosiac's new version is almost uncut, restoring all but a few seconds of the notorious rape scene, and director [Mark L] Lester is delighted about this. That scene is not played for gratuitous thrills. It shows rape for what it is, an ugly, nasty act. And it's necessary to show it because we understand what drives Perry King's character to commit such a brutal act of revenge against his tormentors."

The director, Mark Lester, however posted a comment about the UK DVD on the Anchor Bay forum: The UK version being released by Mosaic is the exact version of the US release by Anchor Bay. This is the original US theatrical released picture and is approved personally by me as the final director cut of the film.

It has been reported that the recent French DVD is the same version as the UK DVD

The 'approved' director's cut, region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The 'approved' director's cut, region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

See review from IMDb: Thought-provoking

Class of 1984 is an entertaining and thought-provoking combination of the Vigilante and High School Drama flick. The film describes the punks as the next generation of important people. It was done as a reworking of Blackboard Jungle (it is much better than Cruel Intentions and more gutsy). Class of 1984 is an eerie movie because the depiction of unsafe Urban high schools, metal detectors at schools, and security guards would be a reality eight years later in many high school cities. It is a courageous movie that isn't afraid to deal with important issues.

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cuts

The BBFC has long been queasy about classroom violence and rejected the video about a new teacher who tries to restore order at a school run by punks. The punks rape his pregnant wife so he extracts revenge by killing the entire gang.

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cuts

From cuts details on IMDb:

The original UK cinema release featured the US R-Rated print (cut for nudity) which was then further cut by the BBFC with  heavy edits to:

• the gang fight
• the rape scene
• Fallon's arm being sliced off with a buzzsaw
• Norris hitting Barnyard with a hand wrench

The BBFC waived its cuts waived when resubmitted in 2001

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

See review from IMDb: Gritty

This is a gritty view of the future, with the kind of ironic humour that has made Verhoeven millions, if he had directed this it would have been the next Robocop.

The cast shine with the likes of Malcolm MacDowell, Pam Grier and Stacey Keach and in the leading role is charasmatic Corey Feldman-clone, Bradley Gregg.

Everyone is having fun with this movie and it is this attitude that makes it so watchable. A pumping rock soundtrack including Nine Inch Nails debut single pads this out even further. Great lines ooze from the script; I'll leave you with one of my favourites: I'm going to go waste some teachers. Who's with me!

Thanks to Ricky:

Old UK Vestron VHS versions were cut in several places:

1. A knife being flicked open and used to push open a window
2. Two separate neck-breaks in the junk yard
3. The head-drilling scene
4. The hero's lines Yeah! and Have a nice stretch coach! when he kills the final robot

Cuts waived in 2004

See Betty Page: Bondage Queen

The cuts apply to extracts from

• Dirty Harry: the killer being shot by Harry
• Full Metal Jacket: a shot of blood spurting when Private Pile shoots the drill sergeant, and the whole of him shooting his brains out
• Goodfellas: strange this one, we miss the comedy routing by the old fella in the club, after Ray Liotta and his fiancée have entered the room
• True Romance: over half of the dialogue between Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper, they just let the scene fade out!

The BBFC made no cuts to the 18 Rated Theatrical Version for the 1995 cinema release, the 1995 Artificial Eye video and the 2005 Buena Vista DVD

The both versions region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The both versions region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The both versions US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon for release on 17th November 2009

The Original Version was passed 15 uncut for the 2005 Buena Vista DVD and 2009 Buena Vista Blu-ray

From alternative versions on IMDb:

• There are many extra shots here and there in the film.
• There is a longer introduction to Jay and Silent Bob with Jay listing off all the drugs he's got.
• The Chewlie's Gum representative's speech is much longer and without cuts.
• Randal is seen shutting off the video monitor in the back.
• When Dante and Randal run from the funeral, there is a much longer shot of mourners trying to run after them.
• The fight scene is extended.
• There is an alternate ending in which one of the clerks is shot dead.
• The credits are slightly different and have no music over them.
• Director Kevin Smith has a non-Silent Bob cameo after the end credits.

cuts

R Rated

The BBFC waived their previous cuts for the 2008 Optimum Releasing DVD/Blu-ray. This is now the same as the US R Rated Theatrical Version that was cut by the MPAA

cuts

An additional 16s were cut for the video/DVD versions from 1993 to 2001. This makes a total of 1:24s

• Racist dialogue from one of the villains about Kynette, good and blow up that black bastard while your at it, save me the time of doing it myself by Delmar (Craig Fairbrass).
• Several punches and a kick to Gabe's (Sylvester Stallone) face and chest are cut in the confrontation with Kynette (Lyon).
• Deleted swearing in the above scene wrong answer mother fucker.
• The death to Kynette of being impaled is originally more graphic.
• The beating up of Hal (Michael Rooker) by Delmar has been severely reduced, removing kicks to the face and chest.
• Also brief dialogue is cut during the above fight.
• Close up of Delmar laughing at Hal while standing on his hand.
• Close up of Hal sticking small knife in Delmar's leg.
• Close up of bullet hit of Travers (Rex Linn) which Gabe fires while trapped under the ice.
• Lyons shooting of a blonde hippy guy loses one bullet impact.

James Ferman referred to these cuts in a lecture. He showed a clip which had Craig Fairbrass using a man's head as a football. Fairbrass, was a very popular character in London's East End, and it hurt Ferman to deprive him of his spectacular run-up to the prostrate victim before kicking the man into goal. Ferman took out most of his kicks, but preserved the entire sequence for his private collection and has shown it with great effect to MPs and others. I show them the cut version first, which looks bad enough. Then I show them the uncut version. That clinches it: the MPs all cheer the censor's team.

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cuts

The U.S. theatrical release was cut in order to receive an R-rating. Almost every violent scene was edited. Most of these cuts involved characters being sprayed with bullets in slow-mo. The most clever edit occurs during the underwater sequence. In the U.S. cut, Gabe appears to shoot multiple flares up through the ice to kill the bad guy. In The uncut version, Hal also blasts him with a shotgun. The flare shot is simply repeated 3 times to make it appear that only Gabe shoots.

The uncut version is available as a bootleg workprint but has not made it to official releases.

The cinema release was uncut but the 2003 video version was cut with the following BBFC statement: Compulsory cut required to potentially dangerous imitable technique for 'PG'

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

On Kubrik's death the film was re-released in 1999 and followed by an uncut video certificate in 2000 for Warner Home Video

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

See article from guardian.co.uk

Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange, said in 1973 that he thought Stanley Kubrick's controversial film based on his novel was boring in places and should have been more violent.

Burgess said that in the film Kubrick projected violence for its own sake, and that was damnable. He added: It was a good film, though boring in places, but it should have been more violent, because only by piling on the violence could the absurdity of violence be shown.

We should have been able to reach a stage in violence where we were just laughing at it. This is what I tried to do in the book.

Prior to the complete ban in 1973 Kubrik only allowed one London cinema to screen the film for the first year of its release.

• CE3K
• The Special Edition: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The BBFC passed the Collectors Edition/Director's Cut PG without cuts for the 1998-9 Columbia/TriStar video/DVDs

See version details on IMDb

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

See version details on IMDb

Spielberg felt that he was rushed into producing this version and it is not his preferred cut.

See version details on IMDb

See Hide and Go Shriek

• Broken Lizard's Club Dread

The 2004 20th Century Fox DVD is the US Unrated Version passed 15 with no BBFC cuts required

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

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cuts

The BBFC cut 4s from the 1986 Warner video and 1999 Warner DVD

• Stallone sets fire to a man that he has just doused with petrol but the following details are missing just before the match is struck; a glimpse of the man screaming followed by the dialogue from Stallone: You have the right to remain silent.

cuts

R Rated

• There are various mentions of extensive MPAA cuts to the many killings in the film. In particular, killings at a hospital and a victim's hand being severed and sent to the police. The studio was also said to be keen to keep the running time down to allow more showings in cinemas.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cut required to sight of a fake BBFC black card.

sound cut

Same cuts for 1989 cinema release, the 1989 Film and Video release, and 2004 20th Century Fox DVD

• A suicide attempt was deleted to obtain a PG

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

The BBFC cut 1s from the 2010 Beez DVD. Company was required to remove a shot likely to encourage an interest in underage sexual activity (in this case a young girl in the background of a shot suggesting sexual activity).

Same cut version for cinema and video

• Coffey

From cuts details on IMDb

The 1998 Cinram UK video was passed uncut as was the MGM DVD of 2003

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

Review from UK Amazon: Blaxploitation classic!

Maxim magazine lists Coffy as number 7 on its list of the 50 best B-movies of all time, and there can clearly be no mistake about its status as a B-movie. Pam Grier shines in this hilarious action-packed blaxploitation flick where she first got her name as a 'black pin-up queen' during the early 70's. It is apparent after watching this film that no one remembers this for the bad-acting and dialogue, but for Pam Grier herself she is one mean sister.

This movie screams 'early 70's', from the afro wigs to the awesome outfits Coffy finds herself wearing whether it be at a gala for call girls or when she's undercover to kick some drug-dealer's nasty behind!

This brilliant film mixes comedy right in there with the action. From the campy catfight scenes when Coffy dumps a salad bowl onto a blonde girl's head, to when King George makes his first appearance and steps out of his car in his pimp outfit, complete right down to the feather in his hat! The action is fairly consistent. There are a lot of guns firing off and endless catfights.

But every time Coffy appears on screen and you just know that some bad stuff is about to go down, you know that you're going to be taken for a fun ride! This is one movie where you don't have to be drunk to enjoy it.

The BBFC passed the 1974 cinema release after cuts:

• Cut to the stabbing of Omar

The BBFC rejected a 1973 cinema release under the title Coffey

• De la part des copains
• De vrienden laten groeten
• From the Boys
• L'uomo dalle due ombre

The 1986 VPD video, 1997 Warner video, 2004 Cinema Club DVD and 2010 Optimum DVD are all 15 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon for release on 22nd February 2010
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Entertaining

This is not the greatest Bronson movie ever made but it is nonetheless entertaining. It does have one spectacular car chase or rather motorcycle pursuit on winding roads of south of France.

There are some nice performances and it's fun to see James Mason play a villain although he's a likable one. Liv Ullman is fine and Jill Ireland plays a hilarious rich hippie chick.

There are the usual plot absurdities but Bronson is the reason we watch these movies and he's no different here. He's a very likeable tough guy trying very hard to be nice around bunch of incorrigible villains.

From cuts details on IMDb

• Cut to remove the sound of a neck break
• cuts to a brief scene of nudity
• edits to the shooting of a man with a flare gun.

The original running time was noted as 93:03s = 89:20s

See The Dawn Rider

The BBFC passed the Director's Cut 18 uncut for the 2003 Pathe DVD

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

The US Theatrical Version is said to have suffered cuts to sex scenes

• Rang de Basanti

The BBFC passed the 2007 Re-edited Version 15 for both cinema and U TV DVD. No BBFC cuts were required for the shorter version titled Colour of Sacrifice.

All video releases cut as described by the BBFC:  Distributor was required to remove three shots of horses being twisted by neck and onto back.

• David Sullivan's Come Play with Me

No mention of cuts to the 2010 Odeon DVD but the running time is the same as previous cut versions

The BBFC cut the 1977 cinema release and the cuts carried through to the videos of 1986 (Mighty Fair) and 1997 (Lazer)

• Sights of clear female genitalia were deleted
• A strip tease sequence was reduced
• Sex scenes were cut

From cuts details on IMDb:

Hardcore versions of four of the film's sex scenes were shot for the overseas market. It is believed that the hardcore version was never exhibited commercially and may now be lost.

• Die Nichten der Frau Oberst
• Secrets of a French Maid

The BBFC cut the 1980 cinema release

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Julchen und Jettchen, die verliebten Apothekerstöchter
• The Amorous Sisters

The BBFC cut the 1986 by a furher 1:25s beyond their previous film cuts.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

• The Graveside Story

The 2009 Optimum DVD is uncut and 12 rated.

Thanks to Floyd:

According to dvdcompare.net the R1 America MGM is missing 1s. In the sequence where Vincent Price and Peter Lorre are attempting to keep a supposedly-dead Basil Rathbone inside his coffin. Price and Lorre finally "succeed" by both sitting on top of the coffin. On the DVD, this scene immediately cuts to one of Price and Lorre suddenly hitting the floor for no apparent reason. This is cut: Rathbone's character is obviously still alive, because he suddenly pushes the coffin lid upward with all his might, and you see Price and Lorre flying up and backwards onto the floor.

The recent region 2 Optimum release includes the scene in question intact.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The original running time was noted as 81:36s = 78:20s

Cut to achieve an American R rating. The scene where a female character states her objection to oral sex on the grounds of sperm's high calorific content has gone.

Unrated

The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut in 2007 for 20th Century Fox but no sign of a UK release yet

From bigandya on www.pre-cert.co.uk: Commando Myths Dispelled

There is NO scene of Arnie whacking the bad guys with the severed limb, but there ARE 2 extra bits of gore:

1. A second saw scene: he throws a second circular saw blade which embeds itself into the neck of a bad guy, lots of blood
2. The guy with the severed arm is seen lying on the floor, stump in the air, screaming for a second or two"

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

R Rated

• 2008 RB 20th Century Fox Blu-ray

The BBFC commented in their 2006 Annual Report:

Commando had previously required two cuts for ‘18’ to reduce strong bloody injury detail. These cuts were waived when the work was resubmitted, both to reflect public expectations following the Board’s public consultations in recent years and because the cut scenes are now considered to have little impact on the tone of the work as a whole or its likely effect on an audience.

Shown uncut on Channel 4 in May 2008

• 2003 20th Century Fox DVD

The submitted DVD version was pre-cut by the distributor by 26s in addition to the 12s of BBFC cuts.

The pre-cuts which the UK (and R2 Scandinavian and R4 Australian) releases contain, have their origin in Germany. These cuts were imposed on German theatrical and video releases by the German censors,  FSK, in order to achieve an "FSK 18" rating. So these cut masters must have served FOX to produce their UK DVDs.

Thanks to Luis who has specified the cuts are as follow:

• 0:02:00 - Before the credits Cooke (Bill Duke), disguised as a garbage man, shots a man from a short distance. A scene in which he approaches the body and shoots it on the chest several times was cut. On the DVD we see him getting near and then lowering the gun and going back.
• 0:21:17 - Matrix (Schwarzenegger) hits the guy with him on the plane with an elbow. Then pulls a blanket over him to make it appear that he's sleeping. On the uncut version he pulls the head of the man down gently and breaks his neck, before covering him. In the censored version, the man is killed with a single blow or maybe died from a heart attack during his sleep!
• 0:45:30 - Matrix throws Cooke against some piece of wooden furniture on the floor (the impact is not seen in any version). We hear him moaning, and then Matrix gets near him. We then see a close shot framing Cooke's face, foaming a bit of blood from the mouth, and the wood spike coming from his chest. Matrix asks for his daughter: "Where is she?" then pulling the tie of the dying man: "Talk!" Another close shot of the face and the bloody mouth and chest. The DVD version cuts both close shots while also removing both lines of dialogue from Swarzenegger. It also cuts part of the moaning we hear from Cooke.
• 1:06:50 - Following to the fight scenes with the Big Ugly Hispanics (BUH), a cut is made when Matrix stabs one on the stomach
• 1:07:09 - A BUH is killed with a knife on the throat. The frontal shot is cut (it's not very bloody originally).
• 1:07:17 - Matrix killing another soldier is missing
• 1:08:34 - 5 shots cut to remove the one in which BUH is machine-gunned.
• 1.10:20 - After some more shooting with the machine gun, Matrix grabs his pistol. But before that shot, two others are cut: one has more BUHs being hit at a distance (probably the less violent deaths in the film...); another one is a close shot of a BUH being killed with two bullets on the chest (with some blood spilling).
• 1:11:38 - Here we're in the famous tool shed sequence.. A soldier approaches the door and opens it. He's stabbed by a pitchfork on the chest. This was cut in this version, even though they left the more violent scene in which a man is killed with a circular saw that cuts part of the top of his head.
• 1:11:40 - After the second saw, Matrix grabs an axe and a machete, he uses the axe between the legs of a BUH and then proceeds to the last Hispanic. He grabs his arm and cuts it with the machete. 5 shots where removed here, eliminating both deaths. On the censored version, after the last saw we see Matrix immediately grabbing a machine gun from the floor.
• 1:19:50 - During the "releasing some steam" scene, after Matrix throws a metal pipe at Bennett there's originally a close-up shot of the bad guy's chest with the pipe against it (there's no blood). We then see him moaning and spilling some blood from the mouth. The camera slowly pulls back framing Bennett and the pipe releasing steam. The censored version is  cut before the pipe enters the frame, passing for a shot of Matrix, which then delivers the line "Let out some steam, Bennett!" Much moaning is also cut with this; so, just like Cooke, Bennett has a much faster death with a bit less suffering.

The Theatrical Version was cut by 12s for:

• 1999 20th Century Fox VHS
• 1986 CBS/Fox VHS
• 1985 cinema release

The UK laserdisc seems to have got by uncut

BBFC cuts were:

• In the uncut version Arnie grabbed an axe and a machette from inside the wall of a toolshed. Then he hit the guard coming through the door between the legs with axe, dropped him, and exited. He then grabbed the guard outside who was holding a machine gun and chopped off his gun arm with the machete. As the arm falls he pulls the machine gun away. The cut version makes it appear he's lifting the gun.
• At the end of the film where a close-up of the pole sticking out of Bennett's stomach has been cut

The BBFC passed the 2009 BFI DVD 15 uncut

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb

• Cut during a scene hinting at oral sex between McCallum and his dog.

Unrated

The Director's Cut/Extended Version was passed 18 uncut for

• UK 2007 Buena Vista R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release featuring the Director's Cut/Extended Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated

• US 2006 Buena Vista R1 DVD via US Amazon

The BBFC raised he certificate from a cinema 15 to a video 18 as it was felt that original decision was too lenient for:

• 2008 Online
• 1998 Buena Vista video
• 1997 Buena Vista video

There are reports of cuts to edit out the Sally Can't Dance character eg

• When Sally Can't Dance see cops getting closer to the plane he squeals Oooh, men in uniform, but not in the UK version.

Also there has been a comparison between the Region 1 DVD and an early UK DVD release But later reports rather contradict this claim:

• In a scene where the inmates take the plane and a passenger with a cloth bag over his head gets shot in the head. In the R1 version you see a side on shot of the bullet entering and blood coming out of the back. In the R2 this small sequence is cut.

• 1997 cinema release

The longer International Version was submitted for the 1993 Fox video, 2002 & 2005 20th Century Fox DVDs.

The same BBFC cuts applied although the editing to achieve the cuts was done differently.

TV showings have not picked up on the BBFC requirement to cut such scenes

See version details on IMDb:

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

• Several horse falls have been trimmed from the U.K  versions in differing ways. One of which is from the opening raid on young Conan's village.
• The rest of the horse falls are from the lengthy stand-off in the desert, featured much later in the movie. One fall is severe as it caused by Conan hacking at the horses legs with a sword.
• A sex scene with the witch featuring a lost naked rump was also trimmed to remove 3 out of 6 groans

The latest 2004 Sanctury DVD is listed as having the original video version cuts + an additional cut for animal cruelty. These are cuts to horse falls and a camel being hit on the head

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

The same cuts for the 1984 cinema release and video version from 1986-2001 have been applied to all previous releases with various running times

1. Numerous scenes of horse tripping at the start trimmed.
2. The Horse tripping of Zula (Grace Jones) and Bombatta (Wilt Chamberlain) during the Elite Guard attack is trimmed
3. Malik (Tracey Walter) cutting the Elite Guard's throat is cut.
4. Perhaps the clearest cut is the Camel Attack sequence. Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Malik are riding through the town. Malik points out a Camel, Conan talks to the camel, the Camel spits white goo over Conan. The UK Version then cuts to the next scene. The Uncut US version shows Conan smack the camel on the top of its head making it crumble to the floor. It was probably cut due to the issue of cruelty to animals.

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2008 Pegasus DVD

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• Cuts to rape scene

• Cuts to rape scene

• Star Sex

NO cuts reported for the 2010 Odeon DVD. But not yet sure what version was submitted

• UK 1997 Lazer VHS
• UK 1986 Mighty Fair VHS
• UK 1979 X rated cinema release

• Blue Movie Star
• Evolution of Snuff

The BBFC passed the 1978 cinema release X after cuts. This cut version was then passed 18 doe the 1986 Sheptonhurst video

The BBFC banned the 1978 cinema release

No BBFC cuts to the 15 rated DVDs from Prism in 2002 and ILC in 2008

From cuts details on IMDb

• The UK DVD version is heavily edited and has removed the rape scenes. Even a nude shower scene is heavily cropped.

The 1979 Cinema release was cut by the BBFC

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US:

All the earmarks of a Joe Sarno film are present in this soft, verging on hardcore sex picture. Followers of this auteur will note his sparse use of a music score, very conservative camera movements and insistence on a consistent storyline. Jennifer Welles generates much sympathy as the frustrated mother. Her tentative attempts at kindling a friendship with the far too young delivery boy are especially poignant.

Sarno ground out countless sex films throughout his illustrious career, and the usual consumer for this type of film was overly grateful to have a film with plot, acting and direction. This reviewer has always felt a sense of malaise hanging around most sex films. The actors, even if they're game and put forth a little extra effort, all appear keenly aware that the project at hand will not further their career, further their cause or endear them to their dear old Aunt Fanny.

If "adult films" are your cup of tea, a Sarno feature usually delivers on the premise of being as close to a "real movie" as this genre gets. Some feel that Sarno's films have a sense of psychological realism that other films in this genre lack - or you may find his stuff clinical and detached as I do.

• Emanuelle - perché violenza alle donne?
• Emanuelle Around the World
• Emanuelle Versus Violence to Women
• The Degradation of Emanuelle

The BBFC cut 15:45s from the 1978 cinema release and 1987 VPD video

From Sex Gore Mutants

Some of the missing scenes compared with the "XXX European Edition" include:

• an all-woman Kama Sutra academy
• Karin Schubert's gang rape
• more lesbian encounters
• sick games with animals
• US Senators defiling women.

The uncut XXX European Edition, region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut XXX European Edition, region 0 DVD is available at US  Amazon

Review snippet from Sex Gore Mutants

Emanuelle Around the World is one of the more shocking of the Emanuelle series, right up there with Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals and Emanuelle in America. Effective on an undeniably crass but immediate level, this is the kind of cinema that drips animal savagery and guilty pleasure -- exactly the type of subversive cinema that has moral police gasping in the isles (or masturbating in the closet).

• Bárbaro, la conquista de la tierra perdida
• La conquista de la tierra perdida
• Mace the Outcast

The BBFC cut the 1983 cinema release by 4:08s

From cuts details on IMDb

• heavily reduced shots of nudity
• cut close ups of sores bursting open
• removed the beheading of the woman and shots of her brains being eaten.

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

Review from UK Amazon: Truly strange

Set in a land ruled by an evil sorceress called Ocron and her cruel followers. Two warriors unite to bring her down but she too knows about them and seeks to destroy them.

Lucio Fulci's stab at the fantasy genre is truly strange and highly enjoyable and therefore a must see for fans of Fulci.

Almost every scene is filled with smoke and often the camera is shone with bright sunlight that gives it an atmosphere all of its own. The photography is also impressive with many different colours and shades.

It's a lively affair with much action as well as some of the most strangest looking monsters you're ever likely to see.

Being a Fulci film you are guaranteed gory moments and Conquest doesn't disappoint as there are bloody set pieces throughout. Yes the effects at times are laughable but it all adds to the fun and it's accompanied by a pounding score by Claudio Simonetti from Goblin.

The BBFC have passed the 2009 'Extended Version', on 20th Century Fox Blu-ray, 12 without cuts.

This is actually the original US version before it was cut down to achieve a US PG

From cuts details on IMDb:

The US uncut version includes alternate opening and ending scenes, which were excised due to poor audience reaction and a need to keep a PG rating. In the opening, a police patrol tracks and kills a gorilla, which is shown to have numerous cuts and welts. Breck later references a gorilla who turned on his master and was killed.

In the ending, Caesar allows the apes to beat Breck and the other humans to death. Breck does not cower, but faces his executioners. Lisa does not say "No" and Caesar makes no speech counseling compassion. There are also additional shots of apes and humans bleeding from gunshots, and apes stacking bodies of riot police.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

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

From cuts details on IMDb:

• cuts to the electrical torture of Caesar
• cuts to close up scenes of violence from the killing of the guards
• cuts in the climactic battle

• Contaminazione
• Alien Contamination
• Alien 2
• Astaron Strut des Scheckens
• Toxic Spawn

The BBFC passed the Anchor Bay DVD 15 uncut in 2004

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Odd and cheesy

This was a very odd and cheesy Italian gore flick, it was a mix of horror and science fiction and it was directed by Luigi Cozzi.

While Contamination was a decent film I just didn't think it was that good, the first half was very promising as we get to see some impressive gore scenes with the exploding stomachs but then the second half kind of loses steam and becomes slightly boring. The green alien eggs were a knock off from Alien and you could tell that this film was trying to cash in on its success which was typical of Italian horror films at the time, some of these films were of course great cause you can't take them too seriously and they were usually gorier than the original films.

Contamination has some pretty bad acting and stars Ian McCulloch who also stared in Zombie 2 and Dr. Butcher M.D. so he's pretty well known among Italian horror fans and the direction from Luigi Cozzi was rather low-key with some scenes looking a bit too dark, the pacing was a bit uneven despite having a great opening sequence which had some great suspense and the film also has a weak plot but if your a gore hound then you won't mind since there were plenty of great gore scenes, the exploding stomachs were quite impressive and they even have a scene done in slow motion in case you missed it.

A short version was issued by ViP and then European Creative Films. This was further trimmed by the BBFC for an unofficial pre-cert certificate. About 2 minutes and 40 seconds of cuts were made, including:

• 13 seconds cut from opening sequence showing a dead man's mutilated and decomposing body in a cupboard.
• 73 seconds cut from opening sequence showing several men graphically exploding after tampering with alien pods. Footage includes facial explosions and several scientists exploding at the gut in lingering slow-motion.
• 19 seconds cut from warehouse sequence showing criminals exploding at the gut after unwisely standing amongst alien pods.
• 2 seconds cut from warehouse sequence in which remains of freshly-exploded men are shown.
• 9 seconds cut from climax, in which man's head is devoured by queen alien.
• 11 seconds cut from climax showing a scientist exploding at the gut after being shot by Ian McCulloch.
• 33 seconds cut from climax showing chief villain's chest exploding in slow-motion viscera-launch spectacle.

The video was banned as a video nasty in October 1983. It was dropped from the list in January 1985 though.

• Gruppo di famiglia in un interno
• Violence et passion

From cuts details on IMDb

The 2003 DVD submission contained just one use of the word 'cunt' and the BBFC waived that cut. One 'cunt' still missing though

A re-edited version was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for the 2006 Optimum DVD.

• About 3 minutes is missing from the scene where A TV crew is films the convoy. They make several passes at drivers, who react accordingly (swerving into the camera car / pick up, mooning, and a very subtle gay invitation to the interviewer).

• The Dirtiest Girl I Ever Met

The 2008 Odeon DVD was passed 15 uncut

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

Review from  UK Amazon: Cool Askwith!

Cool it Carol! is now somewhat a curiosity and a fascinating glimpse into 1970s Britain.

At the time of release it got plenty of bad reviews and yet it is well made and is full of well known faces. I suppose it was pushing the sexual boundaries and compared with today there really isn't any nudity that would offend. Yes you do see Janet Lynn's breasts and Robin Askwith's shapely bottom and legs but that's about it.

The objections were I'm sure to do with the depiction of the apparently permissive lifestyles in London. The establishment probably did not want to promote such a picture of the capital but it was there and director Pete Walker shows it.

• Cop and 1/2
• Cop & 1/2

The BBFC cut 4s from the 1993 CIC video

Video and laserdisc versions

Not cut but raised from a cinema 15 to a video 18 certificate.

• El Gran amor del conde Dracula
• Cemetery Girls
• Cemetry Tramps
• Count Dracula's Greatest Love
• Dracula's Great Love
• Dracula's Virgin Lovers
• The Great Love of Count Dracula
• Vampire Playgirls

Same cuts for cinema and video

BBFC statement:

Distributor chose to remove two shots of a man hanging to avoid giving children the impression that a person can hang for some time with no ill effects and in order to achieve a PG classification. An uncut 15 was available to the distributor

The uncut region 1 DVD is available here from US Amazon

• Tendres cousines
• Tender Cousins
• Zärtliche Cousinen

The cuts were waived for the DVD version in 2007

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Same cut version for 1983 cinema release and the Xtasy video of 1986

• LA Crash

The BBFC passed the Director's Cut 15 uncut for the 2006 Pathe DVD

The Director's Cut adds 2:32s of uncontentional dialogue.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The uncut region 2 DVD 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

NC-17

The BBFC passed the US NC-17 Version 18 uncut for the 1997 cinema release and 1998-9 Columbia/TriStar video/DVD.

Note that US R rated version was significantly cut

See article from sbbfc.co.uk: Banned in Westminster

Perhaps in the light of the continuing media onslaught against the film, Westminster Council - who had previously given permission for the film to be premiered in their area as part of the 1996 London Film Festival - parted company with the BBFC at this point, insisting that cuts should now be made to the film before it was shown in the West End. The distributors declined to make cuts solely for screenings in Westminster and the film was therefore effectively banned from screens in the West End, including Leicester Square. However, cinema goers could easily see the film in neighbouring Camden where the council allowed the film to play uncut with its BBFC certificate

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

Review from UK Amazon: Brave Attempt

The film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg, becomes a futuristic love story set in the present. James (James Spader) and Catherine (Deborah Kara-Ungar) are a married couple so filled with inertia that they are desperate for some emotional connection by any means necessary. After a series of extra martial encounters they find themselves attracted to a group of disturbed members of a bizarre car-crash sect who enact famous car crashes for kicks. The pair soon find themselves willing accomplices in a tableaux of violence and desire until finally they attain some provisional approximation of actual love. Kara-Ungar's portrayal of Catherine exemplifies perfectly the icy detachment of a woman who appears to be observing herself from another galaxy. Unfortunately, the film hinges on a moment where the groups leader Vaughn, played by Elias Koteus who explains his philosophy of auto-geddon as a fertilising event rather than a destructive one to his disciple James. Koteus' delivery is addled and Spader (understandably) laughs; blowing the scene and almost the entire film with it.

Nevertheless Crash is, above all, a brave attempt to explore an almost un-bearable subject - the death of affect and our unconscious desire for violence. As we're bombarded with pseudo-events and war entertainment - designed to make us consume in ways that are of optimum benefit to multi-national conglomerates who really (forget governments) walk where the power is - Cronenberg's Crash is as much a road sign warning of our impending emotional bankruptcy as it is to the sexual ambiguity of the highway pile up.

• Code Name: Trixie
• The Mad People  

The 2003 Anchor Bay DVD was also passed 18 without BBFC cuts but was noted as a 'Re-edited version'.

No mention of anything positive or negative about this re-editing.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Distributor was required to add a warning caption to a sequence in which fireworks are misused

• I Vizi morbosi di una governante
• The Morbid Habits of the Governess

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum

The video was cut by the BBFC when submitted in 1996:

• At 34.5 mins When blonde woman is killed, eyeball-gouging was reduced by removing second close up and two subsequent shots, resuming on corridor.

• Phenomena

The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for the 2000 DIVID DVD under the title Phenomena

Note that Director's Cut is missing 2 plot scenes from the Italian original at the request of the director

• The scene in the bus where the old woman asks Jennifer to close the window on the bus.
• The scene in which Mrs. Bruckner tells Jennifer that she is not allowed to use her phone to call Mr. Shapiro.

These Italian language scenes have untidily been spliced back into the film and released as the Intregral Version in Europe and Japan.

The Director's Cut region 2 DVD is available from UK Amazon
The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Hooked

Phenomena hooked me right away, even the momentary twinge I felt when the monkey made its appearance (I hate monkeys, especially monkeys in horror movies) was short lived; this monkey is actually a device to move the plot along and never overstayed its welcome. The tension continues to build up, right up to the end, which was a nice surprise. Many elements from prior Argento films make appearances here and everything just works.

The Short American Version was passed 18 after 17s of cuts for the 1986 Palace video titled Creepers

• The cinema version lost several slashes of a woman's face by a chimp, but the cuts were extended for the video by totally deleting the slashings.

• The BBFC made 2 cuts totalling 6s to reduce the the chimps slashes to a woman's face from 5 times to once.

From cuts details on IMDb

The American Version mostly omits plot scenes but also some violence.

• Jennifer tells her roommate how her mother left with her lover on Christmas when she was eight;
• Jennifer eats baby food and explains that she is a vegetarian;
• John McGregor shows his book on communicating with insects and explains how insects can be used to help solve crimes;
• Andi Sexgang is shown on Sophie's television performing "The Quick and the Dead";
• Motorhead's "Locomotive" continues to play in the background during the scene where Inspector Geiger visits the asylum;
• Iron Maiden's "Flash of the Blade" continues to play as Diezla Sulzer is pursued by the killer in a suspense sequence cut from the U.S. version;
• Morris Shapiro's unavalability is played like a horror cliche in the U.S. version; here Jennifer is told he is with his family for Passover.
• Jennifer is given an electroencephalogram after her first sleepwalking attack.
• the scissors stabbing the girl's hand during the first attack;
• inspector Geiger's breaking his thumb to get out of the hand cuffs;
• the blade through the back of the head and out the mouth scene.

• I Due superpiedi quasi piatti
• Trinity in Trouble Again
• Two Supercops

Cut in 2003 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove sight of dangerous imitable technique (double ear clap) in order to achieve a PG. A 15 uncut was available to the distributor.

• Zhong an zu

The Hong Kong Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2003 Medusa/E1/Hong Kong Legend R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1996 MIA VHS
• 1995 Imperial VHS

There's also a cut US R Rated version from Dimension and a Thai Director's Cut that was cut by the local censor

• Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion

Unrated

The US Unrated Version was passed uncut in 2004 (all cuts waived) for a Film Four showing and then for a 2008 Optimum DVD

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

The film was heavily cut (12:24s) in the US for an R-rating. These cuts were to the sex scenes.

See review from IMDb: A Lurid Masterpiece

Ken Russell's masterpiece has cult movie written all over it. A lurid, extreme sex-and-violence fantasy porno-movie, it is also a brilliant satire on the American way of sex, (the 'home life' scenes could have come out of "Desperate Housewives"). In the bravest and best performance of her career, Kathleen Turner plays the mystery woman who is Joanna, prim fashion designer by day and China Blue, the fantasy hooker to end all fantasy hookers, by night. In an alternative universe her performance would have won her the Oscar for Best Actress. Her nemesis is Anthony Perkin's psychopathic preacher with the razor-sharp dildo ("Save me from the foul-mouthed kooze with the motor-driven ass"). His is the kind of performance that goes beyond mere acting into some kind of crazy stratosphere all it's own; (the ending is lifted directly from "Psycho").

The film has it's downside. Rick Wakeman's score is over-emphatic and Tom Cruise lookalike John Laughlin may have Cruise's good looks but none of his talent. It's a terrible piece of acting but in a movie this OTT it actually works. Barry Sandler's script is brilliant.

• Opening dialogue (over credits) missing the line Fuck You, Hopper!
• Deleted sight of Miss Liberty reaching through trouser opening to stroke client's erect penis (concealed by his trousers) immediately after unzipping his flies
• Considerably reduced duration of mock rape of China Blue by removing much of the thrusting and the two most explicit Japanese erotic prints.
• During China Blue's S&M scene with policeman client, deleted emphasis on his truncheon being inserted and twisted in his anus, sadomasochism to be generalised rather than reaching a climax through anal penetration.

Cuts waived for the 2002 release

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Uncut in the cinema, but 23s chopped from the CBS/Fox video
release of 1987

I seem to recall the cut having to do with a drugs joke (Paul Hogan pours cocaine into a basin of water and puts a towel over his head)

From the 1987 BBFC Annual Report:

Cuts to the comic scene of cocaine-snorting in the video of Crocodile Dundee, one of the most popular cinema films of 1986-87. Here small trims were required to remove not only the actual sight of sniffing, which on video now happens off-screen, but all dialogue reference to the nature of the substance by the sympathetic leading lady, who on film suggested an uncritical attitude towards the recreational use of cocaine. When the film was classified in early 1986, cocaine was not a major drug of abuse in Britain, and the scene was found acceptable because of its attractive comic tone. A year later, when the video was submitted, cocaine use had become a problem even for teenagers, and caution was called for in respect of a scene that might be viewed in the family setting for many years to come.

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2003

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Same cuts for cinema and CIC Video version of 1989

Same cuts to cinema and video versions with BBFC statement:

Distributor chose to remove two instances of strong language ('wanker') to achieve a PG. An uncut 12 was available.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available here from US Amazon

No cuts by the BBFC but the film was initially cut for an R rating

• The Crow II

The cinema cuts were pre-cut from the Director's Cut submitted for the Buena Vista video/DVDs of 1997 and 1999

The Theatrical Version was cut by 14s for the 1996 cinema release

• Cut for weaponry including a butterfly knife that was banned by the BBFC at the time

NO BBFC cuts to the cinema release and 1999-2000 Columbia/TriStar videos/DVDS

From article from cosmos.net.au:

The following cuts were mentioned in the UK DVD audio commentary with the director, producer and various crew members.

• At 9:31 a shot of Sarah Michelle Geller actually snorting cocaine from the crucifix pendant was cut, despite how obvious it looks.
• At 33:34 Sarah Michelle Geller says, Enough with the girl scout stories. Just fuck her already when Selma Blair's character is showing off to Ronald, her cello teacher.

Cruel Intentions originally scored a US NC-17 rating. The MPAA said that these minor moments had to be removed before an R rating was possible.

• Amori vizi e depravazioni di Justine
• De Sade's Justine
• Justine
• Justine - Grausame Leidenschaften
• The Marquis de Sade's Justine

The 1994 video was cut by the BBFC but less so than the previous versions

Note that the 2008 Redemption US DVD, titled The Marquis de Sade's Justine, is said to be the same as the badly cut UK cinema version.

• William Friedkin's Cruising

Cuts waived when Warner DVD submitted in 2008

Thanks to Daniel, May 2008: Subliminally Different

Has anyone else noticed that although the new director’s cut recently released in the UK restores the previously censored subliminal footage, the footage itself is different. In the original version, the footage was darkish but still distinct and in colour. In the new version it’s bright, scratchy and in black & white! It doesn’t even look like the same footage, and is clearly discernibly during normal playback which was not the case in the original version. Is it still genuine hardcore footage?

It appears Channel 5’s uncut screening was of even more value than I first thought.

This region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Some of the cuts were waived for the 2003 FilmFour DVD: Three compulsory cuts for 18 required to remove sight of explicit anal penetration by penis in two murder scenes

Presumably these cuts are to the much talked about subliminal shots.

Note that when Channel 4 screened The Celluloid Closet a few years ago as part of a gay film season, this documentary (a survey of homosexuality in the movies) included clips from this film, one of which was the cut sequence of (almost) subliminal anal penetration building up to a murder. These were fairly rapid film inserts, but you couldn't fail to notice them.

• 30 seconds were removed from the 1st murder, 7 shots. About 19 seconds removed of the killer gliding the knife over the victim's body. To bridge the gap, a shot which turns up later, (the killer grabbing something to tie the victim up with) is run here instead. 2 more shots removed of the killer tying up the victim. During the stabbing, 4 shots were removed, 2 of these shots were subliminal images showing hardcore anal penetration.
• ~29minutes into the film, a camera pan across one of the gay bars has lost 6 seconds (Just before the guy asks Pacino about the hankie).

There still exists one other subliminal shot during the peepshow murder, the image is so dark it looks like nothing. It's cut into the shot of the knife going into the victim's back.

• Crying Freeman 4: Oshu Tôgoku
• Crying Freeman 4: A Taste of Revenge
• Crying Freeman 4: The Hostages

The BBFC cut the 1994 Manga video by 3s

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• When Freeman kills his devotee. What is missing is him jumping and ramming the knife into her chest via her naked breast.

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

• Crying Freeman 5: Senjô no kishimojin
• Crying Freeman 5: Abduction in Chinatown

The BBFC cut the Manga video by 17s in 1994

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

• Crying Freeman Kanketsu hen: Mumyô ryûsha
• Crying Freeman 6: The Guiding Light of Memory

The BBFC cut the Manga video by 58s in 1995

Cut as described by a BBFC examiner: The sequence begins as a purely pornographic representation of sex as Freeman makes love to a woman while thinking aloud about his next hit and then abruptly shifts to sexualised violence when he inserts the barrel of his gun between the woman's legs with his finger still on the trigger.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

• No foh wai lung
• Nu huo wei long

The BBFC cut the 1993 TVB video by 46s.

Thanks to Bleach:

• At 7 mins - In cockfight sequence, remove all sight of birds in contact.

No cuts were noted for the 1980 cinema release nor the 1998 Warner Home Video release.

But in 2003 the BBFC made cuts with the following comment: Compulsory cuts required to remove scenes of real cockfighting

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The BBFC passed the 2002 Hollywood DVD 18 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

See review from IMDb: Home-invasion flick

I am happy to report that although this late-80s home-invasion flick might not be the most offensive or sleazy movie in the genre (see 70s classic Fight For Your Life or Ruggero Deodato's House On The Edge of The Park for more extreme examples), it does provide enough dubious fun to warrant a watch.

Kyle Richards plays Stephanie Davenport, the big-haired, big breasted (but not really that attractive) teenage daughter of a district attorney. After a night out fending off the amorous advances of her high-school quarterback boyfriend, young Steph returns home to find that her parents have been taken hostage by two violent escaped convicts, Ray Perkins and his younger brother Bob (played by Wendell Wellman and John Putch), who are seeking revenge on those responsible for putting them behind bars. Having already murdered the judge and psychiatrist involved in their case, the vicious psychos now intend to dish out their own brand of justice to the Davenports.

A pretty tasteless film packed with assorted moments of gratuitous nastiness (and a little bit of nudity for good measure), Curfew might not be to everyone's taste, but if you like exploitation, then you could certainly do a lot worse. Admittedly, the story is occasionally too clichéd (Stephanie working her womanly charms on younger brother Bob was very predictable) and some moments are rather questionable (the victims are locked in a cellar full of tools, yet fail to arm themselves), but as low-budget trash goes, this one's really not that bad.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Remove sight of animal cruelty (two horses falling down a mountain side)

• La maldición de Frankenstein
• Les expériences érotiques de Frankenstein
• The Erotic Adventures of Frankenstein
• The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

pre-cut

The BBFC passed the 2006 Tartan DVD 15 without cuts.

However the version submitted was the cut Clothed Spanish Version

See cuts details from dvdcompare.net

Two versions of this film exist, the Spanish Clothed Version and the French Unclothed Version.

The Spanish Clothed Version removes:

• all the nudity (partly through cutting, but mostly by using alternate clothed takes).
• The notorious scene in which a man and a woman are whipped until they fall onto spikes in a non-nude variant.
• The Spanish version also adds a complete subplot in which Lina Romay plays a peasant called Esmeralda.
• There are 5 extra filler scenes, with a total running time of 17:29 min. These scenes were apparently filmed some time after the original release.

The uncut Unclothed Version region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon

• Bruce Lee: Curse of the Dragon

Two scenes have been cut in their entirety.

• A letterboxed clip from the alleyway nunchaku sequence in Way Of The Dragon.
• A clip of the Lee Vs. Danny Inosanto nunchaku duel from Game Of Death.

Has been shown uncut on Sky Televsion.

• Man Cheng Jin Dai Huang Jin Jia

Cut when submitted in 2007 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts required to remove sight of real animal cruelty, in this instance horse falls

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• The Curse of Siniestro
• The Wolfman

The BBFC passed the 1995 Warner video with a 12 certificated and noted that this was the cut cinema version

The film was later completely restored with all the missing footage intact and first shown on BBC in 1994.

This version was released (on Region 1 DVD only) as part of Universal's Hammer Horror Series 8 film box set.

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

The original running time was 88:24s.

From cuts details on IMDb:

The film had considerable problems with the BBFC on its initial cinema release and was subsequently cut by around 2 minutes.

Among the scenes edited:

• heavy cuts to the repeated stabbing of the Marquis (reduced to 1 stab)
• the murder of the prostitute where scenes of biting and a shot of her dead body were completely removed
• the killing of the werewolf in the bell tower which saw shots of his screaming when the bells ring, a blood spurt from a gunshot, and a closeup of his blood-dripping face also removed.
• In addition the film was also cut to edit scenes of the servant girl waking in the dungeon
• a shot of the Marquis picking a scab from his face
• images of dead lambs.

• Verflucht
• Wes Craven's Cursed

The 2005 Buena Vista DVD was passed 15 uncut. The running time suggests that it is the US Unrated Version (99 mins NTSC) but reviewers suggest that it is still the Theatrical Version.

A gorier, Unrated Version was released on DVD featuring scenes with violence more graphic than what was seen in the theatrical PG-13 version of the film. The differences are as follows (includes Spoilers):

From cuts details on IMDb

• In the PG-13 version, Shannon Elizabeth's character Becky is simply dragged away by the wolf at the end of the opening sequence. In the unrated version, Becky is torn in half and her bloodied upper-torso is tossed back at Jimmy and Ellie.
• In the PG-13 version, during Ellie's nightmare, she merely bites Joshua Jackson's character Jake in the neck. The scene then cuts to a quick montage of bizarre images before Ellie wakes up. In the unrated version, after Ellie bites into Jake, she's shown ripping a large chunk of his neck off and then a torrent of blood shoots out of his wound.
• In the PG-13 version, after Joanie knocks out Jake she starts looking for Ellie and Jimmy. In the unrated version, she first stops by Kyle's body, digs into the large gash in his stomach with her hands, pulls them out and then licks his blood off her fingers before proceeding to look for Ellie and Jimmy.
• In the unrated version, Joanie (in wolf form) is killed when she is shot in the head and her brains slowly ooze onto the floor.
• In the PG-13 version, the coroner discovers that Joanie's corpse has changed back into human form when her nude body is shown laying on the floor. In the unrated version, a sheet over her body is pulled back and only her face, complete with a bullet hole in her forehead, is shown.
• In the PG-13 version, Jake's death by decapitation occurs off-camera. In the unrated version, Ellie is actually shown stabbing him in the neck with the shovel a couple of times before finally cutting his head off.

• 2005 cinema release

• Inferno in diretta
• Amazon: Savage Adventure
• Straight to Hell

The 1985 Medusa video was not cut by the BBFC, but the softer of two versions was submitted

From cuts details on IMDb

There were 2 different versions of this film made for different markets. The first version was a straight forward action film, which was made for the US market (to get an R rating) and for countries like the UK where censorship restrictions where problematic. However the director filmed several additional extra gory scenes for use in Italy, Japan and other countries that demanded a "stronger" version.

These included alternate takes on the intro fight scene, the drug house massacre and the raid on the jungle camp, which featured additional violence nudity and gore.

Thanks to Simon:

The US Anchor Bay DVD contains the additional extra gory scenes in Italian language only (so the dialogue keeps switching between Italian and English) as they claim the extra gory "hard" version was never dubbed into English.

This is not the case as the Hong Kong video was of the uncut version and entirely in English. Also, there's a couple of scenes in the Anchor Bay DVD in Italian that were actually dubbed into English on the "soft" version, so there's no reason for these to be in Italian at all.

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

Review from UK Amazon: Slick jungle adventure

This is a slick jungle adventure that was first offered to Wes Craven but was given to Ruggero Deodato to direct.

The producers wanted a Cannibal Holocaust 2 and it shows with several scenes that is not for the squeamish but looking beyond that this is a big budget 80's horror/action adventure that boasts several standout performances and an outstanding score from Claudio Simonetti.

Given his brief screen time Richard Lynch gives a weird understated performance that was something out of Colonel Kurtz from Apocolypse Now.

Who also stands out even though he is given even less time than Lynch is Michael Berryman who has to be given the honour of having the greatest screen entrances of all time!! You have to see to believe!

Lastly was lifts right up above the rest is the pounding score by Simonetti, it creates the right mood for a jungle setting and switches pace with that of the movie. If anybody wants to know what the role of a score is, just watch this film.

Although this film does suffer from conflicting plot lines and confused genre direction, it is still a great film that is worth seeing.

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

• US 2009 Lions Gate R0 Blu-ray  via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2007 Lions Gate R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The 2003 Momentum DVD release was planned as a 15 rated release but this was denied and the DVD was pre-cut for a PG. The BBFC asked for a further 1s cut to reduce violence. Some scenes previously cut were reinstated though

From IMDb:

• Before leaving the room in the opening scene, Morgan tells the man she's just seduced: "I got your balls."
• Morgan pushes the eyepatched guard off a balcony saying "I promised I'd take care of you later", paying off a line earlier that never made sense without both scenes.
• When the chain wraps around Morgan's neck in the tavern she is now pulled off backwards in a bad CGI shot that shows her landing on a table below.
• More fighting scenes, more slashing of bellies.
• When Dawg shoots his own crew member ("We need less mouths") it's obvious this still remains badly cut as the gunshot cuts off abruptly and we don't see the man taking the bullet.

A further 4s over the cinema cuts was required for the 1996 video release from Guild

Comparison between the original and the UK video reveal the following differences:

1. Morgan (Geena Davis) is frisked for hidden weapons but we miss 3s of a man with his hands on her breast
2. A shot of Morgan being pulled off the balcony by a chain around her neck has been reduced by 5s
3. Morgan eventually gets to head-butt the groper but we miss 6s of that revenge.
4. Captain Dawg's (Frank Lagella's) shooting of one of his own men has been cut by 2s.
5. Morgan rescues her crew and breaks a guard's neck. We miss 10s of this
6. Morgan is not seen taking keys from the dead guard, accounting for 4s
7. We are missing 1s of Morgan cutting a man's throat
8. 29s has been removed from Blair's (Rex Linn's) fight with a pirate on the bridge
9. A fight involving Glasspoole (Stan Shaw) is missing 3s accounted for a kick in the face.

The cinema version was completely re-edited to remove the pervasive violence that would have made it a 15. Here, the failure of judgment seemed to be the film-maker's, in pumping up the mayhem at the expense of story and characters. Maintaining appropriate limits on the violence in family films must begin by acknowledging that there is less control of audience age in the home than in the cinema. It is sometimes necessary to impose further cuts on video. When everything else in a film is gratuitous, it is perhaps unsurprising that the violence should be gratuitous as well, in this case objectionably so.

• [part of] Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America

ILC Prime DVD cut in 2003 with the following comment: Three compulsory cuts were required to sight of hedge shears being applied to a breast in sexualised context.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

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

Review from US Amazon: A negative film

The plot is actually a combination of three distinctly separate stories, all of which focus on one character and their decent into heartbreak, madness, and in some cases, murder. The first story is called Cutting Moments, a bleak expose that, frankly, has no redeeming qualities. It opens with a man named Patrick (Gary Betsworth) trimming his hedges. Right away we see that he's completely detached from the world; looking him in the eye would be as meaningless as looking at someone on a television screen. He then forces himself to speak pleasantly (unsuccessfully) with his young son (Jared Barsky), who's just as detached as his father is.

And then we meet Sarah (Nicca Ray), the wife and mother. Apparently, Sarah fits the recently coined Desperate Housewife profile, struggling with the torment of feeling unattractive and unloved. She makes one last attempt at a moment of happiness with her husband by dressing in a flattering red dress and putting on lipstick. His complete failure to notice her sends her over the edge ultimately leading to one of the most disgusting scenes of self-mutilation I've ever seen. I'll spare you the details, although I will say this much: Patrick certainly notices her then. And something is awakened within him, something much darker. By the time you get to the final shots of them in bed, you'll understand what I mean.

So I go back to my original point: why did I like Family Portraits? Maybe it's because--despite the repulsive gore, the wallowing characters, and the inescapable despair--it does follow a kind of twisted logic, one that centers on the reality of grief. This isn't to say that the film takes a moral stance against it; if that was the intention, the filmmakers certainly chose a funny way to get their point across. No, I think they were trying to say something else; specifically, that grief exists, period. It's a simple truth, but it's a truth nonetheless, and for a lot of people, it's something they have to live with everyday. Still, it makes you wonder: was there really no other way to say what needed to be said, even in a film about mental and physical suffering? Watching this is an emotionally draining ordeal, and if you don't prepare yourself for it, you just might lose yourself in a whirlwind of misery.

Doesn't sound like very much fun, does it? Oh well. It's a negative way to end a review for a negative film, and I'm sure that counts as something.

• Masters of the Universe 2: The Cyborg

Passed without cuts for MGM in 2000 with a version that appears to have restored the missing 3 minutes of BBFC cuts.

However it seems that it is not totally uncut as the film had received some MPAA cuts too.  A throat-slitting was reduced by the MPAA near the start of the film. It certainly still looks trimmed slightly on the UK DVD.

Same cuts to cinema and video versions. Be warned that cuts inflicted by MPAA/BBFC/distributors have made for some disparity and the list should not be regarded as definitive.

The film was released around the time of the Hungerford massacre so that probably accounts for most of the cuts. I would think that if it were resubmitted today that it would be nowhere near as bad.

1. During the opening scene when the slinger is attacked by Fender's gang we do not see one punch to the face by the female thug, one punch to the ribs, one punch to the face and 3 kicks to the stomach by the male thug.
2. Fender cutting the slingers throat was actually an MPAA cut as a few scenes had to be toned down for an R rating.
3. When Gibs helps out the Pearl by stabbing the thug in the stomach with his own knife we fail to see a side on shot of this.
4. During the attack on the village, after Fender punches the man and say that he cant swim because hates the water we fail to see him grab a woman and says "Hey, I caught a nice fish here". The man screams for Fender to stop but he breaks the girls neck and picks up a wooden pole. A member of his gang opens tha mans mouth and Fender jams in the pole (this is offscreen). MPAA cuts were made to slaughter scenes at the beginning of the attack.
5. Heavy cuts were made to the wasteland fight with the thugs in the abandoned building. After the first thug trips Gibs with a chain we should see a blade attachment spring out from Gibs' boot. He then does a jumping spin kick cutting the thugs throat with the blade. We should then see a close up of the thug squirting blood from his neck onto the wall. We then fail to see Gibs grab another thug, break his arm over his shoulder and slash him twice in the stomach with the knife. We also fail to see him fight with another thug were the thug slashes him in the stomach and Gibs punches him twice to the face and then delivers 3 kicks to the thugs head. There are various other small snippets to the scene such as close ups of knives, weapons etc.
6. I am not sure about this but there is a scene just before we see Pearl's operation to become a cyborg. The scene shows Hayley sitting naked in Fenders boat. I may be wrong but I do not think this is in the UK version.
7. In the scene where van damme finds Fendor in the abandoned factory during the fight with the first thug when Gibs kicks him up against the barrel we fail to see him kick the thug in the face in a slow motion close up. When the next thug kicks Gibs in the face we fail to see the thug deliver another 2 kicks to Gibs' back before he falls over the edge.
8. During the chase though the swamps the fight between the two women is cut. We fail to see Nady sever the female thugs hand with a blade and stab her in close up.
9. When Gibs is fighting the thug in the water, he is grabbed and thrown to the ground by another thug. We fail to see Gibs boot blade appear and get snapped off by the thug.
10. Gibs is lying on the ground surrounded by Fenders gang and Fender says "Stand him up". The UK version cuts straight to him up on the cross. We should see a very lengthy scene were Fender constantly punches Gibs in the face. An exhausted Gibbs retailiates with kicks and punches but Fender easily blocks them and repeatedly punches Gibs face till he is nearly unconcious. He then removes his own sunglasses, smiles at Gibs headbutts him.
11. At various points in the film scenes of the young Hayley holding the barbed wire have been trimmed.
12. The fight in the barn with Nady and the female thug reduces chair shots, punches and kicks.
13. The fight with the long haired thug who says "I kill slingers" loses Gibs repeatedly kicking the thug in the ribs.
14. The end fight with Fender has been severely cut. Before Gibs is thrown through the car window shots of the two men trading puches back and forth have been cut. When van Gibs emerges from the car we, again, lose scenes of the two men trading punches. When Gibs stabs Fender we lose a close up of the knife entering his stomach. Finally in the barn when Fender is choking Van Damme we lose shots of Gibs giving Fender a double ear clap, an arm break, a close up side kick to the ribs, a punch to the face, several punches to the stomach, some form of attempted neck break, and several elbows to the stomach.

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