Same cut version for cinema and video (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.

There is also a 1991 Italian video by Lucchetti Leandro that was rejected in August 1992

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

See listing under the title Axe

• Caligola

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.

There is a new all singing all dancing, uncut region 1 DVD available from US Amazon.

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:

• woman bathing her face in semen
• some bestiality
• some babies sucking phallic-shaped bottles
• a lot of sex scenes with hardcore inserts
• female nudity
• a scene of castration
• a disemboweling
• the rape of a virgin
• the sight of Caligula inserting his fist into a man's anus.

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

The DVD was passed uncut in 2008 but the buzz seems to be that the version submitted is the old cut cinema version

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

All versions suffer the same cuts including the 'Collectors Edition' DVD release of 2006

Uncut by the BBFC but pre-cut in all DVD regions by the distributors due to MPAA interference to achieve an R rating

• Gory death of the psychiatrist about 1 hour 7 minutes: A few frames are cut to the initial tearing and blood spurting as well as a frontal sitting scene of a shocked Virginia Madsen when blood spurts onto her face. The present cut shows merely a quick reaction shot.
• Also cut is 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!

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

Originally banned as a video nasty back in the 1980's

Passed with 2s of cuts for animal cruelty when submitted in 2005 justified by the BBFC: 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 from US Amazon

Amazon Review:

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.

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

Pre-cut by 7mins 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

Previously a notable entry on the Video Nasties list

An e-mail from the BBFC:

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.

• 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:

Cuts required to sexual and sexualised violence ( forcible removal of woman's underwear and subsequent shots of full nudity; sight of woman's breast being clawed and wounded with resulting flow of blood and collection of blood in a bowl; sight of woman's breast being exposed, her breast being kissed, her loin cloth being undone, her pubic hair being touched and her positive response to a sexual assault; sight of man forcibly tearing open a woman's shirt, revealing her breasts and struggling with her). Further cuts to sight of cocks attacking each other during a cockfight.

• Cannibal Massaker
• Holocausto Cannibal
• Nackt und Zerfeischt

In 2001 the BBFC passed off the extensive cuts list with the comment: Cuts required to scenes involving real cruelty to animals and to eroticised sexual violence

• 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.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from imdb

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.

• Natura Contro

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 2002 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),

Rescued from the Video Nasties list by these cuts

12:27s unofficial pre-cuts

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.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Two cuts for the requested 18 category to remove sight of real sexual activity (oral-genital contact during cunnilingus)

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

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

Cut back in 1964 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 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

• Ian Fleming's Casino Royale

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.

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.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove scenes of explicit sexual activity (in this instance clear sight of oral genital contact and liquid resembling semen on the face of female performers)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove sexual detail (in this case, sight of a liquid resembling semen on women's faces) to gain an 18 classification

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category., The cuts were Compulsory. Cut required to apparent evidence of urination onto man,

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case oral genital contact and penetration) to achieve an 18 certificate. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor.

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

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

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,

• 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.

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

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case sight of oral genital contact, digital penetration, dildo penetration, anilingus, masturbation and penetration of vagina and anus with penis) to gain an 18 classification. An uncut R18 classification was available to the distributor

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case, cunnilingus and vaginal penetration) to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor

• 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 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

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 depections 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

34:11s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 12s cut by the BBFC

• 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 intial 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.

All cuts waived when resubmitted in 2005

Originally cut to ensure a 15 rating. The same cuts were made to the cinema version

• 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)

• 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 when resubmitted in 2000

Uncut region 2 available on UK Amazon

Cut when submitted in 1986

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

Both cinema and video versions are cut.

• A cock fighting sequence has been removed

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

14:00s unofficial pre-cuts with a further 6:46s cut by the BBFC

• Cheng shi lie ren

Not cut by the BBFC but Hong Kong Legends, who produced this 2001 release, deliberately mistranslated a joke about AIDS in the subtitled Cantonese version so that the 12 rating could remain for the 1995 video release

Same cut version for cinema and video

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

Released uncut in 2001

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

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

The same cut version was then released on video pre VRA without hitting the video nasty headlines.

When released after the VRA, 4 additional cuts totalling 1:29s were eventually inflicted to achieve an 18 video certificate.

• 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

City of the Living Dead was issued uncut on Japanese laserdisc by Mount-Light with both English & Italian soundtracks. The Dutch release on the EVC label is uncut as is the US Creature Features/EI version released as The Gates of Hell

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.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove explicit sexual activity (masturbation and vaginal insertion)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove sight of explicit oral/genital contact and dildo penetration in order to achieve 18 certificate. This is in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and Policy. R18 uncut was available

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case, cunnilingus and vaginal penetration with a dildo) to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (oral genital contact during cunnilingus and vaginal penetration by dildo) to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cuts for requested 18 required to remove all sight of explicit sexual activity (cunnilingus, masturbation and penetration by dildo or vibrator)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to makes cuts to clearly unsimulated oral genital contact and vibrator penetration in

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cuts clearly unsimulated sexual activity (dildo penetration) to gain an '18' certificate. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cuts shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (masturbation and vaginal penetration by dildo) to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor. R18s may only be sold in licensed sex shops.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (vaginal penetration by dildo) to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove images of explicit sexual detail (in this case, masturbation, cunnilingus and dildo penetration)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to makes cuts to clearly unsimulated oral genital contact and penetration in order to gain an 18 certificate. An R18 certificate was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to makes cuts to clearly unsimulated oral genital contact and vibrator penetration

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case, oral genital contact, masturbation and dildo penetration) to achieve an 18 certificate. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to makes cuts to clearly unsimulated oral genital contact and penetration

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove sexual detail

Passed uncut in 2005.

There have been suggestions that the DVD had been pre-cut by the distributors. 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 cut version as the UK DVD

This 'approved' director's cut, region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

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.

imdb review:

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 errie 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.

Released uncut in 2001

Cuts waived in 2004

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!

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove scenes depicting unsimulated cunnilingus in order to gain 18 classification

The 2008 DVD/Blu-ray submission was passed uncut with a running time suggesting that the minute and a half of cuts have been restored.

Films for Blu-ray tend to be expensive to master for a smallish market and so the distributors have a single version for the world. This is highly unlikely to be the UK version as cut by the BBFC

The Optimum region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon for a 4th August 2008 release

1:08s were cut from the cinema version and an additional 16s were cut for the video versions from 1993 to 2001. This makes a total of 1:24s

• Racist dialogue from one of the villians 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.

The region 1 DVD is available from US Amazon but I think the US cinema version cuts persist

Also has been shown uncut on ITV

The U.S. theatrical release is rumored to have been 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.

Pre-cut by 14:00 and a further 6:28s cut by the BBFC

17:00 unofficial pre-cuts with a further 5:39s cut by the BBFC

No surprises that all hardcore has been excised. On top of that the BBFC have imposed their obnoxious brand of moral censorship by removing all shots where more than two people are seen having sex together. Not only do the BBFC dictate what we can see (admittedly as agents for Jack Straw) they think that they know better than us how we should run our sex lives.

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

• Hide and Go Shriek

Passed uncut in 2004 as Hide and Go Shriek

Available in the US (as Hide and Go Shriek) in both R-rated and Unrated versions. The unrated version has 2 more seconds of a close up of a ripped off head.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove images of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case vaginal penetration with penis and oral-genital contact)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. The distributor chose to cut sexual detail (in this instance sight of female performers with liquid resembling semen on their faces and licking liquid resembling semen from a model of the world cup and sight of unsimulated dildo penetration)

Cut in 2007 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to make cuts to sexual detail (specifically oral genital contact, digital penetration and vigorous masturbation) in order to gain an '18' certificate. An uncut R18 was available.

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".

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

sound cut

Same cuts for cinema and video versions

A suicide attempt was deleted to obtain a PG

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Same cut version for cinema and video

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to sight of sexual detail (oral-genital contact during cunnilingus).

Cut in 2007 with the following BBFC comment:
Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (penetration by vibrator and oral sex). An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor

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.