Cert

The cinema version was modified at the suggestion of the BBFC who made the following comment: The BBFC advised the company that sound levels during some acts of violence may be too impactful for 12A and that the film was likely to receive a 15 classification. The final score and sound effects on the completed film included differences in sound levels which reduced the strength of some acts of violence to an extent which made the film acceptable at 12A.

Pre-cuts made on BBFC advice: During post-production, the UK distributor sought and was given advice about classification. After receiving that advice the company chose to make a change to the film for release in the UK and as a result the UK cinema version may differ from the US cinema version. The change consists of the removal of a sequence in which a child drinks bubble mixture and then blows bubbles from his mouth. The only formal submission to the BBFC for classification was of the UK cinema version and this was passed PG without cuts.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC statement: Cuts to three uses of very strong expletive, ie cunt, in order to attain a '15' category. An uncut '18' was available

The distributors cut the UK cinema version prior to submission to the BBFC who made the following statement on their website. Note that the information wasn't posted until after the film's release.

During post-production, the UK distributor sought and was given advice about classification. After receiving that advice the company chose to make changes to the film for release in the UK. The changes occur in two scenes:

• in the fight between Elektra and Bullseye the UK version lacks all sight of a dagger sticking through Elektra's hand and all sight of her removing the dagger from her hand
• in the fight between Daredevil and Kingpin the UK version lacks a headbutt and has the sound of breaking bones partially obscured by a crack of thunder.

However it appears that the cuts did not produce the desired 12 certificate and so the cuts were re-instated for the video/DVD version.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available from UK Amazon

1:00s pre-cuts prior to submission include:

1. Cut: machete in the face scene passed for Dawn of the Dead
2. Cut: hand chopping from Tenebrae, also cut in Tenebrae

12:04 pre-cut

The same cuts apply to the 1991 CIC Video and the 1999 Universal release

Most of the cinema cuts were restored for the 18 rated video except:

• The deleted seconds are missing from the start when Durant turns up at the warehouse. Eddie Black's henchmen start walking toward the camera (to frisk Durant's men) and there is a shot of one of them swinging some nunchukas. The BBFC are sensitive to nunchukas so we are denied this shot.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon

Sam Raimi, brilliant director of the cult classic Evil Dead trilogy and the current blockbuster Spider-Man, directed this entertaining action yarn hot on the heels of 1989's hit Batman. While many saw Darkman as a Batman rip off (sort of), Raimi's talented directorial skills gave Darkman a personality of its own.

Liam Neeson (before he hit it big) stars as scientist Peyton Westlake, who has developed a synthetic skin, only problem is, it can only hold for 99 minutes before it deteriorates. When his lab is destroyed by Robert Durant (Larry Drake), Peyton is blasted into a nearby harbor. He is left horribly scarred, but when he recovers he uses the synthetic skin to get his revenge on his would be murderers while trying to get back with his girlfriend (Frances McDormand).

Darkman is really entertaining and is a great twist on superhero movies, Neeson shines as the tortured soul hero, while McDormand is great as his girlfriend. Recommended to those looking for a comic style movie with a twist.

• David e Golia

The cinema release of 1961 was uncut but the DVD/video release was cut with the following BBFC comment: Cuts required to sight of horses tripping head over heels, to obtain a ‘U’'

• Dawn of the Living Dead
• Zombies
• Zombie: Dawn of the Dead

All cuts waived when resubmitted in 2003

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The previous version from 1997 is based upon the so called 'Directors Cut' which is apparently an extended work print

1. Apartment raid by SWAT team: cut: scene of a woman having her shoulder bitten.
2. Apartment raid by SWAT team: cut: SWAT guy literally blowing a man's head off with a shot gun The edited version shows victim, then a scream and gun shot but the impact of the shot is not seen. (see picture below)
3. Peter shooting two zombie children at petrol station: trimmed.

The BBFC started hacking this film for it's cinema release. The cinema version was also released on pre-VRA video by Intervision. It lost the following shots

• Apartment raid by SWAT team: a woman having her shoulder bitten.
• Apartment raid by SWAT team: The exploding head pictured above was originally deleted for the cinema release
• A view of a zombie chomping on an arm
• Roger inserting a screwdriver into the zombie janitor's ear
• Roger shooting several zombies as the mall door is opened
• Peter shooting a zombie as seen through the sights of a rifle
• Tom Savini being knocked off his bike by a zombie and retaliating by burying his machete in its head
• Savini sticking his knife into the zombie's neck prior to falling to his death
• Two shots of a biker on a blood pressure machine being detached of his arm
• 19 shots of a biker having his intestines pulled out
• Part of Stephen's death in the elevator

When first released on certificated video (Entertainment in Video),  the BBFC extended their cuts list as follows

• A few frames from the shooting of a black female zombie in the SWAT raid
• A black male zombie biting the black woman's arm
• A few more frames of the shooting of a female zombie in the mall
• A zombie's blood splattering over Roger as they manoeuveur the trucks.
• A few zombie killings around the trucks
• A zombie pressing his finger into Roger's bandaged leg and it's subsequent death.
• A zombie being shot in the head as the bikers enter the mall.

There are numerous uncut versions floating around the world but Anchor Bay are notable for having both the Directors Cut and Romero's preferred version available on DVD.

A pre-VRA uncut version was released by Videospace but was withdrawn during the video nasty fad. It was later released with a BBFC certificate after the following cuts:

• 10s missing where the butcher gets his head split open with a knife
• 38s cut deleting neck biting and a woman being dragged under the sand and maybe a messy reel change
• 10 cuts totalling 47s, showing various people being eviscerated and eaten.
• 6s showing an eye gouging and more cannibalism.

Available uncut on the US HBO Video label and from Europe on the Chainsaw Video label.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut shots of clear unsimulated sexual activity (masturbation, vibrator penetration) to gain an 18 classification. An uncut R18 was available to the distributor

There are two versions of this film. The US theatrical version is available on CBS/Fox with an uncut 15 certificate. This is the pre-cut TV version. (But not by the BBFC)

An uncut  January 1997 video release by Arrow Film Distributors has restored the above cuts. This version seems to have vanished and has been replaced by another budget edition on the 4-Front label

The Polygram DVD is also the uncut version.

Same cuts apply to the cinema versions and early video versions from: Media Releasing, Entertainment in Video and 4Front

1. Brief cut to a shot of a female zombie biting a strip of flesh off a soldier's neck.
2. The scene where Miguel (Antone DiLeo) gets his infected arm amputated loses the shot of the machete working its way through the arm along with a shot of spectators reaction.
3. A shot of a shovel cutting through the head of zombie has been removed.
4. A soldiers death has been much reduced and loses a zombie biting off the soldier's fingers
5. Several shots are missing from the zombies feasting on the remains of Rhodes (Josef Pilato)

Cut in 2004 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cut required to sight of cock fighting.

• The sight of cocks clashing in a cockfight has been excised

The 1999 release is uncut by the BBFC (yet the running time is pretty short). They issued the following notes about their decision:

This horror/zombie film has been passed at '18' as a video, without cuts. The original cinema version was passed uncut as an 'X' in 1981. An unclassified video version was, however, circulated which was prosecuted in 1984/5 under Section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act. Early cases resulted in guilty pleas or convictions; but the last 9 cases all resulted in acquittals. Nevertheless, when the video version was submitted to the BBFC in 1990, cuts were required to an early sequence in which a photographer is attacked and burned to death by a mob of zombies, and to a very brief shot of a plaster-covered patient being stabbed in the eye by a zombie nurse with a syringe.

In 1999, the video no longer compares in terms of its 'horror' effects with more recent popular successes such as SCREAM, the HALLOWEEN series, WISHMASTER or SPECIES 2.

The Board has therefore concluded that audiences are unlikely to suffer any harm from viewing the video, and that it may be released at '18'.

Note that the hypodermic scene seems to have crept back in the 4 Front budget release

• A hypodermic being plunged into the photographers eye has been deleted
• There is a very obvious jump in the murder of a hitchiker - a rock is held above her, and just as it is dropped, it jumps to her body lying on the road the next day. A recent discussion in the alt.horror newsgroup has revealed that the cut in question is, in fact, soundtrack only - a large squelch being removed!

These cuts were enough to rescue the video from the video nasties list

The missing ending has been restored and the 2007 DVD has been passed uncut 15

The uncut DVD is available at UK Amazon for 29th October 2007 release

Thanks to Daniel

I saw Deadly Blessings on ITV in the mid eighties and that version did include the demonic ending that was deleted from the 1981 theatrical release.

The removal of the scene which is the only explicit supernatural element in the entire film lead to at least one film reviewer claiming that the distributors interference was one of the few instances of cuts rendering a film more subversive than originally intended.

I always assumed that the Polygram's 1986 video release was identical to the UK theatrical version, but the timings don't add up. The theatrical version ran for 99:40. Polygram's video ran for 97:32 which comes out at 101:42 when corrected for PAL speed up, two minutes longer than the theatrical version!

Even though I really liked the film, I never did rent the video to find out if it was different to the version I was familiar with.

35:06s were pre-cut prior to submission

Cut in 2003 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts. Distributor was required to remove scenes of eroticised sexual violence

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Same cut video version submitted in 1994 and then 2000.

Same cuts for the 2000 & 2005 releases: Cuts required for requested 18 category, to explicit sex and nudity. An uncut R18 certificate was available to the distributor.

• Eaten Alive
• Brutes and Savages
• Horror Hotel
• Horror Hotel Massacre
• Legend of the Bayou
• Murder on the Bayou
• Starlight Slaughter

The UK cinema version is uncut and the DVD version was finally passed uncut in 2000

The uncut region 2 DVD is available from UK Amazon

The first video version fell foul of the the Video Nasties witch hunt and suffered unwarranted intervention.

1. First murder loses some shots of Judd (Neville Brand) hitting Clara (Roberta Collins) with a rake.
2. Murder of Roy (William Finley) has lost a shot of a scythe being pulled out of his stomach.
3. A scene where a young child watches her mother being attacked by Judd had several shots of hits removed. Violence towards a woman in the presence of a child was apparently the cause of complaints about the film.
4. Harvey (Mel Ferrer) is murdered with a scythe. Several shots of Judd trying to pull the scythe out of the victim's neck have been deleted.

Cuts were waived when re-submitted to the BBFC in 2006

Unavailable on video for many years due to a fear of a likely BBFC ban. It was finally submitted by Paramount and passed in 2000.

• Rape sequence has been cut to remove clear nudity, fondling and a bit where Kersey's daughter has her rear spray painted.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available here from US Amazon

Review from Amazon UK

What a film. This film rode the tide of admiration for vigilante action against the ones that seem to avoid justice or just plain slip through the cracks. When Paul Kersey's (Bronson) wife and daughter are attacked in their own home, beaten and sexual assaulted by a gang of low life scum, the police and the courts offer no justice. Later after learning to shoot and ditching his liberal values Kersey takes to the streets to dispense some real justice!

Now this sure does raise some interesting moral questions, but lets face it, we all back Bronson/Kersey, and maybe even secretly admire his actions, at least to some extent. We know that what he does is wrong, but the 'thrill' of revenge and harsh punishment dealt out to criminals sure carries a hell of a punch. You may be surprised just how relevant and fresh the issues are to modern Britain now. Time to remind yourself just how important a film this is

The video was again cut in 2006 with the following BBFC statement: Cuts were required to remove scenes of sexual and sexualised violence.

The overall cut is still a heavily cut version similar to al all UK releases to date.

The BBFC waived some cuts when the video was resubmitted by Columbia/TriStar in 2005 but it is still heavily cut

Same cut version for cinema and video submissions in 1986 & 1990

Two women were gang-banged by multiple rapists. Ferman referred to this in a recent lecture: I cut three minutes 42 seconds of that stuff, a record I think. Winner was furious.

• Re-edited for the scene between Kersey's daughter and Cutter; with BBFC cuts the scene would have jumped from him rubbing her leg to him finishing having sex with her subsequently a scene where Jill Ireland finds an unconscious Bronson was added in between (in the full version this scene follows the death of Kersey's daughter).

The infamous scene between Rosario and the muggers suffered the following cuts:

• The shot of Rosario's knickers being removed was briefly cut.
• The shot of Cutter licking her and her reaction is missing.
• A view of Jiver removing his trousers is missing as is the cut-aways to him having subsequent sex with Rosario (the UK version renders this scene a series of reaction shots between the rest of the gang).
• The bedroom scene between Rosario, Cutter, Punkcut and Stomper cuts away just after she is on the bed, the uncut version offers several topless shots and sex scenes with Punkcut and Cutter.
• After Jiver has said "don't worry he'll come" the British version cuts to head shots (presumably outtakes) of two to the gang, the uncut version cuts to Stomper having sex with Rosario.
• When Nirvana walks into the room the British version cuts away, the uncut version follows it on with rosario crawling across the floor and him removing his trousers.
• The death of Rosario is missing several shots of her falling to and spasming on the floor.

The uncut version has been released in Sweden on DVD by Universal pictures (nordic).

The region 4 DVD which features Death Wish and Death Wish 2 on a double sided DVD is completely uncut.

On 26th June 1999, the new Irish television station TV3 screened what is believed to be the full, uncut version.

The Australian DVD release has joined the Brazilian release in being released with all the violence/sexual violence intact. Compared to the fully uncut Greek VHS, the R4 versions are missing only a little dialogue.

Cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2006

Cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2006

The same cut version for the 1988 cinema release and the 1988 video from Cannon International.

• La Bete
• The Beast in Heat
• The Beast

Heavily pre-cut.

Has been rejected for a cinema certificate under the title La Bete

Later passed uncut in 2001

Uncut when resubmitted in 2001

An erection offended the censors in 1988

1995 US sex video by Wes Emerson

45:10s unofficial pre-cuts

71:30s unofficial pre-cuts

65:35s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 3:48s cut by the BBFC

29:13s unofficial pre-cuts

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory., The cuts were Cuts for Category. A cut was required to sight of participant who had no clear means of indicating withdrawal of consent. With this cut an 'R18' was available to the distributor. R18s may only be sold in licensed sex shops. Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (vaginal penetration by candle and dildo) to gain an 18 certificate.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory., The cuts were Cuts for Category. A cut was required to clearly implied urolagnia

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. One compulsory cut (sight of woman being vaginally penetrated with thin wooden pole) and two cuts for category (clear sight of dildo penetration) required for requested 18 category

• Profondo Rosso
• Deep Red Hatchet Murders
• Dripping Deep Red
• The Hatchet Murders
• The Sabre Tooth Tiger
• Suspiria 2

Some cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2005

The BBFC imposed 2 cuts in 1993 for a release by Redemption Films totalling 11s for a video certificate:

1. A 7s shot of a squirming lizard being impaled with a pin has been deleted. This cut also impacts the scene. A father slaps his little daughter because of the impaling. In the cut version, a now motiveless slap remains.
2. 4s has been cut from a scene showing two dogs fighting

However I did notice the following observation from the news groups:

My copy of Argento's "Deep Red" purchased in the in the US was pristine and bright, but the scene at the end with the meeting of head and car wheel was darkened in the Redemption copy I now own in the UK. It claims to be the full version, which technically appears true as far as running time is concerned, but the scene described above is darkened significantly. Was this an act of censorship, or do I just have a bad print?

• Il Paese del sesso selvaggio
• The Man from Deep River
• Nel Paese del Sesso Selvaggi
• Au Pays del'Exorcisme
• Mondo Cannibale
• sacrifice

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 2003 with the following statement:

Cuts required to remove sight of real animal cruelty (in this case setting a mongoose on a snake; locking a monkey into a vice and slicing off the top of its head; a cock fight; cutting a snake and bleeding it alive; and stabbing a crocodile in its neck with a small knife)

Review from imdb

I liked this one strictly for its exoticness. Me Me Lay looks great dressed or naked. She has a great face. I have the Prism edition video. That one is missing a brief cannibal scene that later showed up in Lenzi's Eaten Alive by the Cannibals. The cinematography was well done and I may catch some heat for this but I actually liked the music.

The love scene in the river came very close to XXX. A well placed bush (no pun intended) kept it soft-core. Not much gore, so jungle flick fans should like it. I know I did.

3:46s pre-cut

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC statement: Distributor chose to cut sight of hard drug dealing and use to accommodate a 12A. A 15 uncut was available.

Featured on the video nasties list. See Psycho Puppet

• Delta Force 2
• Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

1 cut was waived when resubmitted in 2000.

Presumably the waived cut was the use of the butterfly knife so that leaves a breaking neck as the outstanding cut

A twirling butterfly knife was cut from the fight between Norris and one of Billy Drago's henchmen.

Same cut version for cinema and video.

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

This cut also applies to Warner's Widescreen tape. The uncut version has been shown at one point on Sky TV

• L'Éventreur de Notre-Dame
• The Ripper of Notre Dame
• Exorcism & Black Masses (hardcore)
• Exorcisme et Messes Noires (hardcore)
• El Sadico de Notre-Dame
• Exorcism
• Exorcisme
• Exorcisms
• Chains and Black Leather
• Expériences sexuelles au château des jouisseuses
• Sexorcismes (hardcore)

Passed 18 in 2003 with 4 compulsary cuts for sexual violence:

• A knife being played across a girls nipples
• The sight of blood from a girls genitals
• Stabbing and entrails
• A naked girl being slapped
• Another girl being threatened with a knife

Note that title Exorcism & Black Masses identifies a hardcore version

It was previously rejected in August 1994 on the grounds of sexual sadism with the following justification:

This was another shocker from the 70s, from a film-maker most of whose cinematic work appeared to revel in the tying up and abusing of naked women. Here their bodies were liberally splashed with blood, stage blood, in rituals acted out as a turn-on for audiences in search of sexual arousal. Later each evening, we see the rituals re-enacted sadistically and homicidally by a criminal psychopath (played by the film-maker himself), whose deeds perform the same function as the video viewer. The Board considered whether cuts could make such a work acceptable, but given its multifarious images of women stripped, inverted, bound, gagged, manacled at ankles and wrists, with blood smeared on bodies, especially breasts, and with blades driven into flesh, we concluded that cuts would have been so extensive as to leave little of the misogynistic framework intact. This might have been no loss on artistic or social grounds, but it would have left an unviable video commercially.

• The Demoniacs
• Curse of the Living Dead Demoniacs
• Les Deux vierges pour Satan Diablesses
• L'Isola delle demoniache
• Tina, la naufrageuse perverse

Cut in 2004 with the following BBFC statement: Cuts required to remove an image of rape and accompanying images of sexualised nudity which further eroticise the sexual violence.

The US Image Entertainment DVD is missing the graphic rape sequence between Tina and the Captain. This footage was left out at the director's request due to personal reasons he had with his distributor at the time.

• Demoni

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• This is the scene where one of the "punk" characters scrapes cocaine off the bare breast of Nina (the punk girl) with a razor blade

Previous video versions have been cut dating back to 1986:

• a blind man having his eyes gouged out,
• a close-up of a Demon's tooth pushing though it's gum
• a man having his eye forced onto a metal stake.

Review from Amazon UK

Demons is cited on the commentary that accompanies this DVD as being one of the most important Italian horror films of the 80's, and indeed it is. Bypassing the flabby, overcooked acting, unevenly distributed action and horrendous scores of many a Euro-horror, Demons goes straight for the jugular, eyeballs, guts and groin. This film is certainly one of the best paced non-American horror flicks of the decade and contains a level of lovingly crafted, sickeningly visceral gore which just wouldn't happen these days.

For a European film the acting isn't actually too bad and the set is very effective. This film of course has bad points. Loads of them, but as is sometimes the case with these trashy horrors, the bad bits are so bad that they end up enhancing the enjoyment of the picture.

Classic garbage and even the involvement of the terminally abysmal Dario Argento couldn't ruin the fun of this film. Add to this toxic cocktail an interesting commentary with the director and a soundtrack featuring Billy Idol, Saxon and the immensely underrated 'Fast as a Shark' by Accept and you have a total winner. I love it.

• Blood Evil
• Blood Will Have Blood
• Nightmare of Terror

From IMDb:

The 18s of video cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2006 but the cuts from the theatrical release are still missing

• Missing are the shots of earth being stuffed into Virginia Wetherall's mouth plus other trims to this murder.
• The murder of Yvonne Mitchell was also shortened by the reduction/removal of a few shots.

Note that the Region 1 Anchor Bay video is the same cut theatrical version

• Cuts from 2 scenes showing bloodstained breasts.

• Death of Virginia Wetherall abridged to remove the shots of her suffocation with dirt
• killing of Yvonne Mitchell also shortened.
• Flashback scenes involving nudity/throat slitting made to be more opaque/fogged in order to pass.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove clips containing violent images to gain a PG. An uncut 15 was available to the distributor

Cut in 2000. Submitted twice, the 2nd time pre-cut presumably to remove or mask the same scenes. Manson having oral sex with another guy and Manson exposing his dick.

• Dentist 2: Brace Yourself

Cut when submitted in 1999:

• The BBFC cuts are to a scene showing a female victim under going a very bloody & graphic "dentistry"

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The film is playing uncut on Zone Horror Channel so presumably it would be uncut if resubmitted to the the BBFC today

Review from Amazon US

If the Oscars were brave enough to give awards to films like this, they couldn't help but nominate Corbin Bernsen for his brilliant turns in the two DENTIST films. Not since Joan Crawford and Bette Davis did Baby Jane, has an actor fully embraced the idiocy of his role and filled it with superlative turns in mood and emotion. Bernsen seems to be having the time of his career in the role of Alan Feinstone/Larry Crane, the demented dentist who is still trying to convince himself he is not crazy.

While this sequel is slow in some spots, Bernsen's over the top shenanigans propel this movie and keep it grossly entertaining. Linda Hoffman is back as Bernsen's silent wife; Clint Howard stops by for a toothache, and Jilliam McWhirter is Corbin's new love interest. The ending is way over the top, but hilarious in its own demented way.

I'm sure there'll be no Dentist 3, but Bernsen should be commended for showing that a good actor can take any role and make it something memorable.

• Trance

Uncut at the cinema (as The Trance) prior to the ludicrous redefinition of childhood from 16 to 18.

Cut on video when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC comments: Cuts required to remove potentially indecent image of a child (mouth of man passing across groin of actress who was under 18 at time of filming)

4s pre-cut

A pretty cheesy castration involving a member clearly made of papier mache has been deleted.  The cut is probably due to the low quality of the scene but no doubt the BBFC would have objected ayway.

There have been four UK releases

1. The film was initially released in 1989, with a running time of approximately 74 minutes. This was the initial video version. It was released mail-order to the UK by ESSA Distribution.
2. In 1991 Headpress released the film on video in the UK, with a BBFC 18 certificate. It was a numbered, 500 limited edition, and was slightly different due to having been re-edited by Buttgereit. Scenes with German text (most notably a woman reading a typed letter) were changed to English, and the concentration camp scene had a four second close-up shot of Jorg Buttgereit being emasculated by a set of garden shears removed.
3. In 1994 Essa released a new video version. This had more professional looking front titles and end credits, and a different soundtrack (sort of a remix of the original score). The Headpress emasculation cut was restored. The box listed a running time of 80 minutes, but this included 6 minutes of trailers for other Essa label videos. This version was not submitted to the BBFC, and sold to the UK by mail-order only.
4. In 1997, to coincide with the release of the second edition of Kerekes and Slater's book Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jorg Buttgereit, Screen Edge released the film with a BBFC 18 certificate. Since the film wasn't re-submitted, this version must be a re-issue of the Headpress version. The box lists a running time of 80 minutes. Either this is a mistake, or the running time also includes trailers.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts required

Under threat from the MPAA, the director removed the final gun battle so that an R rating could be achieved. this cut version was submitted for the UK certificate and no further BBFC cuts were required

• Mortville
• Punk Story

The BBFC passed the video with 4s of cuts in 1990 (Elephant video) and 1998 (Entertainment in Video)

• Cut to edit an eyeball gouging scene

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Sick & Childish

I guess you'd call Desperate Living the last of the earlier John Waters "gross out" cult classic films... He went a bit more mainstream after that.

The best way to describe Desperate Living (and I believe these are Waters' words paraphrased) is "a fairy tale for adults with the minds of children..."

The story is as fun and entertaining as it is gross and disgusting... Getting to see Edith Massey in the roll of the evil queen and villain is also quite hilarious and getting to see what she does with the castle goons is even funnier...

In my book however, the two most memorable scenes involve a cross dressing cop as well as a rather amusingly severed ding dong.

Liz Renay, is also hilarious and really into her role... almost too much... in fact, its the sheer exhuberence of the actors in John Waters' films that make the films such a great watch... you can tell that he's definitely the type of guy that could sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

All in all, I'd have to say that along with Female Trouble its one of my favorite John Waters films... Whether you found Pink Flamingos funny or offensive, expect to laugh and puke at the same time... this is JW at his most sick and childishly best!

Cut when submitted in 2005 but the DVD has yet to appear. Perhaps the cuts rendered it unviable. The BBFC made the following comment: Explicit images were cut from Desperately Seeking Seka, a documentary about a porn star, in order to obtain an ‘18’ certificate, because the images were considered gratuitous rather than serving any important documentary or narrative purpose.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US

A Swedish journalist (Stefan Nylén) travels to the US to seek out his all time favorite porn star from the 70's and 80's in this cool little documentary from Magnus Paulsson & Christian Hallman. Seka was a platinum blonde sex goddess who ruled the big screen, as well as the little screen (home video) back in the golden & silver age of porn.

However, in the 80's she up and vanished, leaving the business behind her. Where is Seka? How is she doing? Why did she leave it all behind? Along the way, Stefan travels to a porn convention in Las Vegas, interviewing several of the people in the business who either knew Seka, or worked with her at one point in time. Apparently Seka wasn't too hard to find, and Stefan eventually travels to Chicago to meet his American Idol.

What fascinated be about this movie was the actual Seka herself. This is now a woman who by simply looking at her today, you would think she was your next door neighbor! However, she conducts herself freely in her interview with Stefan, which I found to be quite refreshing and entertaining. I really enjoyed the concept and execution of this film. Very much recommended if you like documentaries, and/or the history of porn and the adult film industry.

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

Cut when submitted in 2008 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove sight of sexual detail (oral-genital contact) for an 18 category. An uncut R18 was available to the distributor

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor was required to remove sight of unsimulated oral/genital contact in order to obtain 18 classification

11:00 unofficial pre-cuts with an additional 21:51s cut by the BBFC

• The Devils of Loudon

The cut footage has recently been relocated along with a pre-cut scene known as the Rape of Christ. Maybe they can be restored to the film.

The pan & scan version seems to be based on the cut prepared fo a US X rating

1. Grandier (Oliver Reed) drives doctors away from dying woman loses some of hers screams and a little nudity.
2. Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave) dream of Grandier as Christ does not show her licking Christ's wounds, clasped hands by a crown of thorns and some of the lovemaking scene.
3. Shots of Jeanne masturbating and two shots of her whipping herself have been removed.
4. A nude Phillipe (Georgina Hale) brought before Laubardemont (Dudley Sutton) has lost the pubic hair.
5. An enema of Jeanna on the altar does not show the insertion of a syringe between her legs.
6. Shots of nuns stripping and one vomiting have vanished
7. the King's visit to Loudon has lost vomit and pubic hair along with a nun masturbating with a candle and an enema.
8. A needle is Grandier's tongue has been cut.
9. Whilst Laubardem collects statements against Grandier, we miss naked nuns kissing and caressing.
10. The shot of a nun's hanging body been taken down has been cut to remove nudity.
11. The torture of Grandier has lost 4 hammer blows and a shot of his bloody legs.
12. As Grandier crawls to the stake, kicks by Barre (Michael Gothard) have been deleted
13. The burning of Grandier has been reduced
14. Jeanne inserting a purging device between her legs is no more.

This version appears to be the same as the cinema version.

• A scene showing nuns assaulting an effigy of the cross was deleted (approximately 30s)
• An enema scene loses some details
• The crushing of Grandier's legs loses details.
• Grandier's tongue torture loses details
• Shots of a priest being assaulted by nuns after the King's visit are missing
• Jeanne masterbating with a chard bone was cut
• Whippings scenes throughout were removed

This version is the most complete available as all attempts to recover the footage originally cut for the UK cinema release have failed.

• Die Hard 2: Die Harder

The 18 rated laserdisc of 1992 is uncut as have been all UK DVD releases since

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The 15 rated cinema release from 1990 and the CBS/Fox video versions of 1990 & 1991  are all cut similarly for violence in the fight scenes and for strong language

Many thanks to Gav Salkeld who has compiled a very extensive list of cuts derived from comparing the earlier version with the later uncut UK DVD

See Die Hard 2 Cuts List

• Live Free or Die Hard

The uncut version is sold as the Ultimate Action Version

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• Profanity was deleted
• The much quoted line: Yippiee-ki-yay Motherfucker was obscured by out of place gunfire
• Removed blood spurts and used alternate footage/scenes

The BBFC commented on their 15 Rating as follows:

DIE HARD 4.0 is an action thriller about the subverting of computer networks throughout the USA in order to spread destruction and mayhem as a mask for the largest money theft ever. The film was passed ‘15’ for frequent action violence and one use of strong language.

The BBFC’s Guidelines at ‘12A’ state that ‘violence must not dwell on detail' and that 'there should be no emphasis on injuries or blood’. Throughout the film there are several moments where the violence does focus on injury and it was these moments, in combination with the sheer relentlessness of the film's frequent action violence, which placed DIE HARD 4.0 more appropriately at '15'. The film also contains one use of strong language (‘motherfucker’), which was clear even with the end of the word obscured by the sound of gunshots. BBFC policy regarding language at 12A states that ‘mouthed and bleeped uses of 'motherfucker' are allowed' and that 'mouthed language will usually be identifiable but inaudible’. With the term clearly audible in this case, the '15' certificate was required.

DIE HARD 4.0 also features some mild verbal sex references and a brief scene in which ads for websites offering sexual services are displayed on a computer screen.

The same cuts apply to both the cinema release of 1995 and the subsequent video release.

The film was also pre-cut by 20th Century Fox in America before it's release on DVD and VHS, and it was this cut that was released worldwide.

Cuts Summary

The 12 seconds of BBFC cuts include some chain-whipping in the fight between McClane and Targo.

1. Killing of guard by the mute woman: entry & withdrawal of knife, blood spurt are all cut.
2. Lift scene at end: McClane shooting and the resulting blood sprays on his face are cut. US version is graphically extended including one man getting his head blown off and his body slumping on top of John. This is why John is on the floor when he crawls out of the lift door and is soaked in blood. See the gallery for montage of this scene
3. Chain fight between McClane & Russian: One chain-hit has been cut.
4. Dialogue cut for language eg "Fuck you Joe" becomes "Go away Joe"

Thanks to Andrew:

It is worth noting that the cut mute woman knife attack sequence is shown in full on the 2nd disk of the region 2 special edition, yet cut significantly in the disk 1 film!

Many thanks to Gav Salkeld who personally compiled a detailed list of of cuts:

The BBFC gave the film a ‘15’ rating for the cinema release after applying almost 15 seconds of cuts. These cuts apply to the DVD version only; VHS and cinema cuts are slightly different. Its worth noting that the DVD version has had some footage slyly reinstated without the BBFC’s knowledge, so in theory it is an 18. This trend is seemingly becoming more frequent as the years go on, and why this is I don’t know. Another point is that the subtitles on the DVD are uncut 95% of the time, as they are based on the uncut print! Also, if you listen carefully under the commentary, all of the uncut dialogue can be heard too!

The BBFC did not implement all of the cuts, however. The distributors were simply told to reduce the volume of the film’s bad language by removing the more aggressive strong- and very strong language, and that which could not be justified by context. The distributors were not told what individual words to remove.

See Die Hard with a Vengeance Detailed Cuts List

Thanks to Andrew:

If you are  considering buying it, may I recommend the Aussie region 4 2007 release, it might not be the 2 disk, but its a PAL format, digitally re-mastered sound and visual, and uncut. stay away from the region 1, I implore you, which has problems.

Thanks to Andrew re TV showing in March 2008

Well once again its happened, the BBFC's former decision makers have made their successors look dumb. Tonight in a 9 PM slot Die Hard with a Vengeance was shown uncut on UK Gold! You'd have expected channel 4 or 5 to screen it in this version 10 years ago as an act of independent rebellion, but UK Gold?

All swearing was intact and dub free (the guys a flunky!), and the poorly edited lift sequence shown in all its brain splattering glory. Making the Region 2 Buena Vista 2 disk special edition look a lot less special.

11:50s pre-cut and a further 30s cut by the BBFC

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (masturbation, oral-genital contact, vaginal and anal penetration by penis, dildo and cucumber, ejaculation) 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., The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts were required to scenes of potentially harmful sexual activity (in this case, references to gagging)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cut required to remove sight of man's shaft during penetrative sex for the requested 18 classification. An R18 uncut was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2003 with the following BBFC statement: Compulsory cuts required to remove scenes of nudity in public places or places visible to the public; and to remove sequence of particular bodily harm.