Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to explicit sexual detail (cunnilingus and ejaculation on face)

Same cuts for cinema and video versions

• A scene in the jungle showing Yuen Biao tearing apart a snake with his bare hands has been removed for animal cruelty.

Cuts waived and certificate downgraded when resubmitted in 2004

• Mangiati Vivi
• Doomed to Die
• Eaten Alive by Cannibals
• Emerald Jungle
• Mangiati vivi dai cannibali

5:42s pre-cut when submitted in 1992 but the BBFC didn't ask for the 1s cut as before

The uncut region 1 DVD is available from US Amazon

Pre-cuts to animal cruelty (killing of an alligator and iguana), violence and an intense rape scene have been reported.

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

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut clear sight of real sex (vaginal penetration) to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor. R18s can only be sold in licensed sex shops.
 

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to remove sight of clear oral-genital contact and penetration in order to achieve an 18 certificate. An R18 certificate was available.

• Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004

The US release was originally cut by the MPAA, but released in 'R' and unrated versions on video. The unrated version later received an 'R' rating when submitted for DVD release in 2004, and became the standard version available in America. The UK DVD uses this unrated print.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from Trash City

The acting is generally solid, with two major exceptions. Glynis Barber is out of place and looks uncomfortably wooden. This is more than made up for by the superb performance of Anthony Perkins. He conveys all the depravity of Jack Hyde with a single twitch and loads a simple phrase like 'Our lucky day' with enough menace to fuel an entire series of mundane slasher pics. The director (Gerard Kikoine on his legitimate debut - he's a converted pornmaster) shows plenty of neat touches and novel angles. Overall, highly impressive stuff and deserving of praise, especially for not trying to produce a 'happy ending'. Perkins' performance alone is worth the rental price.

Uncut when resubmitted in 2007

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon for a 24th January 2008 release on the Naughty label

The cuts were waived for the 2007 Blu-ray disc

The uncut Blu-ray disc is available at UK Amazon

Both cinema and the Fox video versions of 1991 & 1995 have same cuts

The climactic fight between Edward (Johnny Depp) and Jim (Anthony Michael Hall) has been trimmed to get a PG certificate.

• 8 Peerless Treasures

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC comment: Cut required to remove sight of genuine animal cruelty (a horse being pulled over backwards)

• 8 Millimeter
• Eight Millimeter
• Sexy World

The film was heavily cut in the US to gain an R rating. No further cuts were required by the BBFC for the UK release.

Joel Schumacher's audio commentary on the DVD makes some fascinating observations with asides to censor cuts all over the place. Seems the MPAA really butchered the film and yet Schumacher ends up defending the censors.

• Sex throughout was toned down. Eg background sexual activity was trimmed under the no more than two buttock-thrusts rule.
• A lot of the conversation between Phoenix and Cage was removed because a bank of TV monitors in the background were showing hardcore.
• Sequences in the underground sex club were trimmed to remove shots of enema porn
• Machine's cutting of Phoenix's throat suffered the wrath of the censors.

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

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cuts for requested 18 category required to remove sight of explicit sexual detail (clear sight of penis penetrating vagina and liquid resembling semen on woman's face)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Compulsory cuts were required to remove dialogue promoting an interest in underage sex

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cut required to remove all sight of or to enhance the obscurity of unsimulated vaginal penetration with a dildo,

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cut required to remove reference to underage sex

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts required to woman's reference to underage sex: “My first female experience was when I was about fifteen or sixteen”

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. A cut was required to an '18' sex work for encouraging an interest in abusive activity (in this case, two actual sisters engaged in implied and simulated cunnilingus)

31:00s unofficial pre-cuts

• Le Journal érotique d'une Thailandaise
• Carnet intime
• Carnet intime d'une Thailandaise (France X-rated version)
• Clitò petalo del sesso
• Emmanuele 3
• Oh Bangkok

One film cuts was waived in 2003, so the estimated cuts now run to 18:15s

The original French version includes hardcore scenes and runs at 91mins so estimated cuts are 18:48s

• Emanuelle e gli ultimi cannibali
• Emanuelle's Amazon Adventure
• Trap Them and Kill Them

Cut by the BBFC for cinema release. After a long period it was cut for video in 2002 with the following BBFC explanation: Cuts required to sight of woman's nipple being sliced off, sexualised rape and sexualised evisceration of women.

• Brutal Nights

13:03s pre-cut and an additional 5:49s cut by the BBFC

Infamous exploitation movie supposedly mixing hardcore, bestiality and a bizarre subplot about the making of torture and snuff movies.

Joe D Amato had this to say about those scenes ...we shot the 'snuff' scenes in 35mm. Afterwards we scratched the negative and we printed it as 8mm, then blew it up to give it the illusion of reality... I don't know people think it is real, it's just some bullshit.. it's only a movie, you know?

Joe D'Amato was asked how the rumor about the snuff footage being "real" got started and he had this to say:

...we shot that footage in a warehouse with a lot of "extras" (actors). One of the girls in the scene wanted to make more money then she was making as an extra, so she filed a lawsuite saying that she was really abused during the filming....

Needless to say that with an entire film crew as witness to the fake acting, she lost the case. However, the rumor managed to circulate as truth.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available from US Amazon

• I Mavri Emmanouella
• Emanuelle the Seductress (US censored version)
• Emanuelle's Daughter
• Emanuelle: Queen Bitch (UK)
• Emanuelle: Queen of Sados
• Emmanouella sto nisi tis Afroditis, I (Greece)

The BBFC cut the DVD by 6:58s when submitted in 2008 with the following statement:

Cuts were required to remove scenes in which a naked or semi-naked child is portrayed in a sexual and exploitative manner, including a scene of sexual violence.

Plus cinema cuts. However cinema version runs at 85:58s (pal equivalent 82:32s) suggesting pre-cuts of 8:34s with a further 49s cut for video.

Cuts waived when uncut version resubmitted in 2007

From the 2007 BBFC Annual Report:

It was given much consideration before it was judged that in the full context of an uncut classification it was clearer that there was no endorsement of the ‘rape myth’. It was consequently passed ‘18’ without cuts.

Some cuts waived when Momentum version submitted in 2001

Cuts to an eroticised rape scene early on.

• Emmanuelle l'antivierge
• Emmanuelle's 7th Heaven
• Emmanuelle, the Queen
• Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman

BBFC cuts were waived for the 2001 DVD using the title Emmanuelle l'antivierge

The uncut region 2 DVD is available from UK Amazon

Passed uncut in 2001 for Momentum Pictures

• Emmanuelle V

Some cuts were waived in 2001 but the release was still cut with the following BBFC comment: Company chose to cut clear sight of dildo penetration for 18. An uncut R18 was available to the distributor.

from IMDb

Emmanuelle 5 was released in two versions: one with softcore love scenes typical of the series, and a French home video version that extended several scenes with hardcore sex directed by Borowczyk himself. The scenes in question are the Love Express and dance studio segments, embellished with penetration, ejaculation and even a woman urinating. This VHS version also omits several minutes of footage seen in the theatrical version (including dialogue and crucial plot), so it cannot be considered an "uncut version".

Same version for cinema and video

• Emmanuelle 2: A World of Desire

• The Elementary Stud

Cut by a further 14s for the 1987 & 2003 video/DVD releases

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from IMDb

Personally I found both the film and Olinka Hardiman boring. Its interest lies only with those "completists" interested in either Olinka Hardiman's nudity or the "Emmanuelle" series. However I doubt that this film has any relationship to the "Emmanuelle" series except for opportunistic exploitation of the title.

• Emmanuelle in Space

• Endgame, gioco finale

10s has been cut from a scene where an axe is thrown at a man who is tied up against a wall and the axe hits him in the head.

The video was released uncut Pre-VRA on the VTC label.

13:05s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 8:55s cut by the BBFC

• The Deadly Three
• Long Zheng Hu Dou

BBFC commented on their decision as follows:

Enter the Dragon has been passed '18' uncut. All previous film and video cuts have been waived.

The film was originally passed 'X' with cuts for cinema release in 1973. A total of 5 cuts were made to scenes of violence. In 1979, the film was recalled so that a brief sequence in which Bruce Lee twirls and uses nunchaku could be deleted, along with another sequence in which nunchaku were briefly seen being carried. The decision was taken to make these further cuts because of the spread of nunchakus among youths in the London area. Concern had been expressed that the nunchakus demonstrated in martial arts films were being easily constructed and used by some violent individuals. As a result of concern on the part of the police and judiciary it was decided that this weapon, which has no legal use in this country outside the martial arts class, should be removed from violent films in order to discourage its spread. The weapon was subsequently proscribed by the Home Office so that it is now illegal to carry nunchakus unless en route to a bona fide martial arts school.

In 1988 the video version was submitted and passed '18' with cuts (1 minute 45 seconds cut). Three of the five violence cuts made in 1973 were waived but two were maintained and the cuts to sight and use of nunchaku implemented in 1979 were repeated for video.

In 1991 the Board modified its policy on nunchaku to some extent so that the weapon was no longer removed on sight. Essentially it was the glamorous use of the weapon in a violent film that was of most concern, and the modified policy reflected that. After 1991 a number of representations of nunchaku were passed but only when they were not actually in use or were displayed in non violent demonstrations of skill or served to establish the nature of a character. The video of Enter the Dragon was resubmitted again in 1993 for widescreen release. This time the two remaining violence cuts were waived, as was the brief sight of nunchaku being carried, in accordance with the new policy. The only cut made this time was to sight of Bruce Lee twirling and briefly using the nunchaku (21 seconds cut). Even under revised policy this scene was still not acceptable. A full screen version was passed in the same form in 1996 and a special edition, featuring some non-contentious extra footage was passed in 1998, again with only the brief nunchaku sequence deleted prior to submission.

Throughout its history the Board has periodically reviewed its policies and adjusted them as the situation demanded. A review of the weapons policy was undertaken in June 1999 . The review concluded that the depiction of weapons in films and other media, and the nature of the 'weapons culture' in the real world was currently such that a firm distinction between different types of offensive weapon was no longer appropriate, and the policy has been rationalised so that knives, nunchakus, knuckle-dusters, ninja stars, and other easily obtainable weapons are now judged on exactly the same basis. Depictions of offensive weapons continue to be liable to cuts if they are considered likely to encourage violent behaviour in the real world.

Enter the Dragon was resubmitted in its uncut form this year and, in accordance with the Board's revised policy, has now been passed '18' without cuts. The 21 second cut made to the brief use of nunchaku in 1993 has been waived.

The Director's Cut was suposedly submitted by Warner Home Video but this turns out to be pre-cut with the removal of the main nunchaku scene. Warners have sensibly decided not to market this version as the Directors cut.

The BBFC insisted that every last glimpse of nunchucks were removed. In addition, they made two cuts to the sequence in which Bolo despatches Han's incompetent henchmen:

• The first cut is to an (offscreen) neckbreak - this version cuts away just as Bolo crouches to jerk and snap the poor sap's spine.
• The second cut occurs when Bolo cradles the final opponent in order to slowly break his back - the process and sound effect of this act have been shortened.

This information was gleaned from a the most recent, fullscreen Warners budget release.

• Ninja 1

• All shots of banned weapons (nunchakus, shurikens, darts, spikes etc) are cut.
• Neck-breaks, limbs breaks are trimmed.
• Throat-cutting, repeated punches, ear-claps also gone.
• Two scenes missing that show illegal cockfighting.

May 2007: The movie is being shown on Bravo uncut so perhaps this indicates that the BBFC would now pass the film uncut. (Except for the fact that the cockfighting would still be cut)

Cinema version had some dialogue substitution. It is  rumoured that the word 'fuck' had to go. The different video versions have cuts of 1s & 4s but are listed as the same cuts. Presumably the same cuts have been implemented slightly differently

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

A total of 43 cuts for the 1997 video version (including 5 cuts totalling 27s for the 18 cinema version)

The cinema release flopped in the UK so the distributor opted for a 15 release. The BBFC felt that they had removed the sadistic edge from most of the violence and revealed a good action thriller which proved to have far greater audience appeal.

1. In the opening sequence where Kruger rescues Johnny C, 17s of punches were removed along with the post punch dialogue: Get me some ice, I think I broke my goddam hand.
2. Also in the opening scene, a scene with a bound & gagged woman being doused with petrol has been removed. Also a thug with a petrol can saying Sure boss has been deleted
3. A close up a a man in a noose being lifted up has been cut.
4. A scene where they attempt to remove Johnny's tongue was cut along with the line: See if it sings on its own
5. 4s cut where Kruger breaks a mans neck in a fridge door.
6. 1s missing of a scene which has a close up of Kruger as he pumps a second bullet into the body of the dead bad guy to frame them.
7. As the hero ignites the pretrol on the floor, the sight of the flames engulfing a corpse has gone.
8. 3s cut in William Donough's office. He points the gun at Lee and shouts "You have no fucking idea". In the 15 video all that remains is "You".
9. In William Donough's office, 1s is cut where he puts the gun into his mouth and fires. Also, the close up of the man with blood coming out of his mouth.
10. Close up of man with a blade in his neck after Kruger stabs him through the door is missing.
11. We fail to see the guy he then kills flying through the air into a wall.
12. In the video, we see Samaritan hold his witness and appear to smother her. It should show Samaritan shoot her and then pretend to give her mouth to mouth resuscitation as she dies.
13. Samaritan actually shoots Monroe twice, one of those shots has been cut.
14. Inside the alligator park, the first bad guy gets an arm ripped of. Visual data is lost in the transfer from widescreen to pan-and-scan.
15. The hero pursues and pistol whips a SWAT man which we dont see
16. The villain grabs and woman and pistol whips her, we don't see this
17. Neither do we see the hero erase the swat team in a lift by removing the pins from a SWAT man's belt and then throwing him down the shaft.
18. 3s cut when Kruger runs out to see the helicopter fly away. In the NSTC Laserdisc, he punches a man and breaks his neck.
19. A Russian guard is seen slapping a woman...or rather isn't
20. In the shipyard, 4s is missing when Kruger finishes off two guards after an impressive aerial acrobatics display.The impact shot of a third man being shot and thrown through a window has gone
21. A close up of a knife blade used to threaten a woman has gone
22. 1s missing when Lee kicks her Russian captor in the face after escaping.
23. The hero gets the upper hand but we dont see the impact shot of three men being thrown into the air along with gun shots and impacts
24. 1s missing when Sall shoots a bad guy in the eye. We should see a close up of the man falling back without an eye.
25. The villain's pistol blow to the woman has gone along with gunfire and impacts in the gun battle around the crane
26. 4s are cut from the fight between Kruger and Samaritan, when Samaritan hits Kruger with an iron bar.
27. 45s The train ploughs into the car but we don'tsee the Baddies screaming and thumping as they try to escape. Kruger stands and watches and when it is over but we dont see the satisfied look on his face nor do wee the smoking car wreck in the ruins of the train.

Update: from Mark, Jan 2008: Cinema Version on TV

The version of Eraser screened by Channel 4 was NOT uncut.

It was, in fact, the less cut UK cinema version (or an approximation of, since the cuts were made slightly differently from what I remember), which was cut by 28 seconds in 1996 for an '18' certificate.

I can't imagine the BBFC requiring any cuts today so one can only assume C4 were playing it overly cautious by screening the cinema version.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• A headbutt has been deleted in a fight
• The sight and use of throwing stars have been excised

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut three shots of unsimulated sexual activity - dildo penetration of vagina - to gain an '18' classification. An 'R18' uncut was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category., The cuts were Compulsory. Company chose to make cuts to scenes of sexual detail (clear sight of unsimulated oral-genital contact and dildo penetration)

Unofficial pre-cuts of 10m with an additional 1:14s cut by the BBFC

Cantonese exploitation video bearing the Cat III rating. The extensive cuts were inflicted on some naked Kung-Fu antics and the subsequent rape scene. A scene where two girls masturbate with a baseball bat has also been trimmed. (This is not an explicit sex scene even in the original)

The video is available uncut in the Netherlands on the Hollywood East label (HE002)

Cuts to the murder of Jack McCann (Gene Hackman), Shots of the use of a flamethrower and the after-effects have been cut. Note that the BBFC do not own up to these cuts

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to cut two instances of clear oral genital contact (in this case sight of one performer licking the penis of another)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut images of clearly unsimulated sexual activity - oral-genital contact during fellatio and penile penetration of anus -

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

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cuts for requested 18 category required to remove clear sight of explicit sexual activity (fellatio)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove two shots of sexual detail (sight of a man's penis during unsimulated penetration and sight of liquid resembling semen on a woman's face) in order to achieve the 18 certificate.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory., The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cut required to remove potentially problematic dialogue between woman in school uniform and man. Distributor chose to cut shot of liquid resembling semen on woman's chin 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 make cuts to several instances of unsimulated sexual activity (cunnilingus, penetration and semen on face)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cuts for 18 category required to remove explicit sexual detail (vigorous masturbation and sight of semen on woman's face)

• Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen

Cut in 1991 and again in 2005 with the following BBFC statement: Compulsory cuts required to remove all sight of cockfight and live monkey in distress on a crucifix,

Thanks to Graham:

I logged on to the BBFC website to try and work out how Even Dwarfs Started Small, one of the most disturbing films I've seen in my entire life, could possibly have gotten away with a PG.

Well, it gets away with it after cuts of 2 minutes and 17 seconds, apparently. The cuts were compulsory and removed a cockfight and most of the infamous scene involving a crucified monkey, though we still see two actors about to set the birds on each other and the procession with the monkey on a cross. Herzog explains on the commentary how the scenes of animal cruelty were faked, but apparently the monkey was still upset enough to warrant censure by the BBFC.

Interestingly, the (uncut) 15-certificate Work Of Director Mark Romanek DVD contains a homage to this scene in the video to 'Closer' by Nine Inch Nails. As far as I'm aware, Romanek is allowed to pretend to crucify a monkey, but Herzog isn't.

• Ever After: A Cinderella Story

No BBFC cuts noted but a 'fuck' was pre-cut to obtain a PG.

The US video is also said to have lost 3 overdubbed swear words but the US DVD is said to be uncut.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. The distributor chose to remove shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (fellatio and cunnilingus) to gain an 18 classification.

Cut when submitted in 2005 with the following BBFC statement: Cuts required to remove a scene of sexualised violence in which a woman is killed with focus on breasts as knife is played over her and as she is stabbed, and subsequent close focus on bloodied full body nudity.

There is a heavily cut US R rated version and it is not clear whether it was this version that was submitted to the BBFC or else possibly an uncut version

• Il Bosco

Cut when submitted in 1996

Cut to remove a single shot (17 seconds) of a fish hook embedded in a woman's cheek.  It is unlikely that this cut would be required today.

• The Book of the Dead

All cuts waived when resubmitted in 2001

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from imdb: Raimi is already a legend

Raimi is already a legend, because he created 'The Evil Dead', without a doubt one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Made on a shoe string budget as a labour of love, it still remains Raimi's best movie. He has subsequently worked on bigger projects with bigger names but it is arguable whether he has ever surpassed the invention, thrills, energy and sheer fun of this. And why Bruce Campbell never became a genuine movie star after his debut here, and not just a much loved cult figure, is a complete mystery to me.

'The Evil Dead' is a modern horror classic and absolutely ESSENTIAL viewing for any self-respecting movie buff! It doesn't get much better than this!

Due to the video nasty scare of the early 80's the BBFC removed a further 1:06s for video when submitted in 1990. These 41 cuts rescued the video from the video nasties list:

• Cheryl being raped by a possessed tree (4 cuts)
• Ash's fight with Shelly (8 cuts)
• Ash's fight with Linda (6 cuts)
• Ash's fight with Scott (5 cuts)

Examples of these numerous cuts:

• A zombie women being repeatedly hit with a pole has vanished
• Shots of zombies clawing at flesh and eye gouging have been deleted
• A man being hit repeatedly with a hot iron is reduced from 5 hits to 3
• Zombies limbs being severed with axes are no more
• A fight between the protagonist and a headless female zombie is missing.
• The blood gushing from the girl's neck over Ash's face when he decapitates her with the spade has been removed
• Shots of exploding zombies and a zombie biting her own arm off have been removed
• A female zombie being repeatedly slapped across the face has been reduced to one slap
• A zombie's face burning in the fire isn't present anymore

The cinema version and also the pre-VRA video on the Palace label were cut by 59s when submitted in 1982:

• Linda's ankle being pierced with a pencil (See the Gallery) (2 cuts)
• Shelly hacked to pieces by an axe (4 cuts)
• Ash tries to kill Linda (8 cuts)
• Ash hitting Cheryl's hand with a rifle has been reduced from twice to once (1 cut)
• Blood shooting from Scott's chest after a stake is extracted (1 cut)
• Cheryl hitting Ash on the head with a poker (1 cut)

Passed uncut in August 2001

We don't see Ash (Bruce Campbell) being kicked in the head.

• Shiryo na wana
• Evil Dead's Trap

Cut when submitted in 2002 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts required to two close shots of a knife cutting flesh in a sexualised context.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Cut when submitted in 1997

• The cuts scene is a "Loose Limbs" clip, the cut being applied to blood dripping on a woman's breasts.

Thanks to M.M.

The new 2007 Network dvd release restores ALL the previous BBFC cinema & video cuts. However there is no note of these changes in the BBFC database

The electrocution is fully restored including more bloody close-ups. The shotgun killing of a hired thug Cannell is now uncut restoring a shot of his bloody face when Bronson shoots & a more lingering shot of his bloody corpse. The bar fight is uncut now restoring close-ups of Bronson twisting a thugs testicles.

• However a cut NEVER made to uk video & Carlton/Prism dvd releases of roughly 2 seconds is apparent. The bloody exit wound to John Glovers back after Bronson shotguns him is missing (its in both previous dvds!)

The dvd has the Columbia Tristar logo at the start and may be exactly the same as the region 1 dvd which also apparently removes the exit wound shot.

Thanks to Christopher who wrote a review in Is It Uncut? magazine Issue 18 (See www.midnight-media.demon.co.uk)

It appears that the new UK DVD from Network DOES utilise the 'R' rated R1 DVD print! This 'R' rated version would have been shorter that the original UK versions if the UK versions hadn't been cut by the BBFC.

The R rated version as stated omits a 2 second shot of David Glover with blood shooting out of his back.

The R rated version also has a totally (less-bloody) different shot of Raymond St. Jacques with the knife in his throat. The older UK versions have a much bloodier close-up.

The best version is available on region 1 at US Amazon and region 2 at UK Amazon

The cinema release was cut by 52s and then the video versions from 1986 (Heron) & 2000 (Carlton/Prism) suffered 10s of additional cuts.

Thanks to M.M.

• The electricity torture scene was very heavily edited and loses several bloody close-ups
• The shotgun killing of a hired thug, Cannell, lost a shot of his bloody face when Bronson shoots & a more lingering shot of his bloody corpse.
• The film also suffered cuts from the opening fight in the bar in particular Bronson twisting a thugs testicles

Passed in 2004 in a fully restored version complete with dialogue deleted in the previous version

From Dark Angel, www.realmofhorror.co.uk

The UK release will be a 2 disc special edition containing the US version, which is uncut in terms of gore but misses out some scenes of dialogue, and a fully uncut version which has the additional dialogue spliced into it from the previous cut UK release.

The reasons for the 2 different versions is that the shorter version will contain the directors commentary track as used on the US R1 DVD. The fully uncut version, being a composite print, will obviously have differences in picture and sound quality, so they wanted to give fans the best way of viewing these as possible.

All BBFC cuts waived when submitted by Anchor Bay in 2004. However the dialogue has been heavily cut by the distributor.

Thanks to Mike

According to the Anchor Bay website, Evilspeak will be a two disk release featuring a UK and US version (one restoring the cuts and one with the additional dialogue!)

The video was reclassified in May 1999 but there is no improvement in running time so it must be the same cut version.

The video is available in US on the CBS FOX label which has been cut as follows:

• Part of attack by pigs on secretary
• Captain's head exploding when hit by sword
• Part of gut wrenching scene at end.

The UK version has received even more cuts:

• a young maiden having her head chopped off
• a shot of the basement bloke having his neck broken
• pigs attacking woman in bath and eating her guts.
• priest have a nail in the head and shots of him.
• teacher having head splatted by Coopersmith.
• pigs eating the kids.
• kids losing their heads
• kids being terrorised by pigs
• kid's heart being torn out

An uncut version was available in the UK pre-VRA on the Videospace label. The video the got placed on the video nasties list. It was not rescued until it had received the ridiculous amount of cuts noted above.

Cut when submitted in 2005 with the following BBFC comment:

Cuts required to remove (1) lingering and close-up details of man being shot repeatedly, his death throes and his mutilated face, (2) entire scene of bloodily wounded man virtually torn in half at waist, and (3) entire scene of two restrained and conscious men having their hands sawn off at wrist.

These are in accordance with the Video Recordings Act 1984 (harm to potential viewers or to society through the depiction of mutilation, torture or acts of gross violence towards humans) and BBFC policy (encouraging callousness towards victims and taking pleasure in pain).

• Critical Decision

Same cut version for 1996 cinema release and video version from 1996 & 1998

From IMDb

• During the attack at the beginning of the film there are cuts to the use of the knife by the Steven Seagal character, on three of the bad guys.
• Another strange cut occurs on the plane during the hijack. Al Tar, the David Suchet character, is seen rising from a praying position to answer a phone call from the cockpit. The UK version shows him answering the phone only, you do not know he has been praying.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Tian whang jou whang
• Bruce Lee: Star of Stars

Cut when submitted in 1990

• Cuts to the use of nunchaku and fight violence.
• An attack on a woman was deleted
• The use of a blow torch was trimmed

Note that Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger is several minutes shorter than the Bruce Lee: Star of Stars version. Most of the edits were of dialogue rather than action

• House on Straw Hill
• Trauma

All video versions from 1997 to the Village Entertainment version of 2006 have suffered the same cuts

The video finally achieved an official video release in 1997 but suffered an additional 51s of BBFC cuts in the process.

Two country boys (one of whom is Karl Howman from Brush Strokes and the Flash adverts) threaten Linda Hayden with a shotgun and force her to have sex with each of them. The scene goes on for a long time and the guys are shown to be clearly enjoying it whilst the woman rubs her hand up and down the shotgun in a very suggestive manner. The fact that she manages to shoot them both didn't appease the BBFC who cut almost the entire scene. Also a scene showing Fiona Richmond getting murdered in the shower has been reduced to eliminate blood on the breasts.

The Australian release under the name of House on Straw Hill is uncut.

The cinema version of 1975 was pre-cut to achieve an X certificate.

A shot of Fiona Richmond's legs streaming with blood was removed.

30:26s unofficial pre-cuts

This uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Some cuts were waived for Synergy cut in August 2000 with the following BBFC comment:

Cuts required to process beheading and graphic process violence, both in breach of Board guidelines; and to impressionistically strong sadistic torture of woman

44s cut for the cinema version and the Pre-VRA Intervision version. A further 2:54s were cut for the Braveworld video.

The cinema version suffered the following cuts:

• The opening Vietnam scene has lost 2 shots:
  • Two cuts shorten the infamous beheading scene (10s)
  • A Vietcong with wire
• The attack on Jefferson at 17mins loses 2 shots.
  • Part of the gang leader's stabbing of Jefferson
  • A 3s close up of a weapon tearing into Jefferson's back
• The torture of a hooker at 50mins
  • 26s missing including 2s of the hooker lying on the bed
• The mugging of an old woman is missing 2s

The following additional cuts were inflicted on the certificated video version

• The opening Vietnam scene has a further 4 cuts:
  • The infamous beheading shot has been shortened further (7s)
  • A shot of a Vietcong trying to remove wire from his throat is missing 2s
  • A 4s slow motion shot of a Vietcong being shot several times has been deleted
  • The slow-motion shot of a burning Vietcong jumping in the water has been shortened by 5s.
• The attack on Jefferson suffers 2 further cuts.
  • 2s cut of gang leader with his weapon
  • 2s cut from the stabbing of Jefferson
• The torture of a hooker is well shortened
  • Two shots missing totalling 1s showing the hooker being stripped
  • A further 11 shots of torment totalling 28s
• The scene where Eastman (Robert Ginty) fills a dum-dum bullet wth mercury has been heavily cut, almost 2.30 minutes, missing 12 shots

Review from imdb

As far as I'm concern, this isn't even an action movie like it's usually classified - this is definitely a thriller. Sure there are lots of cruel scenes and bloodshed. It still isn't far as ultra-violent critics sometimes makes it to be. Violence is just something that gives audience the necessary shocks to built the excitement or to keep it up.

Actors aren't brilliant and the plot is faulty but from time to time this movie gets very interesting and it has a great bunch of magnificent sequences and couple of really good lines. Not a perfect thriller but surely a decent cult movie.

The 1984 cinema version and 1985 video version have suffered the same cuts:

from imdb

• Among the scenes cut are the robbery and murder of the elderly couple at the beginning, the forced heroin injection of the girl, Robert Ginty's girlfriend being beaten up by X's gang, assorted shots of weapons including nunchakus, and almost the entire killing of the guard in the subway scene.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category., The cuts were Compulsory. Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (anal penetration) and to verbal and visual references to gagging during sex (fellatio)

Cut in 2007 with the following BBFC comment: Company was obliged to remove sight of explicit sex acts, that is penetration with vegetables. An uncut certification was available.

The US R rated version (already shorn of 13s) was submitted in 1986 and the BBFC wanted another 1:25s of cuts.

From IMDb

• A shot of the killer slicing off a victims head with a cleaver has been removed.
• The twitching hand shot of the headless body has been shortened.
• When Debbie discovers what's in her fish tank, two shots have been removed. The first is head in fish tank. The second is the next shot, which is her reacting to seeing that (obviously removed because there was nothing to cut it to). So in the rated cut, the head in the fish tank is only shown three times, while in the unrated cut, it is shown four times.
• When the man in car is knifed in the throat, another two shots have been removed. The first is the impact shot. The second is the knife being pulled out and him stumbling away from the car. Also, the shot showing his head bobbing back has been shortened.
• A closeup of the woman in car getting her throat slit is removed.
• The shot of the woman in car dying has been trimmed, removing the second half of it where the wound is shown. The shot runs for almost 20 seconds in the unrated cut, and 10 seconds in the rated.

The BBFC edits were made to shots of nudity and heavy cuts to the belt strangulation scene.

Thanks to MM:

The new R1 DVD included in the Twisted Terrors collection runs 84min 57sec & restores the heavy cuts to the UK Warner rental big box video PLUS the cuts to the US theatrical release made to avoid an X rating. The graphic killings of a couple having their throats cut are now restored.

This uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The Australian VHS from Warner is also said to be the uncut version