BBFC Cuts E: Eb-Em

Ebola Syndrome

See Self Censored List: Ebola Syndrome

Eddie Murphy: Delirious

Cut by the BBFC for 1986 18 rated VHS. The cut were later waived for 2009 15 rated DVD. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.

Summary Notes

Comedian Eddie Murphy brings his proudly raunchy comedy act to a sold-out stadium and pontificates in his own vulgarly hilarious fashion on such subjects as sexual orientation, puberty, dating, disciplinarian mothers, ice cream trucks, and the personality traits of certain singers.

Unrated

• 2009 Anchor Bay R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US:   uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2007 Studio Entertainment R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1986 CIC VHS

From IMDb. The BBFC cuts were:

• Cut by 11 seconds to remove a joke reference to heroin

Edge of Sanity

• Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde

Cut for 18 rated cinema and VHS releases in 1989. Uncut and 18 rated since 2004 DVD. Cut for a US MPAA R rating but the the Unrated Version is uncut.

Review from Trash City : Generally Solid

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.

Unrated

• 2004 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2016 Shout! Factory (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2002 MGM R1 DVD via US Amazon

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The cuts are:

• Murder 2. Removed Jeckyll pleasuring a bare breasted prostitute by rubbing his cane between her legs
• Removed Jeckyll slitting the throat of the same prostitute
• The several shots of her corpse are deleted
• Murder 3. Removed Jeckyll murdering a second prostitute with a scalpel.

• 1989 Palace VHS
• 1989 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The BBFC cuts are:

• Murder 1. Cuts to Jeckyll cutting a prostitutes slip off with a knife
• Cuts to the same prostitutes' naked behnd
• Cuts to Jeckyll hitting the prostitute
• Cuts to Jeckyll slitting her throat
• Murder 2. Removed Jeckyll pleasuring a bare breasted prostitute by rubbing his cane between her legs
• Removed Jeckyll slitting the throat of the same prostitute
• The several shots of her corpse are deleted

Edge of the Axe

Edward Scissorhands

• El joven manos de tijera

BBFC category cuts were required for PG rated 1991 cinema release, 1991 VHS and 1995 VHS.  The film was later passed 12 uncut for Blu-ray. Uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated in the US.

Summary Notes

In a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor's greatest creation - Edward, a near-complete person. The creator died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, he is left with metal scissors for hands. Since then, he has lived alone, until a kind lady called Peg discovers him and welcomes him into her home. At first, everyone welcomes him into the community, but soon things begin to take a change for the worse.

BBFC Case study

See further details in article from bbfc.co.uk

• 2015 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2007 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray

• 2015 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 20th Century Fox R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2007 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 1995 Fox Video VHS

• 1991 CBS/Fox VHS
• 1991 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

Reel 6: In final fight between Edward and Jim, reduce intensity of violence by:

• removing heavy kick to Edward's midriff as he rests on hands and knees after being hit by falling ceiling and

• by reducing sight of Edward being hit on head by board weileded by Jim to final blow only

Earth to Echo

MPAA Rated PG For some action and peril, and mild language.

The film was edited just prior to release and resubmitted to the MPAA. The MPAA noted that the content is different from the previously submitted PG rated version under title Echo in October 2013. The changes did not result in a rating change nor a change of rating reason.

Summary Notes

A group of friends investigate a series of bizarre text messages they receive after a construction project begins in their neighborhood.

Eden and After

• L'éden et après
• N Throws the Dice

Not cut in the UK or US. There exists an alternative version called N. Throws the Dice that is a remix of Eden and after

Promotional Material

From the darkly erotic imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet comes a dreamlike fable in which a group of decadent French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman (Pierre Zimmer). Once they imbibe his "fear powder," the students experience a series of hallucinatory episodes: ruminations on death, explorations of sexual curiosity, and striking tableaux of sadomasochistic fantasy.  This special edition includes an interview with writer/director Robbe-Grillet, and a complete alternate cut of the film, entitled N. THROWS THE DICE.

Unrated

• 2014 Bfi [Alain Robbe-Grillet Six Films] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 Bfi [Alain Robbe-Grillet Six Films] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

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

• 2014 Redemption [Original version + Alternative version] RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2014 Redemption [Original version + Alternative version] R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2014 Bfi [Alain Robbet-Grille Six Films] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 Bfi [Alain Robbet-Grille Six Films] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Alternative Version titled N Throws the Dice is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2014 Redemption [Original version + Alternative version] (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon

See article from strangethingsarehappening.com :

N. Rolls the Dice (N. a pris les de's... ) is less a new film as it is a radical remix of Eden and After, made for television using mostly footage and outtakes from the first film -- with some new footage -- to create something original. The film is a mystery -- it marks itself out immediately as an anti-detective film, criticising the way crime films are too clean, lacking the enigmas and the vagaries of real life. And so here, the titular character throws the dice to decide randomly what will develop in this story.

The Eel

• Unagi

Australia: The Madmen Entertainment DVD features the Director's Cut

• 2011 Artificial Eye R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1999 20th Century Fox VHS
• 1998 cinema release

The Eight Escorts

• 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)

8MM

• 8mm - Acht Millimeter

cut

Rated R

The film was heavily cut in the US to gain an R rating. No further cuts were required by the BBFC for the 1999 cinema release and 1999 Columbia/TriStar DVD.

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.

8MM 2

Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2007 Universal R2 DVD
• 2005 R2 DVD

This seems to be the Unrated Version. There is also a cut US R Rated version to avoid.

88 Minutes

There exists an alternative ending

Summary Notes

On the day that a serial killer that he helped put away is supposed to be executed, a noted forensic psychologist and college professor receives a call informing him that he has 88 minutes left to live.

• 2009 Warner Video
• 2008 cinema release

See The Devil Hunter

See Banned International: El Club

El Topo

• The Mole

 
Unrated

The BBFC waived their cuts for:

• 2007 Tartan R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2007 cinema release
• 1999 Nouveaux VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2011 Anchor Bay RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2007 Starz/Anchor Bay R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary review: The Original Cult Movie

It's not an ordinary movie, it has the look and feel of those violent Westerns produced in Mexico back in the 60's and 70's, but this is something more. Much, much more.

This film is often regarded as one of the original cult films that sparked the Midnight Movie craze of the seventies. If you have a taste for midnight movies and get a kick out of absurd or unconventional themes, you'll probably like this film on many levels. The film is a journey, and it's a testament to Alejandro Jodorowsky's vision and skill that one actually feels like they're along for the ride . The path in itself is just as mysterious as the implications of what awaits just beyond the horizon.

No one can tell you what it is, it simply has to be experienced. Much of what you take from this film is actually what you brought to it. Bring an open mind and you'll be amazed.

The submitted running time was noted as 124:47s = 119:48s

Elektra

Unrated

The BBFC passed the Director's Cut 12 without BBFC cuts for 2005 20th century Fox DVD

The Directors Cut restores the MPAA inspired cuts for PG-13 and also adds extra dialogue

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

cuts

PG-13

The MPAA inspired cuts are described in article from cosmos.net.au :

• At 6:55s the man in the chair is skewered by Elektra from behind. In the uncut version, you see his gun dangling from the tip of her sword, which protrudes from his shirt (a nice touch). In the cut version, this shot was replaced with a close-up shot of his hand holding the gun and then going limp. The director says the MPAA thought it was too early in the movie for something that graphic.
• At 57:01 Elektra's friend and business contact is decapitated while kneeling on the floor of his house. In the uncut version, you see the sword stroke touch his neck in one frame, followed by three frames of his head flying up and away from the neck. In the cut version, the frame prior to the blade touching the neck is shown, followed by an alternative shot of the antagonist swinging his sword, then it cuts to black.
• At 84:16 when Elektra dispatches the leader of the bad guys down a well, she stabs him twice in the uncut version, with the second occurring at 84:22, but only once in the cut version.
• At 85:06 Elektra throws one of her blades lethally at the evil Treasure woman through the hedges, and skewers her through the left eye. In the uncut version, three frames were restored in the profile shot of the knife approaching her and knocking her backwards. In the cut version, the scene cuts from the previous approach shot directly to the blade already in her eye and knocking her backwards.

Elfie Hopkins

• Elfie Hopkins: Cannibal Hunter

Cut by the BBFC for a 15 rating. No reports yet about the US release

• 2012 Kaleidoscope RB Blu-ray
• 2012 Kaleidoscope R2 DVD
• 2012 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

Company chose to make reductions in two scenes of bloody violence in order to achieve a 15 classification:

• A man being stabbed repeatedly with a knife (the number of stabs was significantly reduced)

• In one scene a man is shot in the head, resulting in a brief explosion of blood and gore. (the shot in question is extremely fleeting, having been reduced by cuts)

An uncut 18 classification was available.

From  Interview with David Cooke and Craig Lapper from  telegraph.co.uk . Senior BBFC examiner Craig Lapper said, (presumably about Elfie Hopkins):

• There's a forthcoming British movie that was a little bit too gory to get a 15 certificate. So I nipped round to the place where they were editing it and they [the film-makers] increased the shadows so that you could no longer see someone's jaw hanging off.

Eliminators

Uncut in the US but the BBFC cut a nunchuka scene by differing amounts for UK VHS.

Summary Notes: Aspiring to be a B Movie

A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.

I think this movie its intentions were quite serious but however the end result of course is nothing but a typical 80's B-movie and not a very good one either.

• 2013 Shout! Factory 4 Sci-Fi Movie Marathon at US Amazon

• 1995 NTV Entertainment VHS

From IMDb.

• The nunchuck scene when Kuji meets Nora & Harry is partially cut. The introduction of the weapon can be seen, though 10 seconds were removed from the rest of the sequence.

• 1986 Entertainment in Video VHS

From IMDb.

• The nunchuck scene when Kuji meets Nora & Harry is completely missing.

Elvis

• Elvis the Movie

The Extended Version was passed U Uncut for:

• 2010 Freemantlemedia R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1988 VCI VHS

There are also other versions:

• US Theatrical Version at ~150:00s = ~144:00s PAL
• German shortened Theatrical Version at 100:25s

Emanuele 3

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

A softcore version was further cut by the BBFC for cinema and VHS. The BBFC cuts were waived for DVD but still softcore

14:15s

• 2012 Firefly Video titled Emanuele 3
• 2012 Firefly Online titled Emanuele 3
• 2008 Pegasus R0 DVD titled Emanuele 3
• 2003 Pegasus R0 DVD titled Emanuele 3

The hardcore version runs at about 91 minutess so estimated pre-cuts for the softcore version are 14:15s

14:15s

• 1986 Network VHS titled Emmanuelle 3
• 1980 cinema release titled Emmanuelle 3

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

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

Cut by the BBFC for 1978 cinema release. Cut again for 2002 and 2004 18 rated DVD. The BBFC Cuts were waived for 2016 DVD and Blu-ray. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.

Summary Notes Classic Cannibal Flick

While doing undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of Amazonian cannibals

Emmanuelle and the Last Cannibals is simply put the best of the cannibal exploitation genre and for a good reason. First of all Laura Gemser is without a doubt, one of the sexiest women in the world

The jungle adventures are absolutely erotic, as everyone is constantly jumping each others bones. Including Gemser, and the sexy young blonde. That is until they run smack into the cannibals, and are inevitably captured, tortured, and eaten. Well, except for the sexy little blonde, who is stripped naked, and, well um, lets just say the cannibals had "other" ideas for her. Emmanuelle, however, is on the way, and to the rescue!

Unrated

• 2016 88 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 88 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Denmark: Uncut for:

• Dk Another World R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2003 Shriek Show R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2004 Starlite R2 DVD
• 2002 Orbit R0 DVD

The BBFC commented:

Cuts required to sight of woman's nipple being sliced off, sexualised rape and sexualised evisceration of women.

• 1978 cinema release

See Confessions of Emanuelle

Emanuelle in America

• Brutal Nights
• Black Emanuelle in America

Uncut version is available at:

The US release features the uncut Hardcore Version and is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2003 Blue Underground R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

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 lawsuit 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 rumour managed to circulate as truth.

Summary Review: Brutal Nights

Joe D'Amatos Emanuelle in America is one of the most notorious Italian sleaze epics ever. The story is about journalist Laura Gemser seeking out sensational news. She encounters a woman who loves horses, stays with a couple in Venice who hold big orgies, a hotel where old women pay for the services of willing men and a senator who likes snuff movies.

Director D'Amato leaves nothing to the imagination with some hardcore sex (mostly softcore), very disturbing snuff gore footage of women being tortured and the most famous scene a woman getting intimate with a horse!. If you like extreme sleaze cinema this film is a must see.

• 2011 Studio Canal Online
• 2011 Studio Canal DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Company chose to make cuts to four sequences to remove sight of unsimulated sexual detail (fellatio, vaginal penetration, masturbation, ejaculation) in order to obtain an 18 classification. An R18 classification without these cuts would have been available.

• In addition, company was required to make compulsory cuts to a scene of bestiality (unsimulated sight of a naked woman masturbating a horse), in accordance with the current interpretation of the Obscene Publications Act 1959. (Hopefully not caught by the Dangerous Pictures Act which prohibits only oral sex and intercourse with animals)

• Company was also required to make compulsory cuts to four sequences of sadistic and sexual violence (naked women being humiliated, tortured, raped, branded, strangled, mutilated, and being violently penetrated with spiked objects, poles and metal hooks).

5:49s

pre-cut
13:03s

• 1987 VPD VHS

See pictorial differences between softcore and hardcore versions at movie-censorship.com

• 1977 cinema release

Emanuelle in Bangkok

• Black Emanuelle Goes East
• Black Emanuelle En Orient
• Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage
• Emanuelle in Bangkok
• Emanuelle nera 2
• Black Emanuelle 2
• The New Black Emanuelle

Uncut in the US but all UK releases have been cut by up to 4:26s

• 2010 Severin R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2010 Severin Video on Demand (worldwide) at TlaCult.com

• 2008 Optimum R2 DVD titled Emanuelle in Bangkok

The BBFC commented:

• Compulsory cuts were required to remove a scene of rape that eroticises and endorses sexual violence
• and to remove two sequences of unsimulated animal cruelty (a cockfight and a fight between a mongoose and a snake).
• In addition, the company chose to remove explicit shots of unsimulated sexual activity (vaginal penetration with a ping pong ball) in order to obtain an '18' classification.
• An 'R18' without these cuts to sexual detail was available.

• 1995 Lumiere VHS Titled Black Emanuelle Goes East

• 1995 VPD VHS Titled Black Emanuelle Goes East

• 1977 cinema release titled Black Emanuelle 2

Emanuelle in Prison

The film was passed 18 uncut for the 2003 Michael Lee DVD.

Beware of a heavily cut US R Rated version

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

Emanuelle's Sweet Revenge

• 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 Pegasus 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.

Embalmed

• Mortuary

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2012 Scorpion R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Fairly Decent

Convinced that her father's death was not accidental, a beautiful girl decides to investigate to find out the truth, aided by her boyfriend. Her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, where many secrets will be revealed.

Fairly decent slasher flick with several jolts of suspense and gruesome deaths. Not a lot of blood and gore, but plenty of breasts both living and cadaver to enjoy. Fans of early 80's slasher flicks should give this one a try.

• 1986 Mighty Fair VHS

The heavy BBFC cuts were to:

• A stabbing with a surgical knife
• A murder with an axe in the back
• An embalming scene with topless nudity

Embrace of the Vampire

• The Nosferatu Diaries: Embrace of the Vampire

Uncut in the UK and on US Unrated releases. There is also a cut US R rated version

Summary Review: Alyssa Milano Nude

An 18-year-old college freshman is seduced by a handsome vampire lover who introduce her to a dark world of carnal desires.

So what does this movie have? Well, Alyssa Milano, frequently nude, and occasionally in softcore sex scenes. Does that make it worth watching? Yes, definitely if you enjoy Alyssa Milano. Her portrayal of a naive, virginal co-ed rings a little less than true, but her seduction scene with the photographer alone is almost worth the price of the tape. The vampire orgy sequence and her dream foursome certainly round out the cost of the video.

Unrated

• 2006 Medusa/E1 R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• 2003 Prism R2 DVD
• 1997 Medusa VHS

• 2013 Starz / Anchor Bay RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 1999 New Line R1 DVD via US Amazon

Emmanuelle

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

UK: Passed 18 uncut after BBFC cuts wived for:

• 2010 UK Optimum RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2007 UK Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2007 Lions Gate R1 DVD at US Amazon

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

Summary Review: Box office success

Emmanuelle , released in 1974 was the first soft core porn movie to achieve major box office success, and this after the French government tried to have it banned. With utter predictability this ensured the film was an overnight success in it's native France, and it also went on to triumph in the USA where it was marketed as an art house movie.

Directed by Just Jaeckin, who also directed The Story Of O the movie features some truly eye catching cinematography using the exotic Thai locations and the performance of the striking natural beauty Kristel is surprisingly good.

As soft-core porn Emmanuelle is probably as good as you will see. Judged purely as a piece of cinema it's not that great but most people will view it purely as the former so it does it's job very well.

• 2001 Momentum R2 DVD

See cuts details from sbbfc.co.uk :

The cut to the smoking of the cigarette was waived as tasteless but not harmful or illegal

• the rape scene was still reduced to establishment

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• 1990 Braveworld VHS

See cuts details from sbbfc.co.uk :

The sex cuts required on film in 1974 were no longer necessary by contemporary standards and only two cuts were insisted upon for video release, namely:

1. to remove the woman smoking a cigarette through her vagina and
2. to remove the entire rape in the opium den, as cut on film in the late 70s.

Unfortunately, a duplication error led to the uncut version being released on video in 1991, leading to a major and costly product recall.

• 1979 UK cinema release

See cuts details from sbbfc.co.uk :

• In 1979 the BBFC now under James Ferman went on a crusade against the depiction of sexual violence. They revoked the X certificate and asked for a further 1:01s of cuts to delete the rape scene.  Ferman warned the film's distributor that if the Board's requested cut of 61 seconds was ignored, he would inform local authorities that the film was illegal as it stood.

• 1974 cinema release

See cuts details from sbbfc.co.uk :

Cuts were made to the film, principally to reduce the sexual detail. As well as reducing the amount of implied thrusting, oral sex and masturbation in a number of sequences, the Board deleted an entire scene showing a night club act in which a woman 'smokes' a cigarette with her vagina.

Perhaps surprisingly given the later treatment of the film, a sequence in which Emmanuelle is raped in an opium den as part of her 'sexual education' was left largely intact, with only minimal cuts to reduce the amount of thrusting seen.

Emmanuelle 2

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

Unrated

UK: Passed 18 uncut with BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2012 Studio Canal video
• 2012 Studio Canal Online
• 2001 Momentum R2 DVD at Amazon titled Emmanuelle l'antivierge

• 1982 Thorn EMI VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Lionsgate R0 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: A very erotic soapy massage

Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover and American guest are both very puzzled by their openness.

Emmannuelle films are burdened with ponderous, annoying pretentiousness, and the audience must sit through way too much boring down-time between sex scenes that tend to tease more than satisfy.

However this episode features the lovely Catherine Rivet and it is well worthwhile sitting through the stodge  for the very erotic soapy massage.

• 2000 Universal VHS
• 1991 Braveworld VHS

• 1982 cinema release

UK: The cut version was also released on pre-cert VHS

See Emanuelle 3

Emmanuelle 4

• Emmanuelle IV

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 18 uncut for strong sex with all previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2011 Studio Canal Online
• 2011 Studio Canal video
• 2001 Momentum R2 DVD via UK Amazon

There are reports that hardcore scenes were shot, but were never used. These explicit scenes, which did not involve the main actors, have turned up as extras on some European DVD releases.

• 1987 Canon VHS

• 1984 cinema release

Emmanuelle 5

• 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".

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

A hardcore version was released in France:

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Emmanuelle 6

The BBFC cut 8s from the 1990 cinema version and 2s from the 1990 Video Programme Distributors video

There is also a French version with 10 minutes of added hardcore

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Emmanuelle: A World of Desire

• Emmanuelle 2: A World of Desire

Emmanuelle: Concealed Fantasy

Emmanuelle Goes to Cannes

• The Elementary Stud

Cut by a further 14s for the 1987 Sex-Cess & 2003 video and 2003 Pegasus DVD

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

Review from IMDb ; Emmanuelle Exploitation

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 Soho

The Softcore Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for the 1981 cinema release, 1986 Network video, 1997 Lazer video and 2010 Odeon DVD.

The US Version has an added 6 minute prologue.

There is also a Hardcore Version, but inserts were added that were not performed by the original cast.

Emmanuelle: Queen of the Galaxy

• Emmanuelle in Space

Emmanuelle's Revenge

Summary Notes

Sensual adventures in Africa and New Mexico for Emmanuelle as she learns a sexy secret of her good friend and former lover, Mario.

• 1997 IMC VHS

• When woman has troilistic sex with two men, remove sight of oral/genital and penetrative sex with all three parties involved simultaneously

Emperor of the North

• Emperor of the North Pole

The axe blows and chain were said to be restored for the 2007 Optimum DVD, but the BBFC still cut 3s: Compulsory cut required to remove sight of real animal cruelty, in this case using a live chicken to hit two characters.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb :

• All UK versions are cut by 3 secs to remove shots of 2 men being hit with a live chicken during a fight scene.
• Edits made to remove axe blows
• Edits made to a man being throttled by a chain.

Empire of the Ants

• H.G. Wells' Empire of the Ants

Heavily cut for an A rated cinema release in 1977. Uncut on 15 rated 2002 DVD. Uncut in the US.

Summary Notes

Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!

MPAA

• 2002 ILC Prime R0 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Shout! Factory (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon

• 1977 cinema release

From IMDb. The original UK cinema version was heavily cut for an A (PG) certificate to:

• reduce sounds of screaming
• heavily edit violence including attack scenes
• delete shots of bloodied bodies.

See Star Wars: Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back

An Empress and the Warriors

• Kong saan mei yan
• Jiang shan mei ren
• The Kingdom and the Beauty

The BBFC cut 7s from the DVD submitted in 2009: Company was required to remove sight of unsimulated animal cruelty (horses being tripped)