13:48s pre-cut and a further 29s cut by the BBFC

Same cuts for cinema and video versions. Slightly less cut for DVD

• Archer (John Travolta) asks his daughter whether she has protection and demonstrates a butterfly knife by whirling it around. This demonstration does not pass the censor as the butterfly knife is on their list of no-no's. One moment the blade is fully extended, and the next it is closed seamingly with no noise or movement. Also the cut causes a rather obvious sudden jump in the music track.
• The girl eventually gets to use the butterfly knife by stabbing Archer, but we don't get to see the knife.

See Gallery for pictures of the first of the missing scenes

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

One of the original video nasties that was finally passed when resubmitted in 2003

The BBFC sites records the following statement:

Compulsory cuts required to sight of fighting dogs and monkey being cruelly beaten to death.

The BBFC have also clarified exactly which part of the monkey eating scene has been cut.

The part of the scene that shows the brains being eaten (out of an obviously fake rubber head) has NOT been cut. What we HAVE cut is the material leading up to that in which a clearly real and clearly terrified monkey ("goaded to fear and fury" as the Animals Act puts it) is brought to the table in a special 'monkey eating' contraption and is then bashed on the head. It seems entirely possible that the head bashing was done with rubber hammers and the monkey came to no harm. However, the monkey was clearly - at least in the short term - restricted in a cage/head clamp and terrified and this is prohibited by law.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available here from US Amazon

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC statement: Cuts required to remove three sequences of real animal cruelty (rabbit being bashed against tree and continuing to struggle as its head is cut off; man biting head off chicken; and monkey with stick in mouth having tube forced down throat and liquid syringed into eyes),

The uncut region 1 DVD is available here from US Amazon

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following less than helpful BBFC statement: A cut was required to remove a scene of graphic sexual violence. Cuts to remove images in a video used in a court case involving a sex crime, including forcible stripping, knife threat and preparation for rape. The pseudo-documentary context was not considered a mitigating factor.

Two scenes were cut from the US release

Cut when submitted in 1987

• Mamba

The same cuts apply to the cinema release of 1989 and the video versions of 1989 & 1991

Thanks to MM:

• The missing 4s is a rabbit being bitten by a mamba

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Shown uncut on Zone Thriller

• Captive Rage
• Blood Ransom
• Fire with Fire

The video was cut in 1990 when submitted by Braveworld and the same cuts apply to this version submitted in 2002

The BBFC commented: Compulsory cut required to remove a scene of sexual violence.

Thanks to MM who reports that one version, Hollywood DVD, is uncut and includes the rape footage cut by the BBFC

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cut required to remove illegal horsefall

16:34s unofficial pre-cuts

11:33s pre-cut

All video versions from 1991 to 2006 have been cut to remove a cockfight. The cuts to achieve this have varied from 12s to 26s

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cut for requested 18 category required to remove unarguably real sexual activity (cunnilingus)

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

• New York 2H du matin

Update from Starz Forum

The US R rated version was passed uncut in in 2000 for Missing In Action and then again in 2007 for 2 Entertain Video.

The US "R" rated video from Thorn EMI/HBO has a mixture of bits and pieces both from the edited for TV UK video release and the Dutch uncut video version.

• Most of the dialogue is unchanged but Billy Dee Williams last line in the UK version, Maybe you are, take him home,  is here, and not the one from the Dutch release, Get him out of here! As this alters the tone of the ending, maybe this was requested by the distributors. Also, the music at the end is a reprise of the song "New York Dolls" heard in the UK version, not the instrumental heard over the Dutch version.

There was also an uncut  French DVD that featured the TV version padding as an extra

EMI acquired a TV version of this video in 1986 so it is outrageously butchered. This version has been reissued by Warner Brothers and then Lumiere in 1994.

Cut by approximately 7 minutes (but padded out by an extra 6 minutes of TV version material). The same version was passed for cinema.

1. All strip club scenes have been shortened
2. All murders reduced especially that of Rae Dawn Chong.
3. The killer practising his nunchucks in his own room rather predictably gets the chop...
4. ... as does their use in attack on a woman in the park
5. Michael Gazzo's Shit, I'd give my only nut becomes Shoot, I'd give my only son

The BBFC waived their cuts for the DVD release of 2007

From Cult Movie Forums:

• This is missing the scene where Earl tries to 'seduce' Taffy with his (literally) scabby cock being cut.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• Les Avaleuses
• Bare Breasted Countess
• The Black Countess
• La Comtess aux Seins Nu
• La Comtesse Noire
• Entfesselte Begierde
• Erotkill
• Erotikiller
• Jacula
• Yacula
• The Last Thrill
• The Loves of Irina
• Sicarius: The Midnight Party
• Verentahrima Morsian

The BBFC cut the DVD version of 2002 with the following comment: Cut required to remove sight of non-consenting woman being stripped and forced to engage in sex with two other women

Hardcore scenes have been well hacked by the BBFC but the film is notable because they missed a bit. One of the sex scenes retains about 1s of unsnipped fellatio.

The film La Comtesse aux Seins Nus exists in at least three distinctly different versions: Erotikill, Erotikiller, Female Vampire, and La Comtesse Noir [The Dark Countess] are the R-rated versions which retain the violence, but excludes the hardcore footage.

Les Avaleuses [The Swallowers] and The Loves of Irina are sex versions editions with most of the violence excluded.

Jaccula and La Comtesse aux Seins Nus are supposedly completely uncut, with all scenes of sex and violence intact.

Thanks to Bleach on The Melon Farmers Forum:

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 1996.

• At 72.5 mins - In fight in store-room, close up of knuckle duster was removed.
• At 73 mins - In outside assault scene featuring man in garden, close ups of throwing star in man`s hand and embedded in victim`s neck were removed, resuming on victim falling backwards.
• At 84.5 mins - In fight scene inside room, close up of man holding throwing star was removed.
• At 86 mins - In same fight, close up of arm being broken with bloody results and subsequent extreme close up of hand holding throwing star were removed, resuming on man in white top.

The region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon which contains original and overdubbed versions

Language has been cut for a cinema PG but this has been restored on video

The cut removes a shot of a man slashing a woman's neck with a knife after stalking her for a while.

+ cinema cuts

BBFC cuts waived when resubmitted in 2005

Same cuts for cinema and the Fox Pathe video versions from 2000.

The film had already been cut to obtain a US rating and was further cut by the BBFC

• In the scene where the gangster beats up Brad Pitt, an overhead shot as Pitt receives a punch to the face is completely missing,
• In the scene where Edward Norton beats Jared Leto's face to a pulp, the third punch in the first load of hits has been cut and several hits as his face becomes bloodied during the last load of hits have been removed in two cuts

Cut when submitted for a cinema certificate in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove violent elements from a work in order to achieve a '12A' category (in this instance, strong detail of stabbings). A '15' uncut was available to the company.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove one scene of clearly unsimulated female masturbation

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Compulsory. A compulsory cut was required to remove references to underage sexual development which are likely to encourage an interest in underage sexual activity,

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

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following statement: Distributor chose to remove derogatory use of the words 'spaz' and 'spastic' in order to get a U. An uncut 12 was available to the distributor

• Bump in the Night
• Campsite Massacre
• The Forest Primeval

The running time suggests that the video versions of 1987 & 1996 are uncut

• The Great Train Robbery

The 12 rated video was cut for animal cruelty in 2001 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts required to sight of ratting.

All cuts waived when resubmitted in 2002

Spoiled US President's son slips away to a shopping mall to meet a mentally disturbed villain with a gun. The BBFC found this confrontation too violent for the target audience and extensively re-edited the scene with the following justification: First Kid had to be cut to reduce the sense of threat as the hero was subjected to a psychotic gun attack in a shopping mall. The terrorisation of a child character in a conventially safe environment was felt to be a violation of trust, as was the unexpected onset of violence so close to the end of the film.

• Jing Wu men
• The Chinese Connection
• The Iron Hand

All cuts waived when resubmitted in 2001

1. The lengthy nunchaku segment of Bruce Lee's first raid on the Japanese dojo has been cut out completely. The missing footage shows Lee twirling the nunchakus around his head and body, and fending off numerous attackers with blows to the head and legs.
2. The film's second Nunchaku scene has also been cut. We no longer see Lee defending himself from the Japanese villan's sword, before disarming him and throwing his own weapon to the ground.
3. A second cut to the above scene removes the bit where Lee leaps through the air delivering a kick to the villan's throat that sends him flying backward through a nearby shoji screen. Ending the fight rather abruptly.

• Jing wu men xu ji
• Chinese Connection 2
• Ching wu men su tsi
• Fist of Fury II
• Fistful of the Dragon
• Fists of Fury II

Same cuts for all video/DVD versions in addition to the film cuts

• The BBFC were having a downer on nunchaku and so these are deleted
• A scene of unspecified animal cruelty has been deleted

• A double ear clap was removed
• A fatal beating is missing

• Flavia, la Monaca Musulmana
• Flavia the Rebel Nun
• Flavia, Priestess of Violence
• The Heretic
• The Muslim Nun
• The Rebel Nun

It has been reported that the 2008 release on the Shameless label will be uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon for a release 28th Jan 2008

Review from Amazon US

Flavia the Heretic is different from other exploitation films. Instead of being gore and sex hidden under a thin shroud of message, Flavia the Heretic has a legitimate message (absurd as it might be at times), but gets grouped in with the sex and gore movies that the Italians are so famous for.

After sharing a brief smile with a Muslim soldier before he gets decollated, Flavia is sent to a convent by her uncaring father, where she is haunted by apparitions of angels and unexplained torture of fellow nuns.

Flavia manages to seduce the leader of the Muslim invaders after he defeats a group of Christian infidels, including one who Flavia has a certain grudge against. Flavia then frees the nuns and tries to imagine a utopian feminist society, exemplified in a very well directed surreal dream sequence.

But things fall through for our heroine...

The movie is more than nunsploitation. None of the scenes are all that violent. Movies like Behind Convent Walls were certainly more sexually graphic and dwelt much longer on the sex scenes in attempt to make the erotic. No such attempts were made in this movie.

1. Horse castration: a shot of the horses testicles is cut followed by details of the procedure.
2. Swineherd's daughter's rape: a glimpse of the girls breasts is deleted along with the mounting by the male and some struggling by the girl.
3. Nun being tortured: cuts to views of the nun's breast being burnt and a close up of a nipple being cut off
4. Rape victim's revenge: The above rapist himself gets raped but shots of breasts and the girl gasping have been deleted.
5. Skinning alive: Flavia is skinned alive but we do not get to see fingers digging into an ankle wound nor skin being pulled from her leg.

• Flesh & Blood
• The Rose and the Sword

The cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2005

Same cuts for the cinema and the Rank Video Library version from 1986

The scene in which Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is gang raped by Martin (Rutger Hauer) and his gang is reduced.

• Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
• Il Mostro e in Tavola... Barone Frankenstein
• Carne per Frankenstein
• Chair pour Frankenstein
• Andy Warhol's Young Frankenstein
• De la chair pour Frankenstein
• The Devil and Dr. Frankenstein
• Frankenstein
• The Frankenstein Experiment
• Up Frankenstein

Cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2006.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon

7 minutes were restored from the cinema version but cuts were still required when submitted in 1996.

This contributed to the wind  up of the frenzied press and the video got added to the video nasties list

The 1988 video was cut by the BBFC. A later UK release is reported as being longer but there is no record on the BBFC database. The cuts are said to be to the orgy scene.

X Rated scenes have been previously released but supposedly destroyed. There is also a version with 10 extra minutes of restored footage.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category., The cuts were Compulsory. A cut was required to sight of neck holding - breath

Pre-cut when submitted in 2006 after a BBFC advice viewing. The BBFC commented: The animated tale originally contained uses of ‘bugger’ and ‘bloody’. These were replaced by ‘blinkin’’ and ‘bother’ in the cut submitted for final classification

• Father Goose
• Flying Wild

The mild expletive "holy shit" was judged too strong for the requested U certificate

Orinally cut by 2:48s for a PG cinema certificate. These cuts seem to have persisted into the 15 rated video version. The excised material is from a scene involving a spliff.

The scene reappeared when shown on BBC2 (Feb 2002)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut clear sexual detail (in this instance oral genital contact) in order to achieve an 18 certificate

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. A compulsory cut was required to remove dialogue references which are likely to encourage an interest in underage sexual activity

The cinema version and all video versions until 1991 suffered the same cuts

From IMDb

• Edits to scenes of drug use
• All footage of nunchakus removed

The cinema version was cut back in 1982 and the only video version was cut in 1986.

• The BBFC took offence to a scene in an alley where a youth was showing off with his nunucku to Chuck Norris...silly boy...silly BBFC

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US

Forced Vengeance is about much raw strength and nice evil characters. Real characters, not the usual martial arts actors of the nineties. It's great.

So, the fights here are not dozens of minutes but a few hard hits. And to see, how these hits work, give it a brutal flavor. The colors in the movie are sometimes neon lights, sometimes a very hard contrast to blood

Forced Vengeance is about 60% dialogue and 40% fights / violence. I would say it is pretty good. Plus Joy is a cutie. Plus it has good music. Plus the letter characters for the cast are really stylish (note that in the making of a film even the fonts have to be chosen).

Chuck Norris is not there to make a good movie actor but to hit damn hard, and he does.

According to the BBFC: Heavy cuts were imposed on the video Forrest Warrior, which featured boys being taught how to deliver kicks to the head.

The last version submitted was in 1999. It was not cut by the BBFC but see below

From IMDb

The US R rated version is slightly cut in two places. When the claustrophobic prisoner (Alan Zitner) is killed at the beginning an extra shot of blood oozing out of the wound is missing. Also D Day's (Jeffrey Combs) death has been shortened.

The UK video and laserdisc are uncut and contain the footage cut from the US version. The UK DVD is the cut version.

• Lady Libertine

Thanks to MM:

3:08s minutes were cut from the 1984 cinema release and these cuts have found there way into the video/DVD releases of 1985 & 2006

• When 'Frank' is caned by Charles who believes she is male, sight of cane in front of her bare buttocks was removed. Most of the blows were also removed so idea is established only enough for him to realise she is a woman. No welts may be featured on Frank's buttocks.
• Dialogue "Weren't you angry when I beat you?", "No,somehow after it I loved you more - it was terrible but very exciting..."was removed.
• In scene in which Madam beats blonde with slipper, close up of bare buttocks before beating begins was removed, cutting away after skirt is
  lifted.
• In brothel entertainment, entire enactment of sequence: "Punishment of a Nihilist in a Russian prison" was removed. (the longest censor cut)
• When Charles meets the Count on stairs, dialogue line: ...including a little more punishment was removed.
• Flagellation scene after 'Frank' asks Charles to punish her with cane was reduced to absolute minimum, resuming as he asks her for forgiveness.

There is an unrated region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

The version playing on the UK satellite channel Movies 4 Men as Lady Libertine is also uncut. So maybe would no longer be cut if the full version were to be submitted, or maybe not

• Dune
• Frank Herbert's Dune - Der Wüstenplanet
• Der Wüstenplanet

Cut in 2001 with the following contradictory BBFC statement: Compulsory cut required to remove sight of a man having his neck broken in a fight sequence in order to achieve a 12 classification,

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Cut for cinema release in 1972. Presumably Warners couldn't be bothered to track down the uncut original when submitting the video pre-cut in 1996:

• A deleted  close-up of the bloodied throat of the murdered asylum director (John Stratton)
• Cuts to some of the footage of the asylum maniac ripping up the monster and eating parts of him.
• Missing shot of severed hands in coffin
• Missing shot of monster’s eye being put in socket

The most complete version is the German DVD which only suffers the cut close up to bloodied throat

• Deadtime Tales
• Freaky Film Tales

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make multiple cuts to clearly unsimulated and explicit sexual activity

Same cuts to the cinema release and the only BBFC video submission in 1988

• At 14m remove kick to head of blonde man on floor by James Caan
• At 98m in killing of transvestite in toilets, reduce number of shots fired into body to two only. (This is reduced from 5 shots).

Recent screenings on Film Four appeared to be intact and was noticeably extended from the version previously broadcast on Channel 5. This extended multiple shooting was also included in the Channel 4 documentary, The Celluloid Closet.

The BBFC waived the cuts when resubmitted in 2007

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon for release 22nd October 2207

• The killer is confronted by his wife regarding his porn magazine collection. This is missing one title courtesy of the BBFC, namely, Cock Sucking Toddlers
• Towards the end, a cop sees the naked body of the murdered gran, but we don't

May 2007: The movie is being shown on Zone Thriller uncut so perhaps this indicates that the BBFC would now pass the film uncut

Passed uncut in 2001.

Uncut region 2 available on UK Amazon

Cut in when submitted in 1989

Ferman has taken a dislike to a tactfully handled rape scene. Even the BBC and ITV have OK'd this scene on several screenings.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut sight of unsimulated sexual activity - oral-genital contact during cunnilingus - when man's mouth is clamped over woman's pubes and his tongue also flickers in and out of her genitalia - to gain an '18'. An 'R18' uncut was available to the distributor. 'R18' material can only be sold in licensed sex shops.

Cut in 2007 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to make two cuts to real sexual activity (penetration by dildo and strap-on dildo). An uncut R18 was available to the distributor

Cut by 52s by the BBFC in 2007 with the following comment: Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case, oral-genital contact and digital penetration) to gain an 18 classification.

The R18 version runs at 121:07s so at least 29:38s have been cut or pre-cut

The full uncut version was submitted for an uncut video certificate in 2003

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The film was cut by about 10s for a US R rating. This cut version was submitted for the UK cinema release and pre-VRA video. No further cuts were required by the BBFC for the video release. The cut scenes are available as RealPlayer clips at Dark Angel's Relam of Horror

1. Annie has her throat cut. The 18 cert, version adds the white out before we get a good glimpse at the Tom Savini created FX.
2. Kevin Bacon's girlfriend gets an axe in the skull: Once again this cuts away to an early, imposed, whiteout. There is about a second more of gory detail. (see below)
3. A birds eye view of Kevin Bacon with a spear exiting out of his throat has been censored (this is approx. 4 seconds long). The current version shows us a side view of his death then jumps before we get the other angle.
4. The decapitation of Mrs. Voorhees has been cut of one sequence involving her headless torso. The cut is quite obtrusive and the sequence has been slightly re edited so that we cut back to Alice sooner than we should. The sound jumps too, so it's not hard to notice this cut.

In Tom Dewe Matthew's Censored book, and elsewhere, a still of the first female victim (in the prologue) with a machete through her throat is printed. In the film we do not see her murder, the screen instead giving way to the title. This scene was, presumably, filmed but whether it was cut for a USA cinema rating seems confusing.

It has been reported to me that the second cut in the list is restored on the 1995 release of the video from Warner Home Video (Terrorvision) Catalog No SO11172.

Cut by the director to achieve a US R rating. This cut version was submitted to the BBFC and no further cuts were required.

MPAA cuts from ATTIC Censorship:

• The decapitation from part 1 shown as a flashback has the decapitation once again trimmed for the blood-gushing from the cut throat.
• Blood was cut from the death of Alice.
• Crazy Ralph's death was briefly reduced from the wire-cut.
• The scene where Jason hits a cop in the head with a hammer was cut to non-bloody.
• Scott's throats-lit was toned down from the bloodflow.
• Graphic close-up on Mark's machete-hit face is cut out.
• The scene where Jason impales the love-making couple with a spear was originally longer; it showed the spear actually being stabbed in the boy's back, while the girl screamed.

• Friday the 13th; Part 3: 3D

BBFC cuts waived when resubmitted in 2003

The US producers themselves implemented two minor trims:

• There is a missing shot of a body cut in half above a hammock

Also one shot, Vera's eye side angle, was forced out by the MPAA for a US R rating.

I don't know if the R rated version was submitted to the BBFC bit it is a pretty sure bet

• Fiday the 13th Part 4

BBFC cuts waived when resubmitted in 2003

This has the climactic scene of Jason's 'demise' truncated. We see a machete strike the side of his head. The cut sequence shows him falling forward on the machete and it passing through his eye.

• Friday the 13th: Part 5: A New Beginning

BBFC cuts waived when resubmitted in 2003

Cut for a cinema release and cut further for video

The BBFC cut all shots of topless girls.

BBFC cuts waived when resubmitted in 2003

The video version has the same cuts as the cinema version. The US R rated version was submitted to the BBFC but this had been heavily cut to avoid an MPAA X rating.

BBFC cuts waived when resubmitted in 2003

An MPAA edit replaces a boxer having both his eyes shot out with arrows with Jason shoving a hot rock through his stomach.

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

23:23s pre-cut by distributor

• Femina ridens
• The Laughing Woman
• Gioco d'amore, gioco di morte

The DVD was passed uncut in 2008. This is an extended version with additional footage.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from IMDb: Eurocult

The Frightened Woman is a curious piece of Eurocult, much along the same lines as the films that Jess Franco was churning out around the same time. The film very much captures the feel of late sixties to early seventies European cinema and the atmosphere is definitely the film's best asset. It's lucky that the film will to appeal to fans of this sort of film too, as the idea behind the central plot line is pretty damn ridiculous!

Naturally, the entire film is really rather pointless; and while The Frightened Woman isn't exactly a thrill ride, there's still some interest. The acting is typically trashy, although the leads; Philippe Leroy and Dagmar Lassander give decent leading performances considering the type of film. Overall, I wouldn't recommend anyone going out of their way to find this film; but if you're a fan of trashy Jess Franco stuff, you might just like this too.

See full article from IMDb:

• Cut to remove photographic shots of women being tortured.

A later re-release mistakenly featured the uncut version.

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2005

Cuts to Jeffery Coombs' head explosion:

In the chapter, "Dammers loses his head", when Dammers (Jeffrey Combs) is shot his head explodes leaving his ghostly face in the middle with a confused expression,and separate gory parts of his head hanging around him. On the NTSC disc this is complete and is then followed by Michael J. Fox falling backwards through the floorboards.

In the UK  version, as Dammers head starts to explode the picture cuts to Fox beginning to fall backwards. Then it cuts back to Dammers looking confused with the parts of his head hanging around him, before going back to Fox, so you lose the force of the explosion.

• Cover Up
• Frightmare II
• Once Upon a Frightmare

No record of any cuts to any video or DVD release

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from IMDb: Impressive

This is an impressive downbeat British horror from the Pete Walker / David McGillivray partnership which, despite its gory reputation, works on more of a psychological level.

From the grainy black & white prologue, with a pre-Fawlty Towers Andrew Sachs visiting a deserted fairground, to the terrifying climax in a farm attic, 'Frightmare' holds itself together incredibly well.

The bulk of the narrative revolves around twenty-something Jackie and her wild-child teenage sister Debbie. Jackie frequently goes to visit her parents in an isolated farmhouse, both of whom have recently been released from a mental institution. The atmosphere of unease built up in these family scenes is almost suffocating, with Sheila Keith putting in a virtuoso performance as Dorothy, the mother.

The film has been termed as Britain's answer to 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and make no mistake, 'Frightmare' is every bit as impressive as its more famous American counterpart. There are also a few nods to Hitchcock's 'Psycho' and once again any comparisons are favourable.

'Frightmare' really delivers the goods though and should be in everyone's list of Top Cult Horror Films.

• The Offspring

• HP Lovecraft's From Beyond

The 1987 and 1991 video release were cut by the BBFC

• The BBFC were upset by a head being pulled off
• and the molesting of Katherine's breast

In addition the MPAA cut over a minute to achieve an R rating.

The scene that upset the MPAA is when Jeffrey Combs’ character’s pineal gland has gone out of control and he’s hungry for brains. He attacks a psychiatrist, played by my wife [Carolyn Purdy-Gordon], and he plants his mouth onto her eye socket and starts sucking. And the material that was cut out was when he actually sucks her eyeball out, spits it onto the floor and the eyeball lands looking back up at him and he continues to suck her brains through the eye socket and the camera pushes in.

See more details on the MPAA cuts

The Region 1 Director's cut is on pre-release at US Amazon (released Sept 11th 2007)

The film was censored in the US to achieve an R rating. And it was this R rated print that was submitted to the BBFC. The BBFC did not make any further cuts.

The cuts were to some of the gorier scenes. The US 'Directors Edition' laserdisc (Dimension Home Video) contains a supplement of the deleted scenes and reveals the following:

• 6s :A vampire slicing a customer's throat in the bar
• 15s: Tom Savini having his arm bitten by a vampire, the flesh being torn away from his arm. Savini then stakes the vampire in the chest, rips the stake from the chest and repeatedly bashes the vampire about the head.

The complete version has been shown on TV1000

• Les Fruits de la passion
• The Story of O Continued

Released as Les Fruits de la passion

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2005 by Nouveaux Pictures

• Gokudô sengokushi: Fudô

Cut when submitted in 2002 with the BBFC comment: Compulsory cut required to remove elements of sadistic violence and humiliation in scene where woman is brutally beaten by man.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon

A Takashi Miike is always worth looking out for, and this one was highly anticipated. It's one of his earlier Yakuza movies, but still very Miike in approach.

Riki (Shosuke Tanihara) is the smartest, best-looking kid in his high school. He also runs the place with