BBFC Cuts F: Fb-Fm

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The German release featuring the Director's Cut is FSK-16 rated for:

• De Blu-ray via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

There is also a Director's Cut with 2:24s of extra non-contentious material.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com:

The Director's Cut contains 2:24s of extra non-contentious material.

• UK 2010 Universal R0 Blu-ray
• UK 2008 Universal R2 DVD
• UK 1999 Universal R2 VHS
• UK 1999 CIC R2 VHS
• UK 1998 cinema release

Fear City

• New York 2H du matin

Uncut version is available at:

The Dutch DVD is uncut for:

• NL R2 DVD via UK Amazon

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

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R Rated

The US R rated version was passed without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2007 2 Entertain DVD
• UK 2000 MIA VHS

Update from Starz Forum:

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.

The butchered US TV Version was further cut by the BBFC by 1:10s for:

• UK 1994 Lumiere VHS
• UK 1986 EMI VHS
• UK 1986 cinema release

Pre-Cut for US TV by approximately 7 minutes (but padded out by an extra 6 minutes of TV version material).

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

Fear No Evil

Fearless

• Huo Yuan Jia
• Jet Li's Fearless
• Legend of a Fighter

Unrated

The Director's cut was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2008 Universal (Director's Cut + UK Theatrical) R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

The US release featuring the Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2011 Universal (Director's Cut + UK Theatrical + US Theatrical) R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2008 Universal (Director's Cut + UK Theatrical + US Theatrical) R1 DVD via via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Other versions:

• US Theatrical Version was cut to achieve a PG-13 Rating
• Thai Theatrical Version featuring an extra fight with the Thai boxer called Bei Cha
• Hong King Theatrical Version

Summary Review: Last for Jet Li

Fearless is inspired by the life of Huo Yuan Jia, real-life Chinese martial arts master. Jet Li plays this legendary figure, whose martial arts style and fearless fight helped the people in China regain their pride in the early 20th century when China was intimidated and humiliated by the growing Western and Japanese powers.

In Fearless Jet Li has shown his best performance since Once Upon A Time In China and the fight scenes (choreographed by Yuen Woo Ping) are all fantastic, sometimes visceral, and sometimes graceful, and always powerful. Good and smooth editing and gorgeous production designs also help greatly to create the background.

Fearless is a first-rate martial arts action film.

Unrated

• UK 2008 Universal (Director's Cut + UK Theatrical) R0 Blu-ray

• UK 2006 Universal R2 DVD

• UK 2006 cinema release

See article from dvdcompare.net

Director Ronny Yu reduced the length of 'Fearless' from 143 minutes to 103 minutes to speed up the pacing of the movie. The subplot with Michelle Yeoh has been cut. In the original cut the story of Huo Yuanjia is told by Miss Yang an Olympic official. In the early part of the movie Huo Yuanjia is in exile in a Thai village and to save a boy from being punished for stealing an ox, he is forced into a match with a local boxer, played by Somluck Kamsing. Ronny Yu made the cut after audiences from an internal screening criticized the film for being too slow and the Olympic sub-story being too irrelevant to the main plot.

See further pictorial details at www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com

The Fearless Vampire Killers

• Dance of the vampires
• The Fearless Vampire Killers or, Pardon Me But Your Teeth are in my Neck

See video from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

UK: Passed 12 uncut for:

• UK 2004 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1999 Terrovision VHS
• UK 1995 Warner VHS as The Fearless Vampire Killers

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Jokes and Atmosphere

The film perfectly captures the atmosphere of a snow- covered Transylvania, plagued by the sinister menace of an evil that the locals would rather keep under wraps. When the hapless Alfred (Roman Polanski) and his master Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) arrive at an inn for the night, they stumble upon a community reluctant to discuss their embarrassing secret.

The exaggeratedly Jewish local innkeeper Shagal (played brilliantly by Alfie Bass) does his best to feign ignorance, as nearly all of the villagers clam up tight, but the game is afoot. Add to the recipe the beautiful innkeeper's daughter (the simply lovely Sharon Tate) with whom Alfred falls instantly in love, and the scene is set for a wonderful tale of good over evil in the twilight world of the un-dead.

There are many subtle jokes along the way, as well as some very obvious slapstick, but the lair of the vampires is truly menacing and with a haunting score to emphasise the plot, this film simply works on many levels.

• UK 1986 MGM/UA VHS as Dance of the Vampires

• UK 1967 cinema release as The Fearless Vampire Killers
• UK 1967 cinema release as Dance of the Vampires

From IMDB:

• Heavy cuts were made by the BBFC to the scene of Von Krolock attacking Sarah in her bath in order for the film to receive an A certificate.

The submitted running time was noted as 108:16s = 103:56s PAL

This film was originally released in the United States in an edited version shortened by approximately 20 minutes. All actors voices redubbed to make them more American-sounding, the music was slightly altered and a cartoon prologue featuring Abronsius & Alfred was added. This was done by producer Martin Ransohoff without Roman Polanski's approval. Other edits included the shortening of the trip to Krolock's castle, the shots of Shagal watching the maid cleaning the floor as he stomps the sauerkraut, and Alfred searching for the mysterious voice in the castle corridors.

Upon seeing this American version, Polanski tried to have his name removed from the credits.

Feast II: Sloppy Seconds

• Feast 2

Unrated

The Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2010 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Weinstein R1 DVD at US Amazon

There is also a US R Rated version targeted just at censorial outlets such as Blockbuster

Feast III: The Happy Finish

• Feast 3

Unrated

The Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2010 Optimum Online
• UK 2010 Optimum R2 DVD via UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2009 Weinstein R1 DVD at US Amazon

There is also a US R Rated version targeted just at censorial outlets such as Blockbuster

Feel the Noise

The BBFC cut 12s for:

• 2010 Anchor Bay R2 DVD

The BBFC explained:

• A compulsory cut was required to a scene of animal cruelty (in this instance two birds goaded to fury and seen pecking and fighting each other during a cockfight)

• Feeling It, Not Faking It

Felicity

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for:

UK 2008 Severin DVD no sign of an actual release though

The US release features the Director's Cut and is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2006 Severin Video on Demand (worldwide) at TlaCult.com
• US 2006 Severin R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Glory Glory

An Australian answer to Emmanuelle that is a bit short on plot but seems to have hit the mark with the innocent fresh sensuality of the lovely Canadian actress, Glory Annen.

The softcore action starts off in a boarding school and then off to the almost mandatory Far East for further education.

• UK 1991 Tower VHS

• UK 1979 cinema release

Female Animal

The BBFC cut the 1971 cinema release.

The original running time was 82:55s

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

See review from IMDb: Eurotrash

On the surface, this looks like one of those erotic 60s art-house flicks which were imported by American entrepreneurs solely for their sex content. It even possesses the de rigueur subtext exposing the moneyed class for its decadence and its exploitation of the naive masses. However, it's all a scam -- it was intentionally made in Puerto Rico by these self-same American entrepreneurs to resemble a European flick -- and quite successfully so.

The film is well enough constructed and filmed to be watchable, with plenty of nudity, though it's overly melodramatic and dully predictable for long stretches. As well, there are a couple of psychedelic sequences for Swinging Sixties buffs. The star Angelique is quite a dish and is not averse to shedding her threads at the least provocation. At the same time, the filmmakers strive to offend conservative viewers (in true pseudo-Euro style) by including a lascivious hypocritical priest among the sordid proceedings, by using a soda bottle as an erotic device, and by being a bit unsubtle about Angelique's relationship with her housecat.

Female Trouble

The BBFC waived their cuts for the DVD release of 2007

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

Review from UK Amazon: Pope of Trash

His films are Legendary...but out of all that I have seen this one seems to stand out the most...and is one of the most hilarious comedies that I have ever seen!

DIVINE is fantastic in every scene he's in...he will be missed.

It is occasionally vulgar but all for good measure and although gross out, it has a hard impact that makes you feel for the characters...and what characters they are, Aunt Ida is scene stealing.

It's basically a really dirty Carry On movie...only far classier...and arguably more enjoyable... It may offend some people.

A genuinely great film from the Pope of Trash John Waters who has to be one of my favourite directors due to him taking the piss out of everyday life and pushing humor beyond the boundaries.

From Cult Movie Forums:

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

Female Vampire

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

The softvore version was further cut by 1:51s for the 2002 Arrow DVD. Cut required to remove sight of non-consenting woman being stripped and forced to engage in sex with two other women

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

Les Avaleuses [The Swallowers] and The Loves of Irina are softcore versions editions with most of the violence excluded. Runs 97m

Erotikill, Jaccula and La Comtesse aux Seins Nus are supposedly completely uncut, with 4 hardcore sex scenes of sex and violence intact. Runs 105m

The softcore version has 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.

• Cut to heavily edit the lesbian/bondage scene
• cut to remove shots of female masturbation
• cuts to sexual close ups.

Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters

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

Fiebre

• Fever

X Rated

UK: Banned by the BBFC for

• UK 1975 cinema release

Summary review from IMDB: Atmosphere of strangeness

In 1968 and 1969, Amando Bo and Isabel Sarli produced their three masterpieces: Carne, Fuego y Fiebre, three films that are unique in the world, three films that influenced John Waters big time and were a clear precedent to his revolutionary work.

Fiebre is an amazing piece of experimental film-making. The idea is Isabel falls in love with a horse. An so we see shots of her touching her breast over imposed with shots of the horse's organ for an hour nd a half. It sounds boring. It's not.

Bo's movies have an atmosphere of strangeness. They deserve a place in film history.

The Fiend

• Beware My Brethren

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2010 Odeon R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Summary Review: Rampage of Redemption

As though enough pretty young women to fill a stadium haven't already been murdered in these films, a young man under the influence of a religious cult goes on a rampage of 'redemption,' murdering countless -- what else? -- young women.

Something of a minor horror that is watchable rather than notable. The cinematic style has been likened to the British sex comedies of the time. Patrick Magee provides couple of plus points for the film.

• UK 1981 Derann Pre-cert VHS
• UK 1972 cinema release

The US release features the same cut version for:

• US 2005 Redemption R1 DVD

From cuts details on IMDb:

Comparison of Derann video with uncut version shown on BBC in 2001:

• The opening murder in the BBC version includes a more prolonged strangulation scene, as well as some further nudity as Kenny strips his dead victim (Janette Wild). There's also the sight of him removing a watch and necklace from the naked corpse, adding a (slightly out of place) petty criminal element to Kenny's religiously motivated crimes.
• The title scenes are slightly different, the BBC version plays the title over a still shot of the killer's boots (the rest of the credits appear the same way). The Derann version plays the title over a blue box background.
• When Kenny first plays the audio tapes back of his killings there is some cutaways to historical torture paintings. The older Derann version includes two brief shots of the same painting, the BBC version contains the same two shots but lingers on them a little longer and goes on to another shot of a second (more graphic) painting.
• The murder of the prostitute (Terry Quinlan) in toned down in the Derann version (she's beaten around the head off-screen). The BBC version however includes some nasty shots of Kenny ramming his torch into the girl's mouth. Her death from being beaten around the head is no longer shown totally off-screen in the BBC version either.
• The following scene where Quinlan's body is discovered in cement, is different in the two versions. The BBC version represents this scene with two shots of nudity (the actress obviously found it hard to hold her breath). The Derann version represents it with an odd, (still photograph?) close-up on the girl's face.
• The last difference is to the 'meat-hook scene' where one of Kenny's victims (Suzanna East) initially drowned is discovered hanging on a meat hook. Both versions play the discovery slightly different, the Derann version includes a brief shot of the girl on the meat hook as well as a second shot that zooms in on the dead girls face. The BBC version begins with an additional long shot of the dead girl, and ends on a second shot, that's actually the first shot we see of the body in the Derann version but is more drawn out. The zoom shot from the Derann version isn't included in the BBC version.

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 91:33s = 87:53s PAL

Fierce Creatures

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

The Fifth Cord

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

The 5th Musketeer

• The Fifth Musketeer
• Behind the Iron Mask

UK: Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 1994 IMC VHS

Netherlands: Uncut for:

• NL Bakker R2 DVD via UK Amazon

55 Days at Peking

+ cinema cuts

52 Pick-Up

The BBFC cuts were waived for the 2004 MGM DVD

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

Review from US Amazon: Little Gem

I saw this in the theaters when it first came out in the 80s, not expecting much, but then - BAM! - this nasty little gem of a thriller delivers thrills in spades.

JOHN GLOVER creates one of the most chilling, yet hilarious, villains in film history - and the film's most infamous sequence - the videotape replay of Cindy's snuff-movie murder that Glover forces Scheider to watch in horror SITTING THE SAME CHAIR WHERE SHE WAS KILLED! - still never fails to disturb the viewer.

Frankenheimer directs how the best do: so seamless and subtle and unobtrusive, you never notice him tightening the screws right up until a white-knuckle climax.

C'mon, guys, get with it! Once you see 52 PICK-UP, you will never forget it.

From cuts details on IMDb:

• Heavily edits to a scene where Harry watches a video showing a topless woman being tied to a chair and shot to death.

Fight Club

BBFC cuts waived for the 2005-2010 20th Century Fox DVDs/Blu-ray

The uncut region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

Same cuts for cinema and the Fox Pathe video versions in 2000

The film was cut by 4s 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

Fight Club: Members Only

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.

Fight for your Life

• Bloodbath at 1313 Fury Drive
• Getting Even
• Held Hostage
• I Hate Your Guts
• Staying Alive

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for

• US 2004 Blue Underground R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Disturbing Scenes

Strange entry in the list in that most of the video is taken up by talking about vengeance rather than getting on with the job.

Three escaped convicts seek refuge at the home of a black minister and his family, there the family is humiliated and beaten. When his daughter is violated the family begin to embark on some vengeance.

A film which has very little to offer other than racial hatred and some rather disturbing scenes of violence. But so became a grindhouse classic.

• UK 1982 Vision On VHS

The 1982 uncut video release from Vision On was banned as a video nasty in September 1984 and remained on the DPP list throughout the panic and so became one of the collectable DPP39's

• UK 1981 cinema release

Fighting

The 2009 Universal DVD/Blu-ray features the US Unrated version.

The extra material is not significant and there is nothing to challenge the censor.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

Final Destination 2

• Destination Ultime 2

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R Rated

UK: The DVD Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2011 EIV RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2003 EIV R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The DVD Version is MPAA R Rated for:

• VOD to rent [US only] at US Amazon
• US 2011 New Line R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2003 New Line R1 DVD at US Amazon

From IMDb:

The theatrical release features a shot that is missing from all DVD versions:

• when one of the victims-to-be gets his hand stuck in his kitchen sink trying to retrieve his lost ring, the threatening disposal blades below are not shown.

The commentary track on the DVD mentions that this was a last moment add-on which heightened the menace and tension of the scene considerably.

The DVD commentary also mentions that the film lost a lot of gore when a preview version was found to have alienated the audience.

• UK 2003 cinema release

Final Fantasy: Unlimited-Yu-The Secret of Gaudium

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

Final Mission

The BBFC cut the 1986 Thorn EMI video by 7s.

From cuts details on IMDb:

• Edits to a decapitation
• Cut eye gouging during a fight scene.
• Cut shot of a man's arm being broken later in the same fight.

Final Sacrifice

See The Fallen

The Final Terror

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

The BBFC cut the 1986 Thorn EMI video by 27s

From cuts details on IMDb

• Edits to the repeated stabbing of Mike's back during the double murder in the forest.

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

Review from US Amazon: Weak Slasher

The Final Terror wasn't a bad movie but it was a bad slasher movie. Nary a drop of blood, ok maybe a drop or 2 but WEAK kills.

Great cast .Darrel Hannah, Rachel Ward and Joe Pantoliano were virtual unknowns at the time and lend to the credibility of the cast today.

It reminded me somewhat of the movie Southern Comfort because of the booby traps and atmosphere although Southern Comfort was highly superior.

This could have been fantastic, if there were BLOOD!

Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers

Cuts were waived for the 2005 Freemantlemedia  DVD

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available via US Amazon

See review from IMDb: Underrated and unnoticed

This film tends to touch base on issues in several other of his films. In Vixen, the issue was marital bliss and touched on the concept of partner swapping. A similar notion is touched on in Finders Keepers in marital fidelity, and promoting the concept that no one goes unpunished.

It contains the nudity and light humor of his other flicks. It's not one of his more known films, but is worth checking out even if only once. The movie actually has a good plot to it, with senses of drama and a sense of urgency that keeps the pace going from start to finish.

Thanks to Bleach:

• At 35 mins - In marital rape scene, after man begins to instigate sex with woman, and after her whispered dialogue line Oh God...no...please, remove all sight of him ripping open her night-dress to expose her breasts and lying on top of her with her breast clearly visible. Resume on close shot of his back and arm.
   
• At 62.5 mins - In robbery scene at bar, after woman is thrown onto pool table, and after man with red kerchief round neck shouts Stop it and man with acetylene torch laughs, remove all subsequent long shot of her struggling as her clothing is pulled open to reveal her breasts and man forces himself on top of her. Resume on close shot of man with red kerchief shouting Stop it...the combination's taped under the bar...

A Fine Madness

Passed 12 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Warner VOD

• UK 1966 cinema release

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 105:03s = 100:51s PAL

Fingers

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R Rated

Passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1987 Hollywood Nights VHS

• UK 1978 cinema release

The film was cut for a US R Rating but the R Rated Version has become the definitive.

Toback said in the Las Vegas Weekly that his great experience with the people at Warner Bros. on Fingers, which had to be resubmitted 13 times before it got the 'R' it needed to be released. That was 1978, so I don't think the original cut of Fingers even exists.

Fire Birds

• Wings of the Apache

A Re-edited Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2007 Optimum R2 DVD titles Wings of the Apache at UK Amazon

• UK 1990 Medusa VHS titled Fire Birds
• UK 1990 cinema release titled Fire Birds

Fire on the Amazon

• Lost Paradise

R Rated

The R Rated Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2011 Anchor Bay R2 DVD

Unrated

• UK 2002 Prism R2 DVD
• UK 2001 Film 2000 R2 DVD

There are longer versions available

Fired Up!

The (US PG-13 rated) Theatrical was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for the 2009 cinema release and Sony DVD.

There is also a US Unrated Version with just an a minute of additional material.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The Unrated Version region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The Unrated Version US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

The Unrated Version region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The Unrated Version US Blu-ray is available via UK Amazon

Firefox

A shortened version was submitted for the 1986 Warner video and 2003 DVD.

The cuts are non contentious. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The Original Version region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The Original Version region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

This is the Original Version. The Director then prepared a shorter version after its initial release

Firepower

The BBFC waived previous cuts for the 2003 ILC Prime DVD

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Typical B action movie

Firepower is one of those cheesy martial art movies that tries to take place in the future and the result is even more cheesiness that is just a 1980's looking future. But not all is lost. There are plenty of fights in this film, and it stars familiar faces Chad Mcqueen and Gary Daniels.

Overall, the story is ok. There is a huge surprise near the end I did not expect from a film like this.

The fights are really the only decent thing about Firepower. If you are into underground cage fighting with weapons and screaming spectators, this is that kind of movie. None of the fights are exceptional, but most are good and solid for a martial arts film. Gary Daniels is definitely more skilled in Firepower than Chad Mcqueen.

A basic martial arts film that is a typical B action movie. The setting in the future makes it suffer more than it should with all its cheesiness glory, but other than that expect an average film.

From cuts details on IMDb

• edited out footage of weaponry including all crossbow scenes

Firepower

The cinema violence cuts were restored fro the 1985 Channel 5 video but 1 15s cockfighting scene was cut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb

• Removed some of the bloodier shootings
• Removed shots of men on fire
• Removed a wire strangling
• Removed a brief shot of a topless woman. The 1986 video was upgraded to a 15 certificate and restored the cinema edits though 15 secs were cut from a cockfighting scene.

Firestorm

Firewalker

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

First Great Train Robbery

• 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.

First Kid

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.

First Strike

See Jackie Chan's First Strike

F.I.S.T

The European Version was passed without BBFC cuts for the A rated 1978 cinema release, PG rated 1987 Warner video and PG rated MGM DVD.

The European Version is about 15 minutes shorter than the US Version.

Uncontentious material has been removed presumably for timing reasons but this has lead to inconsistencies in the plot. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

Fist of Fury

• Jing Wu men
• Jing mo mun
• The Chinese Connection
• Duel of Fists
• The Iron Hand
• School for Chivalry

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 18 uncut with BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2009 3 Film Box Set R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2001 Medusa/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD

The Hong Kong release is uncut for:

• HK 2009 Indies Asia/Zoom RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon

Summery Review: Don't miss this DVD

Chen Chen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder.

The film is famous for its legendary first nunchaku fight scene at the Japanese' training camp as Bruce shows for the first time his personal fighting tool and weapon, a pair of nunchakus. That fight scene even before nunchakus is among the greatest ever filmed since the choreography and timing is totally marvellous as the one take lasts very long without edits, and Bruce kicks and hits about ten victims during that, and the timing and stunt men had to be really sharp in order to not to get hurt for real. Also, the nunchaku fights in the film are incredible as Bruce uses his weapon without flinching an eye and with fierce look on his face. This all is even more powerful in his next film, Way of the Dragon.

• UK 1986 Rank VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

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 villain'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 villain's throat that sends him flying backward through a nearby shoji screen. Ending the fight rather abruptly.

• UK 1973 cinema release titled Duel of Fists
• UK 1973 cinema release titled The Chinese Connection

• UK 1972 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 105:38s = 101:24s

The BBFC cuts were:

• A cut to the second Nunchaku where Lee leaps through the air delivering a kick to the villain's throat that sends him flying backward through a nearby shoji screen. Ending the fight rather abruptly.

Fist of Fury: Part 2

• Fist of Fury Part II
• Fist of Fury Part Two
• 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

1977 Hong Kong Martial arts film by Iksan Lahardi & Tso Nam Lee with Lieh Lo, Ti Fung and Kun Li. See IMDb

Passed 18 after 1:12s of BBFC cuts with previous cinema cuts waived for:

• UK 2002 Film 2000 R0 DVD
• UK 1993 Polygram VHS
• UK 1991 VPD VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• The BBFC were having a downer on nunchaku and so these are deleted
• A double ear clap was removed
• A shot of a live bird being eaten by a cheetah was deleted for animal cruelty

• UK 1977 cinema version

The BBFC cuts were:

• A fatal beating is missing
• A shot of an impaled man was deleted

Fist of Honor

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2004 Boulevard Entertainment DVD

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb

• Edits to violence including shots of a woman being punched to death with a metal knuckle duster.

Fist of Legend

• Jing wu ying xiong

There is an uncut Taiwan Version with 3 extra minutes showing the headmaster using opium with the prostitute.

pre-cut
21s

A longer version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2010 Showbox R0 Blu-ray
• UK 2010 Showbox R2 DVD
• UK 2001 Buena Vista R2 DVD

See version details from dvdcompare.net:

• This is the Hong Kong Version omitting a 21 second sequence which has on-screen text telling the aftermath of Jing Wu followed by film of students running/training with Ting Yan.

• UK 1999 Made in Hong Kong VHS

• UK 1997 cinema release

Fist of the North Star Vol 2

The BBFC cut the 1999 Manga video by 1:03s for an 18 rating

Thanks to Bleach:

• At 59 mins - Remove use of chainsticks in fight sequence. All other fighting in this sequence may remain.

Fist of the North Star Vol 4

The BBFC cut the 1999 Manga video by 4s for a 15 rating

Thanks to Bleach:

• Cut to remove throwing stars

A Fistful of Dollars

• Per un pugno di dollari

The uncut version was passed 15 for the 1999 Warner video and  1999-2005 MGM DVDs

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb

The original British theatrical release had about 4 minutes cut by the BBFC:

• Many close up shots of bloodied faces and bodies (including the body of Chico) were removed,
• as well as a shot of Ramon dripping blood from his mouth.
• The main cuts however were to the beating up of Eastwood, which lost a hand stomping scene
• extensive cuts to the assault on the Baxters house which was cut to shorten the overall sequence by removing all shots of men on fire and the shooting of Consuela Baxter (the cut version removes the shot of her falling backwards).

The submitted running time was noted as 96:20s = 92:29s

A Fistful of Dynamite

See Duck You Sucker

Fists of Shaolin

See Shaolin Invincible Sticks

Flavia the Heretic

• 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
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US: Legitimate message

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

• Flesh & Blood
• The Rose and the Sword

Unrated

The cuts were waived when the MGM DVD was resubmitted in 2005

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

There is also a cut US R Rated Version to avoid

Same cuts for the 1986 cinema release and the 1986 Rank VHS

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

The Flesh and the Fiends

• Mania

Uncut version is available at:

The US release featuring the Continental Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2001 Image R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Review from UK Amazon: Obscure masterpiece

This film deals with the infamous exploits of grave-robbers Burke & Hare, and the university professor surgeon Dr. Knox.

This is exploitative macabre melodrama, more than a horror film; though it is more gruesome and horrific than other films of the terror genre.

This is still intense viewing today,the performances of George Rose as Burke, and Donald Pleasence as Hare, are superb, powerful & really scary, if there is anything funny about them, it is the darkest of comedy. Peter Cushing is fine as Knox (NB. Cushing is not the principal protagonist, the film revolves on several characters) the quality of the remaining cast vary, but at worst they are theatrical; which by no means mar the film.

The scenes of dialogue, are counter balanced by violent action, and wenches baring their bosoms, (the UK version consists largely of prudish takes of the same scenes: very British!).

The cinematography is first rate, and any Hammer fans amongst you might agree that the director John Gilling, who co-scripted it, never made anything else quite like this.

• UK 1960 cinema release

From IMDb:

The UK distributors prepared a version with topless shots replaced by more modest footage:

• In a tavern scene with Burke and Hare, a female extra allows her blouse to slip revealing her breasts while B&H are talking (in the UK print the blouse doesn't slip)
• When Billie Whitelaw takes John Cairney up to her room she has a brief conversation at the foot of the stairs with a woman by an open door. In the UK print this woman is clothed - In the continental print her breasts are exposed.
• When Cairney goes into the brothel and confronts Whitelaw various of the extras are topless in the continental version (but clothed in the UK print). The Continental print also features a couple of unique shots preceding this of topless revelry.

The BBFC then cut some violent scenes:

• The murder of the old woman is slightly differently edited and more explicit in the Continental print (additional close-ups of her being smothered by Hare's hand).
• The murder of Daft Jamie is slightly extended and more violent
• The Continental version has a close-up of Burke's face when he is hanged which is missing from the UK print.

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 93:55s

Flesh for Frankenstein

• 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

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

X Rated

1973 Italian/French horror by Paul Morrissey.
With Joe Dallesandro and Udo Kier. See IMDb

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong bloody violence with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2006 Tartan R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA X Rated for:

• US 2005 Image R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Perverse

A very good film from the Warhol/Morrissey partnership. It features a decent stab at the Frankenstein legend featuring a fair few intentional laughs

Udo Kier is astounding as the mad Baron Frankenstein, Arno Juerging is great as his idiot assistant Otto, and Monique Van Vooren holds her own as Frankenstein's wife-sister, whose insatiable sexual appetite is fed by hunky Joe Dallesandro.

The quality productions values add to the package and it justifiably gets rated as one of the best campy horrors of the time.

Passed 18 after 56s of cuts for:

• UK 1996 First Independent VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• Cuts to shots of the Baron smearing blood across the breasts of a female corpse
• and sexually caressing the body

• UK 1982 Vipco VHS

There is famous scene where the Baron has an orgasmic grope amongst his creations innards and proclaims that To know life you must fuck death in the gall bladder. (or vice versa). This contributed to the wind  up of the frenzied press and the video got added to the video nasties list in March 1984. It stayed on the list throughout the panic and so became one of the collectable DPP 39s

• UK 1982 cinema release

• UK 1981 Video Gems VHS

• UK 1975 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 95:47s = 91:57s PAL

Flesh for the Beast

Unrated

The Unrated version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2005 Stax R2 DVD via UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Media Blasters RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2003 Shriek Show R1 DVD at US Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb

There is also a US R Rated version missing a four-minute montage of the three succubus ladies dancing and smearing blood all over their naked bodies during a ritual feeding after the last team member is killed.

Flesh Gordon

The 1988 EIV 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.

The submitted running time was noted as 89:49s = 86:13s

Flossie

• Swedish Sex Kitten

Passed with approximately 20 minutes of cuts for a cinema release in 1977

Rejected for a 1976 cinema release

R18 material, even today. The young girl Flossie comes straight from a Swiss boarding school to Stockholm where she meets a young embassy clerk. Together with her friend Eva, each tell the other two of previous sexual encounters.

Flushed Away

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

Fly Away Home

• Father Goose
• Flying Wild

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