BBFC Cuts G

Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)

• Gainsbourg  (A Heroic Life)
• Gainsbourg  (Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus)

Joann Sfar elected to shorten the Original Version for the Director's Cut

• 2011 Optimum RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2011 Optimum Online
• 2010 cinema release

From IMDb . A new cut of the film, runs 14 minutes shorter then previous version and is Joann Sfar's preferred one. Changes include -

• Deletion of the scene where young Serge persuades in vain for his mother to buy him a gun to play with, even attempting to bribe her by saying he'll work harder on the piano.
• Deletion of the scene where Serge and Boris Vian walk to his apartment and the two lie in the road in an effort to stop a cab. While they wait Serge reveals he has an double that follows him around to which Vian replies his is a werewolf. However two policemen soon end the conversation short. (This proceeds Serge arriving at Boris's apartment and explains a later scene where drunken Serge lies in the road before having the police escort to his concert
• Longer scene of the Baby Pop groupies, as Gainsbourg wakes up in bed with two naked women as his Mug joyously tosses bank statements at him revealing how rich he is from Poupe'e de cire, poupe'e de son alone!
• The groupies and party to Qui Est In Qui Est Out is cut short, removing Serge narrating about the mouth being the primary sexual organ . His narration reveals the girls in the room he has slept with and how he was with them. It reveals Gainsbourg's occasional cruel streak.
• After Gainsbourg recites La Marseillaise at the press conference, we then see young Serge repeating it and triumphantly rising his fist to the audience.
• Deletion of an short exchange in the nightclub when a reveller comments to Gainsbourg about him being parodied on a French TV show. The new version removes these lines either because the show is unknown outside of France or because it doesn't tie in as being the night Gainsbourg met his wife, Bambou as that TV show wouldn't air until years later.

• 2010 cinema release

Galaxy of Terror

• Mindwarp: An Infinity of Terror
• Planet of Horrors
• Quest

R Rated

The BBFC waived their cuts for:

• 2002 ILC Prime VHS

The uncut US release is R rated for:

• 2010 Shout! Factory R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2010 Shout! Factory Blu-ray at US Amazon

• 1986 Warner VHS

From cuts details on IMDb

• 3 cuts to a scene showing the rape of Dameia by a giant maggot

The Gallows

Exists as a Theatrical Version and an Original Version

Promotional Material

Twenty years after an accident caused the death of the lead actor during a high school play, students at the same small town school resurrect the failed stage production in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but ultimately find out that some things are better left alone.

• 2015 Warner Home Video RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 23rd November 2015
• 2015 Warner Home Video R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 23rd November 2015

• 2015 Warner Home Video [Original + Theatrical] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

Versions

From article from en.wikipedia.org . During production, New Line Cinema acquired distribution rights to the film. Though the film is set in Lofing's hometown of Beatrice, Nebraska, all of the scenes in the theatrical version of the film were shot in Fresno, California. Several scenes in the first cut of the film were shot in Beatrice, but those scenes were dropped when Blumhouse Productions picked up the movie. Those scenes will be featured in the DVD and Blu-ray releases of The Gallows and will be noted as the Original Version

• 2015 Warner Home Video
• 2015 cinema release

• 2015 Warner Home Video [Original + Theatrical] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

The Gambler

BBFC category cuts for 1986 VHS. Uncut for DVD.

Summary Notes

Brady Hawkes, The Gambler, receives a letter from his son indicating he needs help. This sends Brady to the rescue. Along the way Brady meets up with Billy Montana, a young man who thinks he knows everything about playing cards.

• 2013 Delta Music video
• 1990 castle VHS

• 1986 VPD VHS

Game of Death

Passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

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

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . There is a German version of the film that is longer by 9:31s. This adds uncontentious plot details, but this ends up detracting from the film

Game of Death

• Bruce Lee's Game of Death
• Si wang you ju

Cut by the BBFC for cinema release. Fight scenes were substituted for banned nunchuks for VHS. Uncut for DVD

Summary Review: A Fitting Tribute

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Game of Death, a Frankenstein concoction of bits and peices of Bruce Lee's final performance in a movie originally shot in 1972-73 and  a later film shot in 1978 after Lee's death is really two movies in one.

The first, a crime/revenge caper helmed by Robert Clouse is not as bad as you may have heard. The scenes are intercut badly and Lee's many doubles do look bad, but as a movie on it's own merit it isn't that bad.

• 2015 Mediumrare RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Cine-Asia Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2003 Medusa/E1 Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD
• 2001 Medusa/E1 Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD

US : Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2014 Shout! Factory Bruce Lee Premiere Collection RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2013 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2002 20th Century Fox R1 DVD via US Amazon

2s

pre-cut
3:59s

• 2005 Universal DVD
• 1997 4 Front VHS
• 1996 Blue Chip VHS
• 1986 Rank VHS

Missing was the sight of nunchuks:

Comparison of the UK Rank video and a Video-CD from Malaysia reveals that an entire 4 minute fight scene has been substituted. Late on in the film the Chinese version shows a nunchucks fight between Bruce Lee and a villain dressed all in black. In the Rank Video, this is replaced with a far less savage battle between Bruce Lee and a different guy dressed all in white with no nunchucks to be seen.

• 1978 cinema release

Game of Survival

• Tenement
• Slaughter in the South Bronx Tenement: Game of Survival

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut at:

X Rated

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2005 Blackhorse R0 DVD at UK Amazon titled Tenement: Game of Survival

US: Uncut and MPAA X Rated for:

• 2005 Shriek Show R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Too Violent to be Rated!

A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.

Tenement's TOO VIOLENT TO BE RATED! tagline lives up to its name as well: people are dropped off windows, electrocuted, impaled, castrated, raped with broomstick handles, sliced on the jugular, etc. It's definitely one of the most violent 70s/80s grindhouse/exploitation flicks I've seen, but it was definitely entertaining if also brutal. Recommended.

• 1987 Lazer VHS titled Game of Survival

Game of Thrones

Season 1 was cut to remove a George Bush skewered head after a political embarrassment

• 2013 Warner Home Video R2 DVD at UK Amazon

In June 2012 American politicians called for a boycott of Game of Thrones after the creator's despicable decision to include former President George W. Bush's severed head in several scenes. In the tenth episode of the first season, Bush's decapitated head is seen impaled on a wooden spike, covered in filthy long hair.

HBO and the show's creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, have apologized for the incident. Benioff and Weiss, who noted the appearance in the series' DVD commentary, insist it wasn't a political statement - just a prop.

HBO said in a statement that the scene was:

unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste. We made this clear to the executive producers of the series who apologized immediately for this inadvertent careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production.

• 2012 Warner Home Video R2 DVD at UK Amazon

See The Bunny Caper

See Family Jewels

Games that Lovers Play

Cut by the BBFC for 1971 cinema release.

Summary Notes

In the 1920s, two rival brothel madames have a bet on who has the sexiest girls.

Not released on home video until 2014 but a nude scene featuring Joanna Lumley was featured in mens' magazines and in the Electric Blue series of softcore adult video

• 2014 Simply Media R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1971 cinema release

Gang Tapes

Cut by the BBFC in 2004 with the following explanation: Cut required to remove a scene of clear and instructive detail on the preparation of illegal drugs.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Amazon Review

If you're familiar with the works of the danish directors who've signed the DOGMA charter, GANG TAPES may please you with its improbable camera movements and its documentary style. If not, stay away from this movie.

I must admit that the scenes of violence of GANG TAPES are, in my opinion, far more impressive than those shown in the Hollywood thrillers. You never know what will happen next on the screen and you really feel in your guts the paranoia which is the life's companion of these people. And the impacts of the bullets in the body of the victims will hit you as if you were present in the hot streets of the city of the angels.

Gangster No 1

• Gangster Nr. 1

Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2009 4DVD Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 4DVD R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2002 Cinema Club R2 DVD
• 2002 Cinema Club VHS
• 2001 VCI R2 DVD
• 2001 VCI VHS
• 2000 Film Four video
• 2000 cinema release

There is also an International Version that cuts 2:20s from the torture of Lenny Mays

Gangster Squad

A scene with a movie theatre shooting was reshot over PC sensitivity with real shooting

R rated

• 2013 Warner R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2013 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2013 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2013 Warner (R0) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2013 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon

Gangster Squad was delayed from its original 2012 opening date after the mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater. A shootout scene set in a movie theater was cut and re-shot in a different location for the film's eventual 2013 release.

Ganja & Hess

• Blood Couple

Uncut by the BBFC for the complete version released on 2015 Blu-ray. Originally shortened in the US for cinema but partially restored for 1998 video and fully restored for 2006 home video

Version History

Bill Gunn's original cut was 113 minutes, but the producers wanted a shorter film, and released a 78 minute version titled Blood Couple.

This film was mostly restored in 1998 and released by Image. This version was just missing a two minute sequence of George Meda stabbing Dr Hess Green.

The complete film was restored in 2006, and it is this complete version that is featured on this Eureka release.

Promotional Material

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and the horror cinema, Bill Gunn s revolutionary independent film Ganja & Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Later recut and released in an inferior version, this edition represents the original release, restored by The Museum of Modern Art with support from The Film Foundation, and mastered in HD from a 35mm negative.

Duane Jones ( Night of the Living Dead ) stars as anthropologist Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant (director Bill Gunn ), endowing him with the blessing of immortality, and the curse of an unquenchable thirst for blood. When the assistant s beautiful and outspoken wife Ganja ( Marlene Clark ) comes searching for her vanished husband, she and Hess form an unexpected partnership. Together, they explore just how much power there is in the blood.

• 2015 Eureka Entertainment Ltd RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon released on 26th January 2015

Garden of Torture

• Le jardin des supplices
• The Garden of Torment

Banned by the BBFC for 1976 cinema release

Summary Review  historical Softcore

Combining softcore pornography and historical romance, this film tells the story of a Antoine, a physician (Roger Van Hool) who, in 1888, was exiled to China due to his drug habit.

• UK 1976 cinema release

The Gatekeeper's Daughter

• La fille du garde-barrière
• The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard

Banned by the BBFC for 1975 cinema release.

Thanks to Gary. Based on article from ovguide.com :

This very curious completely silent comedy includes some dramatic sequences and some fairly pornographic ones. The movie is made with titles, very much in the manner of early silent films.

• 1975 cinema release

'Gator Bait

passed 18 after 3;08s of BBFC cuts for:

• 1986 CIC VHS

From IMDb:

• The cut were to reduce the killing of Julie

GBH: Grievous Bodily Harm

Released uncut on pre-cert VHS and was seized by police. Not released since.

Summary Notes

An early British film made on video. This gangland crime drama set in the nightclubs of Manchester proved to be a minor hit.

• 1983 World of Video 2000 VHS

The video was seized subject to an Obscene Publications Act Section 3 Seizure Order. This is a legal gambit whereby victims admitted that the videos were 'obscene', and therefore subject to seizure, in return for that being the end of the matter and so avoiding an obscenity trial with the possibility of jail time.

Gefangen - Locked Up

• Gefangen
• Locked Up
• Eingelocht

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cut required to sight of woman being vaginally 'fisted'. Compulsory cut required to implication of man being humiliated by being urinated on. Company chose to cut sight of explicit masturbation for the requested category of 18

Eingelocht, the uncut hardcore DVD is available at SimplyGayDVD
Locked Up, the full softcore region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Genaside II - New Life 4 The Hunted - EPK

Genghis Khan

The BBFC cut the original cinema release for nudity and these cuts have persisted to all releases since. The BBFC further cut horse falls from all home video releases. A rape scene was further cut for PG rated VHS releases but was restored for a 12 rated DVD

Summary Notes

This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.

cinema cuts  

• 2012 Sony video

The BBFC commented that this was the Cut UK Feature and that it was additionally cut:

• Cuts were required to remove sight of animal cruelty, in this case a series of shots of horses being made to fall dangerously.

Presumably the cuts are now:

• 35s of cuts for horse falls
• 1965 cinema cuts for nudity still apply

cinema cuts

• 1991 VCI VHS
• 1988 RCA/Columbia VHS

From IMDB:

• additional cuts to a rape scene
• additional cuts for horse falls
• 1965 cinema cuts for nudity still apply

• 1965 cinema release

From IMDB:

• Cut for nudity

Genghis Khan: A Proud Son Of Heaven

Cut when submitted in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts were required to animal cruelty, horse falls and horses set on fire

Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea

• Aoki Ôkami: chi hate umi tsukiru made
• The Blue Wolf: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea

The BBFC cut 1:27s from the 2008 Revolver DVD: Compulsory cuts required to sight of cruel horse falls orchestrated by the film makers

See Land of the Dead

Germany Pale Mother

• Germany, Pale Mother
• Deutschland bleiche Mutter

There exists a Theatrical Version which was shortened for an AA rated 1981 cinema release. The film was restored to its full length for the 2015 Director's Cut release on DVD and Blu-ray.

Summary Notes

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.

• 2015 BFI [Director's Cut + Theatrical Version] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 18th May 2015
• 2015 BFI [Director's Cut + Theatrical Version] R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 18th May 2015

Theatrical Version

• 2015 BFI [Director's Cut + Theatrical Version] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 18th May 2015
• 2015 BFI [Director's Cut + Theatrical Version] R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 18th May 2015

shortened
Theatrical Version

• 1981 cinema release titled Germany, Pale Mother

Germinal

Cut when resubmitted in 2006 with the following BBFC statement: The cuts were Compulsory. One cut required to sight of real animal cruelty - two cocks fighting

The Gestapo's Last Orgy

• L'Ultima Orgia del III Reich
• Bourreaux SS
• Last Orgy of the Third Reich
• Des Filles pour le Bourreau
• Caligula Reincarnated as Hitler

Uncut version is available at:

Banned in the UK as a Video Nasty, and never released since. Available uncut in the US

Summary Review: Way Better than Expected

Caligula Reincarnated as Hitler was way better than what I expected. The young blonde star of the film is gorgeous and someone both men and women would find attractive to sleep with.

There are some five star sexual violence scenes that are unfortunately too brief. Beatings, whippings, gang raping of women prisoners, dipping naked women into vats of lime, hanging the young blonde star nude and upside down over a box of live rats! I mean, hey you "sicko" Nazi fans, is this something or what?

There are no actual hard core sex scenes, however, there are multiple simulated sex scenes that are quite hot to watch.

• 2011 Intervision R0 DVD at US Amazon

• 2011 Desert Island R0 DVD-R
• 2004 EI Double Feature R1 DVD

VoD: Cut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2014 YouTube video

• 1984 Videoshack VHS
• 1983 VFP VHS

The video was released in 1983 by VFP with a missing 10:48s scene of an Aryan fantasy and a feast of human flesh. The video was re-released in 1984 by Videoshack.

It was added to the DPP list of banned video nasties in March 1984 and stayed listed throughout the panic and so became one of the collectable DPP39s. The Videoshack version is particularly rare.

Get Carter

Cut by the BBFC for 1971 cinema release, then uncut on home video. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.

R rated

• 2006 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2000 Warner VHS
• 1993 Warner VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2014 Warner Home Video RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1971 cinema release

From IMDb. The BBFC cuts were:

• The stabbing of Albert was edited to remove some shots of the knife. Director Mike Hodges later admitted that The less you see of the knife, the more effective the scene is .

Get Hard

Exists as a Theatrical Version and an Extended Version which contains a couple of extra lewd scenes.

Promotional Material

When millionaire hedge fund manager James (Will Ferrell) is nailed for fraud and bound for San Quentin, the judge gives him 30 days to get his affairs in order. Desperate, he turns to Darnell (Kevin Hart) to prep him for a life behind bars.

Unrated

• 2015 Warner [Extended Version + Theatrical Version] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2015 Warner [Theatrical Version only] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Extended Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Warner Home Video [Unrated + Theatrical Versions] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 30th June 2015

See  article from  movie-censorship.com . There are a couple of extra lewd/controversial sequences. Most would not challenge an R rating but there is one scene that may have been cut for an R rating. The sight of a limp penis appears in the extended version of a scene where a guy was going to give oral sex but at the last moment changes his mind.

• 2015 Warner [Theatrical Version only] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Theatrical Version is R rated for:

• 2015 Warner Home Video [Theatrical Version only] R1 DVD at US Amazon released on 30th June 2015

Get Him to the Greek

Unrated

The Extended Party Version/Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2010 Universal Online
• 2010 Universal Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 Universal R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US Universal Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US Universal R1 DVD at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

R Rated

• 2010 Universal Online
• 2010 Universal video
• 2010 cinema release

The Getaway

The Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2005 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1994 Warner VHS
• 1994 cinema release

There is also a cut US R Rated version to avoid that shortened the sex scene by 47s

The Getaway

No reports of cuts to the 1988 and 1998 videos.

Getaway In Stockholm 4

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Compulsory cut required to sight of potentially dangerous, imitable technique (in this case, a tyre on a motorcycle being set ablaze and then the wheel spun)

Gettysburg

US: The Directors Cut/Extended Version is uncut and MPAA PG Rated for:

• 2011 Warner RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• 2004 Warner R2 DVD
• 1995 Warner VHS
• 1994 cinema release

Summary Notes

A safe cracker claims he has lost his memory when two criminals come calling for their cut of the bank heist loot.

• 2013 cinema release

The BBFC commented in the 2013 Annual Report:

Ghanchakkar, a Hindi heist thriller, contained some moments of strong violence, including a gunshot to the head and a stabbing in the throat. The company chose to re-edit the film in order to secure a 12A classification.

See Blood Rites

GhettoBlaster

• Ghetto Blaster

US: The Unrated Version is uncut

• 1990 Braveworld VHS

The Ghost

• The Ghost Writer

Uncut in the UK, Cut for language in the US to obtain a PG-13 rating.

Summary Notes

A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.

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

cut

• 2010 Optimum video titled The Ghost Writer

Strong language was cut from the US Version to obtain a PG-13 rating.

Ghost Chase

• Hollywood Monster

The shortened International Version was further cut by 3s the BBFC for the PG rated 1988 cinema release, 1989 Lazer video and 1991 Polygram video

There is also a longer German VHS Version. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Ghost House, A True Story

Ghost in the Shell

• Kôkaku kidôtai
• Shell Mobile Force
• Ghost in the Shell 2.0

Not cut by censors. Exists in a Theatrical Version and a Redux Version

Unrated

• 2014 Manga Steelbook RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2009 Manga RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2009 Manga R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2009 cinema release

US: The 2.0 Redux Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2010 Manga R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2009 Manga RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . See also article from en.wikipedia.org

Ghost in the Shell 2.0 is a reproduced version of its original 1995 counterpart. For the films Version 2.0 release, all the original animations were re-produced with latest digital film and animation technologies, such as 3D-CGI. The original soundtrack was also re-organized and re-recorded.

Japanese music composer Kenji Kawai, who orchestrated the score for the original 1995 production, remixed the Version 2.0 soundtrack in 6.1 Channel Surround.

To complement the new soundtrack, Japanese voice dialogue was also re-recorded, with some variation from the original script to make use of more recent colloquial phrases in modern speech. Notably, the original male voice actor for the character of the Puppet Master, Iemasa Kayumi, has been replaced by the female voice actor Yoshiko Sakakibara

Summary Review: Nicely cleaned-up

A 1995 movie based on the manga that was called by some the second coming of Akira . I can't help but agree with that.

This is one of the best animated Blu-rays out there, up there with Cars , Wall-E , and Akira .

• 1996 Manga VHS
• 1995 cinema release

Ghost Rider

The Extended Cut was passed 15 uncut for the 2007 Sony DVD

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

Note that the 2007 Sony Playstation UMD version is the same as the cut cinema release

From the BBFC 2007 Annual Report:

Ghost Rider was passed '12A' on its theatrical release, after reductions were made to the sequence in which Johnny transforms into the 'Ghost Rider' for the first time. For the film's DVD release the distributors reinstated the cut material, in particular shots of the skin on Johnny's face breaking and falling away. These more detailed and gory shots added significantly to the intensity and horror of the sequence and necessitated an increase in category from 12A to 15

Ghost Story

The UK release is uncut by the BBFC and was passed in 1981 for a cinema release and in 1986 on video.

However there are various source versions knocking around and the UK release is missing a scene where a ghostly force smashes Alice Krige into a glass cabinet.

Ghost Warrior

• Ghost Warrior
• Swordkill

Cut by the BBFC for 15 rated 1984 cinema release and further cut for 15 rated VHS. Uncut for 15 rated 2015 DVD and Blu-ray. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

A deep-frozen 400-year-old samurai is shipped to Los Angeles, where he comes back to life.

• 2015 101 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon titled Ghost Warrior
• 2015 101 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon titled Ghost Warrior

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2016 Shout! Factory [House Where Evil Dwells + Ghost Warrior] (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon

• 1995 NTV Entertainment VHS titled Swordkill

UK: Passed 15 after 21s of BBFC category cuts for:

• 1987 Entertainment in Video VHS titled Swordkill

• 1984 cinema release titled Swordkill

Ghosthouse II

See Witchcraft

GhostKeeper

• Ghost Keeper

Uncut but there exists 2 alternative openings

Summary Notes

A group of three friends on a snowmobiling trip find themselves stranded at an abandoned lodge isolated in the mountains. They discover that an old woman resides in the hotel, along with an evil entity that she is keeping in the basement.

• 1986 Apex Distribution Video

• 1970 Code Red R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at UK Amazon released on 1st January 1970

Ghoulies II

• Duhovi II

Originally uncut and R rated in the US. This was later replaced by a cut PG-13 version. The BBFC initially made cuts for a 15 rating but later passed the PG-13 version with a 15 rating which restored some of the BBFC cuts.

Summary Notes

Ghoulies II picks up a short time after the first movie, a few of the little nasties stow away on an amusement park ride and bring big bucks to a dying fair. The creatures are mad after an attempt to kill them, so the creatures go on a rampage through the fairgrounds, ultimately leading to an explosive conclusion!

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best
available

• 2016 101 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 101 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2004 MGM Home Entertainment (Europe) video

The BBFC commented that the PG-13 version restored some of the cuts previously made by the BBFC for a 15 rating in 1987.

From IMDB. The US cuts for PG-13 did not include cuts to the stabbing scene cut by the BBFC. However the cuts for the MPAA echoed the BBFC cuts to:

• a woman being crushed to death and her ankle chewed, and
• a scene of a man being sliced by a pendulum.

• 1987 Entertainment in VHS

From IMDb. The BBFC cuts were edits to:

• a stabbing scene,
• a woman being crushed to death and her ankle chewed, and
• to heavily cut a scene of a man being sliced by a pendulum.

Ghoulies IV

The BBFC cuts were waived in 2004 and the rating was reduced from 15 to 12

he uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Exists in a Theatrical Version and an Extended Action Cut.

Summary Notes

The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

Unrated

• 2013 Paramount [3D Theatrical Version + 2D Extended Version] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2013 Paramount [Extended Version] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The Theatrical version contains some of the material cut for its PG-13 rating. But given its BBFC 12 rating then the extra material is hardly very challenging. Most of the new material though is character development. But it adds to the film and makes it a better film than the Theatrical Version.

PG-13

• 2013 Paramount [3D Theatrical Version + 2D Extended Version] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2013 Paramount [Theatrical Version] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2013 Paramount R0 Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon
• 2013 Paramount R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

GI Samurai

• Sengoku jieitai

Cut in 2005 with the following BBFC statement: Company was required to remove sight of illegal horsefalls

Thanks to Anthony: despite 44 seconds of horse falls being cut by the BBFC, there were still some shots that showed horses doing forward somersaults (which the sBBFC website claims can easily break a horse's neck) and even a clear shot of trip-wired horses still remains in the version I have seen!

Gia

The BBFC passed the US Unrated Version (Extended Version) 18 uncut for the 2001 Cinema Club DVD and 2008 Warner DVD.

From cuts details on IMDb :

There is an Unrated/extended version available.

• Linda & Gia's sex scenes are longer and more explicit.
• In the scene where Gia gives Linda hamburgers in the kitchen, Gia straddles Linda in the chair, and says, Dinner is served! .

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

The Giant of Metropolis

• Il gigante di Metropolis

BBFC category cuts were required for an 'A' rated cinema release in 1961. Uncut in the US.

Summary Notes

Muscleman Ohro travels to the sinful capital of Atlantis to rebuke its godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its evil lord Yoh-tar and his hideous super-science schemes.

• 2005 Alpha Video R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1970 cinema release

The Giant Spider Invasion

• Invasion of the Giant Spiders

BBFC category cuts were required for an A rated 1977 cinema release. Later uncut for 15 rated 2005 DVD. Uncut and MPAA PG rated in the US.

Summary Notes

A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! Dr. Jenny Langer and Dr. Vance from the NASA try to save the world.

MPAA

• 2005 Stax Entertainment R2 DVD via UK Amazon

• 2002 Retro Media R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1977 cinema release

From IMDb. The BBFC category cuts were:

• remove some sexual dialogue
• remove a topless shot
• edit scenes of gore including victims being eaten, shots of blood, and close-ups of dead bodies.

Gimme Shelter

The 1993 Polygram video and 2009 Warner DVD were passed 15 uncut

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

This version is missing dialogue and a scene with a topless girl

Ginger

Banned by the BBFC for 1971 cinema release. Heavily cut for the 1983 cinema release. Uncut in the US

Summary Review

A rich society girl is recruited to go undercover and expose a drug/blackmail/prostitution ring in her small town.

This is pure 70s sexploitation. Yes it is sexist, unPCand everything modern Hollywood tries not to be. But that's its charm. It is about cute women toting unfeasible weapons and getting naked in an unbelievable B-movie plot.

• video at YouTube

• 2004 Monterey Video Ginger Series Box Set R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2002 Monterey Video R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1983 cinema release

• 1971 cinema release

A Girl Called Jules

• Model Love
• La ragazza di nome Giulio

Banned by the BBFC for 1971 cinema release. Unbanned for 1975 cinema release and uncut on home video.

Summary Review: Worth the effort.

Teen girl Jules must deal with her budding sexuality, and the fact that some men and women want her adds to her confusion.

A distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama. Silvia Dionisio is perfect in the title role and this remains her best film. A bit difficult to trace but well worth the effort.

• 1986 Xtasy VHS

• UK Gold Star VHS

• 1975 cinema release

• 1971 cinema release

Girl in the Headlines

Passed 12 with no  BBFC cuts noted for:

• 2007 Odeon R0 DVD

• 1983 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 93:31s = 89:47s PAL

The Girl Next Door

Unrated

The US Unrated Version/Uncovered Version was submitted for the 2004 cinema release and 2004 20th Century Fox DVD/Blu-ray.

There is also a US R Rated version shorter by about 2 minutes.

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

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

The Girl on a Motorcycle

• Naked Under Leather

Cut by the BBFC for cinema release and VHS. Uncut for DVD

Unrated

• 2003 Prism R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2001 Metrodome R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Redemption/Jezebel RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 Redemption/Jezebel R2 DVD at US Amazon

submitted
91:21s =87:42s

• 1990 Castle VHS

UK: Passed X (16) after substantial BBFC cuts for:

• 1968 cinema release

From IMDb. The film was cut heavily by the BBFC with:

• edits to all of the sex scenes
• edits to shots of Rebecca caressing the saddle of the motorbike.

Girl On Fire

• Ji mi zhong an zhi zhi ming you huo
• Rock on Fire

The BBFC cut 1:07s from the 1997 Eastern Heroes video

Thanks to Bleach:

• At 51 minutes, a scene of a man stripping clothes from a struggling woman was reduced.
• At 52 minutes, a scene of a man having sex with a recently deceased woman was removed.

Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay

• Morgane et ses nymphes

A pre-cut version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for the 1999 Pagan video/DVD.

The UK version is 4:17s shorter than the US release from Mondo Macabro with cuts to the sex scenes.

See pictorial cuts 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

See What's Good for the Goose

The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

• Stieg Larsson's The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
• Luftslottet som sprängdes
• Luftkastellet der blev sprængt
• Stieg Larsson's Millennium
• Dragon Tattoo Trilogy

UK: The Theatrical Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for strong bloody violence for:

• 2011 'Technicolor/Momentum RB Bl-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Technicolor/Momentum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2010 cinema release

Unrated

• UK Technicolor/Momentum Millennium Trilogy RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK Technicolor/Momentum Millennium Trilogy R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Extended TV Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2011 Music Box Dragon Tattoo Trilogy RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2011 Music Box Dragon Tattoo Trilogy R1 DVD at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

• Evil Eye
• The Evil Eye
• La ragazza che sapeva troppo

   

The Original Version is titled The Girl Who Knew Too Much and was passed 12 by the BBFC for 2007 DVD. The re-edited US Version titled Evil Eye was passed X uncut for 1964 cinema release and 12 uncut for 2014 Blu-ray.

Promotional Material

With a nod to Hitchcock and a wink in the direction of Agatha Christie, The Girl Who Knew Too Much inadvertently created a genre that would dominate Italian cinema for years to come: the giallo.

A young American secretary with a taste for lurid paperbacks witnesses a murder whilst visiting Rome or does she? Nobody will believe her, but she appears to have stumbled upon the work of a serial killer active ten years earlier. The victims surnames began A, B and C... and hers begins with the letter D!

• 2014 Arrow Video [The Girl Who Knew Too Much + Evil Eye] RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon
• 2007 Starz R2 DVD

• 2014 Arrow Video [The Girl Who Knew Too Much + Evil Eye] RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

• 1964 cinema release

Evil Eye is the re-edited and re-scored US version prepared by American International Pictures

The Girl who Played with Fire

• Flickan som lekte med elden
• Stieg Larsson's Millennium
• Dragon Tattoo Trilogy

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

• 2011 Technicolor/Momentum Online
• 2011 Technicolor/Momentum RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Technicolor/Momentum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2010 cinema release

Unrated

• UK Technicolor/Momentum Millennium Trilogy RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK Technicolor/Momentum Millennium Trilogy R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Extended TV Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2011 Music Box Dragon Tattoo Trilogy RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2011 Music Box Dragon Tattoo Trilogy R1 DVD at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

• Män som hatar kvinnor
• Stieg Larsson's Millennium
• Dragon Tattoo Trilogy

UK: The Theatrical Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2010 Momentum Online
• 2010 Momentum RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 Momentum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2010 cinema release
• 2009 cinema release

Unrated

• UK Technicolor/Momentum Millennium Trilogy RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK Technicolor/Momentum Millennium Trilogy R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Extended TV Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2011 Music Box Dragon Tattoo Trilogy RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2011 Music Box Dragon Tattoo Trilogy R1 DVD at US Amazon

The Girlfriend Experience

The BBFC passed the Director's Cut Alternative 15 uncut for the 2010 Revolver DVD/Blu-ray.

Maybe more DVD extra than another version

See School For Unclaimed Girls

Gladiator

The Extended Version was passed 15 uncut for

• 2009 Universal R0 Blu-ray
• 2005 Universal Extended Edition R2 DVD

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• 2009 Universal R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2005 Universal Extended  Edition R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2000 Columbia/TriStar VHS
• 2000 cinema release

Gladiator Cop

The Glass Cage

Glastonbury: The Movie

• Glastonbury: The Movie in Flashback

UK: A reworked In Flashback Version was passed 12A for drug references and nudity without BBFC cuts for:

• 2012 Mensch/November Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 10th September
• 2012 cinema release

From article on en.wikipedia.org :

Glastonbury The Movie In Flashback is re-worked as new with contemporary digital cinema technology. This version features some 45 minutes of previously unseen material, new performances including ones from Stereo MCs and The Orb and a roots-to-branch re-structuring.

• 1996 IMC VHS

• 1996 cinema release

Gleaming the Cube

• A Brother's Justice
• Skate or Die

The 2000 video/DVD was released without cuts albeit with a 12 certificate

The 12 rated region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

From Andrew, April 2008: Squaring the Cube

Just watched the DVD and realised that this release is now a 12, and contains a few extra bits.

Does anyone know what the minute+ of cuts were exactly? It seems to have had several FUCKS overdubbed (especially scenes where the words SCREW UP are used).

Glee (Pilot Episode)

The US release features the Director's Cut for

• 20th century Fox R1 DVD

• 2010 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2009 20th Century Fox Online

The Glimmer Man

Uncut for cinema release but cut by the BBFC for VHS and DVD. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

Two cops, played by Seagal and Wayans, are forced to work together to solve a chain of mysterious killings by a killer nicknamed The Family Man

Cutting Edge: Steven Seagal Special

Steven Seagal: The Complete Cuts
 

• 1996 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for;

• US 1997 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1999 Warner R2 DVD
• 1998 Warner VHS
• 1997 Warner VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• 4s at 59 mins. In the car sequence [where Cole/Seagal confronts two Russians in the car], reduce all but first shot of pistol whipping [removing 8 out of the 9 blows].
• 4s at 81 mins. In [finale] fight between Seagal and bald man [Donald], reduce overall violence of fight by removing repeated heavy punches to man's face after he is thrown on desk.

Glory

The BBFC cut 4s from the 1990 cinema release, 1990, RCA/Columbia video, 1992 Columbia/TriStar video and 1995 VCI video

• Cut to remove horse falls

God of Gamblers

• Du Shen

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2002 MIA DVD

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

Review from UK Amazon : Part of the charm

It isn't John Woo, but it's still a great action thriller. Not massive on the stunts until the end and boy, it's worth waiting for. The beauty of Chow yun Fat is that he does all of his own stunts (watch out for the: doing a somersault, catching two guns in each hand, and shooting a bad guy before he hits the floor).

The acting is admittedly camp, but it's all part of the charm of Hong Kong cinema.

Thanks to Bleach:

• In reel 4 a scene where a moustached man twirls a butterfly knife was removed.
• Also, shortly afterwards, a scene was reduced in which a knife is twirled by a man before he threatens a woman's face.

Rated R by the MPAA for violent images but the producers will appeal, presumably hoping for a PG-13

Summary Notes

Michael Franzese, the son of John "Sonny" Franzese, an underboss of the Colombo crime family, recounts his spiritual transformation.

The Godfather

• Mario Puzo's The Godfather

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

Passed 15 uncut for:

• 2009 cinema release
• 2008 Paramount Trilogy Re-mastered R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 Paramount Trilogy Re-mastered R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2008 Paramount Restoration Trilogy R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2008 Paramount Restoration Trilogy R1 DVD at US Amazon

R Rated

• 1997 CIC VHS

• 1972 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb :

• Suffered minor BBFC cuts to the scene of Sonny's body being machine-gunned and kicked in the face.

The original running time was noted s 175:03s = 168:03s

The Godfather Part 3

cut

best
available

Rated R

Coppola's Final Director's Cut was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2008 Paramount Coppola Restoration R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2004 Paramount R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• 2001 Paramount R2 DVD
• 1997 CIC VHS
• 1991 CIC VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2008 Paramount Coppola Restoration R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2008 Paramount R1 DVD at US Amazon

The blood burst in Don Lucchesi's stabbing is still missing from this version but as it is labelled a Director's Cut then this must be considered the definitive version. See version details from movie-censorship.com

cut

Rated R

• 1991 cinema release

The Theatrical Version was cut by the MPAA for an R Rating:

• Originally, after Don Lucchesi is stabbed in his aorta with his glasses, a glorious spurt of blood would have resulted (while in the background his assassin would have been shot).

Gods and Generals

The US release features the Extended Director's Cut for:

• 2011 Warner RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

PG-13

• 2003 Warner Online
• 2003 Warner R2 DVD

• 2003 cinema release

The extra time may have been an intermission

The Gods Must be Crazy II

Passed PG after 1s of BBFC cust for:

• 2004 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD
• 1990 20th Century Fox VHS

• 1990 cinema release

Godzilla 1985

• Godzilla 1985: The Legend is Reborn
• Gojira
• The Return of Godzilla

BBFC category cuts for a PG rated 1986 cinema release, but uncut on 1987 VHS with the same rating.

Summary Notes

Godzilla returns for the first time in many years to demolish Tokyo but in time some things have changed...the buildings are now taller than he is, and the humans have developed an attack jet called Super X. Raymond Burr reprises his role as reporter Steve Martin in the American version.

• 1987 New World VHS

See article from bbfc.co.uk . BBFC archives reveal that examiners considered that on the small screen, the green rubber monster had much less impact and the video was passed PG uncut.

• 1986 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• To edit an early scene where a man is attacked by a monster seahorse

See article from bbfc.co.uk . BBFC archives reveal that an examiner commented of the cuts scene that it would simply frighten kids under the seats, never to re-emerge .

Going Berserk

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2007

The uncut region 2 DVD is available as part of a John Candy set at UK Amazon

• A kung-fu spoof was removed as it involved the use of nunchucks
• Excised dialogue: Can't you read the sign? No seducing in the cafeteria!

Shown uncut on German Satellite channel RTL2

Going Steady

• Yotzim Kavua
• Greasy Kid Stuff
• Lemon Popsicle 2 - Going Steady

No BBFC cuts to the 1979 cinema release, 1988 Take 2 Plus video or 2007 Blackhorse DVD.

But see pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Gold

Heavily cut by the BBFC for an A rated cinema release. Uncut at 12 for home video

Summary Notes

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the unscrupulous owners to make a killing in the international gold market.

• 2013 Odeon RB blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2007 Showbox DVD
• 2001 ILC DVD

• 1974 cinema release

The original UK cinema version was heavily cut for an A (PG) certificate by the BBFC with:

• reductions to the amputation scene, and
• heavy edits to the fight scenes between King and Kowalski, and
•  shots of Steyner being pursued and hit by a car.

The cuts were fully restored in later releases and the certificate upgraded to a 12 .

Gold for the Caesars

• Oro per i Cesari

BBFC category cut for a U rated 1964 cinema release. Uncut in the US.

Summary Notes

A slave architect in Gaul is ordered by a Roman governor to lead an expedition, constantly under danger of attack by Celtic warriors, to the Valley of the Sil to find much-needed gold for Rome.

• 2012 Warner Archive R0 DVD-R via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1964 cinema release

Golden Ninja Warrior

Videos from Video Programme Distributor & Synergy Video were cut when submitted in 1986 & 2001

• A lengthy whipping sequence featuring a completely naked girl was removed.

I have been told that the Hollywood DVD release is in fact uncut but I cannot see any record of the change in the BBFC database

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon

From an imdb review: Old ninja movies

I like old ninja movies. The fights are usually pretty well choreographed, the storylines are unbelievable and the dubbing is hilarious. While Golden Ninja Warriors has all these things there are a few points that I didn't totally enjoy.

I have a problem with this movie. It's the attitude towards women that this women has. I know that it is an early Asian movie but it made the movie unappealing. Within the first ten or fifteen minutes we get to see a girl being viciously whipped for a prolonged period of time. This is followed by the beginnings of a sexual assault.

Golden Swallow

• The Girl with the Thunderbolt Kick
• Jin yan zi

US: A long version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2011 Arc Region 1 DVD at UK Amazon

Summary Review: Entertaining

Sword fighter Golden Swallow is living peacefully with her friend by a waterfall. Soon she is accused of going on a bloody rampage against an evil clan. As it turns out, the actual culprit is an old beau named Silver Roc who is impersonating her to draw her out into the open. A complicated love triangle develops as her affections are torn between the two men while all three must also deal with the evil kungfu clan.

This early Shaw Brothers film is entertaining for the most part, if a bit gory. The martial arts are good but many fights scenes are shot with a shaky hand-held camera much like many Japanese movies from the same time.

• 1974 cinema release titled Golden Swallow
• 1974 cinema release titled The Girl with the Thunderbolt Kick

GoldenEye

• Golden Eye

Cut for the International Version and further cut by the BBFC for cinema release, VHS and DVDs until 2003. The BBFC home video cuts have been waived since 2006. The International Version in the best available and is now the current version in the US and UK.

Summary Notes

James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow agent believed to be dead.

International
Version
cuts

best
available

• 2013 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 MGM RB Blu-ray [Bond 50 Collection] at UK Amazon
• 2012 MGM R2 DVD [22 Film Collection] at UK Amazon
• 2008 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2007 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2006 MGM R2 DVD
• 2006 Sony R2 DVD

US: The International Version is MPAA PG-13 rated for:

• 2013 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2012 MGM [Bond 50 Collection] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2007 MGM R1 DVD at US Amazon

See the full story of censor cuts to GoldenEye in the article Rough Treatment by Gavin Salkeld

Note from nuts4R2, April 2014:

My Blu-ray ultimate set still seems to have a severely truncated helicopter fight/death scene.

International
Version
cuts

• 2003 MGM Special Edition DVD
• 2001 MGM R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Company was asked to make seven compulsory cuts to scenes of violence as per the previously released 1996 12-rated version

The other cuts were applied slightly differently and more noticeably for

• A head butt was cut at Xenia's "wait your turn" line to Natalya
• Five Alex Trevelyan head butts against Bond were deleted during the antenna room cradle fight. One return headbutt by Bond was also deleted.

Thanks to Joel:

Box set DVD extras include a documentary looking at this history of Bond. When it came to an interview with Famke Janssen about her character Xenia, one of the scenes shown was this exact same scene in it's UNCUT format.

International
Version
cuts

• 1996 Warner VHS
• 1995 cinema release

See the full story of censor cuts to GoldenEye in the article Rough Treatment by Gavin Salkeld:
 

International Version Cuts

The rough cut was shown to the BBFC and MPAA. This resulted in a set of International version cuts that were common to the concerns of both censors. These cuts have become common to all releases of GoldenEye and look unlikely to ever be reversed. The cuts were:

• During the pre-credit sequence, when 006 is shot, originally one clearly saw the impact to the head, but this has now been deleted
• The sex scene with Xenia making out with the admiral and eventually suffocating him has been much reduced.
• Bond's rabbit punch on Xenia during a car ride was moved offscreen
• The Severnaya hijack sequence was also cut with numerous shots removed of the workers being gunned down by Xenia.
• Furthermore, Xenia's death was also toned down; originally her body was seen writhing against the tree for longer, before her back breaks with a crack and she slumps dead. The slump, sans sound effect, is all that remains.
• When Trevelyan turns over after falling from the dish, the shot showing his bloodied face and a trickle of blood running oozing from his mouth was shortened.

UK Specific Cuts

In addition to the International Version cuts, additional cuts were made that were specific to the UK release

• Towards the end of the film, as Xenia attempts to crush Bond, her headbutt to Natalya was removed when the latter tried to free Bond. In fact, the entire episode of Natalya swinging a log at Xenia, Xenia grabbing it and telling Natalya to Wait for your turn before headbutting her was removed.
• All head butts were removed from the climatic Bond vs Trevelyan fight around the antenna room and cradle. This included attempted head butts that failed to hit their target. In addition, the contact sound effects throughout the fight were toned down.

Goldfinger

Cut by the BBFC for a PG rated 1964 cinema release. The cuts have persisted into all worldwide releases since

best
available  

MPAA

submitted
107:48s
=103:29s

• 2014 20th Century Fox Steelbook RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 20th Century Fox R 2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2012 MGM RB Blu-ray [Bond 50 Collection] at UK Amazon
• 2012 MGM R2 DVD [22 Film Collection] at UK Amazon
• 2009 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1994 Warner VHS
• 1964 cinema release

US: MPAA PG rated for:

• 2012 MGM Bond 50 Collection RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

Thanks to Gavin Salkeld.  The 1964 Cinema cuts, presumably to the negative, as was often the norm in the 60s, persist to all cinema/video/DVD releases worldwide

• Bonita getting out of the bath has been removed, so it now happens off-screen
• The electrocution in the bath has been shortened
• The scene of Bond and Jill Masterson together on the bed has been shortened

Goliath Against the Giants

• Goliath contro i giganti

Summary Notes

Muscleman fights sea monsters, a horde of giants and a tribe of Amazonian warriors.

• 1985 Channel 5 VHS

• RNV R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1961 cinema release

Goliath and the Dragon

• La vendetta di Ercole

Summary Notes

A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.

From IMDB:

The American International Pictures version has a different editing, new musical score, additional scenes - namely stop motion animation of the dragon done by Jim Danforth and Wah Chang

• 1961 cinema release

Goliath: King of the Slaves

• Heroes of babylon
• L'eroe di Babilonia

Cut by the BBFC for 1963 cinema release

Summary Notes

The rightful heir to the throne of Babylon leads a slave revolt against an evil ruler.

• 1965 cinema release

Gone in 60 seconds

shortened

UK: A shortened version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2005 Cinema Club R2 DVD

• 1977 cinema release

Good Burger

The cinema release of 1997 was uncut but the BBFC cut 14s from the video submitted in 1998.

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum

• At 34.5 mins Sight of man headbutting other man was removed.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

A Good Day To Die Hard

The R rated Theatrical Version was cut by the BBFC for a 12A but restored to an uncut 15 for home video. There is also an Extended Version with a longer car chase.

Cutting Edge

Gavin Salkeld's Cutting Edge Episode 15:
Die Hard Special Edition

Unrated

• 2013 20th Century Fox Legacy Collection [Theatrical + Extended] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2013 [Theatrical + Extended] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: The Extended Cut is MPAA Unrated:

• 2013 20th Century Fox [Theatrical + Extended] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

Talk of a Director's Cut. See article from empireonline.com :

We find John Moore deep in the bowels of the John Ford dubbing theatre on the Fox lot in LA where, surrounded by his trusted editing team, he's going over two separate versions of the movie. One version of the movie is Moore's Director's Cut, which will be substantially longer than the 97 minute-long theatrical version, with the Moscow-levelling car chase around 30% longer.

The second is the 12A version that Fox have requested specifically to play in the UK (the version that will play in the US is filled with swearing and splashes of claret, and is R-rated). On screen, we watch as someone has a gun put to his head, and his brains promptly blown out. That won't be in the UK, says Moore, half-laughing, half-sighing.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . The Extended version is 3:32s longer than the US Theatrical Version. The uncontentious changes are:

• Scenes featuring Mary Elizabeth Winstead as John's daughter Lucy have been deleted.
• The car chase has been extended
• There are multiple uncontroversial short scenes re-edited to be a little more relaxed with regards to the film spacing

MPAA

• 2013 20th Century Fox Legacy Collection R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2013 [Theatrical + Extended] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2013 [Theatrical only] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The US Theatrical Version is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2013 20th Century Fox [Theatrical Version] R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

category cuts requested

• 2013 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

During post-production, the distributor sought and was given advice on how to secure the desired classification. Following this advice, certain changes were made prior to submission

This work was originally seen for advice in an unfinished form. The company was advised that the film was likely to receive a 15 certificate but that their preferred 12A classification could be achieved by making a number of cuts to both language and visuals. When the finished version of the film was submitted for formal classification, edits had been made:

• to reduce the number of uses of strong language (both fuck and motherfucker) and
• to reduce sequences of bloody violence, including blood sprays when characters are shot in the head, and punches to restrained individuals.

The formal submission was consequently rated '12A'.

See detailed cuts in Die Hard Special Edition

Good Guys Wear Black

Same cuts to the cinema release of 1979 and the Missing in Action video version submitted in 1991

From IMDb

• Cuts to remove an ear clap in a car park
• A shot of a guard being killed with a throwing star.
• A second shot of a killing with a throwing star

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

Review from Amazon US : Low-budget 'gem'

This low-budget 'gem' from 1977 was a modest hit and pretty much made Chuck Norris a star. Norris is a former CIA commando whose dark past comes back to haunt him when the politician that set him up in a raid turned death trap needs to erase that unpleasant part of history.

This is an old school action movie, back when they bothered to have plot and mystery prior to the fist fights and car chases, and it will probably bore many expecting wall to wall kung-fu action. Nothing happens until nearly an hour into the movie, then the pay off begins.

As I said, it is a low budget movie, one with Southern California locations filling in for Vietnam as well as East Coast locations. Pretty giggle inducing. But the movie still works when watched in the context of its era (70s exploitation) and director Ted Post (Hang 'Em High, Magnum Force, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, etc.) keeps the movie professional looking, at least.

Recommended only to Norris fans on a nostalgia kick.

Good Luck Chuck

Comedy with the inevitable 2 versions, Theatrical and Unrated. The Unrated version has a little more in the sex scenes

Summary Notes

In order to keep the woman of his dreams from falling for another guy, Charlie Logan has to break the curse that has made him wildly popular with single women: Sleep with Charlie once, and the next man you meet will be your true love.

Unrated

• 2008 Lions Gate R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 Lions Gate R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2008 Lions Gate R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2008 Lions Gate R1 DVD at US Amazon

1:58s

R rated

• 2008 Lions Gate Video

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Uncut in the original Good Luck, Miss Wyckkoff version. Released on home video as an abridged version called The Sin (US)/The Shaming (UK). This was further cut in the UK by the BBFC. Released uncut on US Blu-ray in 2013.

Summary Notes

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and an young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

• 2013 Vinegar Syndrome [Uncut + Abridged Versions] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo titled Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff  via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2013 Vinegar Syndrome [Uncut + Abridged Versions] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo titled The Sin at US Amazon

abridged

• 1988 Screen Entertainment VHS titled The Shaming

The Good Son

The 2002 20th Century Fox DVD was passed uncut

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

• Cuts to scene where two 10 year old boys engineer a motorway pile-up by dropping a lifelike dummy into a stream of traffic. The BBFC felt that the possibility that such a scene could be viewed and copied by mischievous children was too great to ignore.
• The BBFC also cut the sense of mounting excitement with which the boys greet the escalating devastation.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

• Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
• El bo, el lleig i el dolent
• El bueno, el feo y el malo
• The Good, the Ugly, the Bad The Magnificent Rogues
  Zwei glorreiche Halunken

Cut by the BBFC for 1968 cinema release and 1986 VHS. The shorter international Version was uncut since 2000 DVD. The Director's Cut/Extended Version was released uncut in 2008

Summary Notes

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

This is the best of the Dollars Trilogy and by far one of the best Westerns of all time. It has drama, comedy, cracking dialogue, some of the most brutal battle scenes, music to die for and set pieces that just ooze atmosphere and tension.

R Rated

• 2014 20th Century Fox Re-mastered RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon (unconfirmed version)
• 2014 20th Century Fox Steelbook RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2013 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 20th Century Fox video

Thanks to Pooch who asked the BBFC how the previous 15 rating became 18 for subsequent releases. The BBFC responded:

The most recent [18] classification of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY was a Distributor Change . This is a compliance process whereby new versions of previously rated works are compared to the BBFC archive copies. If a work is essentially the same then it can be passed as a Distributor Change without the need for viewing by BBFC examiners. The latest classifications therefore the same as the version passed in 2004 (apart from the removal of a trailer), it's simply being distributed by a different company.

The option to have the work viewed afresh for a change in category was open to the distributing company in this instance but they opted to retain the 18 classification.

• 2008 cinema release

The BBFC explained the change to 15 in the 2008 Annual Report:

Sometimes it is clear that the classification previously awarded is no longer appropriate according to current standards. In 2008, a number of older films were reclassified down from '18' to '15', including Sergio Leone's seminal 1966 Western, The Good The Bad and The Ugly , which features strong violence, moderate gore and hanging scenes.

UK: The Extended Version/Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2004 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Extended Version/Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2014 MGM The Man With No Name Trilogy (RA) 4K Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2009 MGM RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2007 MGM R1 DVD at US Amazon

From IMDb:

The extra scenes integrate perfectly into the film, and after seeing them once, you won't be able to imagine they were ever missing. Among the scenes are Angel Eyes visiting a destroyed fort; Tuco hiring bandits to help him chase Blondie; Blondie and Angel Eyes having a face-to-face when they first set out together to find the gold; and some extra conversation between Tuco and Blondie in the desert

• 2003 RNIB DVD
• 2000 Warner R2 DVD
• 2000 Warner VHS

• 1986 Warner VHS

It is 44s shorter than the 2000 video so perhaps it is the cut cinema version

UK: Passed X (16) after BBFC cuts for:

• 1968 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb :

• Cut to shorten the beating up of Bill Carson's woman (reduced to 1 slap)
• remove the scene of Mario Brega's head being battered against a rock by Tuco
• extensively shorten the torture and beating of Tuco by around 2 minutes (much of the scene was completely cut from the film).

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

• Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom

All UK releases are the shortened International Version with BBFC cuts for animal cruelty. There is also a longer Korean Version.

shortened
International Version

• 2009 Icon Blu-ray
• 2009 Icon DVD
• 2008 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts were required to remove sight of real animal cruelty, in this instance three cruel horse falls.

Good Times

Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death

• Xin si wang you hu
• Goodbye Bruce Lee
• The New Game of Death

Cuts for violence were restore when resubmitted in 2002 but the inaccurate claims remain deleted

From worldwide dvd forums :

• All shots of chainsticks, a double-ear clap and a kick to a man's crotch removed.
• Also under the Trade Descriptions Act, references in the film's commentary that inaccurately inferred the first part of the film was part of a film unfinished before Bruce Lee's death

Goodbye Gemini

• Twinsanity

The BBFC passed the 2010 Odeon DVD 15 uncut.

The 2010 re-release promises a new reportedly uncut master from the original cinema negatives.

The region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from  US Amazon : Ambiguous poignancy

Filmed around 1969 in post Antonioni's ( Blowup ) Swinging London we have here the tale of brother and sister twins, brought to screen-life by Martin Potter and Judy Geeson along with a sterling British cast including Michael Redgrave, Freddie Jones, Mike Pratt and Peter Jeffrey providing characteristically able support.

Directed with a sense of ambiguous poignancy by Alan Gibson, who fans of 70's horror will recall from Crescendo, Dracula A.D. 1972 and The Satanic Rites Of Dracula. Goodbye Gemini is further aided by some sumptuous art-direction, imbuing the picture with a contemporary look which when viewed today does not befall other more dated looking examples of films made from this era.

I can assure 1960's/70's genre fans will find this a worthwhile time.

Goodbye Uncle Tom

• Uncle Tom

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2013 Blue Underground Midnight Movies Vol 12 R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Revulsion

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

Anyone thinking of checking this film out: be warned, words can not express what an awesomely brutal experience it is to sit through. I'm a big fan of horror films, but nothing I ever saw came close to the feeling of revulsion this 30 plus year old film gave me.

• 1973 cinema release titled Uncle Tom

From IMDb. Heavy edits to:

• rape scenes
• footage of sexual experiments
• graphic violence
• the fantasy murder sequence, and
• the opening scenes on the slave ship.

Goosebumps

Cut for an MPAA PG rating

Summary Notes

A young kid teams up with the niece of young adult horror author R.L. Stine after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Greendale, Maryland.

Producer Neal Moritz told the Collider :

We had some issues with the poodle which I thought wouldn't be an issue, but the poodle kind of scared people a little too far so we had to pull that back a little but not that much.

• 2015 cinema release

• This film was originally seen for advice. The company was told it was likely to be classified 12A, but that their preferred PG could be achieved by making reductions to one scary scene. When the film was submitted for formal classification, this sequence had been acceptably reduced and the film was passed PG.

It is not clear if the UK censors came to the same conclusions as the US censors or else the British censors further cuts to the version cut for the US censors.

Gorgeous

• Boh lee chun
• High Ris

The International Version was passed PG without BBFC cuts for:

• 2000 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD

The International Version is shorted by 21:18s when compared with the uncut Hong Kong version. Dialogue and plot was deleted for reasons of pace. See article from michaeldvd.com.au

The Gorgon

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1964 cinema release. It is not clear if these cuts persisted onto home video which was 15 rated for 1986 VHS and then 12 rated for 2010 DVD.

Summary Review: A Fine Hammer Horror

In the early 20th century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone.

This is a fine Hammer film, not overly scary, but incredibly atmospheric with its swirling mists, huge cavernous palatial sets, and wonderful direction and casting. Terence Fisher does a first-rate job showing us the conspiracy going on in this village. The film belongs to Christopher Lee, who play an eccentric, gruff scholar helping the other son of the newly killed father.

best
available

Unrated

• 2010 Sony R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1986 RCA/Columbia VHS

It is not clear whether the video submissions included the BBFC cinema cuts or not.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Mill Creek Entertainment [Hammer Film Collection Vol 1] R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2008 Sony Icons of Horror Collection R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1964 cinema release

From IMDb:

• The BBFC darkened shots of the Gorgon's decapitated head

The Gospel According to St Mathew

• Il Vangelo secondo Matteo
• L'Evangile selon saint Matthieu

Summary Notes

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.

• 2013 cinema release

• 1999 Tartan VHS
• 1964 cinema release

pre-cut

• 1991 British Film Institute/Connoisseur VHS

Thanks to Gary: Pre-cut for afternoon TV

This version was originally prepared for an afternoon TV showing. As they announced on-screen beforehand, they had had to cut the scene where Judas hangs himself, as hanging scenes cannot be shown on TV before the 9 o'clock watershed. (The film had previously been shown late at night, uncut.). A rare but not unique example of a (then) U-certificate film being censored for television. This pre-cut version was then submitted to the BBFC

BBFC category cuts were made for the 12A rated 2014 cinema release

• 2014 cinema release

• Distributor chose to remove a scene of strong violence in order to achieve a 12A classification. An uncut 15 was available.

Graduation Day

The Director's Cut seems to be standard issue and is uncut.

Summary Notes

After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The suspects include the track coach Michaels, Laura's sister Anne who arrives in town for the funeral, the creepy school principal Mr. Guglione, and Laura's strange boyfriend Kevin.

MPAA

• 2014 88 Films R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 88 Films R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2003 Hollywood R2 DVD.

UK: The Director's Cut/Re-editted Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• 1986 VPD VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2014 Vinegar Syndrome (RA) Blu-ray/(R1) DVD Combo at US Amazon

From IMDb. This version runs around 5 minutes longer than the original video version, and includes footage of death scenes from Night Screams (1987).

• 1982 IFS VHS

The video was seized subject to an Obscene Publications Act Section 3 Seizure Order. This is a legal gambit whereby victims admitted that the videos were 'obscene', and therefore subject to seizure, in return for that being the end of the matter and so avoiding an obscenity trial with the possibility of jail time.

See Storm Rider

Grandma's Boy

The film was released on 20th Century Fox DVD in 2007 in 2 versions. The 'Re-edited' Unseen Version is the uncut US unrated version

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

• Dante's naked butt replaced by alternative shot
• Barry sucking on the milk maid's bared breasts is missing
• An addendum scene with Jeff boasting about his STD is missing

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The Grandmaster

Shortened for international release.

Summary Notes

Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.

shortened

• 2015 Metrodome [Subtitled] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon  
• 2015 Metrodome [Subtitled] R2 DVD at UK Amazon  
• 2014 cinema release

• 2014 ANCHOR BAY RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2014 ANCHOR BAY R1 DVD at US Amazon

Grave of the Vampire

IMDb reports that there is an uncut version on German VHS

• 2013 Bayview R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1993 Vipco VHS
• 1973 cinema release

From IMDB. BBFC cuts:

• Cut to remove a shot of a woman cutting her breast with a knife to feed a child
• Cut to shots of blood running down her arm during a syringe injection.

Graveyard Shift

• Central Park Drifter

All video versions have the same running time as the 1987 submission cut by 16s

Graveyard Tramp

• Invasion of the Bee Girls
• Graveyard Tramps

The BBFC cut 28s from the 1996 Screen Media VHS

The Great Escape

Cut for 1963 cinema release. Uncut thereafter

Summary Notes

Based on a true story, a group of allied escape artist type prisoners of war are all put in an 'escape proof' camp. Their leader decides to try to take out several hundred all at once. The first half of the film is played for comedy as the prisoners mostly outwit their jailers to dig the escape tunnel. The second half is high adventure as they use boats and trains and planes to get out of occupied Europe.

• 2013 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2013 20th Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2002 MGM R2 DVD
• 1993 Warner VHS
• 1986 Warner VHS

• 1963 cinema release

The Great Raid

Unrated

The Director's Cut/Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2011 Lions Gate Online
• 2011 Lions Gate RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon for release on 21st November 2011
• 2011 Lions Gate R2 DVD at UK Amazon

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

• 2011 Lions Gate/Miramax RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2011 Lions Gate/Miramax R1 DVD at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . Scenes were cut from the Theatrical Version that were considered to stray from historical facts

R Rated

• 2008 Buena Vista Online
• 2006 Buena Vista R2 DVD

Originally noted in the BBFC database as cut but this has been amended and the film is now noted as uncut.

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

• Dynamite Women

R Rated

UK: Passed X (18) uncut for:

• 1979 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2011 Shout Factory! Action Packed Collection R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Claudia Jennings Lives

Explosive drama and action when two sexy girls go on a bank robbing binge.

This is an excellent exploitation flick, thanks to the deft comic performances of the stars, and sneaky direction by Michael Pressman. Jennings and Jones are fantastic. Claudia Jennings, who so sadly died in a car crash, was rumored to be considered for Charlie's Angles ; and here, she looks like a combination of Farah Fawcett-Majors and Shelley Hack. All of these women had a refreshingly natural, sexy look. Lip and breast injections were not needed

Fun and sexy.

• 1987 Warner VHS

See The First Great Train Robbery

Greed in the Sun

• Cent mille dollars au soleil

US: The Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Olive Films RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 Olive Films R1 DVD at US Amazon

shortened

• 1965 cinema release

The Green Berets

G rated

UK : Passed 12 uncut for moderate violence and gore for:

• 2010 Warner R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

UK: Passed PG uncut for:

• 2005 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1998 Warner VHS
• 1986 Warner VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA G Rated for:

• 2013 Warner/Europic [Green Berets + Dirty Dozen] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2010 Warner R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2007 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1968 cinema release

From IMDb:

• edited shots of a man impaled with a tree branch

There was talk of a Director's Cut being release in Germany but this turned out to be just a new name for the regular version.

Summery Notes

In New York, the college student Justine joins a group of activists led by Alejandro and he invites her to travel to Peru to protest against a timber industry that is destroying the Amazon rain forest. The group uses their cellphones to film the destruction and send the footages through Internet. Alejandro uses Justine that is almost killed by one security guard to succeed in his intent of calling attention of audiences. When the group is returning to civilization, the plane blows-up and crashes into the forest. Soon the survivors discover that they are not alone and they are abduct by a tribe of Indians. But their nightmare becomes worse when they realize that the Indians are cannibals.

• 2016 Entertainment One RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 Entertainment One R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2014 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2016 Universal R0 Blu-Ray at US Amazon
• 2016 Universal R1 DVD at US Amazon

Green Lantern

PG-13

UK: The Extended Version was passed 12 uncut for:

• 2011 Warner (Theatrical 2D+Extended+DVD) R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: The Extended Version is uncut and MPAA PG-13 Rated for:

• 2011 Warner (Theatrical 2D+Extended+DVD) R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon

PG-13

• 2011 Warner (Theatrical 2D+Theatrical 3D+DVD) R0 Blu-ray
• 2011 Warner (Theatrical 2D+Extended+DVD) R0 Blu-ray
• 2011 Warner R2 DVD
• 2011 cinema release

Grey's Anatomy: Season 8 Episode 13: If/Then

An Extended Version was passed 12 uncut for:

• 2012 Buena Vista R2 DVD

Grid Runners

• Virtual Combat

Cut by the BBFC in 1995

• Cuts to remove nunchaku during the scene where Wilson and Athena Massey(Liana) fight the thugs at the hostel.

Grim

The BBFC passed the film 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2004 Jigsaw R2 DVD

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com :

The UK DVD is missing 3:09s of plot compared with the German DVD, that in turn, is missing violence found in the UK DVD.

Grimsby

• The Brothers Grimsby

BBFC category cuts advised for a 15 rated 2016 cinema release. Also cut in the US for an R rating.

Summary Notes

MI6's top assassin (Mark Strong) has a brother. Unfortunately for him, he's an English football supporter (Sacha Baron Cohen) from the town of Grimsby. Nobby has everything a man from the poor English fishing town of Grimsby could want - 9 children and the most attractive girlfriend in northern England (Rebel Wilson). There's only one thing missing in his life: his little brother, Sebastian. After they were adopted by different families as children, Nobby spent 28 years searching for him. Upon hearing of his location, Nobby sets off to reunite with his brother, unaware that not only is his brother an MI6 agent, but he's just uncovered a plot that puts the world in danger. On the run and wrongfully accused, Sebastian realizes that if he is going to save the world, he will need the help of its biggest idiot.

• 2016 cinema release titled Grimsby

• This film was originally shown to the BBFC, for advice, in an incomplete form. The BBFC advised the company it was likely to be classified 18 but that their preferred 15 could be achieved by making reductions to a couple of scenes of crude humour. When the film was submitted for formal classification, these sequences had been acceptably reduced.

• 2016 US release titled The Brothers Grimsby

It seems that according to a video interview with Sacha Baron Cohen that the film also suffered category cuts in the US to achieve an R rating. It seems that censors from the MPAA were convinced that an 'elephant scene' fell into the category of bestiality. (But surely bestiality would need to be cut at any level and wouldn't be suitable at NC-17 either).

Cohen says that he challenged the MPAA's definition of bestiality and also cut 6 minutes from a 9 minute scene. He suggested that the cuts were a ploy to obtain the scene he wanted and that the cut material had been added just to be offered as cuts in negotiations.

It is not yet confirmed whether the US release is the sane as the UK release but it would seem likely.

Grindhouse Trailer Classics 3

Passed 18 after 1s of BBFC cuts for:

• 2011 Nucleus R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Cut required for animal cruelty (in this case a horse being tripped and caused to fall dangerously)

Originally rated PG-13 for animal attack/disturbing images, violence, terror, brief sexuality and language.

The producers then had a change of heart and re-edited the film prior to release for an R rating for violence, grisly images, language and brief sexuality/nudity.

Summary Notes

Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.

Grizzly

Cut for an MPAA PG rating. Further BBFC category cuts for an A rated 1976 cinema release. The BBFC cuts were waived for for 15 rated VHS and DVD. There is said to be an elusive uncut R rated version in the US.

Summary Notes

A fifteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area.

cut

PG

• 2008 Video International DVD
• 1986 RCA/Columbia VHS

US: Cut and MPAA PG rated for:

• 2014 Kino Lorber R1 DVD

From IMDb. The following scenes were cut from the original version, some of which were to avoid an R rating:

• A scene were Ranger Michael Kelly talks to Walter Corwin about shutting down his lodge.
• Another victim attack (Believed to be played by Susan Backlinie).
• A scene were the hunters kill a bear but is actually a black bear they killed by mistake.
• Don's death at the end was much more violent.
• Scott's death was more violent than the off-screen alternative.

• 1976 cinema release

Thanks to Vincenzo. The BBFC cuts were:

• Reel 1 - Two close ups of bloody face of first girl killed, and shot of dismembered arm were removed.
• Reel 1 - Sight of Joan's very bloody body as discovered by Kathy was removed.
• Reel 2- Close up of very bloody face of woman killed in tent was removed.
• Reel 4 - Attack on woman and child was reduced. In particular sight of boy's body with one foot missing and blood running down his leg was removed.
• Reel 5 - Apparent killing of Scott the first time was reduced. Close ups of his bloody face as the bear buries him were removed, and the incident of him rising from the grave to confront the bear again was reduced.
• Reel 5 - Close ups of blood oozing from Don's mouth were removed.

Gross Misconduct - Steve - O's Rise And Falls - Gross Misconduct

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Company required to add warning caption to work to highlight potentially harmful behaviour (in this case a dangerous stunt in which a man takes potentially lethal doses of painkillers)

Grotesque

• Gurotesuku

Banned by the BBFC for 2009 DVD. Uncut in the US. A censored version has been mentioned but I haven't spotted it yet

Summary Notes

An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.

Very tame! Yes the film has pointless torture, but it has very little nudity and any sexual humiliation is implied and is never in the view of the camera. Very hard to see why this was banned.

This movie is a prime example of pointless torture movies, While in context the aspect of torture in a horror film i.e. Saw, Hellraiser, Texas chainsaw (the original) etc... works great because it's bad people getting their come uppance or just a cautionary of the cruelty of man but this film is just a fictionalized snuff film with no story what so ever. Watching people getting brutally killed (particularly those who were just there) for the bulk of the movie then.... "the end" after some silly f/x does nothing for me except feeling a little dirty for watching this piece of trash.

• 2010 Media Blasters RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon
• 2010 Tokyo Shock R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Malaysia : Uncut for:

• My Keris R0 DVD via UK Amazon

• 2009 4Digital Media DVD

The BBFC explained their ban:

The BBFC has rejected the DVD Grotesque. This means that it cannot be legally supplied anywhere in the UK. The decision was taken by the Director, David Cooke and the Presidential Team of Sir Quentin Thomas, Alison Hastings and Gerard Lemos.

Grotesque is a feature that focuses for the majority of its running time on the sexual assault, humiliation and extreme torture of a male and female victim. The central character abducts, restrains, strips and masturbates both the man and the woman. After this he inflicts grave injuries on the restrained couple, including amputation, eye gouging, castration and evisceration. The torture becomes even more extreme, leading to the gory and violent death of both hostages. The film ends with the killer choosing his next victims.

David Cooke, Director of the BBFC said: "Unlike other recent 'torture' themed horror works, such as the Saw and Hostel series, Grotesque features minimal narrative or character development and presents the audience with little more than an unrelenting and escalating scenario of humiliation, brutality and sadism. The chief pleasure on offer seems to be in the spectacle of sadism (including sexual sadism) for its own sake.

"It is the Board's carefully considered view that to issue a certificate to Grotesque, even if statutorily confined to adults, would involve risk of harm within the terms of the Video Recordings Act, would be inconsistent with the Board's Guidelines, and would be unacceptable to the public. The BBFC has a strict policy on sexual violence. With portrayals of sexual violence which might eroticise or endorse sexual assault the Board may require cuts at any classification level.

"Rejecting a work outright is a serious matter and the Board considered whether the issue could be dealt with through cuts. However, given the unacceptable content featured throughout cutting the work is not a viable option in this case and the work is therefore refused a classification."

"Rejecting a work outright is a serious matter and the Board considered whether the issue could be dealt with through cuts. However, given the unacceptable content featured throughout cutting the work is not a viable option in this case and the work is therefore refused a classification."

The Grudge

• Der Fluch
• The Juon

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut at:

Unrated

UK: The Extended Director's Cut was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2011 Universal R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2006 Universal R2 DVD

US: The Extended Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2009 Sony [Directors Cut + Theatrical] R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2005 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com. The film was cut quite heavily in the US for a PG-13 so this version is an improvement both in terms of plot and horror.

Summary Review : Grotesque Goodies

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

I have to say I was impressed. Geller does a fine job and the foreigner abroad angle adds a new spin.

Some good cheap jump scares combine with good genuine scares and the film is packed with creepy, grotesque sights and has a nice unrelenting pace as it keeps the shocks coming thick and fast and the final 3rd really delivers the brutal and grotesque goodies...but it still managed to add character and suspense. Very good indeed overall.

Avoid the heavily cut theatrical version.

cut

PG-13

• 2005 Universal R2 DVD
• 2004 cinema release

The Grudge 2

See trailer from youtube.com

Unrated

UK: The Unrated Director's Cut was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2007 Universal R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA unrated for:

• 2007 Sony R1 DVD via US Amazon

See Chopping List from cosmos.net.au :

• When Bill is hit over the head by Jennifer Beals, the longer version show smoke rising from his head.
• After Bill collapses to the floor, there's another shot of him lying under the table, and yet another shot showing his blood seeping across the floorboards.
• When Karen takes an unscheduled swandive from the hospital roof, two additional shots in the extended version show blood splashing and blood oozing across the pavement from her head more noticably.
• During the flashback climax, the killing of Aubrey is slightly more violent.

cut

PG-13

• 2006 cinema release

Guardian

The BBFC passed the International Version 15 without cuts for the 2001/2 Metrodome DVDs

There also exists a German version with more plot bus less violence

Guilty of Romance

• Koi no tsumi
• Crime of Romance

Exists as an Extended Version and an International Version.

Summary Notes

A grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment. Kazuko (Miki Mizuno) is a police officer called to investigate on this case, she will discover the story of two women who, despite appearing respectable on the outside have all manner of darkness hidden away.

• 2011 Eureka video (unreleased)

• 2011 Eureka video RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Eureka video R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2011 cinema release

From Extended Classification Information (skipping the rather obvious explanation of why the film isn't 15 rated) from bbfc.co.uk with spoilers :

Guilty of Romance is a Japanese thriller, subtitled in English. Police detective Yoshida investigates a gruesome murder when two mutilated bodies are found in an abandoned apartment in a Tokyo red light district. Her search for the victims' identities leads her to Mitsuko, a respected female university professor who lives a dangerous secret life as a prostitute, and an apparently demure housewife, Izumi.

The film contains a number of scenes of strong sex, including a woman being surprised in a bath and masturbated under water, a couple having uninhibited sex in a toilet, a woman having sex with a man in the shower of a love hotel , and a woman having sex with a man during the shooting of a porn film. Some of the scenes feature full frontal female nudity and prolonged sexual thrusting. The film also contains some scenes of strong nudity, including a scene in which a woman is coerced into stripping as part of a porn shoot.

The film contains a complex scene of sexual violence in which a man, who has just engaged in consensual sexual activity with a woman, refuses to allow her to leave. He then restrains the woman and forces her to phone her husband to apologise for not returning home, as he continues to thrust into her. The woman is clearly distressed and the focus is on her lack of consent and the man's brutality, rather than on any erotic detail.

The film also contains a scene of erotic asphyxiation, in which a man pays a woman to choke him during sexual activity, in order to help him reach climax. However, the potentially lethal nature of the practice is clear and the practice is not glamorised or promoted. The idea of erotic asphyxiation is unlikely to be a novel one to most adults and there is no unusual instructional detail, particularly when compared to previous films such as In The Realm Of The Senses (L'empire Des Sens).

The film also features one scene in which an adult woman squats down and appears to urinate in front of two young children. However, there is no sexual element to the scene, which appears to have been carefully shot to avoid exposing the child actors to any actual urination. There is no lewdness or indecency that would raise concerns under the Protection of Children Act 1978.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Gummo

Cut by the makers to achieve a US R rating (I don't know what version will be picked up for UK distribution though). The R rating advises of pervasive depiction of anti social behaviour of juveniles, including violence, substance abuse, sexuality and language.

The cinema version was released in the UK without BBFC cuts with an 18 rating.

See Self Censored: A Gun for Jennifer

Gun Woman

• Nyotaiju Gun Woman

Cut by the BBFC for an 18 rated 2014 DVD release. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US

Promotional Material

A brilliant doctor on a quest for revenge buys a young woman, a former junkie, and trains her to be the ultimate assassin. In the sickening and horrific training, she actually becomes the instrument of vengeance, as he implants gun parts in her body that she must later assemble and use to kill her target before she bleeds to death.  

• 2015 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2015 Shout! Factory R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2014 Monster Pictures RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 29th December 2014
• 2014 Monster Pictures R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 29th December 2014

• Cut required to remove focus on a man's pleasure in the context of sexual violence. Cut made in line with BBFC Guidelines and policy, and the Video Recordings Act 1984.

In fact the BBFC cuts were to remove the sight of a man's ejaculate spurting onto a woman's leg. The cut is made by stretching time of other material so that the running time is unchanged, perhaps to avoid editing the soundtrack.

A Gunfight

• Gunfight

Submitted in 2000 but was cut for cruelty to a snake

See Paradise Canyon

The Guns of Navarone

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

A restored version with the original use of the word 'bloody' was passed PG uncut:

• 2011 Sony R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2009 Sony R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2007 Sony R2 DVD
• 1994 Columbia/TriStar VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2011 Sony R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2000 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon

pre-cut

• 1990 VCI VHS
• 1986 RCA Columbia VHS

• 1961 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted 157:45s = 151:26s PAL

From IMDB:

• Barnsby's uses of the word 'bloody' overdubbed with 'ruddy

The Guyver: Dark Hero

• The Guyver 2: Dark Hero

One scene cut for violence when submitted in 1994 to keep the certificate down to a 15 eg for a throat being cut. A slightly re-edited version was submitted in 2007 without cuts but the similar running time and lack of 'cuts waived' comment suggests that the cuts are still present.

From IMDb

In addition to the BBFC cuts for violence, the UK release is missing several plot scenes:

• A nightmare sequence
• a scene which Sean breaks up with Mizky
• scenes that further develop the relationship between Sean and Cori.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Gwendoline

• The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

Passed 18 uncut after BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2005 Nucleus R0 DVD at UK Amazon at UK Amazon

Beware of the cut US R Rated version which is shortened by about 16 minutes. Mostly plot scenes missing but this includes some violence.

• 1986 Embassy VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• Widespread cuts for violence against the Amazon fighters. In particular nunchukas, bloody combat, Amazons trussed up on torture machines or as horses for a 'chariot' race.

• 1984 cinema release