(International Trading version submitted in 2003)

The  distributors have set up a web site, www.ispitonyourgrave.co.uk, which claims that the missing 7 minutes were restored prior to resubmission. This is not the case.

The latest submission was pre-cut by the distributor basically in line with the BBFC's 2001 cuts list. However, this time they decided to make the cuts differently (and, in fairness, more smoothly) than on the previous submission. Some of the cuts have been made by reframing (rather than removing) unacceptable material. This means that certain sequences that were previously cut are now partially present, albeit in a reframed version. As for the 41 seconds of cuts, these occurred at the one point where the BBFC  didn't feel that the  reframing (and their other tricks, such as use of slow motion) achieved the effect required by the 2001 cuts list. Basically, they had reframed the rape over the rock so that you couldn't see the woman being raped (she was below screen) but you could still see the attackers thrusting and enjoying the attack. The BBFC asked for this to be removed.

The BBFC site records the following statement:

Cut was required to remove images of a woman being raped over a rock

The uncut region 1 DVD is available here from US Amazon

(International Trading version submitted in 2002)

One of the Video Nasties passed in 2001.  All cuts are to the gang rape scenes - no cuts in the 'revenge' section. The film was first submitted for classification in 1998 and then again in 2001. According to the BBFC: Compulsory cuts were required to remove several sequences of sexual violence and humiliating depictions of female nudity in line with published Sexual Violence Guidelines.

See www.ispitonyourgrave.co.uk

• I-Spy

Both the cinema release of 2002 and the DVD releases of 2003 were similarly cut with the following BBFC comment:

Company was obliged to remove sight of knife penetrating leg and also being withdrawn in order to attain 12A. An uncut 15 classification was available.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• A scene has been cut which flicks back and forth between an orgy taking place when Hammer visits a suspect, and, the torture of two naked women by a psycho with a cut throat razor. I am sure the linking of sex and violence gave the censor a seizure. The orgy scene seems to exist in at least 2 versions with varying shots of nudity...a TV version maybe.
• Also, there are cuts to a scene where a woman has her throat slit in a restaurant.

The US video (CBS/Fox)  contains the 4 minutes cut from the UK, but is still missing the throat slashing (probably cut for an R rating).

• Ji dong ji xia
• Time Warriors

The cuts were waived and the video was down rated to 15 in 2005

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from imdb

I really like this beautifully shot and choreographed action-fantasy/time travel yarn from Clarence Fok, the director of the moody Gun and Rose and the highly regarded Naked Killer. It is an ambitious, rich production that boasts several stunning martial arts sequences and not a few jaw-dropping stunts. It is such an aesthetically rich and varied piece of entertainment that it never fails to please.

Biao is excellent as the naive palace guard who comes into contact with sweet-natured callgirl Maggie Cheung. He is totally believable as the fish out of water and stunning when asked to demonstrate his extraordinary physical skills. A fight atop a crane is masterful, as is a snow-bound sword fight, a duel inside a museum and a heart-stopping leap over a speeding car on a freeway. Yuen Wah, whose character warms immediately to 20th century firearms and criminality, is also amazing in his demanding, bone-punishing role.

Fok, who always brings a strong visual style to his movies, directs the sometimes brutal action with consummate professionalism and fills the cast list with memorable character actors and assorted beauties. A great score helps, too.

A gem.

The cuts were applied to a rape scene when MIHK video version was submitted in 1997

• Koroshiya 1
• Koroshiya ichi

Cuts imposed on the cinema version when submitted in 2002. The cuts were also made to the video version which was submitted to the BBFC

The cinema cuts were justified by the BBFC as follows:

The BBFC has required 11 cuts (approximately three and a quarter minutes of screen time) to the Japanese cinema film Ichi the Killer. The cuts have been made to remove extreme sexualised violence. These are the most substantial cuts required by the BBFC to an 18 rated film since 1994.

The Board's main concern is with content which is likely to promote harmful activity. The Board's Guidelines constrain, in particular, depictions which eroticise or appear to endorse sexual violence. Of specific concern are sexual images in a violent context which are designed to titillate. The Guidelines take account of academic research which indicates that violence when mixed with explicit sexual images (women forcibly stripped, shots which linger on naked breasts or genitalia during rape or assault) may produce a harmful response in some viewers.

The scenes cut from Ichi the Killer include naked women being sexually mutilated or beaten or killed. They contain images of erotically explicit violence which have never been passed by the BBFC at any classification level.

Ichi the Killer is a live action film based on a popular Japanese manga comic. Ichi, who has unusual powers, is caught in a conflict between two rival yakuza gangs. The film taken as a whole belongs to a genre of vivid fantasy violence which has been part of Japanese cinema for many years. The Board does not consider that the cartoon-like damage perpetrated by male gangsters on one another in the rest of the film is likely, at the adult classification level, to inspire emulation. However, this contrasts sharply with the eroticized scenes of violence against female characters which the Board has cut. These scenes appear to the Board to have no function other than the pleasure of the onlooker.

The Hong Kong version has been cut by approximately 13 minutes (115 minutes versus 128 minutes). The uncut Japanese version lacks English subtitles. The first uncut English language version was a Dutch 2 DVD set. There is now an uncut unrated DVD. I am informed that the Australian release is uncut.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon

I have come away with the impression that Miike is a brilliant filmmaker capable of forcing extreme reactions from his viewers. Hollywood should take note of this guy and bring him over here for a project or two. But doing so probably wouldn't work out; Miike's warped visions would send American censors scrambling for a sedative, and most mainstream viewers would recoil from the graphic nature of this director's films. A word of warning for those thinking of indulging in "Ichi the Killer": the movie is loaded with sadism, gore, black comedy, and all around unpleasantness. It's as though this movie turns upside down everything we associate with cleanness and decency. It's a tough watch, even for a gore fan like me, so prepare thoroughly before diving in. Good luck.

• In the hospital ward, multiple gunshots hitting Cher with  ensuing blood spurts have been reduced to one.

A scene in which an unidentified man molests a drugged woman has suffered lest it gives us ideas.

Rejected for cinema release in 1975 and 1976

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Brutal

This film takes place in a Nazi concentration camp dedicated to pseudo medical experimentation on its prisoners. Ilsa, the commandant is portrayed in ruthless fashion by the stunning Dyanne Thorne. Thorne designs and carries out the most excruciatingly painful and torturous experiments on her helpless victims for the sheer whimsy of impressing Nazi ideology and the gratification of her own views on the endurance of the female of the species. The buxom beauty and haughtiness of the barbarous Thorne perversely fixates the viewer as she doles out tortures in nonchalant and indifferent fashion.

Thorne is the essence of cruelty for cruelty's sake. Thorne is the screen's incarnation of pure evil. I can think of no other film that is as disturbing as this one. The explicit sadism portrayed in this film may or may not have actually occurred as depicted. But unthinkable sadism, torture, cruelty and debauchery did actually occur in Nazi camps.

The power of this film is that it shocks the viewer. It puts the viewer in the place of the helpless victim. And the viewer does feel helpless. The viewer gets the idea of what it may have been like to be subjugated twenty-four a day to unspeakable fears and horrors. What form of corporal suffering and humiliation for the mere amusement and pleasure of these Nazi captors is next?

This is an unbelievably difficult film to watch because the brutality depicted is extremely graphic. After viewing this film I was shocked and I had a feeling of just how brutal the Nazis actually were.

• Greta - Haus ohne Männer
• Greta the Torturer
• Greta, the Mad Butcher
• Greta, the Sadist
• Ilsa: Absolute Power
• Wanda, the Wicked Warden

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts required to remove scenes of sadistic and sexualised violence

See full article from IMDb:

• Cuts to heavily edit an extensive scene where male inmates rape some of the prisoners in the clinic
• Reductions to the whipping of a chained woman
• Cuts to a scene of a woman being suffocated with a plastic bag.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Well Done Yuck

Ho boy, what to say about this? I admit to viewing this and the original Ilsa movie out of curiosity...well, my curiosity has been satisfied. Of the two movies, this one is more everything. It's sexier, it has much more girl/girl doings, and it has longer sickening torture scenes in it. And the gross out ending should satisfy all who enjoy such things. The scary part is the fact that this is clearly meant to be entertainment, and that there are people who will be entertained by it.

Privately, I feel this movie should never have been made, but I don't have the right to decide what other people are able to see. So, I will allow it three stars, but with the warning to all that this is absolutely a gross out cult film.

• Meng nan da zei yan zhi hu

Cut when submitted in 1990

• Sorority Babes in the Slime Bowl-a-Rama

The video was cut when submitted in 1988

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum:

• At 8.5 mins-Close up of two different women`s buttocks hit with bat and rear views of spanking which follows were removed.
• at 63 mins-all sight of woman with raised whip advancing on naked cowering woman and impending blow with studded bat which follows were removed.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US:

I watched this film because I enjoy camp movies for what they are. The problem that this movie has is, that while it tries to be a campy, cult film (a bit too hard, judging from the title), it commits the unforgivable sin of being boring. This movie had me begging for the end to arrive. Avoid this film at all costs. It has no redeeming features of any sort. (OK, the girls are fairly attractive; but you will quickly forget that as the pain of the film begins.)

The cinema release was cut in 2005 for category, and the BBFC justifies this as follows: The distributor chose to remove a scene which showed consensual asphyxiation in a sexual context in order to achieve a ‘15’. An uncut ‘18’ was available to the distributor.

The running time suggests that the same cuts have been applied to the video version

Cuts of 8-10s apply to both 1993 cinema and 1994 video versions. The same cuts spec was implemented slightly differently for different versions.

From IMDb: Cuts

• The UK VHS and DVD versions remove close-ups of the bag over Al's head during the opening sequence.
• Frank's shooting of the second bad guy on the boat is also cut - but only on widescreen prints - to remove the blood cloud. On the VHS pan and scan version, the blood impact happens off-screen.
• The assault on the banker's housemate has been cut from the DVD as well, but remains in the VHS video with a toned-down impact sound. Shortly after this, the two neck breaks have been removed completely, despite the BBFC only requesting sound cuts.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Thanks to Martin, May 2008: Breaks Back

I noticed during Friday's late night TV showing (00:50) of the Clint Eastwood film In the Line of Fire on ITV 2 that the previously cut scene of John Malkovich killing the bank teller and her room-mate at their home was uncut. This meant the fairly graphic depiction of 2 neck-breaks, sound effects included.

The film is showing again on ITV 2 on Tuesday 20th May @ 23:05 and Wednesday 21st May @ 21:00.

Hopefully ITV got the nod from the BBFc that these cuts would now be waived

14:56s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 27s cut by the BBFC

• Ai No Corrida
• L'Empire des sens
• The Realm of the Senses

The cinema version was passed in 1991 but the video version was withheld for a long time due to it's hardcore content. It was finally passed in August 2000.

The video version contains all of the explicit and hardcore images. The only BBFC alteration is the slight cut of the underage boy as per the cinema version. The video version is missing about 6:22s of dialogue and narrative scenes compared with the cinema version. It seems that the video distributors submitted an edited version probably prepared for the US market.  The missing scenes are as follows (timings referenced to PAL equivalence of cinema version):

• At 18:38s, scene cut short by 1:13s
• At 28:32s, 14 second shot of couple's faces during sex missing
• At 1:03:22s, entire 1 minute 56 second scene (dialogue) missing
• At 1:10:12s, scene cut short by 38 seconds
• At 1:32:30s, scene cut short by 1 minute 4 seconds
• At 1:38:10s, beginning of scene (1 minute 2 seconds) missing
• At 34:38s, there is an additional shot lasting 12s not present in the cinema version

Note that in the US NC-17 version, the image of an underage boy's penis being yanked has been cut totally.

• The pre-VRA release from Virgin is basically the longer cinema version but suffered about 8s loss at reel changes.

• The 1991 cinema version is slightly censored in that an image of an underage boy's penis being yanked has been deleted by reframing. 10s of footage has been so altered. All of the hardcore imagery is intact.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut explicit detail of oral/genital contact

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category., The cuts were Compulsory. Distributor chose to cut sexual detail (masturbation, clearly unsimulated dildo penetration) to achieve an R18 certificate. An R18 without these cuts was available to the distributor. R18 works can only be sold in licensed sex shops. One further cut to aggressive and threatening dialogue and behaviour (abusive spitting, hair pulling) was required

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove two scenes of explicit oral-genital contact (cunnilingus), in order to achieve the 18 category,

1:06s cuts for both cinema version of 1984 and video release of 1986

1. Cuts to a close-up of a heart being ripped from the chest and the subsequent self healing of the chest wound.
2. The deletion of the line 'Leave him alone you bastards' when the Chinese kid is about to be whipped
3. Deletion of the Chinese Kid burning a guard's stomach with a flaming torch (and hence discovering an ability to heal)
4. The sequence in which a sacrifice victim is being lowered into the fiery pit has been shortened and set to different music.
5. Cut to the first 1s or 2s from the shot of his fall in order to delete the image of his head hitting the side of the cliff.

The BBFC cuts list for the film reads:

• In sacrificial Thuggee ceremony, remove entirely the tearing out of the young victim’s heart, and reduce sight of it in High Priest’s hand to one establishing shot only as he turns, having siezed it as if by magic
• All later shots of the pulsating heart must be removed except the final one when it burst into flames
• Greatly reduce terror of victim as he is lowered into fiery vortex, removing all prolonged camera emphasis on his screams as cage slowly descends by cutting away as soon as he disappears through trap door, after which his death must be over as soon as possible
• Reduce forced drinking of blood and brutal whipping of Indiana, and remove entirely the flogging of Shortie
• Reduce the line “leave him alone, you bastards!” to simply “leave him alone!”
• Also remove from the soundtrack Indiana’s cries of agony as he writhes on ledge after drinking blood
• Remove close shots of Willie screaming as she is locked in cage and lowered towards the fire and reduce her sobs on the soundtrack and the sight of her suspended over flames.
• Greatly reduce fight between Indiana and overseer, removing in particular heavy punches to back, chest, and head, and reduce bone-crunching sound effects of all impact blows so they approximate to the sounds associated with old-fashioned fisticuffs
• Reduce the sequence where Indiana’s cries out as his voodoo doll is burned in flames
• When Shortie burns the guard’s chest with the torch, remove the sound of flesh scalding
• Also reduce to minimum sight of blood on roller after overseer’s death.
• Continue to reduce violence on soundtrack, including screams of real pain as fight leads into final chase in the mine car
• Also reduce sounds of punches to High Priest’s head on banging end of rope bridge
• Remove sight of High Priest’s head cracking against rock face as he falls, and remove sounds of his body bouncing off the cliff twice more before he hits the water

Note, the Leave him alone you bastards line is heard in the 'behind the scenes' documentary on the recently re-released tape, although the line is still cut in the main film!

In the UK today, the uncut version would now be considered as 12 or even 12/15 borderline. The PG version is still considered to be one of the stronger PGs ever certificated by the BBFC and has generated more complaints than most over the years.

The recent BBC showing is confirmed to be the cut version. The BBC in fact consulted with the BBFC to ensure that they showed the officially sanctioned cut version.

The American decision to rate the film PG caused huge controversy in the US at the time.  In fact, the controversy over the PG rating (which was seen by many as the MPAA caving in to Spielberg and corporate pressure) was largely responsible for the introduction of the PG-13 certificate. 

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Dario Argento's Inferno
• Infierno

Fox Video widescreen version from 1993

• 2s cut as Sacha Pitoeff beats a cat against the side of a chair.
• 3 shots toataling 19s are cut of a cat eating a mouse.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available here from US Amazon

Shown uncut on Zone Horror so maybe this means that the film would now be passed uncut by the BBFC

• Voces inocentes

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts were made by substitution The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove strong expletive in order to attain a 12A category An uncut '15' was available.

11:35s pre-cut and 2:58s cut by the BBFC

• Ai nu

Cut for a cinema release in 1973.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon May 2008: Pretty Bloody

This is a very different type of Shaw Brothers martial arts film. It reminded me of Lady Snowblood, so if you liked that, then I would definitely recommend this.

Betty Tei Pei plays a brothel owner, and she is a very evil woman. She could care less about men, and only loves women. When she gets in a new batch of prostitutes, she meets one that she likes. Lily Ho plays the prostitute, and she's a tough little woman, which is why the Madam likes her so much. Yes, they do makeout, and it is awesome.

The story has Lily Ho taking revenge on all the men she had to sleep with when she first came to the brothel, and it's a pretty simple story.

The acting from Betty Tei Pei is AMAZING, and it is a good overall movie, and has an amazing ending. It's directed by Chor Yuen, and as expected, it is a beautiful film to look at. Chor Yuen worked very hard and put in a lot of detail to make sure that his movies had a unique look.

The swordplay is quite good for 1972, and it gets pretty bloody.

• Night Crew: The Final Checkout

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2003

From www.imdb.com

• There is an unrated director's cut available which features the infamous "bandsaw lobotomy" where a character's head is inserted into a high powered meat slicer.
• An uncut, time-coded preview copy was offered to UK video distributors back in 1990. It's about 90 seconds longer than the R-rated cut, and pratically ALL murder-sequences feature extensive gore. Some bootleg copies (sometimes third or fourth generation copies) can be found in the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium.
• The unrated director´s cut of Intruder was released in Sweden 1998 by the company House of Horror (cat no EVIL 006)
• The uncut director's edition was released in Ireland, back in 1989, by Colourbox. It carries a note saying it is illegal in the rest of the United Kingdom (UK). This features all the murder scenes UNCUT, from the bandsaw labotomy to the eye impaling.
• There is also a Chinese Full Uncut and Unrated Video Tape, which offers a very nice video cover which shows nearly every violent scene of the movie. There's also a German Full uncut and Unrated DVD from Dragon Film. with an English language soundtrack.

• A sexual assault of a woman in a car has been removed. Originally the woman was forcibly stripped, forced to give head and finally stabbed to death
• A female corpse with blood on her breasts has been cut as per usual BBFC policy

The original video is available in the US on the EI Independent Cinema label #196. A review of this version in Flesh & Blood suggested that it contains an impressive count of male groin mutilations. I wonder if these have been lost at some stage during the UK release.

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004 with the following BBFC statement: Time had diminished the power and impact to the extent that it was no longer likely to prove harmful and so previous cuts were waived

• Ying zhao tie bu shan

The cut video was re-submitted in 2005 by DVD.com. A couple of months later they found an uncut version which was duly passed uncut with previous cuts waived.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Review from IMDb: Balls

Those elaborate period costumes just don't work against a Poverty Row background like the one we see in "Invincible Armor", but hell...why quibble?

Hwang Jang Lee and John Liu, two of the top three kickers in the business (the third being Delon Tam, Liu's instructor), tear up the screen in this film and that's what counts. My only complaint about the fight scenes is that there were too many distracting, split-second shots of shattered eggs every time someone attacked what they thought was Hwang's vulnerable point (his testicles, naturally).

Just concentrate on the action, guys, please! Otherwise, this is a fun, straightforward flick that you'll enjoy if Hong Kong kung fu cinema is your thing.

• A novelty of the film was to flash images of broken eggs when a guy gets hit in the balls. The BBFC weren't impressed and cut a couple of shots of Jang Lee Hwang being grabbed by the balls in the final fight.

• San De huo shang yu Chong Mi Liu
• Saam Dak woh seung yue Chung Mai Luk

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 2001 with the following comment:

Cuts were required to remove eroticising shots of the forced exposure and groping of breasts, and of volume of nudity of victim during a rape scene

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Good Addition

Here is yet another excellent kung fu movie done by Sammo Hung. The fighting is outstanding consisting of multiple kung fu styles facing off against each other, all done with superior speed and precision. Also sword and other weapons battles round out the action. There are still a ton of fight scenes but not quite as many as some of his other films, probably short by just a couple. The story is good and has decent acting. It is done well enough to keep your interest throughout and contains some scenes not normally seen in these type of films (nude, rape, a whore house). I was quite surprised with the amount of nudity shown (female). This movie is definitely not for children.

The Iron Fisted Monk is definitely a good addition to any kung fu collection.

• The opening sequence lost a whole load of shots of a head in a vice with iron spikes piercing the cheeks and forehead.
• 12 shots of horses being tripped as shown in the film Charge of the Light Brigade

• Jue dou Lao Hu Zhuang
• Duel at the Tiger Village
• Iron Monkey II
• Tough Guy

Cut when submitted in 2001 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cut made to dangerous imitable technique.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via US Amazon

Review from  US Amazon: Not a Sequel

This is a run of the mill Hong Kong Actioner, and if you're a fan, you'll probably enjoy it, although not much.

Donnie Yen is good, the action and fighting sequences are good, Yuen Wo Ping did design the fights. But the filming, editing, and overall quality are mediocre (fans expect this sort of low budget quality in most HK action films).

I really believe this is Tai Seng's attempt to cash in on the popularity of Iron Monkey. Frankly, they've done a poor job, as any serious fan will detect absolutely no connection to that story and this.

• Gaia 2

7:04s unofficial pre-cuts

12:29s unofficial pre-cuts

Cuts waived but certificate upgraded to 15 when re-submitted in 2004

• Ta Pedhia tou dhiavolou
• A Craving for Lust
• Cruel Destination
• Devils in Mykonos
• Island of Perversion
• Psychic Killer 2

Passed with heavy cuts in 2002 with justification: The distributor was required to make several compulsory cuts to scenes of sexual violence, sexualised violence and a dehumanising sexual activity (urolagnia)

• cuts to scenes of sexual violence
• cuts to the bathroom rape
• cuts to a urination sequence.

DVD extras (an interview with the director) were cut as follows:

• The sight of a woman having her face burnt off with a lighted aerosol
• a sickle blade protruding between a woman's breasts
• a woman being repeatedly kicked by a man.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available from US Amazon

The Australian release is also uncut

Review from imdb: Rough Diamond

Island of Perversion is a rough diamond from the deep seas of sickness, another gem from 1970s - the golden age of Grindhouse and exploitation! A film where you can still smell the dirt from the backyard and railway station cinemas it was shown in! But it´' a great one, I enjoyed every second of it!

The story is about two totally weird siblings who travel to Mykonos to free the peaceful Greek island from all those who are perverted scum in their eyes: gays, lesbians, nymphomaniacs, hippies... Unfortunately, the version that I watched was cut, so I didn't have the chance to see the notorious goat-rape!

Even though the violence is not that graphic in this film, the director seemed to be possessed by the ambition to make one of the most depraved movies ever! Loved the bad surprise ending!

• Hak gam
• Hei jin

Cut when submitted in 2002 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts required to animal cruelty

Cut for cinema and video

• Seom

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts required to remove sight of animal cruelty in accordance with BBFC policy

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Candidate scenes for the BBFC cuts from Sam:

• filleting of a fish for sushi while the fish is still alive, as noted
• a shot of a fish being jolted with electrodes
• there is one short shot [about 1s] of a dog being hit
• various shots of fish being hacked up whilst clearly still alive
• a few shots of fish swimming around with large chunks missing from
  them
• a shot of a bird flapping about in a cage whilst underwater
• some shots of a frog being hit with a stick and skinned

All in all, these shots are quite unnecessary, though some people like to think the pain the animals feel links quite poignantly with the pain the humans feel in the film and that though the pain the animals experience is quite temporary, the humans' pain is ultimately more drawn out and prolonged. Not that this justifies the scenes in any real sense.

Review: Sadomasochistic Love Story

The Isle concerns a lonely, beautiful young woman who works at a remote fishing area. People rent small houseboats on a large lake and spend the night. The woman travels out to the boats each day to do the housekeeping, bring them bait and other rations, and to give them sex if they want it. One day a lonely young cop rents a boat...but he seems beyond despair and suicidal. When he tries to kill himself by ingesting 5 large fish hooks, the woman saves him. So begins the most bizarre sadomasochistic love story of all time. The cop gets to return the favour when the woman, upset that all she is to men is a sex object, successfully inserts the same 5 hook arrangement into her vagina.

Review from Stuart: Pretty  Good

I saw it back in March at the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival and whilst I can't remember any dogs being kicked there was definitely
scenes of:

• filleting fish to eat for sushi whilst the fish was still alive (the fillet is eaten as the fish flops around)
• a guy eating fish hooks (lots of blood) and having them removed
• the woman inserting hooks into her vagina (a LOT of blood)
• the underwater shot of the guy taking a crap does happen
• there's quite a violent sex scene

All in all, it's a pretty good film but rather slow (despite the above). Low budget (which shows) but nicely shot. Bloody bizarre ending though...

The cinema version has suffered 1:50s of cuts in 2003. The BBFC stated: Four compulsory cuts were required to the sight of animal cruelty in accordance with the Cinematograph (Animals) Act 1937.