• L Plate

Comparison of the running time with the R Rated version shows that at least 29:11s were pre-cut

• Death's Ecstacy
• The Beast
• The Beast in Heat

The Director's Cut was passed uncut for the Nouveaux Pictures DVD of 2001

The Director's Cut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The Complete Version region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Most controversial film of the decade

This DVD has been a highly sought after film in the Walerian Borowczyk catalogue, and is considered by some to be ...the most controversial film of the decade. An insane adult reworking of The Beauty and the Beast tale. This erotic fable was originally to be part of the Immoral Tales (1974) anthology, yet was put aside due to it's controversial subject matter then later transformed into this film.

The opening close-up of a horse's throbbing vagina gave me a bit of a shock, and I soon realized that I was in for a very interesting ride.

The financially unstable son, Mathurin (Pierre Benedtti), and very rich, and horny Lucy Broadhurst (Lisbeth Hummel) are soon to be arranged in marriage at the failing Mathurin estate. The home is full of history relating to the families most famous ancestor, Romilda. Lucy immediately becomes fascinated with Romilda, and stumbles upon her diary.

The tale is told of the day she was brutally attacked in the woods by a comical man / beast creature with a extra large penis. This scene is both shockingly powerful and hilariously funny all at once. Combining black humour, with graphic sexuality.

My mouth was left a gasp from beginning to end with this outrageous film.

11 minutes of pre-cuts have been restored for a cinema certificate gained in February 2001.

This version is accepted as the Director's Cut and is generally preferred over the Complete Version

All sex scenes are intact but there are a couple of scenes missing (for pacing reasons). Thanks to Marc:

1. Missing scene: Ifany sneeking into the bathroom, after Mathurin has been groomed by his father, in order to stuff clumps of Mathutin's hair into an envelope.
2. Missing scene: Ifany bringing the envelope of Mathurin's hair into Duc Rammondelo de Balo's office, where he is dismissed and the Duc sniffs at it.
3. Missing scene: The cook sets the table while singing, prior to the farcical meal that the Mathurin, his father and the guests attend.
4. Better news is that the scene near the end of the film, when the Cardinal arrives at the family home and tutors his underling on the perils of bestiality, is included

Cut when submitted in 2005 with the following BBFC statement: Cuts required to remove scenes of sexual assaults which eroticised and/or endorsed the activity, and images encouraging an interest in underage sex. With these cuts made an R18 was available to the distributor. Distributor chose to make further cuts to explicit detail of sexual activity in order to achieve an 18.

I wonder if the definition of underage sex being used by the BBFC is 16 or 18. Sex is perfectly legal at 16 it just cannot be shown on video

Region 1  DVD available uncut from AnimeNation

Synopsis & review from www.hentaineko.com

A deadly sex ninja trained in the carnal arts, Miko is hot to deal out heavy martial arts mistreatments to any demon who threatens her. But when the monsters target her sexy sister for a little family fun, Miko really sees red! Who is the stronger sexual slayer, our hedonistic heroine or the preternatural perverts of the underworld?

I love La Blue Girl. And c'mon, isn't Miko Mido the cutest thing ever to sport a hair ribbon? If it's wildly over-the-top excess you're after and with tongue pressed firmly in cheek, then look no further. In fact, La Blue Girl returns pitches itself somewhere between the silly, sexy outrageousness of La Blue Girl while also giving us a coherent plot a la Lady Blue.

Did I mention the animation? Absolutely gorgeous is the most appropriate way I can think of describing the visuals. Far, far better than the vast majority of hentai releases, I was, to say the least, very impressed. The naughtiness level seems to have shifted up a notch or two from the rather subdued (in my opinion) Lady Blue.

Cut when submitted in 2005 with the following BBFC statement:

Cuts required to remove scenes of sexual assaults which eroticised and/or endorsed the activity, and scenes which suggested that sexually active characters were children. With these cuts made an R18 was available to the distributor. Distributor chose to make further cuts to explicit detail of sexual activity in order to achieve an 18.

I wonder if the children being referred to were in fact depicted as over the age of consent.

See LA Blue Girl Returns Episodes 1 & 2 for review

Region 1  DVD available uncut from AnimeNation

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to the sight of clearly unsimulated oro-genital contact, vaginal penetration (digital and toy) and masturbation

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to the sight of clearly unsimulated oro-genital contact, vaginal penetration with sex toys and masturbation

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to the sight of clearly unsimulated oro-genital contact, vaginal penetration (digital and toy) and masturbation

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributer chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity, digital and dildo penetration, to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributer.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (masturbation, oral-genital contact, digital and dildo penetration) to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut explicit sexual detail (in this case three shots of clearly unsimulated oral genital contact in cunnilingus) to gain an '18' certificate. An R18' without cuts was available to them.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor was required to remove a sequence of unsimulated oral/genital contact

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to the sight of clearly unsimulated oro-genital contact and vaginal penetration by vibrator

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut sight of unsimulated masturbation and penetration with dildo

• La Figlia di Frankenstein
• Daughter of Frankenstein
• Madame Frankenstein

The film cuts were waived in 2005 but it seems that the US version was submitted that has been shorn of 15 minutes

The full version is planned for release as a German DVD but has only previously seen the light of day on Swedish VHS, now deleted.

• Nu er dang zi qiang
• Supercop: Female

Same cut version for cinema and video

Cut by the BBFC in 2001 for both cinema and video versions. The cuts were justified by the BBFC as follows:

For the cinema version: Company chose to significantly reduce sight of a flick knife in several scenes, removing in particular material which appeared to glamorise the weapon , in order to achieve a 12. An uncut 15 was available to the distributor. The distributor also sought and was given advice during post-production which resulted in a reduction in violence in the final fight sequence (including the complete removal of a headbutt) prior to formal submission.

For the video version: Cuts required to glamorising shots of flick knife (including sight and/or sound of knife opening , a close shot of the knife covered in blood, and clear sight of knife being twirled) and to sight of a headbutt delivered by heroine, to take account of the large, young, 12-14 year old audience which has already been created by the similarly cut film version.

I have also been informed that the BBFC removed Lara's   final deadly throat chop to the villian, Powell from the cinema version. It is bizarrely restored in the video and DVD

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove images of unsimulated sexual activity (in this instance sight of oral genital contact and liquid resembling semen on a performer's genitals)

Cut when submitted in 2006 with the following BBFC statement: During a scene in which a dog is shot, the animal reacts as if it has been hit by an object, knocking it to the ground. The distributor was unable to provide information about how the scene was filmed without involving cruelty, so a compulsory cut was made.

Cut when submitted in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cut was required to remove sight of dog apparently being shot.

• Lassie's Greatest Adventure

Cut when submitted in 2006 with the following BBFC statement: Distributor was required to remove a sequence where an eagle is tethered by the leg to the ground and goaded into fury and terror by a dog.

• Carnivorous
• Jungle Holocaust
• The Last Survivor
• Cannibal
• Ultimo Mondo Cannibale

The BBFC were never impressed by cannibal films so there seemed little point in an attempt at a UK release for a long time.

It finally got a video certificate in 2003 albeit with 2:46s of cuts

The BBFC made the following statement: Two compulsory cuts required for 18, one to remove scenes of animal cruelty organised or directed for the purposes of filmmaking and one to remove a scene of eroticised sexual violence

The uncut region 1 DVD is available from US Amazon

• At the Hour of Our Death
• The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
• The Fun House

Horror film from the video nasty era passed uncut by the BBFC in 2006

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon from May 22nd 2006

Review from Amazon US

Last House on Dead End Street was a movie that achieved popularity due to the fact that it was put in the same breath as Last House on the Left by Wes Craven, but that's about where the similarities end.

Roger Watkins directs and stars as a madman who is released from prison and vows to take revenge on society or so he says. However he instead chooses to kill his former friends and cohorts who may have stole some of his film ideas. He then plots an absurd plot where he makes the best snuff films. Yes that's part of the urban legend, but this is not a snuff film. What it is though is one disturb, at times hilarious spoof of other wannabee snuff films.

What the movie is missing is the fact that in Last House on the Left we don't have any reversal of fortune between the victim and murderers, instead the movie chooses one direction and stays there, so nothing is really a surprise.

• Krug & Company
• The Men's Room
• Night of vengeance
• Sex Crime of the Century

The BBFC waived their cuts when the DVD was submitted in 2008

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

Review from imdb: Brutal Realist Tragedy

While I think that people tend to get a bit hyperbolic when they talk about The Last House on the Left, I do think it's a fairly good film, especially given what the filmmakers were trying to do and considering their lack of experience, the era and the budget. Also, despite a filmic precursor, it just may be the earliest example of the horror subgenre of brutal, realist tragedy. However, it has flaws that would be difficult to overlook in a distanced assessment of the film.

But again, focusing on that amounts to hype now, and shouldn't be taken too seriously, lest it lead to inflated expectations. Just as surprising on a first viewing is that The Last House on the Left has an intermittent goofy sense of humor and a groovy attitude that is firmly mired in the early 1970s. The two policemen are really comic relief characters (and very funny at that), but there is also a lot of humor surrounding the criminal quartet--this almost becomes a black comedy at times. These sensibilities even extend to the music, which has a frequent hillbilly edge and lyrics that supply ex-positional material. Surprisingly, Hess, who plays Krug, wrote the music.

In 2003 Anchor Bay released an alternative version of Last House on the Left titled Krug & Company.

It has minor differences throughout but all the footage in the BBFC 2002 cuts list is also cut here

The BBFC stated: Cuts required to humiliation of woman forced to urinate, violent stabbing assault on woman and removal of her entrails, and woman's chest carved with a knife.

The 2003 Anchor Bay DVDs implemented the 2002 cuts list differently and ended up deleting a further 13s

Interestingly the UK Anchor Bay release includes a DVD extra showing the deleted footage as a series of stills. (BBFC censorship only applies to video material)

Blue Underground released the video after 31s of BBFC cuts in 2002.

The BBFC justified their cuts as follows: Cuts required to humiliation of woman forced to urinate, violent stabbing assault on woman and removal of her entrails, and woman's chest carved with a knife.

See An appeal against the cuts report from the appeal
See also Last Appeal on the Left

The upshot was that the Video Appeals Committee agreed with the 16s of BBFC and added a further 15s of their own.

The Last House on the Left is not suitable for cinema exhibition because of the explicit and sadistic sexual violence contained in the film. This is the second time that The Last House on the Left has been refused classification by the BBFC. The present version is some four minutes longer than the version offered in 1974, but is still several minutes shorter than the original uncut version. Although the recent resubmission was of a cut version of the film, it was still found to contain elements which are unacceptable under the Board's published Guidelines. The Board asked for further cuts to remove images of the horrific stripping, rape and knife murder of two women. The option of making additional cuts was offered to the distributor in May 1999 and in September they confirmed that the film would be resubmitted with further cuts. After much delay it is now clear that the distributor has declined the option to proceed further. The Board is therefore unable to classify the film in this version.

This version did however get a release on the Art house cinema club circuit.

The release was mostly intact but was missing a short comic scene.

The Greater London Council proved no more sympathetic and refused to overturn the ban for London only showings.

• L'Ultimo cacciatore
• Il Cacciatore

• L'Ultimo Treno della Notte
• Don't Ride on Late Night Trains
• Night Train Murders
• Torture Train
• L'ultimo treno della notte
• Night Train - Der Letzte Zug in der Nacht
• The New House on the Left

The DVD was passed uncut in 2008 and will be released on the Shameless label under the title Night Train Murders.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from US Amazon

I agree that while this film borrowed heavily from Last House on the Left, Night Train Murders is the better of the two. Good production values, excellent cinematography, an Ennio Morricone score, decent acting and a tight script, set Night Train Murders above Last House and other films of this type.

The first third of the film introduces the main characters and then gets them on a train (the night before Christmas) that is full of odd, quirky travelers - most of whom seem to be prone to indulging in one perversion or another.

The "defilement" section of the film is a gripping, harrowing affair that escalates in viciousness before climaxing in a very brutal fashion.

The final act does not live up to the scenes that precede it.  I was expecting a truly grisly and horrific conclusion. However, the director's desire to keep from glamorizing violence is probably why the ending feels somewhat restrained.

38:08s pre-cut and then a further 8:52s cut by the BBFC

Cut by the BBFC in 2007. Distributor chose to remove clearly unsimulated sexual detail (in this case penetration and oral sex). An R18 uncut was available.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove shots of a suicide attempt which demonstrated a technique not felt to be widely known and more likely to result in death that the more well-known method

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cut required to a scene of animal cruelty (horse being ridden off a cliff into water) to obtain the U certificate,

The video was cut by 2s in 1995 for Warner and 4s in 2204 for MGM. Cut required to remove a cruel horse fall

Cut by the BBFC in 2007. The distributor was required to make cuts in order to obtain a BBFC classification. Cuts were made to the sight of a man grabbing a woman's neck and a man inserting fingers into a woman's throat until she gags during sexual activity

• Vampire Woman
• Vampire Women
• The Rape of the Vampire
• La Reine des vampires

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove sight of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (digital penetration) to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor

• Long zai jiang hu

A very brief shot was cut from the dubbed U.K video release of this Brandon Lee H.K actioner. During the finale - the raid on Michael Wong's house - a bloody shot of Lee chopping a henchmen's throat has been trimmed.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. A warning caption was added to the work, alerting viewers to the danger of performing some of the driving stunts portrayed in the work without proper safety measures.

• Fong Sai Yu
• Fang Shi Yu
• Fong Sai Yuk
• The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk
• The Prodigal Fighter

Video releases of 2001 & 2002 cut by 1s. Cut required to sight of real animal cruelty (horse tripped so that it falls forward onto head)

The 12 rated Carlton Video version cut by 5s when submitted in 2000. Cuts required to two shots of horses suffering harm while falling

• 7 Brothers Versus Dracula
• Dracula and the Seven Golden Vampires
• The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula

Downgraded to 15 and cuts waived when submitted in 2004

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

When the expedition party is attacked by the thugs right after they set out on the travel, the last of the baddies is killed by a sort of death grip, apparantly punctuating his jugular vein. This is shown in both the uncut, the old US edit and the US trailer! In the UK version you merely see the guy drop to the ground.

When the vampire lords later raid the village, the uncut version shows two girls being dragged out of their homes and stripped, showing their breasts. In the UK version we only see this happen to one of the girls very briefly.

Incidently the abbreviated USA release version of this film, The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula, shows this whole sequence three times, once with the image reversed. As well as removing nearly 20mins of exposition, this version re-structures the film's narrative in order to cram a number of action scenes (some of which are shown two or three times) into the film as early as possible. In addition to the narrative deletions you mention, the opening credits sequence now unfolds against stills of scenes of the vampires which actually occur about 15 mins into the original film, the flashback structure of the old man avenging his daughters death by killing the 7th golden vampire has been removed and this is now simply an unexplained action sequence near the beginning of the film before Van Helsing appears rather than contained within his lecture, the sequence in which the high priest meets Dracula in Translyvania has been rendered incomprehensible by the deletion of over 50% of the footage (and occurs about 10-15mins into the film rather than being the first scene), and a lot of the dialogue in the scenes in the cave (where the good-guys rest for the night) is also missing.

• Shih ba pan wu yi
• 18 Legendary Weapons of China
• Legendary Weapons of China

I guess that this could not be sold under the title 18 legendary weapons without being harangued by Trading Standards.

• Eskimo Limon
• Going All the Way

No BBFC cuts for the 2009 15 rated Arrow DVD.

• Removed the scene where Benji sells his things to pay for Nikki's abortion
• Removed the scene where the boys scratch themselves in class.

Same cuts apply to the cinema release of 1993 and the video/DVD versions of 1993 & 2008

Two cuts reported. Quoted from a usenet posting by Michael Brooke:

The BBFC's interpretation of the Child Protection Act, after a bit of uncertainty in the late 1970s, now seems pretty consistent. Nudity in itself isn't enough to justify cutting - there has to be actual sexual contact of some kind. I don't mean full intercourse or anything like that - one of the two cuts that 'Leolo' suffered was of a couple of obviously under-age children stroking a woman's breasts.

'Leolo' is an ideal case study concerning what is or isn't permissible - having seen both the uncut and cut versions, I'm amazed by what they left in! Bizarrely, shots of an obviously underage boy stuffing raw liver down the front of his trousers, lying face down on the floor and squelching up and down on top of it *doesn't* contravene the Protection of Children Act, but a far more innocent shot such as the one I described above does!

The other cut is for cat molestation.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Poetic Genius

Léolo is a rare work of pure poetic genius in film. It is a French-Canadian film that reminds me not only of the power of great cinema, but of the unlimited potential of the human imagination, and what it means to experience real love.

Equally enchanting and depressing, Jean-Claude Lauzon's Léolo tells the story of Léo Lauzon (Maxime Collin), a 12-year-old Montreal boy who is more comfortable living in his wild imagination than in the reality of his dysfunctional life. (He provides the voice-over narration for the film, from the perspective of an old man.) During the film one wonders, is this endearing boy slipping into schizophrenia (as mental illness afflicts his family), or does he simply prefer a life of dreams to a life obsessed with bowel movements.

In confronting themes of adolescent sexuality, mental illness, and physical and emotional abuse (all of which are a part of Léolo's life), the film contains several truly disturbing scenes (none of which seem gratuitous in the context of the film). One such scene involves the depiction of a tortured cat (sure to offend many viewers). (The scene is used to address parental concerns about their children's behaviour: which is worse, teenage smoking or acts of violence?) The soundtrack includes Tom Waits and the Rolling Stones. Not surprisingly, Time Magazine named this poignant, one-of-a-kind film one of the 100 best movies of all time. It is one of my 10 favorite films. It is a film that will haunt you.

• The Devils
• Los Diablos

The cinema version was cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC justification: Cut required to scene in which young boy holds apparently erect penis.

Les Diables, a critically well received French drama about a pair of juvenile runaways, was considered in relation to the terms of the Protection of Children Act. The film was a sensitive study of two children, one with learning disabilities, struggling on the margins of society. The film focused on their relationship, not just with the wider world, but also with each other. Several scenes suggested that the children were beginning to become sexually aware and sexually attracted to each other. The parts were played by a boy and a girl who were both under 16 at the time of filming and a few scenes involved a certain amount of nudity. The Board took legal advice about these scenes and also consulted a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist about the psychological impact that taking part in the scenes may have had on the young persons involved. As a consequence, most of the scenes were allowed to pass but a cut was required to a scene which implied that the boy had become sexually aroused while splashing around in water with the girl. Although it was almost impossible to register at normal speed, on freeze frame it was possible to see that the boy’s penis was apparently erect. In order to comply with the Protection of Children Act, the potentially indecent images showing his arousal were removed.

No DVD or video version has yet been certified

Thanks to Daniel, May 2008: Nothing Explicit

 I remember the film because it was actually shown on BBC4 before it was shown theatrically in the UK, and the scene of the two underage actors splashing around in the bath prior to some apparently off screen sexual contact was intact. I remember at the time being startled by what the scene suggested, but I didn't see any sign of the explicit detail that prompted the BBFC to cut it.

11:11s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 40s cut by the BBFC

The BBFC cut 7:12s when submitted in 2007: Distributor chose to make several cuts to real, unsimulated sexual activity (oral-genital contact, penetration with finger and masturbation). An R18 was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to cuts sight of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (oral genital contact, dildo penetration and masturbation). An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor.

One woman sucks and licks a dildo but interaction with a chunk of plastic is considered too risque for the Brits

10:22s pre-cut

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to make one cut to sight of penile shaft during vaginal penetration

The Director's Cut is not quite the director's cut as it was cut by the BBFC in 1999

• A scene has been removed soon after Mel Gibson sees the body of Patsy Kensit in which he kills two guards. The first one is beaten with a chain and the second has his head rammed in a car door (a definite BBFC no-no).
• There is also a cut close-up of a bad guy being shot in the climatic scene.

In addition further scenes are missing at the behest of the distributors:

• The scene where Mel Gibson pumps the car trunk (and hence the South African agent it conceals) full of bullets is missing
• The scene where a South African agent is crushed by a car hoist.

Thanks to James:

I have watched the Region 4 version of Lethal Weapon 2 Director's Cut and it has the scenes which the BBFC has cut, ie the killing of the 2 guys on the pier and the extended shooting of a bad guy at the end (not that violent!).

There is unfortunately no scenes in which guys are crushed by a car hoist and bullets shot into the trunk of a car. I've seen R2 & R4 versions now and they're missing, understandably from R2. I've not tracked anything down on the internet about these two scenes, do they exist?

The region 1 DVD is available without BBFC interference at US Amazon. Presumably no sign of the pre-cut scenes though.

The widescreen version (Warner Home Video) was passed with cuts in 1992

The cinema version is 15 yet the video version has been cut and uprated to 18

Cuts apply to cinema, video and DVD versions as last submitted in 1999

The BBFC said that the re-edited version removed 90 seconds of personal injury and sadism. The UK distributors voluntarily cut the incidence of neck breaks, head butts, garroting, eye gouging and the noisy breaking of bones in five of the seven reels.

• The fight scene towards the beginning of the film where Jet Li kills an accomplice is missing Jet Li breaking the guy's hand and then stamping on his foot after which he grabs the guy by the face  and knees him.
• In the same scene we  don't get to see the wire being strapped tightly around the guy's throat.
• Towards the end, when the Chinese family is brought to the forgery workshop, and the old character goes to his his uncle, we don't get to see the guy's neck being snapped.   The implication still remains though.
• In the major fight scene in Murtaghs house between Jet Li's thugs, Gibson, Russo and Glover there are many many small cuts to remove scenes of contact. This includes punches, kicks and the knife scenes. A pregant Russo beating a thug is trimmed as is Jet Li kicking Russo in the head as she enters the door.
• The final scene is considerably cut in the same way, including Gibsons repeated Headbutt to Jet Li. Also as in Goldeneye the sound volume is reduced to make the fight impacts less severe.
• During the car chase on the freeway the death of the Chinese man is cut. On The US DVD you see an obviously fake floppy dummy hit by the bus, but the UK DVD cuts before the impact

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

No cuts listed for the 2007 DVD release but the running time and lack of BBFC comments suggest this is the same as the 1999 version

Cut for a PG cert.

The line 'you mustn't fuck with the Department of Motor vehicles' has been deleted. (Presumably to keep the certificate at a PG).

When the film was first released on sell-through video, Fox put out the uncut version by mistake.

• Licence Revoked

Thanks to Gavin:

The Ultimate Edition will include *all* the previously cut MPAA and BBFC footage, making it the first totally uncut DVD release in the world.

The Ultimate Edition will be released in the UK on 17th July 2006 and is available on region 2 DVD which can be ordered from UK Amazon

All BBFC cuts waived when resubmitted in 2005

MGM Home Entertainment

Some cuts waived when resubmitted in 2000

• Some blood splashes from the guy in the decompression chamber have been cut
• In the scene where Talisa Soto gets whipped by Sanchez (Robert Davi ); we see him pick up the whip and then the film cuts to the outside of the building, the sounds of her screams were edited out
• a slight cut to Bond's (Timothy Dalton's) climatic fight with Sanchez.
• There may also be cuts to Felix's (David Hedison's) torture.

Sex video by Gerald A Whiting (Liquid Gold)

• Miu meng yan che
• Deadly Life of a Ninja

Cut when submitted in 1986

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• La Luz del fin del mundo

Cut by 35s when submitted for DVD in 2004. Compulsory cut required to the clear sight of horse deliberately tripped and falling head over heels.

The violence cut from the cinema release was restored but was 15 rated

From cuts details on IMDb:

MGM had acquired the United Kingdom release rights in the movie and were intent on releasing it in Britain as their major Christmas film for all the family.

Unfortunately the BBFC would only grant the film an X certificate, barring all under sixteen years of age from seeing it. What MGM had perceived as a jolly action romp was deemed by the UK censors to be an excessively violent film suitable only for adults.

In tandem with the censors MGM made extensive cuts, but still the censors would only grant an A certificate, meaning that children could only be admitted to see the film if accompanied by an adult.

Virtually all of the graphic violence in the original film was excised and the British release of the movie was not a success.

Cut by 13s when submitted in 2007: Distributor chose to make one cut to clear sight of oral-genital contact. An R18 was available to the distributor.

The cimema version has been cut with the following justification:

Distributor chose to remove sight of dangerous activity which might be copied by young children (child character emerging from a hiding place inside a washing machine or tumble drier) in order to achieve a U. A 12 uncut was available to the distributor.

• Captive Women
• Die Nackten Superhexen vom Rio Amore
• Naked Super Witches of the Rio Amore
• Orgía de ninfómanas
• Orgy of the Nymphomaniacs
• The Story of Linda 

Cut when submitted in 1984

• Hot Neon

BBFC cuts were also waived for the 2007 Blackhorse DVD which is also noted as a re-edited version

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to make 4 cuts to unsimulated sexual activity (penetration with finger and vibrators)

Cut in 2008: Cuts required to remove sexualised posing and sexualised images accompanied by strong verbal sexual references, in order to achieve a 15 classification. An uncut 18 was available.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove sight of bloody violence to achieve the 12A category. A 15 uncut was available.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case, oral-genital contact) to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor. R18s can only be sold in licensed sex shops.
 

• Lčvres de sang
• Suck Me Vampire (hardcore version)
• Suce-moi vampire (hardcore version)

No cuts when submitted for DVD in 2004. However there is a hardcore titled Suck Me Vampire in the US and Suce-moi vampire in France.

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

See review from IMDb: One of Rollin's best

This stylish vampire epic is one of Rollin's best. We have the usual Rollin ingredients on hand, nocturnal settings, catacombs, coffins and semi nude vampires lurking the night. Unlike Franco who would delve further into the salacious aspects, Rollin tends to blend his lustful elements into his crafty settings giving the viewer a very unique contrast. This film is a must see for any eclectic Rollin fan.

The BBFC cut 16s when submitted by EIV in 1992

From cuts details on IMDb

BBFC edits to secure a '15' rating with cuts to detailed shots of home-made explosive being constructed from fertilizer.

Probably the US R rated version was submitted which was cut by about a minute to tone down the love scene

Released when the R18 guidelines were temporarily eased

• A couple of sights of semen have been deleted
• A man seen with his face against another guys buttocks has been deleted
• The BBFC have cut a close up of a finger on the grounds that it implied anal penetration. Come now BBFC, it is a legal sexual activity you know. It is bad enough the legal side of what the BBFC do, I wish they would at least keep away from moral judgement of people's sexual preferences.

Cut by 3s when submitted in 2008 with the following BBFC comment:

The distributor chose to cut two uses of the term 'spaz' in order to achieve a 'U' classification. A '12' without cuts was available to the distributor.

The term alluding to spastic was removed from the line: If I was wearing the most kickin’ outfit but my shoes made me look like a spaz, you’d tell me, right?.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• The Living Dead
• Breakfast at the Manchester Morgue
• Don't Open the Window
• Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
• No Profanar el Sueno de los Muertos
• Fin de Semana Para los Meurtos
• Non si Deve Profanare il Sonno dei Morti
• Weekend Per i Morti
• Le Massacre des Morts-Vivants
• Invasion der Zombies
• Zombi 3
• Da Dove Vieni
• Das Leichenhaus der Lebenden Toten

Passed uncut in May 2002

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Amazon review:

Watching this film was a real treat as it was devoid of the usual American teenage students being slaughtered and was even filmed here in the U.K. It's full of 1960's/70's kitsch and the hero's even drive a real British Mini, a link copied in a recent advertisement campaign! The picture quality is excellent so you can see the Zombies in all their lurid excellence and so are the extra's and packaging. If you only ever buy one Zombie movie, make it this one!

1:27s pre-cut by the distributors and then a further 26s cut by the BBFC

These cuts rescued the video from the video nasties list

• La Morte Vivante

The DVD submitted in 2007 was passed uncut by the BBFC

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon with a release date of 3rd Sep 2007

Review from Amazon UK:

The Living Dead Girl is easily my favorite of the 7 Jean Rollin DVD's released thus far by Image and it's the only one in my permanent collection.

If you like your euro-horror a little sexier, a lot gorier, and even quite humorous, you cannot go wrong here. From the opening scene with the grave robbers being disfigured by toxic vapors (hilariously fake) to later ultra-gory scenes as our tragic zombie-female-vamp dispatches one victim after another with her long sharp fingernails or devours their necks in extra-long munching scenes, this one delivers the goods!

It has a very euro-horror feel to it and is not as esoteric and heady as some of the other Rollin films. Although French, it easily would appeal to fans of Italian horror as well...so if you're not a big Rollin fan, you may want to give this one a chance anyway.

• Several cuts but one is to a slow and relentless disembowelling as a woman victim is fed to a female vampire.

Cut by 13s when video submitted in 1990

Thanks to Bleach:

• At 22 mins -Reduce to establishment only, scalpel incisions into dead woman's neck, and remove entire pulling back of skin to reveal flesh.
• At 86 mins - When transvestite dances with breasts bared before young man who stabs towards camera, remove all sight of slashed bleeding neck.
• At 88.5 mins - When ghoulish couple taunt young man holding gun, remove close ups of decomposed breasts exploding when fired at.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Very Weird

Don't expect some type of slasher flick, but what you can expect is a sick twisted love story of a man in love and living with a corpse as it rots, he imagines the corpse talking to him as he cooks for it buys it clothes sleeps with it (not sexually , he does make out with it one time).

Overall the plot is good but at several points does drag and get boring but it still remains very weird.

Banned when submitted in 2006

No BBFC justification provided so far.

Available uncut from Canadian Hentai

Description from Canada Hentai

Working for a moving company, Shouji is invited to a party by a girl named Yuika. However, he is drugged, and multiple women take advantage of him, and rape him repeatedly. When he recovers his memory, he finds himself stuffed in a cardboard box on the railroad tracks, with a suicide note stuffed inside. Shocked, he frantically escapes from the cardboard box. Vowing revenge, he sets off to Yuika's residence. He pretends to be a delivery man, and enters her apartment. There, he stuffs her in a box and takes her to a hideout where she will be used as a lure to contact the other party members that violated him. Watch the depravity of Shouji's revenge as he hunts down and boxes up the women for his carnal revenge...

Slightly pre-cut

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove scenes depicting unsimulated sexual activity (apparently unsimulated dildo penetration and vigorous masturbation)

The cinema version was uncut, The BBFC justified the cuts as follows:

The Board removed sight of horses being deliberately tripped and forced into somersault.

This does not appear to be the full story as there is not enough horse tripping to explain away 95s of cuts.

Thanks to Mark

BBC 1 recently showed its usual full uncut version. The 95 seconds of cuts on the BBFC database are nonsense. The only cuts made to the video/DVD are 4 seconds. This footage is of the forward somersault of a horse shot from under Robert Carradine.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove one use of bad language for a U classification

Same cut version released for cinema and video

• Zei Zang
• The Bloody Tattoo
• Chaak Chong

The BBFC film cuts were waived when the DVD was submitted in 2004

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• National Lampoon's Lost Reality

The 2007 DVD was pre-cut as per the 2005 DVD but extended footage has been added

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Frauen im Liebeslager

Not to be confused with the banned  Love Camp 7, a US film by RL Frost

Cut in 2004 with the following BBFC justification: A cut was required to remove a scene of graphic sexual violence. It in fact showed a naked virgin being held down and her hymen being broken using a riding crop.

• Lager Femminile
• Camp Special No 7
• Nazi Love Camp 7

Rejected by the BBFC in 2002 with the following justification:

The BBFC has refused a classification to the video of LOVE CAMP 7. LOVE CAMP 7 is an exploitation film set in a Nazi 'love camp' during the second World War. The film contains numerous scenes of women prisoners being abused, tortured and humiliated by their Nazi captors. Indeed the whole purpose of the work is to invite male viewers to relish the spectacle of naked women being humiliated for their titillation. LOVE CAMP 7 contains both eroticised depictions of sexual violence and repeated association of sex with restraint, pain,and humiliation. These sequences were in clear contravention of the Board's strict policy on depictions of sexual violence, which prohibits scenes that eroticise or endorse sexual assault. The possibility of cuts was considered. However, because the sexual violence runs throughout the work cutting was not considered to be a viable option.

The Australian Region 0 2005 DVD from Siren Visual Entertainment is uncut

This uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

See review from IMDb: Don't Take Seriously

The violence and sexploitation are best taken as tongue-in-cheek. By enjoying the exploits of the two WAC officers, Maria Lease and Kathy Williams, the movie is quite entertaining.

Both Lease and Williams could pass as Playboy Playmates. Both girls have no less than four scenes each were their wares are sampled - talk about copping a feel, these horny Nazis devour these two toothsome actresses!

The video was listed as a video nasty in April 1985 and stayed on the list throughout the panic

• Libesbriefe einer Portugiesischen Nonne

The BBFC passed the film in 2004 with extensive cuts with the following statement: The cuts were Compulsory. Distributor was required to cut indecent images of a child under the terms of the Protection of Children Act 1978, and images of sexualised torture.

Resubmissions of old works highlighted the impact of the change in the definition of a child. Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun featured sexualised nudity involving an actress who was under 18 at the time of filming. The BBFC judged some of the images to be indecent and cuts were therefore made.

• All reference to Susan Hemingway’s nakedness have been removed in their entirety, this includes the actual torture scenes.

Presumably the actress was over the age of consent though, so this video has fallen victim to the knee jerks of the UK parliament who perversely declared that legal acts are illegal to film.

When submitted in 2007, the film was pre-cut by 32 positions but still required a further 4:56s of cuts with the following BBFC justification: Distributor chose to remove scenes of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case, vaginal penetration and oral-genital contact)

Presumably the BBFC weren't convinced by the educational value of advanced sexual positions

Released uncut in 2006 entitled The Loving Sex Series: 101 Advanced Sexual Positions for Lovers: Vol 1

The BBFC cut 3:22s when submitted in 2007 by Alexander Institute: Distributor chose to remove sexual detail (penetration by fingers and vibrator and oral genital contact). An uncut 'R18' was available.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to cut shots of unsimulated sexual activity (vaginal and anal penetration by dildo). An 'R18' uncut was available to the distributor

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove scenes of sexual detail (unsimulated masturbation and penetration with dildo)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove unsimulated shots of a woman penetrating herself with dildos.

Cut when submitted in 2008. Distributor chose to make cuts to explicit sexual detail (in this case clear sight of vaginal penetration) to achieve an '18' certificate. An 'R18' without cuts was available to the distributor.

Warner video/DVD releases of 1990 and 2002 were uncut as is the 2008 submission from Optimum Releasing.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon for release on 22nd Sep 2008 in a double bill with Vampire Lovers

See review from IMDb: Cult Following

Just when the Hammer Christopher Lee Dracula franchise began to run out of steam in the late sixties, the company revved up its product by turning to Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and filming several versions of the novel.

The other most interesting one is Vampire Lovers, which keeps far closer to the plot of the book and has a more sustained sense of mood and atmosphere,.

Lust is admittedly shaky in terms of script, and the ambiance is on again off again (but wow is it terrific when it's on). What makes this click with so many horror buffs, in particularly those who love lesbian vampire films, is the one-time star Yvette Stensgard, a gorgeous Scandanavian child-woman who looks absolutely innocent (particularly when her eyes fetchingly cross), even the moment before she rips open the neck of her next victim. Lots of nudity, with nothing but blood covering her nubile body.

A genuine cult following has formed around this film because of Stensgard's devastating charisma, which would never be properly employed again, by Hammer or any other company.

• The 1970 cinema version suffered minor BBFC edits with a token cut made to the love scene between Mircalla and Amanda.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make multiple cuts throughout the tape to remove frequent sight of unsimulated masturbation, and sight of digital penetration and oral-genital contact