• Fat Girl
• A mia sorella
• For my Sister

The cinema version was uncut but the video was cut with the following BBFC justification:

Cut required to scene of sexual assault on young girl to address the specific danger that video enables the scene to be used to stimulate and validate abusive action.

Further details were supplied after an email query

The cinema version was passed '18' uncut following expert legal advice. Nevertheless the Board was concerned by the film's climactic scene, which shows an under-aged girl - played by a 13 year old actress - being raped. Our legal advice confirmed that the scene was not indecent within the meaning of the Protection of Children Act 1978 and the Board therefore agreed to pass the scene intact.

The Board also took the opinion of a leading consultant clinical psychologist at the time of the original cinema submission. He expressed a concern that, in his clinical experience, the rape sequence could potentially be used by paedophiles to 'groom' their victims. The Board was satisfied, however, that this concern about potential abuse was minimal in the context of an adult cinema release where the possibility of children being taken to the cinema for grooming was remote.

Videos, by contrast, are more easily accessible for personal use by abusive individuals and the risk of the video's use for grooming was felt to be far higher. Furthermore, the potential for the scene to be played repeatedly and out of context on video concerned the Board far more so than on film. It was felt therefore that, on video, the scene presented a particular problem as both stimulus material and to validate abusive behaviour. The Board's concerns were confirmed by a further opinion from a second consultant psychologist specifically in relation to the video release, which echoed the opinion of her colleague. The scene was therefore removed in its entirety on video.

Cut when submitted in 2005 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts required to remove a verbal reference to a potentially dangerous and imitable bomb-making technique

The cinema and full-screen dubbed version versions  were trimmed in the scene where the bikers hack up the young couples car. In these versions we see them start to hack it up but it then cuts to a close-up of a crow. In the full version the hacking takes much longer with a depiction of the panic of the couple, who are then dragged out of the car, then it cuts to the crow.

This version could still be circulating on Warner Home Video's full-screen release.

• The Road Warrior

No cuts from the BBFC but this version appears to originate from the cut US R rated version:

• Very early on in the film there is a missing shot of Vernon Wells graphically pulling an arrow out of his arm.
• The other cut occurs after Wells' "boyfriend" has been partially lobotomised by the boomerang. A close-up shot of Wells trying to dislodge the boomerang from the skull has been removed.

From sBBFC: The distributors sent this film to the BBFC with a request that they receive a U. The problem for the BBFC was that the film included the word motherf*****. Although the word was not used in full, it was clear to the audience what was meant. The BBFC felt that the word was inappropriate in a film aimed at the very youngest viewers and offered a higher category with no cuts. But the distributor wanted a U and so chose to make a cut to remove the offending word to secure this category.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove images of explicit vaginal penetration in order to achieve an 18 classification

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 2004 with the following statement: Cuts to remove sight of double ear clap and headbutt for a 12 classification. An uncut 15 was available.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove sight of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (oral sex and penetration)

21:50s unofficial pre-cuts

Notable as it contains hardcore snippets which only got through after appeal

Available uncut from Adult Video Universe

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove images of explicit sexual activity (in this case, unsimulated vaginal penetration with a dildo) in order to achieve an 18 classification

The BBFC state that these cuts are the same for both cinema and video version yet the cinema cuts ar listed at 3s

• Men Behind the Sun
• Squadron 731
• Hei tai yang 731

The cut scene was an unsimulated scene of a cat being thrown into a room full of rats, the rats killing the cat.

The video was given a limited release to UK ethenic Chinese video stores only (which probably goes some way to explain why the BBFC treated it so leniently, its' re-enactments of WWII atrocities make Saving Private Ryan look like an episode of The A Team).

The film has been shown uncut at London's Imperial War Museum, as part of an exhibition of war atrocities. It is also available uncut on video in Australia (World Supply and Video), with an 'M' certificate (their '15'). It has also been released in Hong Kong on video and laserdisc.

Cuts waived for a 15 certificate when submitted in 2004

• Wrong is Right

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004 as Wrong is Right

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The video was cut when submitted in 1987

• Edits to the beating of a slave girl
• Edits to shots of a male slave being hung upside down and bloodily whipped across his bare buttocks

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

See review from IMDb: Amazing

Mandingo is truly an amazing movie. One would think that this is as close you can get to actually seeing the slave-owning south on film.

Mandingo is probably lumped into the "cult/camp classic" category because this is a film no one would dare make today, unless the slaves got a major comeuppance at the end. They do not here. This film is a brutal look at slave owners and their slaves which will leave the audience gasping. Some of the lines are so daring by today's politically-correct standards, there's no doubt they'd get a lot of laughs.

The film has a sleazy realism to it. Even the plantation looks like a mess - the outside is all ragged and the inside isn't much better, and this is a rich man's plantation.

This is a film that has kind of disappeared in the realm of today's political correctness. But seeking it out isn't tough, as it has to be seen by anyone with an interest in non-PC cinema, or any kind of "forbidden" movies.

Rejected for cinema in 1981 and then rejected for video in 1998.

Finally passed for video in 2002 with the following BBFC statement: Cuts required to reduce length of sexualised strangulation sequence by half and to remove shots of a knife played over and stabbing into female flesh with sexual connotations.

Uncut when an extended version was submitted in 2004

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• The cut is to the shower scene and involves Robert Z'Dar getting stabbed in the back with a knife. It's a shot of the knife going in and out again and a face slash as well.

Amazon Review:

This film has a pretty good B-movie cast, including Tom Atkins, Richard Roundtree and King of the B-movies, Bruce Campbell. It also has a cameo from 'Spiderman' director Sam Raimi. William Lustig is the director.

I enjoyed this film. I don't remember the last time a film scared me, and neither did this, but there is some nice tension built up in the various chases around the city.

Overall this is definitely worth a watch.

The 1990 cinema release is uncut but the subsequent video version suffered 4s of cuts removing the following:

• In the police shoot out you see two police men getting shot including blood spurting out of the wounds, then you see the bodies slump to the ground covered in blood...
• A reprise from the shower murder of Maniac Cop 1 is similarly cut to the original (although 0.5s have been restored)

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum

Cut when submitted in 1995:

• At 14.5 mins - After shots of bare branches blowing outside window, all imitable instructive techniques of how to fix heroin, including shots of spoon being heated over flame, tourniquet applied to arm and tightened with teeth, arm being tapped for vein, needle pushed
  into skin, and arm clenched as tourniquet is loosened was removed. Drug abuse may be suggested by stylised montage of images, eg. syringe or pills being poured, but not by realistic details. (Shots of woman losing consciousness, etc remained.)
• At 38 mins -In bathroom suicide attempt, all sight of razor blade, wrists being slit, nude woman`s entire torso lying back in bath covered with blood and later full-length shots of policemen trying to grasp her nude body were removed. (Shot of her sitting up in bath with zoom in to face and later CUs of half-submerged and struggling face remained, but emphasis on combination of blood and female nudity was removed.)
• At 41 mins - In hospital sequence which follows, sight of slashed wrists indicating vertical slashes was removed.
• At 51.5 mins - When young woman attacks her former lover, big close up of razor blade slashing neck was removed.

• Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält
• Austria 1700
• Brenn, Hexe, brenn
• Burn, Witch, Burn
• Hexen
• Satan

Intervision released this video uncut prior to the Video Recordings Act but it was rapidly withdrawn.

Some previous cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2003

This heavily BBFC censored version has the following cuts:

• 4 cuts totalling 12s to the thumb screw torture
• A 1:59s scene has been removed showing a partially naked girl (Gaby Fuchs) on the rack suffering also from her feet being branded
• 2 cuts totalling 12s from the Baron (Michael Maien) sitting on nails and getting his feet whipped.
• A 55s scene has been removed showing a girl having her tongue torn out.
• 3 cuts totalling 6s have reduced the needle torture on the pupeteer.
• The Baron being whipped has been reduced by 4s
• Most of the rape of the pupeteer's wife by Cumberland (Herbert Lom) has been removed, ie 59s worth.

An uncut version is widely available on video in the US from Anchor Bay Entertainment and also on the T-Z label.

• Screwface

Same cut version for cinema and video.

1. The fight in the department store between Seagal and the Jamaicans
   is missing an arm-break (3 secs).
2. The night-time raid on Screwface's house in Jamaica, has lost another arm-break (6 secs)- this occurs just before Seagal faces Screwface's twin brother.
3. The end battle between Seagal and Screwface has been cut in two places - firstly a close-up of Seagal gouging out Screwface's eyes is missing (3 secs) and then a few seconds later a vicious back-break (9 secs) after the two have crashed through the stone wall.

The version showing on Sky TV is also cut (though slightly differently). The recent Channel 5 screening contains all of the above footage - on network television! - in exchange for a brief snip to the opening scene - a hand severing - which is present in the video version.

A throwing star has been cut from the attack on the hero accompanying a female doctor.

22:18s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 2:32s cut by the BBFC

14:58s pre-cut and a further 29s cut by the BBFC

• Long xing tian xia
• The Master
  Wong fei hung

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2005.

The scenes of the knuckledusters, nunchaku and balisong are now restored in the UK Hong Kong Legends DVD release.

Knuckledusters and chainsticks just cannot be seen by those sensitive Brits. It doesn't really matter whether they are being used or not

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut three instances of unsimulated explicit sexual activity (vaginal penetration and oral sex)

• Scenes of rimming removed even where the action is obscured from view
• Shots of vigorous masturbation removed
• Scenes of condoms being put on erect penises proved a little too educational for the BBFC
• Views of erect penises proudly clad in a condom were considered unsafe for adult viewing so where removed.
• A shot of a guy vigorously thrusting with loud slapping sounds deleted. A pathetic BBFC excuse for cuts is that they don't like it when it is clear that real sex is occurring even if their are no explicit details to prove it.

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2006

From Andrew:

As with channel 5 the Sky movies version of The Matrix not only featured all the removed head butts, but the much talked about "mouse cyber sex scene".

Cinema version should theoretically be the same as the video version but as Dave points out:

I can confirm that The Matrix played uncut in several regions of the North West in England and in some cases with different scenes. In the Furness region in Cumbria North of England there was an additional scene when Neo stumbles upon Mouse doing some inventive programming on 'The Woman in Red' by making her breasts bigger in his software program on screen for better 'Cyber sex' manipulation.

This scene was deleted in all international versions (including R print) and runs about 15 seconds with dialogue, but for some strange reason was included in our region's showing along with the 10 seconds of headbutts and violence. This had been confirmed by several friends who saw the film at that time. I also viewed The matrix in Manchester and it played the uncut R print minus the Cyber sex scene.
 

Video & DVD versions

Eight headbutts have been removed to tone the film down from 18 to a requested 15.

Thanks to Draven for the suggested layout: the cut shots are shown in bold:

1. Fight sequence where the rebel leader, Morpheus (Larry Fishborne), is captured. The scene starts with Morpheus landing on top of Agent Smith in the bathroom.  after which they introduce themselves to one another.  Smith then squeezes Morpheus's knuckles as he moves Morpheus's hands away from his neck. Morpheus then headbutts him as this is all he can do. After this, Smith grabs him by the collar and simultaneously headbutts him three times in a row after which he punches him in the chest.  This throws Morpheus back against the wall behind as per the shitty British version. 
2. Fight scene with Neo in the train station.  Towards the beginning of the fight, there is a shot where Agent Smith kicks Neo which makes him float sideways in the air and then punches him into the wall.  Neo gets up after kicking away Smith.  He then attacks Smith via punching him in a cool martial arts manner. As this is happening, agent smith locks Neo by both his arms and headbutts him twice. 
3. Later in the same fight scene.  After Neo is hurled away into the air after one of Agent Smith's punches at which point he spits out blood (both in the scene and in his chair), he gets up and entices Smith towards him via hand gestures.  after this he trades punches with Smith and then reverses the arm block back to Smith and headbutts him twice in much the same way that had been done to him a little earlier.  Neo then punches Smith in the chin and does the four cool kicks in the air and chokes Smith when he sticks his fingers out into his throat when his punch is blocked. 

The recent showing on Channel 5 (May 2003) had these fight scenes restored.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. The distributor chose to make CUTS/MODIFICATIONS to several text captions advertising MMS text services. Such cuts/modifications were made in compliance with ICSTIS Guidelines on Premium Rate Phone Numbers. AN 18 classification was available subject to the cuts/modifications indicated in the cuts list issued for this work but no classification was available without such cuts/modifications

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Compulsory cuts required to sight of breast nudity in public areas

Cut when submitted in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Company required to cut on-screen reference to a website selling R18 DVDs by mail order.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove sight of explicit penetration and explicit oral-genital contact in order to secure an 18 certificate

• Bloodstone
• The Exchange

Cuts are reported in the first clash between Mikhail (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and some Russion thugs.The offending shots are of limbs being twisted and bones being broken.

The cinema version was uncut but all video/DVD release cut as follows:

• The street fight in the alley between Mikhail (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and some Russion thugs loses a close-up shot of a flick knife being opened, as well as an arm break by knee, and a Russian thug's head been smashed through a car window.
• A chop to the throat trimmed as car door is opened
• A wrist-snapping removed from fight in house with bald thug. 
• Close-ups of knife stabbing missing from fight in the Bank's elevator.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at UK Amazon

12:28s pre-cut

The film and video versions are cut in exactly the same way. The cuts made by the distributors were not suggested by the BBFC but made voluntarily by the distributors to tone down the overall level of violence and gun play in the film.

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove sexual detail (unsimulated oral genital contact)

17:05s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 9s cut by the BBFC

Same cuts for cinema and video version.

Maybe it is the "Fuck You" that has been deleted

The video versions of 1991 and 1998 were cut to remove an occurrence of "fuck" for a PG rather than a 12.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• MIB

The BBFC have overdubbed 2 aggresive uses of the word prick by the lesser cusse of jerk. The offending lines of dialogue are You insensitive prick and I just hope the little prick hasn't skipped town

The BBFC have problems with both drugs and things anal. This video offends both by having a man snort cocaine from a womans butt and so this has been cut.

All previous cuts waived when re-submitted in 2003

1. A single shot of O-Dog (Larenz Tate) and Caine (Tyrin Turner) breaking open a car door by inserting a thin piece of metal between the window and the lock has been cut lest any aspiring car thieves are watching.
2. At the revenge shooting at the burger stand: The UK video shows a victim staggering away from Caine & O'Dog whose friend offers help but in fact shoots him. 2 further shots are heard as the scene cuts away. The original version clearly shows all 3 shots with chunks of the victims back being shot out.
3. When Caine's dad shoots one of his gambling buddies, there are trims applied to the entrance and exit wounds of the many gunshots fired.
4. In the final showdown Sharif's death by gunshots was trimmed, and 2 gunshot wounds were also trimmed from Caine's death.

A uncut version is available via the unrated Criterion laserdisc from the US.

• Suneel Darshan's Mere Jeevan Saathi

The DVD was passed uncut at 15 in 2006

Uncut when re-submitted in 2001.

Thanks to Shane, September 2006

Interesting the uncut 18 rated version has been screened on ITV 4 at 6pm & 7pm slots

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• The offending cut was a fight scene between two characters were a rather hard ear slap was issued by both hands

Cut when submitted in 2005. The BBFC said: Cuts required to remove sight of animal cruelty (in this case a genuine cockfight)

Uncut in the UK but International dubbed versions all replace a phrase 'hard on' with 'attitude'.

Cut by the BBFC in 2003 with the following statement:

Cuts required to remove pornographic detail from animated depictions of rape and sexual assault. With these cuts made an R18 was available to the distributor. Distributor chose to cut explicit sexual detail in consensual sex scenes in order to achieve an 18.

The video versions have been uncut from 1987. The latest submission in 2004 was listed as re-edited but these are uncontentious changes

• Reduce thrusting movements as man has sex with woman outside cabin.
• Reduce sequence where man is shot whilst sitting on toilet.
• Remove impact shot where Lee throws a spike into man's forehead.
• Reduce the sequence where Tom cuts Lee's throat, in particular removing the blood trickle from the mouth.

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.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to sexual detail (clear, unsimulated fellatio and penetration)

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC statement: Distributor chose to reduce sight of sexual detail in sex education video to achieve an "18" category. An "R18" uncut was available to the distributor.

The BBFC continues to pass occasional explicit imagery at ‘18’ in ‘sex education’ videos. Such imagery is only passed if it is kept to the minimum necessary to illustrate the educational or instructional points being made, and if it occurs within a work which genuinely and manifestly seeks to inform and educate. In the case of Modern Loving, although the work was believed to be a genuine attempt to educate, some scenes of explicit imagery were reduced because they went beyond the level of detail necessary to illustrate the point being made.

A recent discussion on Usenet suggests that UK version is missing some dialogue compared with a US Paramount print. This occurs in the scene where the heroic knights come across a castle full of nubile women:

When the girl states that her sister has lit the beacon that is grail shaped, my Paramount print goes on to say that they should all be spanked as punishment. The Paramount print has several shots along the following lines before the line "You should spank us all" The girl stating that "that was a good chance for a pussy gag" The knight saying that "he's glad this will/won't be cut" A shot of the crowd shouting "Get on with it" and God shouting "Get on With it".

The BBFC do not own up to any cuts though so the distributors may be to blame. In cult circles these cuts are known as the missing 24 seconds and seem to randomly appear in some versions. The missing footage has appeared on BBC broadcasts, and can also be seen on the 1996 widescreen 21st Anniversary reissue as well as the laserdisc.

• More - Mehr, immer mehr

Cut when submitted in 2003 with the following BBFC statement: A cut was required to remove instructive detail of illegal drug use.

Notable for the Pink Floyd soundtrack.

Thanks to Brian for locating the uncut version:

For those that would prefer a complete version there is a region 2 DVD available from www.amazon.fr (Not sure whether is has the original English soundtrack). Also note that the film has a 12 certificate in France.

A cockfight offended the BBFC so it was plucked out.

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC statement: Cut required to sight of an apparently real assault which appears to have been commissioned by the film makers in the UK.

In particular the cut scene involved a glass bottle being broken over someone's head

Cuts waived when submitted in 2003

Same cut version for cinema and video versions up to 1999

Shots of nunchucks have been deleted

• Mortal Kombat 2

A neck break was cut for the 12 certificate cinema version. A back break and a kick to the head were further deletions from the video which was also upgraded to a 15 certificate.

• Slave of the Cannibal God
• La Montagna del dio Cannibale
• The Prisoner of the Cannibal God

Passed X for the cinema with cuts

Then added to the video nasties list as The Prisoner of the Cannibal God

Later removed from the DPP list

Passed with minor cuts for animal cruelty in 2001: Cuts required to sight of animal cruelty, including animals being goaded to fight each other

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Compulsory cuts were required to remove a sequence of orchestrated dog fighting, for which reasonable assurances could not be given

• China Doll
• The Legend of Mulan

Cinema version

The BBFC cut this Disney cartoon because of a "vicious head-butt".

The BBC weren't so perturbed and aired the uncut version in december 2003 at 4.35pm

Cut to remove an entire supposedly blasphemous sequence set in a church in which a male transvestite buggered himself with a rosary. The shots of the transvestite were intercut with footage of Christ moving through the Stations of the Cross.

• Hamunaptra

The 15 rated DVD was passed uncut. Available at UK Amazon

Cuts apply to the cinema version and the 12 rated video version.

The BBFC detailed the cuts at their 1999 roadshows.

• The hanging scene was shortened as it originally gave the impression that hanging is not as dangerous as it is cracked up to be.
• In the scene where O'Connell cuts the Scarab out from Jonathan's arm, he produces a Butterfly knife, gives it a swirl and the cuts out the bug. The cinema version doesn't include the swirl.

The 2001 UK cinema release and video versions removes a headbutt during the Rachel Weisz/Patricia Velasquez fight scene, in order to qualify for a '12' rating.

The sequence where Ardeth Bay and Rick are fighting to get Evy back was originally longer. The MPAA deemed the gun battle too long and gave the film an "R" rating, not because of blood or deaths, but because of excessive gunfire (!). According to director Stephen Sommers and editor Bob Ducsay, they say that the scene was significantly longer, but shortened to ensure a "PG-13" rating.

The cinema version in uncut.

A single 4 second cut has been made to the video version of this Wesley Snipes thriller. During the raid on Spikins' house, when Snipes battles one of the assassins in the kitchen, the shot of Snipes breaking the bad guys neck has been removed.

The Director's Cut was banned by the BBFC when submitted in 2008 with the following statement:

Murder Set Pieces is a US made feature focussing on the activities of a psychopathic sexual serial killer, who, throughout the film, is seen raping, torturing and murdering his victims. There is a clear focus on sex or sexual behaviour accompanied by non-consensual pain, injury and humiliation. Young children are among those terrorised and killed.

In making a decision as to whether a video work is suitable for classification, the Board applies the criteria set out in its current Classification Guidelines, published in 2005. These are the result of an extensive process of public consultation and research and reflect the balance of media effects research, the requirements of UK law and the attitudes of the UK public. The Board’s Guidelines clearly set out the Board’s serious concerns about the portrayal of violence, most especially when the violence is sexual or sexualised, but also when depictions portray or encourage: callousness towards victims, aggressive attitudes, or taking pleasure in pain or humiliation.

The Guidelines for the ‘18’ category requested for this video work state that such concerns 'will not normally override the wish that adults should be free to choose their own entertainment' but make clear that exceptions to this general rule may be made in certain areas, including 'where material or treatment appears to the Board to risk harm to individuals or, through their behaviour, to society – eg any detailed portrayal of violent or dangerous acts… [and that the Board] may intervene with portrayals of sexual violence which might, eg eroticise or endorse sexual assault'. Under the heading of 'Rejects', the Guidelines identify as of particular concern 'graphic rape or torture', 'portrayals of children in a sexualised or abusive context' and 'sex accompanied by non-consensual pain, injury or humiliation'.

The Board’s position that scenes of violence with the potential to trigger sexual arousal may encourage a harmful association between violence and sexual gratification is reflected in research and consistent with public opinion. It is the Board’s carefully considered view that to issue a certificate to MURDER-SET-PIECES, even if statutorily confined to adults, would involve risk of harm within the terms of the Video Recordings Act 1984, would be inconsistent with the Board’s Guidelines, and would be unacceptable to the public.

The Board considered whether the issue could be dealt with through cuts. However, given the unacceptable content features throughout, and that what remains is essentially preparatory and set-up material for the unacceptable scenes, cuts are not a viable option in this case and the work is therefore refused a classification.

The region 0 Director's Cut DVD is available via US Amazon

From IMDb

The Lion's Gate Films "R" rated version of "Murder-Set-Pieces" was released on January 9th, 2007, and it is cut and edited by 23 minutes. No other film in the history of cinema has had to have that many minutes cut to avoid the "NC-17" rating.

Review from IMDb:

Very, very overrated serial killer flick that has been compared to Maniac, Last House on Dead End Street and New York Ripper. Some reviewers have claimed that it is better than these three films.

It is not. It is gory in a juvenile, over-the-top kind of way and the coverage of some of the murders is adequate, but it is incredibly fragmented, totally devoid of characterization and plot development and, overall, amateurish in its execution.

None of the performances are believable -- not even Sven Garrett's.

The special effects are reasonably realistic, but they're too overlit and obvious to be truly disturbing.

Some context and character development would have helped immeasurably.

The region 2 DVD has been released uncut

The Film Four version is also uncut

+ cinema cuts

Two slight cuts have been made to the "snuff" murder that Billy (Marina Sudina) witnesses. The first is a rear shot of the couple having sex - this has been substituted for a longer take of Billy looking embarrassed at her discovery. The second trim is a bloody shot of the actual stabbing, just as Billy is trying to sneak away from the murder scene.

The use of 'fuck' is too strong for a 12 rating so it has been dubbed over

• Mio caro assassino
• Sumario sangriento de la pequeña Estefania

From IMDb:

The 2008 Shameless DVD features shorter film credits though the film is fully uncut and contains around 12 seconds of additional gory violence.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from IMDb: Don't Miss

Director Tonino Valerii is best known in the USA for the spaghetti western My Name is Nobody, but My Dear Killer is no less an excellent example of the giallo genre than "Nobody" was to its own.

The plot revolves around a series of murders committed by an unknown assailant intent on keeping the deaths of a small child and her father unsolved. As is the case with most gialli, there's a detective one step behind the murderer, a lush and creepy music score (this time by Morricone), a houseful of suspects, creative and illogical murders, and a downbeat and melancholy plot.

What elevates this one above all the others made in that banner year for the genre (1971), though, is the detail given to the script and production. The characters are all fully formed and functional to the story, which itself is well thought-out and clever. The resolution is well-handled, and even if the killer's identity is impossible to guess beforehand, the means in which he (or she) is finally discovered will make you smile. Add to this one of the saddest musical-score main themes in movie history, featuring a woman's voice singing a haunting child's melody, and you have a giallo that fans of the genre should definitely not miss.

• Cut to remove a brief shot of a young naked girl at an art studio.

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 with sex toys

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts were required to sight of a man choking a woman after sex

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum

The video was cut by the BBFC when submitted in 1999

• At 16 mins close up of man stabbing victim in eye and all sight of other attacker crushing his boot repeatedly on victim's head and squashing it into a bloody pulp were removed.

Comment from the distributor: I have to cut a particularly brutal scene from the climax of the film, which may render the film pointless.

• A double ear clap has gone missing (see The Gallery for the missing footage)
• The sound effects of a head butt were toned down

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon