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MacGruber

Unrated

UK: The Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2010 Universal (Theatrical + Unrated) R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2010 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2010 Universal (Theatrical + Unrated) R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2010 Universal (Theatrical + Unrated) R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Extra 5:49s of material consists of dialogue and jokes. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

R Rated

• UK 2010 Universal (Theatrical + Unrated) R0 Blu-ray
• UK 2010 Universal R2 DVD

MacGyver: Thief of Budapest

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 Machine

Mad Bull 34: Part I: Scandal

• Maddo buru sâti-fô

The BBFC cut 43s from the 1996 Manga VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• Cut scene of the cop, Mad Bull, rescuing naked girl being assaulted by 2 thugs. Mad Bull shoots one of the thugs in the neck blowing his head clean off
• Cut shot of a robbery victim peeing her pants.
• Cut shot of masked thug getting his head blown off with several gun shots
• Cuts to a gangster ripping of a girls dress and subsequent blood spattering on her naked breasts
• Cuts to a showering woman being assaulted with scalding water
• Cuts to the nasty demise of Curtis who first gets glass in his eyes after a headbut on his glasses. Then his head gets ripped off by a passing train.
• Cuts to the demise of Curtis's accomplice ho is another to lose his head to bloody gun shots

Mad Bull 34: Part II: Manhattan Connection

• Maddo buru sâti-fô

The BBFC cut 1:19s from the 1996 Manga VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• Cuts to policewoman being assaulted by 4 4 thugs who rip off her top and then rape her. The scene is mostly deleted but the rape is established with a long shot version
• Cuts to a bloody beating of the cop Diazaburo who tries to rescue the raped woman

Mad Doctor of Blood Island

• Blood Doctor
• Grave Desires
• Tomb of the Living Dead

The 2003 DVD submission was cut by the BBFC by 42s. Cut required to sight of animal cruelty (goats and pigs tied up and stabbed)

Mad Dog Morgan

• Mad Dog

R Rated

The Director's Cut was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2011 4Digital Fully Restored R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release featuring the Director's Cut and is MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2009 Troma 2 Disc Limited Edition R0 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 2003 Waterfall R2 DVD

• UK 1990 Troma VHS

• UK 1976 cinema release

Mad Foxes

• Los violadores

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2003 Jet/MVD R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: So bad, it's funny

On their way to a disco, Hal and his 'girlfriend' are accosted by a band of Hell's Angels. As they drive away, Hal accidentally runs over one, killing him. The Angels pursue the couple and catch up with them as they are leaving the disco. They savagely beat up Hal and brutally rape his girlfriend. Hal swears revenge.

This is one of the most disturbing (and not to mention unintentionally funny) films I've ever seen. The dubbing is atrocious, the violence over-the-top, and the full frontal nudity extreme, there is a LOT of male frontal nudity in this film; so much so that I suspect that either the writer or director was...well, INTO male full frontal nudity.

It's so bad, it's funny.

• UK 1982 VCL VHS

• UK 1982 cinema release

From IMDb:

• Suffered extensive edits to scenes of rape, castration, graphic stabbings and footage of nunchakus.

Mad Max

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

Passed 18 uncut with BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2006 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1995 Warner VHS
• UK 1992 Warner VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2010 MGM R1 DVD/Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2002 MGM R1 DVD at US Amazon

The cut cinema version was passed 18 without further cuts for:

• UK 1986 Warner VHS

Passed X (18) after 48s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1979 cinema release

The BBFC cuts 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.

Mad Max 2

• Mad Max 2: The Rod Warrior
• The Road Warrior

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R Rated

The cut R Rated Theatrical Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2006 Warner R2 DVD

The US cuts to the  R Rated Theatrical Version are:

• 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.

Unrated

The International Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 1994 Warner VHS
• UK 1986 Warner VHS
• UK 1982 cinema release

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

US 2007 Warner R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon

Mad Mission

• Zuijia Paidang
• Aces Go Places
• Mad Mission: Diamondfinger

The International Version was passed PG without BBFC cuts for the 1986 Missing in Action VHS.

There is also a Hong Kong Version running 10 minutes longer in terms of plot

Mad Monkey Kung Fu

Madagascar

The 2005 cinema release, 2005 Universal DVD and 2009 Paramount Blu-ray were cut

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 via UK Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available via UK Amazon

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

Madhouse

• There Was a Little Girl
• And When She Was Bad
• Flesh and the Beast
• Scared to Death

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

1981 US/Italian horror by Ovidio G Assonitis with Trish Everly, Michael MacRae and Dennis Robertson. See IMDb

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2004 Film 2000 R0 DVD via UK Amazon but with reported poor sound quality

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Dark Sky R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: One of the Better Nasties

"Madhouse" is one of the better films that was previously on the "banned" list of so-called video nasties in the UK. It didn't really deserve it's place on the list, but it's easy to spot the scene that probably put it there. This slasher stands above it's rivals due to some really good cinematography.

The story tells of a young teacher named Julia (Trish Everly) who has lived under the shadow of her abusive sister Mary since childhood. News reaches her that Mary is in hospital suffering from a disfiguring disease and wants to see her. Julia's visit to the hospital is one among several scenes that stayed in my mind. Julia's life is turned upside down by this encounter with her cruel sibling, and in the days following the visit, people around her start dying.

Although some of the time the action can get rather slow, the film features two pretty over-the top gore scenes that seem almost out of place in a movie that exercises restraint in most aspects. The most infamous sequence is the one that shows just how you can put down a dangerous attacking rottweiler with a handy power drill. The other is an axe attack that is so drawn out it becomes almost surreal.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com. The cut version lost 75s:

• 18s from first dog attack losing a man's hand being bitten off followed by his throat being bitten
• 14s from subsequent dog attack with Helen being severely wounded
• 32s from the scene with the use of a power drill to fend off an attacking dog
• 11s from the climatic axe attack. Julia's repeated axe attack on her father loses several blows.

Magic

R Rated

The complete version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2007 Anchor Bay R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1986 Video Gems VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2010 Dark Sky RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2006 Dark Sky R1 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 1991 Castle Vision VHS
• UK 1990 Castle Pictures VHS

Maybe this abridged version is a cut TV version. See article from secure.wikimedia.org

R Rated

• UK 1978 cinema release

Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart

The BBFC cut the 1970 cinema release for an X certificate.

The US R Rated release was also cut to avoid an X rating.

Magic Kid 2

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.

The Magnificent

• Long xing dao shou jin zhong jun
• Lung ying dou sau kam chung kwan

The cinema cuts were waived when the DVD was submitted in 2004

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

The Magnificent Seven Ride!

• The Magnificent 7 Ride!

The film was passed PG uncut for: (confirmation required)

• 2001 MGM R2 DVD
• 1995 Warner VHS

The submitted running time was noted as 99:49s = 95:49s

Magnum Force

The BBFC waived the cinema cuts for the 1986 Warner video and 1999 Warner DVD

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

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

From cuts details on IMDb

• edits to throat punches
• edits to shots of the twitching bodies of Ricca and the pimp
• the killing of the prostitute in the taxi was also heavily shortened.

The original running time was noted as 122m 22s = 117:28s

Maîtresse

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2003 BFI R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The BBFC explained:

On this occasion, it was decided that the 1981 cuts to sight of genital detail were no longer required under the terms of BBFC Guidelines or policy, and that the scenes of sadomasochism were permissible, in this specific context, at 18. It was recognised that the film was a serious exploration of a difficult subject rather than a prurient or exploitative work. It was also agreed that the scenes in question were unlikely to lead to a risk of harm to adult audiences in the 21st century, given the relative restraint in their presentation, certainly by contemporary standards.

Summary Review: Bound to Intrigue

Gérard Depardieu as Olivier enters an apartment in order to rob the place, but unknowingly breaks into a haven for sadomasochistic fantasies. During the burglary he encounters Ariane (Bulle Ogier) who he had met earlier, but this time she is a dominatrix who controls situations as she dives into other people's madness.

Olivier is spellbound by Ariane as he falls in love with her, and it leads him into a scorching affair where he is bound to be burnt as he is mystified by Ariane's dark trade.

Maitresse is an avant-garde film as it explores in-depth the theme of sadomasochistic fantasies and its sub-culture as set in a love story.

• UK 1981 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb:

• Heavy edits made to remove the sights of genitals as a woman is being bound and whipped
• Edits to shots of abrasions after a man is whipped and subsequently probed with a needle between his buttocks
• Edits to a scene where a male client has his genitals nailed to a plank of wood and his nipples pierced. This was particularly graphic. The scene showed a few pins going through the skin around the penis rather than through it. No blood either.

See article from sbbfc.co.uk: The BBFC have changed:

Encouraged by a change in the law enabling us to consider the film as a whole instead of throwing our pinnies over our heads over the decency of its component parts, enabled by the same legislation to consider the audience the film is likely to reach, encouraged by the gradual spread of cinemas catering to an intelligent audience [...] we have changed more than we, or certainly I, would have realised without this confrontation with ourselves of four years ago. In the end, the Board agreed to classify the film 'X' subject to cuts in three scenes

The cuts were:

• remove the scene where a client is nailed by his genitalia to a piece of wood and nails are stuck through his nipples;
• remove the scene depicting the humane slaughter of a horse
• remove the parts of a scene where a girl is being punished at the country house where Olivier draws a belt across her vagina;
• remove the scene where Olivier urinates in the face of a client.

• UK 1976 cinema release.

See article from sbbfc.co.uk: James Ferman explained the ban:

After a second viewing with Lord Harlech and other Examiners, we now agree that this is really a picture which cannot be granted a national certificate at this time. We all feel it is a film of some merit which deserves a showing in Britain, but its subject matter and very frank treatment would, we believe, make it unacceptable to the majority of licensing authorities in the country without very heavy cuts, and these might change the nature of the film.

The Greater London Council also refused to grant a local licence.

Major Dundee

The Restored Version was passed PG uncut for:

• UK 2008 Sony R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2005 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD

From IMDb:

• The 2005 restored version contains 12 additional minutes of footage originally edited by the studio without the director's consent.

• UK 1986 RCA/Columbia VHS
• UK 1965 cinema release

Makin' Whoopee

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

Available uncut from Adult Video Universe

Making Contact

• Joey

The US Theatrical Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for the 1986 cinema release and 1987 MGM DVD.

This version was shortened by 18:12s from the Original German Version.

The changes are uncontentious though as described by pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

Makyu Senjo Vol 1

Makyu Senjo Vol 2

Malediction

Malena

• Malèna

The Italian Version is uncut for:

• IT R2 DVD via UK Amazon

17:45s

R Rated

• UK 2002 Buena Vista R2 DVD
• UK 2001 cinema release

The International Version was butchered by the Philistines and prudes of Miramax. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

From IMDb:

Miramax cut the film down to a running time of around 92 minutes, in order to obtain a R rating. Especially to remove nudity.

Among the scenes cut from the American version of the film include several of Renato's sexual fantasies, including a scene where he undresses Malena, and another in which Malena strips naked in front of him in a fantasy and then in reality a lookalike prostitute climbs sensuously on top of him in bed.

Malone

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

Man Behind the Sun

• 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.

A Man Called Blade

• Mannaja

The Xtasy video releases of 1987 and the 2002 DVD were similarly cut by the BBFC Three compulsory cuts required to remove sight of horses being forced to fall

The Man Called Noon

• A Man Called Noon
• Un hombre llamado Noon

See video from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

UK: Passed 15 uncut with previous cuts restored for:

• UK 2010 Odeon R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2004 Vintage Double Feature R0 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Well Above Average

Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered.

It is far from perfect but is certainly lifted well above the average Spaghetti nonsense by a director with flair and imagination. The film boasts a good clear picture quality reflecting well on the restoration work.

• UK 1973 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 95:33s = 91:44s

Man of Violence

• Moon
• The Sex Racketeers

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2009 BFI DVD/Blu-ray

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

Man on Fire

• Absinthe
• L'homme de feu
• Un uomo sotto tiro

The BBFC cut the 18 rated 1989 Locus video and 1994 MIA video by 31s. Presumably similar cuts to the cinema version

• This was the era when various weapons were being cut and in this case it was a butterfly knife that offended the censors

The Man with One Red Shoe

Cuts waived for a 15 certificate when submitted in 2004

The Man with the Deadly Lens

• Wrong is Right

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004 as Wrong is Right

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The Man with the Severed Head

• Crimson
• Crimson, the Color of Blood
• Las ratas no duermen de noche

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2011 ArrowDrome R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2004 Freemantlemedia/Arrow R2 DVD

Promotional: Material: Fleapits of Europe

Spain's greatest horror icon Paul Naschy is transformed into a raging psychopath in this sleazy ride to murder and depravity from a time when exploitation cinema ruled the fleapits of Europe.

When a jewellery heist goes awry, Jack Surnett (Naschy) finds himself with a bullet in his head and few options. Luckily, his gang have the novel idea to transplant his brain into the corpse of their arch nemesis, a gangster called The Sadist. But as he settles into his new body, Jack feels sinister urges welling up inside, urges that will lead him down a path to madness, torture and crimson murder!

• UK 1985 Careyvision VHS titled Crimson

Manchurian Candidate

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The West German Version was passed 12A without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2010 cinema release

pre-cut

• UK 2000 MGM R2 DVD
• UK 1993 Warner VHS
• UK 1988 cinema release

From IMDb:

The West German version was edited by about 4 minutes to remove every scene with the ladies in the greenhouse.

• UK 1962 cinema release

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 130:16s = 125:03s PAL

Mandingo

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2008 Legend R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

There is also an International version cut by 3:45s with alternative shots to delete the nudity and less violence.

Summary Review: 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.

• UK 2009 CIC Online

• UK 1987 CIC VHS

The BBFC cuts were

• 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

• UK 1975 cinema release

From IMDb. The BBFC cuts were:

• Edits to the fight between Mede and Topaz
• Edits to the beatings of the slave girl
• Edits to the beating of the suspended male slave
• Edits to Mede being prodded with a pitchfork by Hammond Maxwell.

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 126:13s = 121:10s PAL

Manhunt in Milan

• The Italian Connections
• Manhunt
• La mala ordina
• Black Kingpin

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Raro Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon for release on 31st January 2012
• US 2011 Raro Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2007 Synergy R0 DVD

Summary Review: Breathtaking

The second film in Fernando Di Leo's Milieu trilogy of Milano Calibro 9, La Mala Ordina aka. Manhunt and Il Boss.

An excellent and breathtaking crime epic that no lover of Italian genre-cinema could possibly afford to miss.

The tough-minded and violent film is breathtaking from the beginning to the end and profits from a brilliant cast.

Fernando Di Leo's films are said to be the  inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's early films

• UK 1973 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 95:29s

Manhunter

• Red Dragon: The Curse of Hannibal Lecter

R Rated

1986 US serial killer film by Michael Mann with William Petersen and Kim Greist. See IMDb

The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for strong violence for:

• UK 2011 Optimum (Anchor Bay Theatrical Version + Director's Cut) RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2003 Momentum Special Edition (Anchor Bay Theatrical Version + Director's Cut) R2 DVD via UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2003 Starz/Anchor Bar R1 DVD via US Amazon

From dvdcompare.net:

• Missing some footage from the Theatrical version, including a piece of dialogue about the killer's childhood.
• It extends the Atlanta briefing room scene.
• Adds a scene with Dr. Chilton, right before Will sees Lector for the first time,
• an extra scene in Lector's cell,
• a scene with Jack and Will in which Jack informs Will that they are bringing Molly to town to be with Will (for the hotel room scene).
• However, it also trimmed parts from Will & Jack's argument right near the end.
• The credits at the start of the movie now overlap the beach scene in order to reduce the overall running time.

• UK 2011 Optimum (Anchor Bay Theatrical Version + Director's Cut) RB Blu-ray
• UK 2008 Optimum R2 DVD
• UK 2003 Momentum Special Edition (Anchor Bay Theatrical Version + Director's Cut) R2 DVD
• UK 2001 Momentum R2 DVD

From dvdcompare.net:

• This is a workprint variant that is missing several small but important pieces of dialogue and had an altered pre-credits sequence. It incorporates some brief shots from the 1987 director's cut (which runs four minutes longer than the true theatrical cut), while dropping a few shots from the true theatrical cut.

• UK 2001 Universal/4 Front VHS
• UK 1999 BMG R2 DVD
• UK 1998 BMG VHS
• UK 1989 Film & Video VHS
• UK 1986 cinema release

Maniac

  See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

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

• US Blue Underground 30th Anniversary Edition R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US Blue Underground 30th Anniversary Edition R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

From IMDB:

There is also a shortened Director's Cut that is missing plot scenes the director wasn't happy with. But this version hasn't made much impact.

• a scene depicting Joe Spinell in a hotel room with a prostitute has been shortened.
• Another scene showing Joe and the photographer in a restaurant has been completely removed,

There is also a cut US R rated version to avoid.

Summary review: Shocking

This is definitely a film that will leave you thinking. The main reason being the main character Frank Zito aka Joe Spinell plays the most realistic psycho/deranged person I've ever seen on film. The whole time I was thinking is this guy really insane? Either this guy is a genius actor or he's really nuts. That's how real he is in this role. His presence will creep you out. He's the biggest weirdo I've ever seen on film.

The story focuses on frank the serial killer and his killings and insanity. Some of the scenes are gruesome, but they will keep you on the edge of your seat. You will be able to put yourself in both franks shoes and feel the victims terror as she is stalked and hides from Frank... Especially the subway bathroom scene. That's an intense scene. Frank keeps on killing till the end when his own demons finally come back to haunt him.

Any horror fan should have this in their collection.

The Theatrical Version was passed 18 after 58s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2006 Anchor Bay R0 DVD
• UK 2002 Anchor Bay R0 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• 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.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• UK 1998 Exploited VHS

The BBFC explained their ban:

Two (of the videos rejected so far in 1998) were serial killer films in which sex is linked with the pleasure of killing. In one of those films, Maniac, a series of defenceless women are stalked, terrorised, attacked and murdered, while being photographed in a deliberately sexualised way. The film is one of a genre known as 'stalk and slash', and here each stalking and killing is protracted, sometimes ending with the scalping of the victim. When the police eventually catch up with the killer, he survives, leaving us to anticipate that the stalking and mutilation will begin again. The pleasures on offer here seem to the Board to be unhealthy and dangerous because of the way that the killing of women is linked with the sexual arousal of men.

Gossip has it that Maniac was initially viewed by four censors; three men and one woman. The three men said the film should be rejected because of its anti-women depictions. The woman thought the film was cut-able.

• UK 1981 cinema release

Maniac Cop

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

The Theatrical Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Arrow R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2011 Arrow R0 DVD on hold

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Synapse R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2006 Synapse R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Worth a watch

This film has a good B-movie cast with Tom Atkins, Richard Roundtree and Bruce Campbell.

Some good tension is built up in the various chases around the city and overall this is definitely worth a watch.

• UK 2004 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com:

The Japanese TV Version runs 5:36s longer and includes additional dialogue and an alternative ending

• UK 2000 Synergy R2 DVD
• UK 1991 Channel 5 VHS
• UK 1989 Lazer VHS
• UK 1988 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• 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
• Also cuts to the torture of Z'Dar as his face gets carved with a knife.

Maniac Cop 2

The BBFC cut 4s for:

• 2003 Prism R2 DVD
• 1990 Medusa/Polygram VHS

The 1990 Medusa VHS suffered 4s of cuts removing the following:

• A reprise from the shower murder of Maniac Cop 1 is similarly cut to the original.
• Although the face slashing has 0.5s restored

Note that US R rated version is missing the following scene

• 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...

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

• Maniac Cop 3

There is an Unrated version released on US VHS

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R Rated

• UK 2009 Boulevard R2 DVD
• UK Lazer VHS

The film was cut in the US to avoid an NC-17 rating

Maniacal

The BBFC cut 10s when the video was submitted in 2003. Cut required to remove sight of a blade being played over a woman's naked breast [during a bathroom murder]

Manji

• All Mixed Up

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2007 Yume R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 Fantoma R1 DVD at US Amazon

Review from UK Amazon: Scandalous in the 60's

Don't enter the tent if you're expecting a steamy lesbian brief encounter.

What unfolds here is the depiction of need, fantasy, wish fulfillment and the use of allure to entice weakness and then to smash those lives upon the sharpened stakes of feminine guile.

The bored middle class housewife finds fantasy and reality in her art class friend, her saviour and her mortal danger. Her muse senses the need and draws her into her web. Initially entailing the victim to make small sacrifices until they become larger and larger to prove her love. Ending with the demand to enter oblivion at the behest of the siren.

It is slow placed, shot using various focal settings, capturing the essence of the claustrophobic worlds of need, desire and the avenging angel.

The naked bodies, scandalous in the 60's, now in an age of image bombardment, have a diminished potency.  The beauty of the protagonist still projects as does her guile.

• UK 1967 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 89:45s

Mardi Gras Massacre

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Code Red R1 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon
• US 2005 Jef/Mvd R1 DVD

See review from IMDb: Cheese and sleaze!

Not exactly a straight slasher as many believe but it's surely as cheesy, and unintentionally funny as any slasher from the 80's.

Mardi Gras Massacre could be considered as a toned down exploitation low budget. The plot asks for brutality, violence, sleaze but the truth is that the execution of the idea isn't as half as good as it should.

The ritual method is repeated in all the death scenes. So we don't get originality or probably there wasn't enough budget to at least create three different gore scenes. It's okay but even ultra low budget slashers have at least two different killing methods! Anyways, Mardi Gras Massacre has generated some kind of cult over the years but sincerely, this isn't a must see. The movie should only be watched by b-movie lovers or morbid fans of low budget cheese and sleaze!

Released on VHS in 1982 on the Goldstar label and later on the Market label. Banned as a video nasty in November 1983 and stayed on the list throughout the panic so became one of the collectable DPP39s.

Mardi Gras: Spring Break

Unrated

UK: The Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for strong language and crude sex references for:

• UK 2012 Sony R2 DVD

Mardock Scramble: The First Compression

• Marudukku sukuranburu: Asshuku

The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2012 Kase SAS/Manga Entertainment video

• UK 2012 Kase SAS/Manga Entertainment video

Marillion: The Making of Brave

Marillion's Brave

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.

Mark of the Devil

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

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Atmospheric Euro Horror

Back in its day, this film was probably the most controversial movie ever made as it depicted the witch trials going on Europe during the darkest page of human existence.

First of all, THERE'S A STORY! Yes this film actually has a good plot and story and is actually fairly accurate to some of the real happenings in history. Second, THE ACTING IS REALLY GOOD. The entire cast gives it their all and makes this film believable. The only hindrance is the dubbing, but for foreign horror film fans like me, dubbing just adds to the charm.

I was pleasantly surprised and got a much better film than I was expecting. I would actually recommend this film to fans of Hammer flicks that came out at about the same time. I however do not recommend this film for fans of pointless gore/trash cinema as they will not get what they expect. The tagline on the box is also misleading as it tags the movie as "the most horrifying movie ever made" which isn't exactly true. Yes it had some shocking moments, but in no way is it really horrifying. By today's standards, the shocks are pretty tame.

So if your a fan of atmospheric Euro horror, don't believe all the bad hype as this film is a true gem of the genre.

• UK 2003 Anchor Bay R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Cut required to scene of sexualised torture

The cuts were:

• Nudity has been removed from the scene showing a partially naked girl (Gaby Fuchs) on the rack suffering also from her feet being branded

• UK 1993 Redemption VHS

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.

• UK 1971 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 93:47s = 90:02s PAL

Marked for Death

Uncut US R Rated Version available at:

The US R Rated Version is uncut for:

• 1998 20th Century Fox R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2010 20th Century Fox R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

See review from IMDb: Favourite

I cannot believe this film got such bad ratings as it is one of my favourite action flicks of all time.

Marked for Death has Steven Seagal playing John Hatcher a cop whose out for revenge against a gang of Jamaican drug dealers. The film has some terrific action sequences and set pieces, example being the shopping centre fight which really showcases Seagal's talents. This has excellent pacing as well as good location shoots. The score for Marked for Death is amazing, suiting the film so well, giving it the right sinister kind of atmosphere. The voodoo elements were cool, Screwface has to be one of the best villains and the twist at the end is unexpected.

The only minor flaw with this film is that the beginning in Mexico is a little ropey.

• 2003 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2001 20th Century Fox DVD

The  cuts for this version are:

• 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.
• 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.

Similar BBFC cuts required but implemented differently for:

• 1999 20th Century Fox VHS
• 1991 CBS/Fox VHS
• 1990 cinema release (8s cut)

The cuts for this version are:

• The fight in the department store between Seagal and the Jamaicans is missing an arm-break (3 secs).
• 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.
• 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.

Marketa Lazarova

The BBFC cut 3s from the 2008 Second Run DVD: A cut was required to remove sight of a snake being stabbed and rearing up in pain

Marmaduke

Passed U after BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2010 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• UK 2010 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

• Company chose to remove a use of discriminatory language ('spaz') in order to achieve a U classification. An uncut 12A classification was available. What a gargantuan spaz  was replaced with: What a gargantuan wuss

Marquis de Sade's Justine

• Marquis de Sade: Justine
• Marquise de Sade's Justine
• Justine and Juliet
• Deadly Sanctuary
• Justine
• Justine ovvero le disavventure della virtù

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2003 Anchor Bay R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• UK 2002 Blue Underground R0 DVD

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 Blue Underground R0 DVD at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Pretty Tame

This tale, like Eugenie, Her Journey Into Perversion, isn't bad, and fairly explicit, for the late 60's, but is still pretty tame, by today's standards. Has a weird appearance by Jack Palance, as a mad monk, or something.

Also, a limited appearance by the late Klaus Kinski. Limited nudity and sex, but hey, what can one expect-it's fairly low budget. There are interviews and other features for the "technically" minded. Worth a look, but not worth the price I paid for it, or the other one-Eugenie. Minimal relation to the works of De Sade; which they, both, are supposed to be based on.

• UK 1971 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 115:00s = 110:24s PAL

The Marquis de Sade's Justine

See Cruel Passion

Mars

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

Martyrs

Unrated

The BBFC passed the US Unrated Version 18 uncut for the 2009 Optimum DVD.

Note that there is an edited US R Rated version to avoid.

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

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Masked Raider: Arcade Ace

The Masque of the Red Death

Passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2007 Optimum R2 DVD
• UK 2005 MGM R2 DVD
• UK 1989 Warner VHS

From IMDb:

• Video and DVD releases fully restore the BBFC cuts
• though the print used is an edited U.S version which misses some dialogue as well as a shot of Francesca being slapped across the face by one of Prospero's soldiers.

From cultmovieforums.com:

• Reel 1 - Reduce shots of person on fire
• Reel 1 - Reduce shots and dialogue showing Alfredo's interest in the female dwarf
• Reel 2 - Remove all shots and dialogue in which Scarletti offers his wife to Prospero in return for admittance to the castle, and Prospero's reply "I have already had that doubtful pleasure"
• Reel 2 - The whole scene in which Giuliana offers herself to the Devil should be removed
• Reel 3 - Remove Giuliana's references to her conversion to Satanism, her forthcoming wedding to Satan and her loss of innocence
• Reel 4 - Remove the whole scene in which Giuliana intones prayers to Satan and drinks from a chalice
• Reel 4 - Remove the entire dream sequence
• Reel 4 - Reduce to a flash the birds' attack on Guiliana, removing in particular all shots of her bloodstained throat, shoulders and chest
• Reel 4 - Remove all shots of the "ape" struggling with a girl on the ground
• Reel 9 - Reduce to a minimum shots of Alfredo (in the ape costume) catching fire and burning

The submitted running times was noted as 89:57s = 86:21s PAL

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

Massacre at Central High

Passed 18 without cuts for:

• 2004 Cornerstone R0 DVD
• 1998 Sovereign VHS
• 1987 Apex VHS
• 1977 X rated cinema release

There is also an Italian Version with inserted softcore using different actors. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Massage Parlour

• Massagesalon Der Jungen Madchen
• Massage Parlor '73
• Salon Massage

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut for:

• US 2011 Koch International/Mya R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

From IMDb:

France, a reporter working from an international news agency, manages to be paid to visit all of Munich's massage parlors. He wants to find the whereabouts of Sonia, a personal masseuse with whom he experienced perfect bliss.

• UK 1973 cinema release

The Master

• Huang Fei Hong jiu er zhi long xing tian xia
• Long xing tian xia
• Jet Li: Dragon Fighter II

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

Passed 18 uncut for strong violence after pervious BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2012 Cine-Asia R2 DVD at UK Amazon for release on 27th February 2012
• UK 2005 Contender/UK Hong Kong Legends Collectors Edition R2 DVD

Summary Review: Jet Li comes to America

Uncle Tak, the old martial-arts master has problems with his former student Jonny who wants to kill his old master to show everyone who the real master is. Uncle Tak wants Jet Li, his best student, to come over from China to help. Jet is not familiar with the American way of life, but knows how to fight.

The film is played out mainly as comedy but is a bit slow and only really gets serious in the final 20 minutes. Jet Li is as good as he always is in the fight sequences.

• UK 1998 MIA VHS

The cuts were:

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

The Master of Disguise

The 2002 cinema version and 2003 DVD were similarly cut by the BBFC. Company chose to remove dangerous imitable technique, a series of head butts, to gain a PG category. A "12A" uncut was available to the distributor.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Master with Cracked Fingers

• The Cub Tiger from Kwangtung
• Snake Fist Fighter
• Guang dong xiao lao hu

The International Version was passed 15 without cuts for:

• UK 2007 Film 2000 R2 DVD titled Snake fist Fighter
• UK 2001 Film 2000 R2 DVD titled Master with Cracked Fingers
• UK 1987 VPD VHS titled Master with Cracked Fingers

The International Version is a variant of the English Version of the 1979 re-cut but was shortened via deleted plot scenes. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• UK 2007 DVD.Com/Showbox R2 titled The Cub Tiger from Kwangtung via UK Amazon

Mates

• 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.

The Matriarch

The Matrix

Cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2006 for the Warners DVD

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".

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

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

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. 

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

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

Mavericks

Max Payne

Unrated

The BBFC passed the 15 rated (US Unrated) Harder Cut  Version without cuts for the 2009 20th Century Fox DVD

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

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

cut

PG-13

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: 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: 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.

Maximum Overdrive

12s

R

No BBFC cuts to the 1987 cinema release nor videos/DVDs from 1987 to 2008. The cut US R Rated Theatrical Version was submitted in all cases

From cuts details on IMDb:

• Six Seconds of the Dixie Boy shoot out.
• Three seconds of the steam roller running over the boy.
• Three seconds of the salesman's face falling into his lap.

Maximum Risk

• Bloodstone
• The Exchange

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

The UK Blu-ray is reported by www.dvdcompare.net as uncut despite not being resubmitted to the BBFC.

The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

The Columbia/TriStar video/DVD releases of 1997 & 1998 were cut by 9s as follows:

• The street fight in the alley between Mikhail (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and some Russian 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 thug. 
• 2 close-ups of knife stabbing missing from fight in the Bank's elevator.

Maximum Security