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Near Dark

Passed 18 uncut by the BBFC for cinema release but was cut for VHS. The cuts were waived for DVD. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

A young man reluctantly joins a travelling "family" of evil vampires, when the girl he'd tried to seduce is part of that group.

This is a masterpiece of a film from director Kathryn Bigelow. It has been described by Ms Bigelow as a story of two families, a daylight family and a night family; others have called it a cross between a horror film, an action film and a western. It is a recorded fact that Ms Bigelow had wanted to make a western, but because westerns weren't popular at the time, it was decided to turn it into a horror film with a basic western feel.

This film is thoroughly enjoyable. One of the greatest vampire movies ever, though interestingly the term vampire is never used in the film itself.

R Rated

• 2009 Optimum RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2007 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2003 Anchor Bay R2 DVD
• 1987 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2009 Lions Gate RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2009 Lions Gate R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1988 EIV VHS

From cuts details on IMDb

• Diamondback opening and closing a butterfly knife repeatedly before slitting the barmaid's throat
• Jesse and Severen putting the barman's body on the bar and smashing bottles of spirits over and around him to fuel the fire while Severen quips Hey, bartender salad.

'Neath the Arizona Skies

The BBFC cut the 2009 Deagostini DVD by 3s: A cut was made to a scene of animal cruelty (a horse being tripped and falling onto its face)

See Charlie Countryman

Necromancer

• Necromancer: Satan's Servant

R Rated

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong violence and sexual violence with previous cuts waived for:

• 2012 Lions Gate Online
• 2012 Lions Gate R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2000 Image R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Necromantic Revenge

A schoolgirl is raped by three low-lifes, and is then blackmailed by her attackers to keep her quiet. Desperate for revenge, she makes contact with a necromancer, who promptly takes care of the boys using her magic powers.

Definitely a B movie but plenty of reviewers have enjoyed the film on these terms.

• 1989 Film & Video VHS

From IMDB. The BBFC cuts were:

• edits to a rape scene
• edits to remove footage of a butterfly knife.

Neighbor

• Robert Angelo Masciantonio's Neighbor

Uncut version is available at:

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

• 2010 Lions Gate R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2011 High Fliers video

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts required to remove sexualised focus on the torture and sexual assault of a man by inserting a urethral sound into his semi-erect penis causing severe bleeding. Cuts made in line with BBFC Guidelines and policy, and the Video Recordings Act 1984. [notably not mentioning the Dangerous Pictures Act]

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand

The 2008 DVD submitted by Odeon is uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut US DVD is available at US Amazon for release on 28th July 2009

• Sex scene between Hugh and Anna was edited

NEKromantik

Not released in the UK for fear of censorship from 1987-2014. Passed 18 uncut for DVD in May 2014.

Summary Notes:

A German motorway cleaner takes rotting bodies home to a lover who has a necrophilia fetish. This involves the skinning of a rabbit, use of a metal pipe in conjunction with a condom, nudity, and graphic sexual scenes with dead bodies.

Unrated

• 2015 Arrow Video RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon
• 2014 Arrow Video RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2016 Cult Epics [Sex Murder Art] (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2014 Cult Epics (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2014 Cult Epics R1 DVD at US Amazon

NEKromantik 2

Not released in the UK for fear of censorship from 1991-2015. Passed 18 uncut for DVD in August 2015.

Summary Review: Dead Shy

A female nurse desperately tries to hide her feelings of necrophilia from her new boyfriend, but still has pieces of the corpse of the first movie's hero in her possession.

Unrated

• 2015 Arrow Video Limited Edition (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 2nd November 2015

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2016 Cult Epics [Sex Murder Art] (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2015 Cult Epics (RA) Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2015 Cult Epics R1 DVD at US Amazon

Germany: Released for:

• De 2011 Transvision Limited Edition R2 DVD with English subtitles at UK Amazon

Never Cry Devil

• Night Visitor

Never Say Never again

US: Uncut and PG rated for:

• 2010 MGM RA Blu-ray/DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2009 MGM R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2013 Twentieth Century Fox 30th Anniversary R0 Blu-ray

No mention of cuts for this release but neither does the entry say that BBFC cuts have been waived.

UK: Passed PG after 8s of BBFC cuts for:

• 2001 MGM R2 DVD
• 1986 Warner VHS
• 1983 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• Cut by the BBFC to remove a scene in which a horse falls into water on its back. Considered cruel treatment of a horse.

The NeverEnding Story

• Die unendliche Geschichte

The International Version was passed U uncut for the 1984 cinema release, 1986 Warner video, 2002 Warner DVD and 2008 Warner DVD/Blu-ray.

Note that there is also an alternative German Version

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

The New Adventures of Robin Hood

Cut when resubmitted for the 2007 Abbey DVD with the following BBFC comment:

Distributor chose to remove several [ie 5] uses of the word 'bleedin', used as an expletive, in order to gain a U. A PG uncut was available to the distributor.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The New Barbarians

• I nuovi barbari
• Warriors of the Wasteland

Not cut by the BBFC but pre-cut by EIV for 1983 VHS. Uncut for 2003 DVD. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.

Summary Notes

Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocuast.

• 2009 Argent/Shameless R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2003 Vipco R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Blue Underground (RA) Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2004 Shriek Show R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1983 EIV VHS

From IMDb:

• The UK EIV Video was slightly pre-edited by the distributors before submission and toned down the rape of Scorpion by One.

• 1983 cinema release

Not sure if this was pre-cut as per the VHS release

New Big Boss

• Chin long chuen suet
• Jin long chuen suet
• Legend of the Wolf
• Zhan lang chuan shuo

From cuts details on IMDb :

The cut footage was later re-instated for the 2000 theatrical release and 2005 Soulblade DVD rating.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon

New Fist of Fury

• Xin ching-wu men
• Fists to Fight

A shortened version/Re-edited Version was passed 15 with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2012 15 rated Showbox/Cine Asia Special Collector's Edition R2 DVD at UK Amazon for release on 19th March 2012
• 2007 15 rated Contender DVD

The same version was passed 18 for:

• 2002 18 rated Eastern Heroes DVD

This version is shortened of about 6 minutes of dialogue.

• 2007 Contender DVD

• 1989 Videosino VHS

More material was excised than that required by BBFC to remove the sight of nunchakus

• 1988 Squarecape VHS

The BBFC cuts were reduced just to remove the sight of nunchakus

• 1978 cinema release

From IMDb. The cuts were:

• The film suffered extensive cuts which removed footage of nunchakus and fighting staff plus numerous edits to groin kicks, punches and an ear clap.

See Hardcore 18s list: The New Girlfriend

The New Guy

The US release features the uncut and Unrated Directors Cut:

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

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PG-13

• 2003 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD
• 2002 Cinema release

See Striking Back

New Killers in Town

• Chu dao gui jing
• Choh do gwai ging
• Master of Disaster New Kids in Town

The film was cut by the BBFC when submitted in 1995.

• Scene deleted showing man in a wheelchair being set alight

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The New World

PG-13

An Extended Version was passed 12 for:

• 2009 EIV Blu-ray at UK Amazon

The US release of the Extended Version is uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated for:

• 2009 New Line Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2008 New Line R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The extra material is uncontentious

• 2006 EIV R2 DVD
• 2006 cinema release

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . Version differences are uncontentious

• 2005 cinema release

 Version differences are uncontentious

New York

The BBFC passed the 2010 Yash RAj DVD 15 uncut

The New York Ripper

• Lo Squartatore di New York
• Psycho Ripper
• The Ripper

Banned by the BBFC for 1984 cinema release. Subsequent VHS/DVD release are cut by about 30s

Summary review:  Darkest and goriest

The New York Ripper was a great Italian horror film from Lucio Fulci, the film was filled with plenty of gruesome death scenes and lots of sleaze, sex and nudity in fact its probably one of the sleaziest Italian horror flicks ever seen.

When an old man finds a prostitute's severed hand under the Brooklyn Bridge the police decide to do a little investigating. It seems that the victim was heard speaking to a strange duck-voiced man. As the murders add up the police detective who's investigating the case recruits a psychology professor to help find out who this Donald Duck voiced maniac could be

This is a typical Fulci flick which means that the plot gets thinner during the course of the film and the bad acting which was adequate especially for this type of film could have been better but that's not important, if your a hardcore Fulci or exploitation fan then you'll obviously love this as the death scenes were quite brutal and very nasty.

One of Fulci's best.

• 2015 Blue Underground Lucio Fulci Collection (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2009 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2009 Blue Underground Special Edition R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

From IMDb:

Two scenes are present in this extended version that have generally been omitted for editorial reasons from previous releases. However it has been mentioned that the restored scene outside the hospital is misplaced and just ends up adding confusion

• A brief conversation between Dr Davis and his secretary, and
• a shot of Davis turning and watching Lt Williams driving off in his car outside the hospital.

The R-Rated lacks all of the sex scenes and shots of the genital area. The R Rated version retains the violence though.

• 2011 Argent/Shameless Online
• 2011 Argent/Shameless Blu-ray
• 2011 Argent/Shameless R0 Blu-ray

The BBFC commented:

• Compulsory cuts were required to remove sexualised violence (a naked and bound woman's stomach and breasts being mutilated with a razor blade)

Shameless commented:

• The version includes 3 minutes of footage not in the previous Shameless release and 15 seconds of footage not in the Blue Underground Blu-Ray. The BBFC cuts have been implemented by substitution and do not effect the running time.

See  article from  brutalashell.com : Admirable Cutting

• Shameless have made great attempts to mask the cut best that they can. The still-offensive scene that the BBFC refuses to budge on, the death of the prostitute Kitty, is fairly apparent, but Shameless has done an admirable job in editing it so that it doesn't stand out too sorely from the rest of the film.

• 2007 Argent/Shameless R0 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts were required to remove sexualised violence (a naked and bound woman's stomach and breasts being mutilated with a razor)

From IMDb & Mercury:

The BBFC did not ask for any additional cuts above those implemented in 22s for the 2002 release. In fact Shameless reckon that 19s were cut on BBFC instructions.

• 2002 Protected/Vipco VHS

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts required to detailed, close up sight of a woman's stomach, breast and nipple being cut with a razor blade

• 1984 cinema release

It was not only banned but all prints were famously escorted out of the country.

NF713

• Enemy of the State

Rejected in 2009 with the BBFC justification:

NF713 takes the form of an extended sequence in which a man tortures a woman psychologically, physically and sexually. The woman is bound and restrained throughout and the man in question is in a position of absolute power and control over her. The man tortures the woman in order to make her confess her crimes against an unnamed 'State' but his ultimate aim is to break her down and make her fully compliant, eradicating her individuality and making her a mere number, 'NF713'. The man employs a variety of techniques ranging from invasive questioning about her body and her sexual life to genital torture with forceps and electricity, makeshift waterboarding, beatings and forced urination. The torture is unremitting and takes up the majority of the work's 73 minute running time. Throughout large sections the woman is naked or semi-naked and her nudity is focussed upon, particularly in the later portions of the work. The work concludes with a series of black and white stills of the woman, bound and restrained.

In the BBFC's view, the primary purpose of NF713 is to sexually arouse the viewer at the sight of a woman being sexually humiliated, tortured and abused. As such it constitutes a 'sex work', which is defined by the BBFC's Guidelines as a work whose 'primary purpose is sexual arousal or stimulation'. The focus on the woman's naked, humiliated body together with the conventional BDSM aspects of the later part of the work lend credence to the view that sexual arousal is its primary intent, as do the closing series of black and white stills which strongly resemble conventional erotic fetish photography. The BBFC operates a strict policy on sex works and does not issue classification to such works if they depict non consensual sexual activity (whether real or simulated), the infliction of pain or physical harm (whether real or simulated) or sexual threats, humiliation or abuse that do not form part of a clearly consenting role-playing game. NF713focuses exclusively on these elements of non-consensual activity, pain, humiliation and abuse and takes the form of a dramatic scenario in which the viewer is invited to believe that what is being shown is 'real'. Unlike many BDSM works it is not apparent that what is occurring is part of a consensual role play where the roles are clearly set out and, in any case, the Guidelines preclude the kind of strong abuse on offer here, even if consent is established.

Even if one were to take the view that the primary purpose of NF713 is to explore the nature of torture in dramatic form, the work would still be in clear breach of the BBFC's Guidelines and policies on sexual violence. The unbroken sequence of sexual torture and humiliation means that the work runs the risk (whether intentionally or unintentionally) of eroticising sexual violence and thereby causing harm to viewers. The work invites the audience to relish sight of – and be sexually aroused by - a restrained and helpless woman being sexually molested, humiliated and tortured. Such a complete focus on sexual violence, together with the elements of eroticism provided by the nudity and semi-nudity of the female victim, runs a real risk of eroticising sexual violence in a potentially harmful and dangerous manner.

The BBFC considered the possibility of cuts. However, given the extent of unacceptable material and the pervasive theme of sexual violence and sexual threat, cuts were not considered a viable option on this occasion.

See article from nikiflynn.com : I am Not a Number

I've just spent the last few days being tortured and interrogated for Control & Reform Productions. The film is called Enemy of the State [Since renamed to NF713] and it's the dark brainchild of China Hamilton and me.

It's somewhere between Closet Land and 1984 - but with no faking of the torture scenes. It's set in a non-specific police state and I've been arrested for distributing anti-State pamphlets. As such, I no longer warrant a name; I'm simply NF-713. My soft-spoken interrogator gradually convinces me to cooperate through various kind and caring methods, as he only wants to help me. Help comes in various forms, as does corrective treatment:

Bastinado, back whipping, breast whipping, electric shocks, hydrotherapy , medical torture, brainwashing, force-feeding… Except for the use of a small whip in one scene, my bottom was actually spared. (How's that for a first?) I was wrecked by the end of the shoot, still crying after the cameras stopped rolling.

Niki Flynn also speaks at length about the BBFC rejection notice: R is for "rejected"

The British Board of Film Censors has just examined my naked, humiliated body in exhaustive detail and declared it potentially harmful and dangerous.

While I'm not too surprised the film didn't get an 18 certificate, I'm actually fairly disturbed by some of the alarmist language in the rejection note.

The note describes the unremitting torture inflicted throughout the film, making it sound far worse and more graphic than it actually is. Frankly, in the cut submitted to the BBFC there is very little actual abuse shown and the focus is mostly on the psychological aspects of interrogation and the resulting Stockholm Syndrome. But they felt its primary intent was to sexually arouse the viewer and as such it's a sex work and the non-consensuality makes it unsuitable for the British public, who are apparently likely to become rapists and torturers after viewing such a dangerous film.

...Read the full article

The Nickel Ride

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut at:

US: Uncut and MPAA PG Rated for:

• 2011 Shout! factory Action Double Feature R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Promotional Material: Key Man

A low-level L.A. hoodlum's (Jason Miller) hold on his assigned section of town is being threatened by the arrival of a new punk in this gripping crime drama.

• 1975 cinema release

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 99:01s

Nico

• Above the Law

Cut by the BBFC for home video but escaped uncut on Blu-ray. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

Former aikido instructor, Steven Seagal's screen debut as Nico Toscani, a martial arts detective who discovers that a group of drug barons are about to bring chaos to the streets of Chicago. With the help of his partner (Pam Grier) he soon discovers that the drugs cartel is run by Zagon (Henry Silva), a CIA official with whom Nico had worked with during the Vietnam war.

Cutting Edge: Steven Seagal Special

Steven Seagal: The Complete Cuts
 

• 2012 Warner Steven Seagal Collection R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon
• 2009 Warner R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon

From Gavin, November 2009. Nico was released temporarily uncut on the UK Blu-ray titled Nico: Above the Law. The BBFC confirmed this was not a legitimate release and it was later withdrawn

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 1988 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2009 Warner R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 1998 Warner R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1999 Warner R2 DVD titled Nico: Above the Law
• 1999 Warner VHS
• 1989 Warner VHS

Thanks to Gavin:

1. During the fight in a bar towards the beginning of the film - when Seagal is searching for his niece - 6 secs of Seagal twice slamming his fist into a thugs nose has been removed.
2. Just after the bar fight, before Seagal kicks down the door, a shot of the young couple in bed heating drugs was removed.
3. In the finale, when Seagal briefly fights Henry Silva, a 4 sec shot of Seagal breaking Silva's arm - with a loud crunch - has been removed, but the subsequent neck break seems intact.

The film was originally shown uncut on Sky TV but seems to have now been replaced with a censored version.

The Night Caller

• Blood Beast from Outer Space Poster

shortened

UK: The shorter but unclothed version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for moderate horror and threat and sexual images:

• 2011 Renown [B&W + colourised] Re-mastered R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The 'sexual images' are just magazine cover pin up pictures. This version was shortened with trims to dialogue and plot, but a man's death scene was shortened as was a scene with a girl laying back in bed, perhaps with the suggestion of erotic thoughts.

pre-cut

Unrated

• 1965 cinema release

US: US releases feature the longer but clothed version missing the pin up pictures.

The Night Child

• The Cursed Medallion
• Il medaglione insanguinato

Exists in English and Italian Versions

Summary Notes

The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.

• 2012 Arrow R2 DVD

The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave

• La notte che Evelyn usci' dalla tomba

Cut by the BBFC for 1972 cinema release. Not released since in the UK. uncut in the US

Summary Notes

A wealthy English lord is suffering a mental breakdown following the death of his red-headed wife, Evelyn, whom he feared was cheating on him. He tours local bars and dives, scouring for lovely red-heads willing to come back to his decaying castle in the country, where he seduces them, then tortures and kills them. His friend the doctor talks him into marrying again to help heal his slowly-rotting mind, which he does--but are the doctor's orders really what he needs?

• 2003 Alpha Video R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1972 cinema release

The Night Flier

• Stephen King's The Night Flier

The BBFC passed the Director's Cut 18 uncut for the 2005 Home Entertainment DVD

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The Director's Cut includes a little extra footage and restores some toned down violence

The uncut region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Review from US Amazon : Unmitigated winner

I loved The Night Flier . This movie has it all in spades: sleazy characters deeply developed, a massively scary vampire, and gore ramped up to insane levels. Miguel Ferrer slams it out of the park as the cynical, world-weary Richard Dees, a journalist so fed up with the nightmares of humanity that he formulates the personal philosophy Never publish what you believe, and never believe what you publish in order to keep his emotional distance.

The picture succeeds because King, and by extension the filmmakers, rework the vampire mythos in a fresh way. This story rightly equates trash media with vampirism, and you never know who the real blood feeder is in the film.

Aside from the social messages in the film, The Night Flier also boasts one of the scariest looking vampires we've ever seen in a movie. That final showdown between Dees and Renfield, when the vampire finally shows the reporter his true face, will make you shudder.

I highly recommend this movie to fans of the vampire film genre. Heck, I recommend this film to anyone who wants to watch a genuinely scary film. The Night Flier is an unmitigated winner.

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R Rated

Night Hair Child

• The Night Hair Child
• Diabólica malicia
• What the Peeper Saw

Cut by the BBFC for X rated cinema releases in 1972 and 1979. The US R rated version is significantly cut but there are also partially cut and uncut versions.

Summary Notes

An wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother whom mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.

• 2015 VCI Entertainment R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2014 VCI Entertainment R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon

See article from dvdbeaver.com :

Although advertised as Uncut there may be some controversial scenes absent from this Blu-ray release. This includes a scene where Britt Ekland disrobes, gets into bed with Mark Lester and cuddles with him.

Thanks to Braintree:

The scene in question is included in the Blu-ray but after it starts the old footage showing the section where Ekland gets into bed with Lester - and she's clearly naked - has a montage placed over that bit although the soundtrack continues just as it does in the full version.

The original US VHS was the drastically shortened version and was not very good quality. Substance went onto release a DVD with 2 versions on. One was the short version and the other was the most complete version ever and includes the controversial moments missing from the Blu-ray although both versions on the DVD are very obviously transferred from a domestic tape source.

Once I alerted VCI to the missing footage the guy in charge did confirm that they had searched high and low for the best possible source and while the Blu-ray doesn't look as good as a regular 35mm film would, its the first time the film has looked anything close to being official.

It's still worth getting for it's notoriety but a shame that VCI didn't look at the DVD beforehand - they could then at least have added the footage albeit in far lesser quality. As its a Limited Edition and unlikely to appear elsewhere, you should get it while you can if you have the slightest interest in it.

• 2008 Sinister [Uncut +US Version] DVD-R

However the quality is low and is probably duplicated from the previous VHS.

• 2008 Sinister [Uncut + US Version] DVD-R
• VHS

The quality is low and is probably duplicated from the previous VHS.

The cuts are:

• Scene with nude Britt Ekland getting into bed with Mark Lester us shortened
• Scene with Lester making Ekland strip for information has been removed

• 1979 cinema release titled Night Hair Child

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• 1972 cinema release titled The Night Hair Child

The short What the Peeper Saw version is missing scenes  originally cut because they involved a fully nude Britt Ekland and then 13-year-old Mark Lester including one scene of the two of them in bed.

See Escape from the Insane Asylum

See The Whip and the Body

Night of the Bloody Apes

• La Horror Pilante Bestia Humana
• The Horrible Human Beast
• Horror and Sex
• Horror y Sexo
• Gomar the Human Gorilla

Uncut version is available at:

Cut by the BBFC for 1974 cinema release. Banned as a Video Nasty in 1983. A pre-cut version was released in 1999. Passed uncut by the BBFC in 2012. Uncut and R rated in the US.

Summary R eview: Pretty Grim

A mad scientist attempts to cure his son's leukemia by doing the first ape-to-human heart transplant. He decides to put a gorilla's heart into the lad and orders his flunky to prepare the gorilla! . There is actual footage of a graphic open heart surgery inserted in the ape operation scenes. This of course causes the boy to turn into a big stinky man-ape...

The film is a very cheap Mexican 'horror' and it is pretty grim.  And really most of the film is so comic book and likeable, dammit, that you can forgive the rather shoddy idea of using said transplant footage as a main point of sale.

People say that really bad films are funny to watch because they are so bad. I have only found this to be the case with one film before now, Death Wish 3, but now Night Of The Bloody Apes has become one of my pet films. A desert island treasure.

R Rated

• 2012 Nucleus Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The BBFC commented in the Annual Report for 2012:

The film features strong violence, including stabbings and a scalping. The film also includes scenes of sexual violence as women's breasts are exposed and the beast appears to maul his victims. These scenes appear dated and carry little erotic charge by contemporary standards and so the BBFC classified the film 18 without cuts.

Netherlands: Uncut for:

• NL 2007 Redemption R0 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2005 Image/Something Weird Double feature R1 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

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2:50s

• 2002 Film 2000 DVD
• 1999 Sovereign/Satanica VHS

In 1999 the video was released on the Satanica label, in a version that was obviously taken from Vipco's planned cut version (Vipco's logo remains). This time the distributor removed every single violent scene before submitting it to the censors. Strangely the scene where the doctor assistant is killed contains several shots of a completely different character being killed, whose demise doesn't happen until a few scenes later in the film.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• Cuts to Julio's surgical transplant operation to receive an ape's heart
• Extensive cuts to Julio's attack, rape and murder of a woman in a hospital room
• Cuts to Julio's murder of man by slashing at his throat and then fleeing.
• Cuts to Julio's assault on a woman in the park who gets stabbed in teh stomach.
• Cuts to a man getting his eyes gouged out.
• Cuts to a second heart surgery operation.
• Cuts to Julio ripping a man's head off.
• Cuts to Julio scalping a man.
• Cut's to Julio crushing a male nurse's face

Thanks to Adrian:  Withdrawn Within Days

I can elaborate slightly on the Vipco release. I remember a piece in the Darkside saying that if you bought the video in July (1993) it would be uncut, this was a couple of months after they reviewed the cut version, I expected it to be re-released cut but I don't think it ever was.

I spent a couple of years trying to track one down without success, I was told it was never released although I still believe it was albeit briefly. I finally picked up a review copy a couple of years later; from the outside it looks like the other Vipco releases of the time but has release details etc on the inside of the insert, and a computer printed (dot matrix) label. The film has an on-screen clock running throughout and is cut to ribbons; I think it ran a few seconds longer than the Satanica release but I couldn't vouch for this. It has an official BBFC 18 certificate despite the BBFC website not having an 18 for this film until 1999. The release details inside the sleeve list the release date as 26th July 1993 so it was withdrawn within days. This is the only copy I have ever seen on Vipco and I've never even met anyone who's seen another, I reckon the old Iver pre-cert is probably easier to find than this.

• 1983 Iver VHS

It was released nearly uncut in January 1983 by Iver Film Services. By November 1983 it had been listed as a video nasty and suffered a successful prosecution. It remained on the list throughout the panic and so became one of the collectable DPP 39s.

Thanks to Chris:

This Redemption DVD is slightly longer than the nearly uncut IVER pre-cert tape as there are at least two extra bits not in the IVER (IFS) tape. These were probably not in the tape due to print damage but at least they're in the DVD. These are:-

• 42 minutes - After the green-dress wearing female has been ravaged in the park it cuts to the professor and his assistant pulling up and taking the body of another girl out of their car. We then cut back to the green-dress woman getting up with bushes all over her and looking around. The IVER tape misses out the doctor in the car as well as the green-dressed female recovering from the ordeal - approx 1 minute.

• 74 minutes - There is an extra brief shot in the DVD of the monster running off to the left after he takes the heroine down to the floor in the park. In this shot, you can see the studio and a ladder at the corner of the screen - approx 10 seconds.

• 1974 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• Heavily edited the rape & murder of the woman in the bedroom
• cut to remove a close up shot of a stabbing

Night of the Creeps

No BBFC cuts to the Theatrical Version for the 1986 cinema release and 1987 Film & Video VHS.

There is a Directors Cut featuring an alternative end

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

Night of the Demon

Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Later heavily cut for 1984 VHS and the cuts continued to the 2004 DVD. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Review: Cheap

Another film that is something like an urban legend: being banned in countries like Germany or Norway and also very hard to find. The reputation of Night of the Demon is much more interesting than the movie itself!

The story is simple: a professor and some students travel to the dark forests to investigate some cruel murders which were caused by a Bigfoot-like monster that looks like Chewbacca from Star Wars . A feeble minded woman who lives in a lonely hut plays an important role in the solution of the mystery.

Well, the acting is bad, the F/X are pretty cheesy and only the many murders featured in this flick will keep you away from falling asleep! These deaths however are pretty are gory and violent, so fans of splatter movies won't be disappointed!

• 2012 Image Horror Collection Extravaganza: 6 Terrifying Movies R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2011 Code Red Maria's B-Movie Mayhem R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US Miracle R1 DVD

• 2004 Vipco R1 DVD
• 1984 Vipco VHS

From cuts details on IMDb :

1:41s cut to remove nearly all scenes of graphic violence including:

• the arm removal of a camper
• the castration of the cyclist and his bloody run back to his motorcycle
• shot of the creature ripping into a camper's neck
• shots of bloody wounds after an axe attack
• several shots of knife cuts and stabs as two knife wielding women are knocked together
• the creature disemboweling a young man
• shots of a young woman with a pitchfork in her back
• a man's face being burnt on a stove.

The film is being shown on the Zone Horror Channel uncut so presumably the film would now pass the BBFC uncut

• 1982 Vipco VHS

Released by Vipco in June 1982. The video was banned as a video nasty in October 1983. It stayed on the list throughout the panic and so became one of the collectable DPP39's

Night of the Demons

• Halloween Party

The Unrated Version was cut by the BBFC for VHS and early DVD but uncut for 2011 DVD. In the US the Unrated version is uncut but the R rated version is cut.

Summary Notes

On the night of Halloween, 10 teens decide to go to a party at an abandoned funeral parlor. "Hull House", rumored to be built on an evil patch of land & underground stream, is the place. While starting the party, the teens gather around a big mirror to perform a seance...BIG MISTAKE. They awaken some evil force and find themselves trapped and taken over one by one. Now it's a battle for who can survive and cross over the stream before going to hell....

Rated as something of a B movie gem. A good mix of suspense, humour and horror, something along the lines of Evil Dead. Good special effects and notable contributions from Linnea Quigley and Amelia Kinkade.

Unrated

• 2011 Anchor Bay R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2014 Shout! Factor RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2004 Starz/Anchor Bay R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2000 Mangrip/Midnite Movies R0 DVD
• 1988 Palace VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• 2 shots of Suzanne squashing Jay's eyes are missing
• a cut to the razor blade attack on the old man

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

The Night of the Devils

• La notte dei diavoli

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Raro Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 25th September 2012
• 2012 Raro DVD at US Amazon released on 25th September 2012

Summary review: Vampire Grandpa

The patriarch of a wealthy family fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs them.

The movie has got that 70s atmosphere mixed with a sense of Hammer Horror. There are scary scenes and great suspense.

It's a very good movie.

• 1973 cinema release

The Night of the Grizzly

Unrated

UK: Passed PG uncut for:

• 1987 CIC VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Olive RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 Olive R2 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1966 cinema release

Night of the Living Dead

cut

best
available

R Rated

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

• 2005 Universal R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2001 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD
• 1993 Tartan VHS
• 1993 cinema release

US: The Theatrical Version is MPAA R Rated for:

• US Twilight Time Limited Edition R0 Blu-ray via US Amazon
• 1999 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon
• US VOD to buy [US only] at US Amazon

The MPAA originally awarded an X certificate but this was downgraded to an R after several exploding head gunshots were deleted. No sign of any of this deleted material being restored though so this is the best available. See cut scenes from notld90.webs.com

Night of the Living Dead

Cut by the BBFC for 1969 cinema release. Uncut by the BBFC afterwards but there are several variant versions

Summary Review : Groundbreaking

As with any other horror genre, the groundbreaking zombie movie is the best. Night of the Living Dead is a cult gem that has inspired every zombie movie after it, with its low-budget look and cast of excellent, unknown actors. And, of course, the flesh-eating undead who are rising to kill the living.

Originally filmed in murky black-and-white, Romero manages to make this film feel creepy even when the zombies aren't there. Creepy, innovative and bizarre.

Now, nearly 50 years after the original release, a never-before-seen sequence is about to be restored.

George Romero said at the Monster Mania horror convention that a once-lost 16mm work print has finally been found.

The work print, which turned up when elements were being gathered for a brand new restoration of the film contains roughly 9-minutes of footage that has never before been released. It was cut from the film not by Romero, but rather by the original distributor. An convention attendee said:

This was a scene that takes place at the jump cut in the basement, including the largest zombie scene in the film.

• 2014 Matchbox Films [Documentary + Night of the Living Dead] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Arrow/Arrowdrome Trilogy of the Dead R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2008 Optimum RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 Freemantlemedia/Arrow R2 DVD
• 2007 Metrodome R2 DVD

UK: Various versions were passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2005 Digiview R2 DVD
• 2005 HHO R2 DVD
• 2002 Oracle R2 DVD
• 2002 Waterfall R2 DVD
• 2001 Third Millennium R2 DVD
• 2001 Stax R2 DVD
• 1995 Tartan VHS
• 1987 Palace VHS

• 1980 cinema release

Thanks to Greig:

• The Prism version (PPA 1160) released in 2001 is uncut.
   
• The Contender Entertainment Group Special Collector's Edition (steel case, 2005) is extensively Restored & Re-mastered. However it appears to be missing several sequences including most of the cannibalism scenes following the attack on the car, as well as heavily reducing the trowel murder from 14 blows to 3. Strange, as this version did have input from Romero himself.
   
• The Anchor Bay box set with the 30th Anniversary Edition (released 2002, disc label code: VFC25258) is uncut. They've also added new clips to the cannibalism scene after the truck blows up.
   
• Other releases have been pre-cut in the cannibalism scene after the truck blows up

• A close up of 2 zombies fighting over intestines (after the female zombie in white walks past eating a bone
• Close up of a male zombie eating from a bone (after the white clad female zombie sits down still eating the bone)
• Close up of male zombie eating forearm
• Close up of male zombie with scarred ear eating some internals

• 1969 cinema release

From IMDb

• Substantial edits to the trowel murder
• The removal of all the flesh-eating scenes.

Night of the Scarecrow

Cut by the BBFC for VHS

Summary Review: Underrated

A group of drunk teenagers accidently set free the spirit of a warlock, which possesses a scarecrow. The scarecrow goes on a bloody rampage killing the descendents of the men who had killed the warlock a century before.

This movie has grisly murders, a mediocre cast, an okay plot, and plenty of fun.

• 2013 Olive Films RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2013 Olive Films R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1996 Polygram VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . Cuts to violence and notably bloodied breasts

Night of the Seagulls

• La Noche de las gaviotas
• Don't Go Out at Night
• Night of the Blood Cult
• Night of the Death Cult
• The Night of the Seagulls
• Terror Beach
• The Blind Dead 4

Seized by the police during the Video Nasties panic. Cut by the BBFC for 1987 VHS. Uncut for 2005 DVD. Uncut in the US. The Spanish language version is missing nudity added for the dubbed English version

Summary Notes

The Knight Templars return in this fourth installment of the Blind Dead seris. On this outing, the Templars haunt a fishing village, where they rise seven nights every seven years to claim their sacrificial offerings in return for the safety of the townspeople.

Generally seems to have been found the most disappointing of the series on grounds of poor acting and ludicrous plot elements. However the film does evoke a good creepy atmosphere.

R Rated

• 2005 Anchor Bay R2 DVD titled Night of the Seagulls at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2014 Blue Underground/E1 [Complete Blind Dead Saga] (R1) DVD at US Amazon
• 2006 Blue Underground R1 DVD at US Amazon

Online :

• VoD at YouTube

• 1987 Kontiki VHS titled Don't Go Out at Night

From IMDb. The BBFC edits were to remove nudity and violence

• Portland VHS titled Night of the Seagulls
• Archer VHS titled Night of the Seagulls

The film was never an official video nasty but did manage a listing on the Manchester Police's local list of videos to seize.

Night of the Sharks

• La notte degli squali

Italy: The full version has been released on Italian DVD and Japanese VHS

pre-cut

• 2004 Boulevard R2 DVD

Night of the Wilding

Cut by the BBFC for 1990 VHS and 2003 DVD. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

Three boys have gone wild by raping and brutally beating several people. Defense attorney Joseph Fainer accepts the case only to find that the prosecuting attorney is his ex-wife.

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

• 2003 ILC Prime R0 DVD
• 1990 Intervision VHS

The US DVD features quite a brutal sexual assault. Presumably the cut UK release does not.

Night Owl

See Terror Eyes

Night Screams

Cut when submitted in 1987

Thanks to MM:

I can't say for sure but I would say a shooting spree near a cafe was cut and an axe in the head shot as well as a scene where a mans head is fried on a grill before he's stabbed through the neck.

Shown on Zone Horror uncut in an 85 minute version (81 minutes in PAL). There must have been additional pre-cuts for the UK release

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

Review from UK Amazon : High Body Count

Night Screams like a typical teen slasher movie in which you watch to do the body count. And the body count in this flick reaches double digits.

As if that is not enough, the film started with this ill fated couple watching a horror film in which nubile females are offed by a fencing sword. Perhaps they are going for triple digits?

Anyway, basically, David, the high school football hero who have to take medication for hyperactivity decided to invite some friends over to his parent's palatial home when they went out to dinner (and it must be a loooooong dinner). And guess what, someone started to knock off the party goers, and in true slasher fashion, everything on the list is used: axe to head, electrocution, poison gas, strangulation, plastic bag suffocation...and yes, even the reliable knife in the back. And of course, in between killings, we get to watch David's parents wine and dine and started to get suspicious when they couldn't get through to the house via telephone.

Ultimately, Night Screams is standard fare....the acting is average (okay, so it is not Shakespeare), the gore effects is okay. But it is not a scary movie, it is very predictable and you know when somebody is about to "get it". But if you are in for a film with a high body count, this one is it.

The Night Stalker

Night Tide

Cut by the BBFC for an A rated cinema release. Uncut for home video

Summary Notes

On leave in a shore side town, Johnny becomes interested in a young dark haired woman. They meet and he learns that she plays a mermaid in the local carnival. After strange occurrences, Johnny begins to believe that she may actually be a real mermaid that habitually kills during the cycle of the full moon.

Great low-budget indy horror film from the 60s inspired by the Val Lewton classic Cat People .

Unrated

• 2011 Cornerstone R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1996 Shellshock VHS

• 2013 Kino Lorber RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2013 Kino Lorber R1 DVD at US Amazo

• 1963 cinema release

Night Train Murders

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

Banned by the BBFC for 1976 cinema release. Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Unbanned for 2008 DVD. Uncut and R rated in the US.

Summary Review: Decent Acting

T his film borrowed heavily from Last House on the Left , but Night Train Murders is the better of the two. Good production values, excellent cinematography, an Ennio Morricone score, decent acting and a tight script .

The first third of the film introduces the main characters, 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. The director's desire to keep from glamorizing violence is probably why the ending feels somewhat restrained.

• 2016 88 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2015 88 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Shameless Slasher Nasties Triple Bill R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2008 Argent/Shameless R0 DVD at UK Amazon

The BBFC explained:

• The development of media awareness and public knowledge of film styles were felt to have reduced the impact and potential for harm of the scenes of sexual assault in the film, which seem particularly dated now.

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2012 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and  at US Amazon
• 2004 Blue Underground R1 DVD at US Amazon

VoD:

• 2014 Entertainment One VoD to rent/buy [US only] at US Amazon

• 1981 Cinehollywood VHS titled Night Train Murders.

This Cinehollywood version was released uncut in November 1981 under the title Night Train Murders. This version was listed as a video nasty in July 1983. This was dropped from the list in March 1984

• 1981 Video Warehouse International VHS titled Late Night Trains.

This release was missing about 1 minute of violence and nearly 2 minutes of non contentious material

• 1976 cinema release titled Late Night Trains

Night Train to Terror

Heavily cut by the BBFC for 1986 VHS. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US

Summary Notes

God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane anylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a 'death club'. The final story shows us the adventures of a server of Satan. This is a strange movie.

• 2013 Vinegar Syndrome RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1986 Palan Entertainment VHS

• shots of a topless woman tied to a table

• a graphic decapitation scene

• shots of dismembered bodies and

• close ups of human organs during the operation scene.

See Nightmare Maker

Night Watch

• Nochnoi Dozor
• Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor

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

• 2008 20th Century Fox Special Edition Director's Cuts Double Bill R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2008 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray
• 2006 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2005 cinema release

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . Uncontentious plot details have been removed to simplify the film for the International Version

The Night We Got the Bird

Cut by the BBFC for an 'A' rated cinema release. Presumably the same version has persisted onto home video

best
available

• 2013 Network R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 21st October 2013

UK: Previously passed A (PG) after BBFC category cuts for:

• 1961 cinema release

Promotional Material

The Night We Got the Bird is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.

Nightbreed

• Clive Barker's Nightbreed

Cut by the producers for theatrical release and home video. The Cabal cut was put together following a fan based campaign restoring all available footage. Clive Barker then created theDirector's Cut from the material available for the Cabal Cut.

Summary Notes

A community of mutant outcasts of varying types and abilities attempts to escape the attention of a psychotic serial killer and redneck vigilantes with the help of a brooding young man who discovers them. Based on the novel "Cabal" by Clive Barker.

• 2014 Shout! Factory Limited Edition [Director's Cut + Theatrical Version] RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2014 Shout! Factory Special Edition [Director's Cut] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

From IMDb:

The original 126 minute version of Nightbreed was cut down to 102 minutes by distributor 20th Century Fox. They felt that this cut was too long and rather too explicit for an R-rated release.

Also, Barker shot additional scenes with David Cronenberg's Decker character to flesh out his mentality. The excised footage consisted of some very graphic gore during the climax, disturbing images in the monsters' lair and quite a bit of "unnecessary" character development.

There were also some strange sexual themes between the monsters and Boone that wound up on the cutting room floor.

See  pictorial version details from  movie-censorship.com

cut

MPAA

• 1991 Braveworld VHS
• 1990 cinema release

US: The cut Theatrical Version is MPAA R Rated for:

• 2011 Warner R0 DVD-R via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

From IMDb:

Director Clive Barker was reportedly required to cut the film down to 101 minutes from the original 126 minute cut by distributor 20th Century Fox. They felt that this cut was too long and rather too explicit for an R-rated release.

The Nightcomers

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1972 cinema release but uncut on home video. Uncut and R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.

• 2015 Network RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2015 Network R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2002 Momentum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2001 Universal/4Front VHS
• 1997 BMG VHS
• 1986 Embassy VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2007 Lions Gate R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1972 cinema release

From IMDb. The BBFC cuts were:

• The film was heavily cut by the BBFC which removed most of the shots of the bound Miss Jessel during the sexual bondage scenes.

Rated R for violence including graphic images, and for language in September 2014.

The film was previously submitted in August 2014 and was rated R for violence, bloody images, and language.

Nightmare

• Here's the Knife, Dear: Now Use It

Cut by the BBFC for its 1964 cinema release. The consensus is that US and European DVD releases are uncut

Summary review: One of the best

Janet is a young student at a private school; her nights are troubled by horrible dreams in which she sees her mother, who is in fact locked in an insane asylum, haunting her. Expelled because of her persistent nightmares, Janet is sent home where the nightmares continue.

This is one of the best of Hammer's horror/thrillers. It is more than likely overlooked because it does not have an major stars in it.

Imaginative production, courtesy of Hammer regulars Freddie Francis and Jimmy Sangster, makes it a compelling mystery oozing with a Gothic atmosphere.

• It R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2014 Universal Hammer Horror Series R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2005 Universal Hammer Horror Series Set R1 DVD at US Amazon

The consensus is that US and European DVD releases are uncut

• 1964 cinema release

Nightmare Castle

• The Night of the Doomed
• Faceless Monster
• Amanti d'oltretomba

Cut by the BBFC for 1969 cinema release. Various short versions exist

Summary Notes

A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.

A fantastic Italian Gothic thriller starring Euro-vamp Barbara Steele (BLACK SUNDAY) in a dual-role, shot in black and white this chiller is a tale of obsession, madness and depravity of a cheating wife who is tortured to death along with her lover by her sadistic scientist husband when she caught cheating, fun stuff.

Unrated

• 1998 Salvation Films VHS titled The Night of the Doomed

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Severin Films (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2013 Mill Creek American Horror Stories Set R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2009 Severin R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

shortened

• 2005 Orbit R2 DVD titled Nightmare Castle

• 1969 cinema release titled The Faceless Monster

Nightmare City

• Incubo sulla citta' contaminata
• City of the Walking Dead

Pre-cut for pre-cert VHS. Further cut by the BBFC for 1986 VHS. Uncut since BBFC cuts waived for 2003 DVD

Summary Review: Funtime groceries in spades

An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.

Undeniably trashy though this film is, it delivers the funtime groceries in spades. We have copious amounts of zombie action tarted up with wonderfully gratuitous topless shots and barking mad dialogue.

Action highlights include an attack on the TV station that results in the wholesale slaughter of a troop of appalling workout dancers jumping about in leotards. As well as exploitative breast baring this scene has some great gory violence as our prancing fools are sliced up.

The music by Stelvio Cipriani is also wonderful stuff. Filled with those familiar bass beats and electronic goodness that is uniquely Italian.

Films like this exist for one reason only (well two if you count making money) and that's to entertain, and entertain is what Nightmare City certainly does. Simply and unpretentiously as only 80's Italian exploitation cinema can.

Unrated

• 2015 Arrow Video R0 Blu-ray/R0 DVD Combo at UK Amazon
• 2003 Anchor Bay R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2013 Raro Video USA Ltd. RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2013 Raro Video USA Ltd. R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2013 Blue Underground Midnight Movies 9 Double Feature R0 DVD  at US Amazon
• 2008 Blue Underground R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

3:05s

pre-cut
1:16s

• 1986 Stablecane VHS

From IMDb. BBFC and pre-cut heavy edits to:

• shots of exploding heads
• neck bitings
• a woman's eye and breast being stabbed with a spike
• an arm removal
• the elevator attack
• shots of bloody wounds
• a woman's breast being sliced off with a knife.

• 1982 VTC VHS

See article from movie-censorship.com . 11 cuts adding up to 1:16s:

• 7s from zombie cutting soldier's throat
• 5s from zombie smashing hatchet into woman's head
• 7s from a zombie cutting a woman's breast off
• 5s from a zombie stabbing a doctor
• 4s from a zombie stabbing a woman in a lift
• 14s from zombies stabbing a holidaying couple
• 29s from a zombie stabbing a woman, skewering out her eye, stabbing again, and eating from the corpse.
• 5s of Dean clubbing a zombie priest in the head

Nightmare Maker

• Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
• Night Warning
• Evil Protege
• Momma's Boy
• Thrilled to Death

Banned as Video Nasty in 1983. Banned again by the BBFC for video in 1987. Not released since

Summery Review: Gripping

An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who's hell-bent on keeping him with her...at all costs.

It seems rather strange that the the director of the I Love Lucy TV series could ever make something on the DPP's list of banned movies, but that's exactly what happened to William Asher's 1981 feature. Despite several undoubtedly shocking scenes this seems particularly unfair, as it is actually a gripping and well made horror thriller, which was even nominated for a Saturn Award as Best Low Budget Film of the Year.

pre-cut

• 1987 Krypton Force VHS titled The Evil Protege

• 1983 Atlantis VHS

The film was released in April 1983. It made the list of banned video nasties by November of the same year. It was dropped from the list in December 1985

Nightmare on Alcatraz

• Terror on Alcatraz

UK: Passed 18 after 35s of BBFC cuts for:

• 1987 Lazer VHS

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Uncut on VHS but the cut US Theatrical version is the only one available on UK/US DVD

13s
cut Theatrical Version

• 2011 Warner Nightmare on Elm Street 1-7 Collection R0 Blu-ray
• 2001 EIV R2 DV

The cut versions was used so that the distributors could use the US audio commentary track without needing edits.

Thank to Dave:

I recently watched the 2 disc box set of A Nightmare on Elm Street which they say is cut to the death of the girl Tina via a blood splash as she hits the bed. The scene plays out on R2 Turkish release. When Tina hits the bed we see the blood spurt all over her shocked boyfriend Rod. A pretty tame and lame MPAA cut by any standards to make an R and obviously it never offended Turkish censors for this new uncut DVD release! The A geyser of blood spurting up from Glen's bed is also intact in this Turkish release

The US Collectors Edition laserdisc (Elite Entertainment) details cuts made as the film went through the MPAA:

• 5s : Tina's corpse hitting the bed, and the resultant large splash of blood all over her boyfriend Rod
• 8s : A geyser of blood spurting up from Glen's bed and hitting the ceiling.

Unrated

• 1998 EIV VHS
• 1995 EIV VHS
• 1985 CBS/Fox VHS
• 1985 cinema release

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Cut for  the original R Rating and the cuts have persisted through all releases since.

cut

best
available

R Rated

• 2011 Warner 1-7 Collection R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2004 On Demand VoD
• 2001 EIV R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1998 EIV VHS
• 1988 Warner VHS

US : Cut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2013 Warner Nightmare on Elm Street 1-7 Collection RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2000 New Line R1 at US Amazon

Thanks to Andrew:

• The MPAA required some toning down of the gorier scenes. Most famously, the death of Taryn (switchblade toting punk girl). Originally Freddy injected her with heroin to the degree the top of her head blew out. The subtle tone down is kind of obvious when watching the film, as it fades to white before we're shown the results of Freddy's actions.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

Uncut in the US but cut by the BBFC to remove nunchuks. BBFC cuts waived in 2001.

Summary Review: Witty Freddy

Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may know the way to defeat him for good.

While things may have become a little predictable by the fourth Freddy film, this episode is one of the best of the series. The film delivers some deliciously creative deaths and witty repartee a la Krueger. It bolsters and redefines the balance between what has been and what will be, keeping the series fresh while maintaining the overall continuity.

R Rated

• 2011 Warner 1-7 Collection R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2001 EIV R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2001 EIV VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2013 Warner Nightmare on Elm Street 1-7 Collection RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2000 New Line R1 DVD at US Amazon
• US Online Rent or Buy [US only] at US Amazon

• 1989 Film and Video VHS
• 1989 cinema release

Thanks to Adey. The cuts weren't actually made to violence, but to 2 scenes both featuring nunchuks:

• The first being the character "Rick" practicing martial arts in his garage and swinging the nunchuks.
• Secondly the character "Alice" realizes that she is absorbing all of her dead friends powers when they are killed by Freddie so she has a swing of the nunchuks.

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

• Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

The Theatrical Version was cut for an R rating. Europe got the uncut version for cinema and VHS but all DVDs and Blu-rays have been the cut Theatrical Version.

30s

R Rated

• 2011 Warner 1-7 Collection R0 Blu-ray
• 2001 EIV R2 DVD

US: Cut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2013 Warner Nightmare on Elm Street 1-7 Collection RA Blu-ray
• 2000 New Line R1 DVD
• US Online Rent or Buy [US only]

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The R Rated Version suffers 30s of cuts to:

• A scene showing tubes and the likes from a motorcycle painfully embedding themselves into the unfortunate rider Dan and eventually totally fusing with the victim.
• A scene showing Freddy force feeding Greta her own innards extracted from a gaping hole in her stomach.

Unrated

• 1990 Film & Video VHS
• 1990 cinema release

See Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

See Sleepaway Camp

See Sleepaway Camp 2

Nightmare Weekend

• Fin de semana de pesadilla

Exists as a cut R rated Version and an Uncur Unrated Version.

Summary Notes

A female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.

• 2016 Vinegar Syndrome R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon

• 1987 Avatar Film Corporation VHS

Nightmares in a Damaged Brain

• Nightmare
• Nightmare in a Damaged Brain
• Blood Splash
• Schizo

Cut by the BBFC for X rated 1982 cinema release. Famously banned as a video nasty with the distributor being jailed. A cut US R rated version was released in the UK for an 18 rated 2002 DVD.  In the US the Unrated 2011 Code Red version is slightly shortened in uncontroversial scenes but is the best available.

An uncut version, or as near as dammit, was released in the UK in November 2015 but was soon withdrawn presumably for a lack of BBFC paperwork. However the BBFC certificate was published shortly after and the DVD went back on sale.

Summary Review: Great Slasher Movie

A mental-patient, who is troubled with horrible nightmares, has escaped from his hospital. Now on the streets he can't help killing innocent people. But there is one family he is more than interested in and when he tries to kill them, he finds that it's not that easy.

An underrated and under recognized slasher film of the early 1980s.

The plot is very interesting and is not at all a typical "slasher by numbers" flick, and is not predictable. There gore is pretty insane and gruesome, and Tom Savini was the make-up effects consultant. There is a tense, uneasy feeling throughout the film, and some very memorable scenes showing how disturbed the killer is, like the part at the peep show in NYC where he gets so aroused he has a seizure. Pretty crazy stuff.

Highly recommended!

• 2015 88 Films R0 Blu-ray
• 2015 88 Films R0 DVD at UK Amazon released on 30th November

88 Films say in promotional material:

Finally unleashed in the UK, uncut and uncensored, for the first time since VHS (back when the distributor of this bloodthirsty HALLOWEEN cash-in was imprisoned for 18 months just for daring to unleash it!).

Thanks to Simon and Braintree:

The Code Red DVD and BD truncated the scene where a young boy finds a dead girls body in an abandoned house and is subsequently grabbed from behind by the killer. Instead it cuts just as you see the shadow moving behind then you hear him scream off camera.

Some of those missing seconds have been restored by 88 Films, but not quite all of them.

This scene is on the old Dutch VHS, but that version misses some dialogue out from elsewhere. So, a truly complete version of the uncut print is difficult to find.

• 2011 Code Red 30th Anniversary Edition R1 DVD at US Amazon titled Nightmare

See article from movie-censorship.com . The Code Red version has been shortened by 1:17s in 3 pot scenes:

• Kathy sends some kids she is looking after back off to bed. She is rather ominously being watched by George.
• Set up shots of a bar have been removed
• Also removed is a shot of George grabbing Tony by the neck.

The report also notes that a scenes showing a phone sex operator shows more explicit detail of masturbation in the shortened version.

3:04s

• 2015 88 Films RB Blu-ray
• 2007 International Trading/Screen Entertainment R0 DVD
• 2005 Anchor Bay Box of the Banned R2 DVD
• 2002 International Trading/Screen Entertainment VHS

The US R Rated Version is 3:04s shorter than the uncut version. The cuts are along the lines of the BBFC cinema cuts but less drastic. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com .

The fact that there are some pre-cuts made the BBFC decision a little easier to grant a certificate as this version is cut more than the banned video nasty version. It still took several viewings by the BBFC before the decision was reached.

• 1982 Oppidan VHS

This version is said to be more complete than the cinema release with the restoration of about 1 minute of material.

The video was banned as a video nasty in July 1983. Perhaps something to do with  promotional material such as the distribution of vomit bags and guess the weight of a human brain in a jar. The video remained on the list throughout the panic and so became one of the collectable DPP39s

One of the victims of the video nasty panic was David Hamilton-Grant, the owner of Oppidan, who was jailed for 18 months under section 2 of the OPA.

• 1982 cinema release

Thanks to Vincenzo. The BBFC cuts were:

• Reel 2 - In the murder of the woman at the beginning of the reel, remove repeated close ups of throat slitting and blood pumping, and repeated stabs into torso.
• Reel 4 - In the killing of Kathy, remove repeated hacks at her body with ice pick and the rotating of the pick in the wound.
• Reel 5 - In the flashback to George's killing of his father and mistress, remove repeated swipes with axe and spurting blood from torso of woman. Reduce axing of father to remove head gushing blood. Sight of corpse may remain.

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Nikita

• La Femme Nikita

The BBFC do not claim responsibility for the following cuts.

UK laserdisc version contains a completely new subtitle track which has been tamed down for language. For instance when Nikita is sentenced to death in court she freaks out calling them all "motherfuckers". The new subtitling doesn't include this sort of language.

Nikos the Impaler

• Nikos
• Violent Shit 4: Nikos

Cut when Cryptkeeper DVD submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor was required to reduce images of sexualised violence during a fatal attack. Cuts to remove sadistic violence during an attack in a shower because of the significant sexualised focus on the nudity of the woman during the bloody attack.

• Edits to shots of a woman's breast being slashed during an attack in the shower

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via US Amazon

Passed 12A after category cuts fro cinema release. A few days earlier the film has been passed 15 uncut, but the distributors preferred the cut 12A rating fro release.

• 2014 cinema release

• Company chose to remove stronger moments of violence and reduce bloody detail, in a number of fight scenes, in order to obtain a 12A classification. Cuts made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy. An uncut 15 classification was available.

• 2014 cinema release unreleased in favour of a cut 12A

9 1/2 Ninjas

• 9 1/2 Ninjas!
• Nine and a Half Ninjas

Cut by the BBFC for 1991 VHS. Uncut for DVD.

Promotional Material

Andee Gray, who joins an all-male Ninja training group. Gray gets a big kick out of her lessons, until she realizes that she's been followed. It seems that a rival contingent of ninjas intends to assassinate her. And that's only one of the many surprises in store for the viewers of 9 1/2 Ninjas.

• 2013 Eurodiscs Video
• 2005 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1991 Virgin Vision Video

Nine 1/2 Weeks

• 9 1/2 Weeks

Unrated

UK: The European Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2002 20th Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1996 20th Century Fox VHS
• 1987 CBS/Fox VHS
• 1986 cinema release

US: The European Version is Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Warner R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2009 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon

9 Deaths of the Ninja

• Nine Deaths of the Ninja

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2000 Rhino R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

...But...

Review from US Amazon : Don't

Sho Kosugi made some very entertaining Ninja movies in the 80s. This is NOT one of them. Perhaps you've seen Enter the Ninja , Revenge of the Ninja , or Ninja III: The Domination ? Well, DON'T expect that level of quality from this film. The incomprehensible story is a waste of time. The sole enjoyable scene involves Sho fighting off four Kung-Fu midgets.

As for the DVD itself... Oh boy, how can I say this... It is simply the WORST looking AND sounding DVD I've ever bought. It is pan-and-scan and is frequently so DARK it is hard to tell what is going on.

• 2001 Digital Entertainment R2 DVD
• 1985 RCA/Columbia VHS

From IMDB:

• Cut to remove the sight of nunchukas and throwing stars.

Nine Months

All UK versions to 2003 were similarly cut by the BBFC. Cuts to three out of four instances of strong language ('fuck') required to enable this to pass at the 12 category awarded to previous, similarly cut, version.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

976 - Evil

1:02s was pre-cut for the 1989 Lazer video, 1991 Polygram video and 2002 Cinema Club DVD.

It maybe that this overly long version is a TV Version with badly acted rejected material splice back in. Perhaps some of it was too bad to leave in.

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

Review from US Amazon : Delightfully manic

Given a boost from the delightfully manic performance of Stephen Geoffreys, 976-EVIL is a tidy little thriller served up by screenwriter Brian Helgeland and director Robert Freddy Krueger Englund.

Geoffreys plays a nerdish teenager who gets picked on all the time, a la Carrie White. He finds a vengeance via a telephone service called 976-EVIL which gives him satanic powers to wreak vengeance on those who have wronged him.

While there are some weaknesses in the plot, 976-EVIL has some chilling moments and Geoffreys is effectively cast. Sandy Dennis also makes an impression as his somewhat eccentric mama.

See Hardcore 18s List: 9 Songs

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1941

The Theatrical Version was cut by the BBFC for an A rated cinema release. This was then released 12 uncut for home video. There is also a Director's Cut released in the US.

PG

• 2014 Universal Director's Collection [Director's + Theatrical] R0 Blu-Ray at UK Amazon

Denmark: The Director's Cut is 15 rated for:

• [Theatrical + Director's Cut] R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: The Director's Cut is MPAA PG rated for:

• 2015 Universal Studios [Theatrical + Director's Cut] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2014 Universal Director's Collection [Theatrical + Director's Cut] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2009 Universal R1 DVD via US Amazon

From version details on IMDb . The Director's Cut extends scenes as follows:

• Wally and Dennis getting thrown out onto the street by Mr. Malcomb after he fires them from the diner where they work.
• Miss Fitzroy lecturing a group of women, Betty and Maxine among them, about tonight's USO dance which is interupted by a group of Army service men and Sailors entering and chanting wanting the women.
• A department store scene with Wally fussing about buying an expensive new zoot suit and Dennis sounding a phoney air-raid siren which leads to panic in the store including a gun-toting Santa Claus yelling out command orders which is revealed to be a set up by Wally who walks out of the store wearing the zoot suit while Dennis meets the twin girls for the first time.
• A scene with Scioli outside his house arguing with his non-English speaking wife about converting their car into an armored car while talking with Claude about sending him and someone else atop the Santa Monica ferris wheel on a spot mission for Japanese planes.
• A extra scene with Ito and the I-19 Japanese submarine shore party disguising themselves as Christmas trees in a remote Christmas tree lot and the drunken Hollis Wood trying to "chop" them down which leads to his capture.
• Scioli arriving at the ferris wheel with Claude and Herbie and explaing to them about their mission in the ferris wheel.
• A dinner scene at the Douglas home and Ward explaining to Betty about her going to the USO dance and telling her about the pros and cons about meeting servicemen.
• A barracks scene with Odgen Johnson Jones arriving for the first time at the barracks and imediately quarling with the racist Foley about property lines within their quarters.
• A scene outside the USO club where Wally arrives and meets with Martinez and his Zoot Suit friends where they are denied access to the club where Corporal Stretch shows up and sets Wally's zoot suit afire which nearly leads to a riot between the Zoot Suiters and the Servicemen. Wally then meets Dennis dressed up as a Marine in order to gain entrance into the club with the twins as his dates.
• Additional dialoge between Captain Birkhead and Donna in their car on the way to the airstrip and being afraid of the dark.
• Another barracks scene where Sergeant Tree breaks up a fistfight between Jones and Foley by informing them about the riot on Hollywood Blvd. and showing them climing into their tank and starting it up.
• A scene of the Japanese submarine I-19 arriving for the first time outside the Douglas house and the sub's entire crew on the deck watching Joan Douglas taking a bath through the bathroom window.
• A scene of the tank traveling down a residential street and Wally shooting up Officer Miller's police car to pieces, sending the policeman and some paserby's running for their lives.

PG

• 2014 Universal Director's Collection [Director's + Theatrical] R0 Blu-Ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 Universal R2 DVD

US: Theatrical Version was passed PG uncut for:

• 2014 Universal Director's Collection [Director's + Theatrical] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 1987 CIC VHS

• 1980 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• Cut to remove a kick to the groin where Wally confronts Sitarski and Betty

1900

• Novecento

Summary Notes

Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (de Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by supporting Communism, and how these events shape the destinies of the two main characters.

Unrated

• 2009 20th Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2007 20th Century Fox R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Olive RA Blu-ray at UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2006 Paramount R1 DVD at US Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb :

This version is uncut and includes the scenes with the main characters as young boys examining each other's genitals (this scene is much less graphic than many believe), and the prostitute masturbating Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu.

pre-cut

• 1992 Fox VHS

From cuts details on IMDb :

• This version  is missing the explicit masturbation shot when Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu visit the prostitute. Otherwise, it appears to be the complete Italian language version, and includes the scene where the two main characters play with their genitals as young boys.

cut

R Rated

• 1990 CBS/Fox VHS
• 1977 cinema release

The version was shortened by the distributors for running time concerns and to remove the sex scenes to avoid a US X rating

From cuts details on IMDb :

Among a dozen or so scenes that were removed or shortened:

• Shorter shot of the boy dying in the very beginning
• Deleted: Berlinghieri digging the wine out of the cellar before serving it to the peasants
• Deleted: After Elma tells everyone of Berlinghieri's suicide, the crowd rejoices and dances
• The first scene with Attila loses a speech
• Graphic scenes of the mutilation of pigs is shortened
• Deleted: After Regina taunts Ada with keys to the wine, Ada pours wine over Regina's head
• Olmo's closing speech is shorter
• The ending credits are deleted and the American version ends with just THE END.

See The Bronx Warriors

99 Women

• Ninety Nine Women
• Der Heiße Tod
• 99 donne
• 99 mujeres
• Island of Despair
• Isle of Lost Women
• Prostitutes in Prison
• Sex im Frauengefängnis
• The Hot Death
• Women's Penitentiary XII

Banned in the UK by the BBFC and later cut. Uncut elsewhere

Summary Notes: A bit disappointing

The newest batch of detainees arrives at a remote women's prison. The fortress-like prison is ruled with an iron hand by Thelma Diaz (Mercedes McCambridge), a woman who has no qualms against death or torture. But when a new state official takes notice of the body count coming out of the prison, Diaz must prove her ability and hide the truth. As the powers that be turn up the pressure it sets up a daring escape by several of the ladies.

"Women in prison" flicks can be a mixed bag. Many offer the usual softcore action (usually of the lesbian variety) and / or nasty torture sequences that often exploit. But 99 Women doesn't really offer too much of either. 99 is actually more artistic than most of the "W.I.P." films that I've seen and as a result it comes off as a bit bland. The photography is fine but with most of the action taking place indoors the camera-work is not flashy. The acting is pretty decent but the script is a bit "talky" in an unnecessary way.

The softcore action is not awfully titillating since many of the scenes are shot in an "artistic" fashion the X-rated version does offer some hardcore inserts but you can easily tell they were added much latter since they don't match. "99 Women" has some style but not a lot of substance. A bit disappointing.

• 2013 Blue Underground Bad Girls Behind Bars Collection R0 DVD at US Amazon
• 2005 Blue Underground R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2008 Alternative Cinema/Blue Underground R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

This is a French local version with nearly irrelevant hardcore added in by another director shooting new footage.

• 2007 Redemption R0 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Distributor was required to cut sight of animal cruelty (a snake being stabbed and hacked at by a woman using a knife)

The satellite version being broadcast on Movies 4 Men is  slightly cut but does show the snake killing.

• 1969 cinema release titled Ninety Nine Women

See Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

Ninja Dragon

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

Shots of ninja throwing stars were deleted

Ninja Hunte

• Wu-Tang v Ninja
• Shaolin Hero

UK: Passed 15 uncut for:

• 2003 DVD.COM/Showbox R2 DVD titled Wu-Tang v Ninja at US Amazon

The running times don't quite add up but the consensus is that this release is uncut.

• 1987 Hillbit VHS titled Ninja Hunter

The cuts were to remove all footage showing throwing stars

• 1987 Ocean VHS titled Ninja Hunter

Ninja Kids

The BBFC waived their cuts and awarded  15 certificate to the 2007 Dragon DVD

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Ninja Kill

Cut when submitted in 1987

Ninja Killer

Cut when submitted in 1986

The Ninja Mission

See trailer from youtube.com

Sweden: Uncut and 15 rated for:

• Sw R2 DVD via UK Amazon

Summary Review: Cult Following

Set in the cold war, a Russian scientist trying to defect to the west (via Sweden) with his top secret formula which, so we're led to believe could potentially shift the balance of power to the Russians if they were able to decipher it. Russians trick him into believing that he has been flown into Sweden where he can complete his work in safety. The CIA resolve to send in a squad of Swedish Ninja to retrieve him from behind enemy lines.

The Ninja Mission has developed a bit of a cult following around the world. In fact one of the highest grossing films Sweden has ever created. The film contains countless slow-motion battles and tones and tones of splatterific blood, but the ninja often fall back on semi automatic weapons to take care of business rather than the martial arts skills.

Other reviewers place the film in the middling bracket.

• 1994 MIA VHS

• 19874 Xtasy VHS

Ninja Scroll

• Jûbei ninpûchô
• Jubei Ninpocho: The Wind Ninja Chronicles

See trailer from youtube.com

Unrated

UK: Passed 18 uncut after previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2012 Manga Steelbook RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Manga (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Manga R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2012 Manga Online
• 2012 cinema release
• 2004 Manga R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Section 23 (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2012 Section 23 (R1) DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review : Fantastic

A ninja-for-hire is forced into fighting an old nemesis who is bent on overthrowing the Japanese government. His nemesis is also the leader of a group of demons each with superhuman powers.

Ninja Scroll is usually one of the first anime films people see along with Akira and Ghost in the Shell , and with good reason too as it's fantastic!

The plot is very good, it moves along at a sensible pace with a good balance between dialogue and action and unfolds cleverly, giving the viewer snippets of what's going on along the way and piecing it together thoroughly at the end.

The film fully deserves it's 18 certificate as Ninja Scroll is very violent and has many other scenes and themes of an adult nature as a warning to those who decide to watch it lightly.

• 1997 Manga VHS
• 1995 Manga VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The BBFC were deleting sights of martial arts weaponry at this time:

• The first cut occurs during the scene where Tessai kills the ninjas in the forest. A scene where all the ninjas simultaneously throw Shurikens at Tessai has been cut.
• The next cut occurs during the scene where Tessai sexually assaults Kagero. He rips off her top and proceeds to lick her breasts, legs, and crotch. She then wakes up and he grabs her throat and says 'Shut up and perhaps I'll let you live just a little bit longer. Don't let it cross your mind that I wouldn't mind raping a dead girl'
• The only other cut is made to a close up of the Poison Shiuriken as it impales Jubei.

Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

• Ninja II: Shadow of a Tear

BBFC animal cruelty cuts for 2014 15 rated DVD and Blu-ray, Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

Ninjitsu master Casey is back and out for revenge when his pregnant wife is murdered.

• 2013 Millennium RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2013 Millennium R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2014 Lionsgate UK RB Blu-ray
• 2014 Lionsgate UK R2 DVD

• Cuts were required to remove sight of cockfighting.

The BBFC further commented in the Annual Report covering 2014:

The BBFC sought assurances as to how the scene was filmed and, although the company confirmed that some precautions were taken to help minimise injury, such as putting rubber caps over claws, it was determined that the scene still involved cruel goading to fury.

Ninja Squad

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

Cut when first released in 1987. Images of ninja throwing stars were removed

Ninja Squad: Killers Invisible

• The Super Ninja
• Killers Invincible
• Ninja Squad: Killers Invincible

Cut by the BBFC for 1987 VHS and 2007 DVD

• 2007 Video Programme Dists/Drogon R1 DVD titled Killers Invincible
• 1987 Video Programme Dists VHS

Ninja Star: Nin Nin

• Nin x Nin: Ninja Hattori-kun, the Movie

The BBFC required 3:17s cuts for the 2007 Elephant DVD. Distributor was required to remove a shot of an illegal horse fall from a trailer attached to the main work

Ninja Terminator

See trailer from youtube.com

Unrated

UK: Reported to be uncut for:

• 2002 Synergy/Hollywood R0 DVD via UK Amazon

No sign of this release in the BBFC database though.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2010 Tango R0 DVD-R via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Magical Powers

Three martial-arts students search for the Golden Ninja Warrior, a statue reputed to have magic powers.

The endless fight scenes are expertly choreographed and carried out with a gusto you never saw from the likes of Michael Dudikoff in his American Ninja films -- fights just seem to happen for almost no apparent reason, rarely advancing the plot or serving any purpose other than ninja action for its own sake. But do we care? Not at all!

Ninja movies can be hit or miss, and this one's a definite hit. It's outrageous,

• 1986 VCI VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

•  Images of ninja throwing stars were removed

Ninja 3: The Domination

• Ninja III: The Domination

Cut by the BBFC for 18 rated 1984 cinema release. Uncut for 15 rated 2015 DVD/Blu-ray. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Review: Ninja Possessed

An evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman's body.

Mixes martial arts with The Exorcist like horror. The horror elements thrown on screen are simply laughable, but the film works as a mindless action/martial arts flick.

The fight scenes are well-choreographed and exciting, and the film is never boring.

• 2016 Eureka Ninja Trilogy RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2013 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Japan:

• Jp Banzai [VHS quality] R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1984 cinema release

See Hero of Shaolin

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu: Home (Season 1 Episode 2)

Cut by the BBFC for a PG rated 2012 cinema release, but uncut for 2015 home video.

• 2015 Warner Home video

• 2012 cinema release

The BBFC explained:

• A cut was required to remove a scene in which a character with whom children may identify is shown hiding inside a fridge. Given the likely appeal of the work to young children, an uncut classification was not available.