• Aliens First Christmas

Cut when submitted in 2005 with the following BBFC statement: Cut required to sight of cartoon character cutting through electric cable to achieve a “U” on grounds that this constitutes potential dangerous imitable technique.

11:50s pre-cut

The 1980 cinema version was uncut. The video version was cut in 1986

From Worldwide DVD Forums

• Nunchaku scene (main cut). It appears after Chuck drives to drive away his car and before he turns up at the girls house when the dog barks at him. Some videos cut the whole scene, some trim just the nunchaku shots.
• Death star thrown into man's head
• Death star thrown during the climax
• Chuck pulling death star from his chest and throwing it away

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to accept cuts to sight of sexual detail in order to obtain an 18 classification. Cuts made in accordance with current BBFC classification guidelines and policy. An uncut R18 classification was available for this work.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut clear sight of unsimulated sexual activity (vaginal penetration by vibrator) to gain an '18' classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor

From the BBFC decision in 2005: Before the formal submission of the film, the company was given advice that the strength of the beating delivered by Bill Sykes (Jamie Foreman) to Nancy (Leanne Rowe) was unlikely to be acceptable at the PG category. The footage was reduced in strength in the version submitted for classification.

Cut to obtain a 15 certificate in 2000. Same cuts to cinema and video versions

• Rumble in the Bar has been cut in several places to remove a head being slammed into a jukebox, two kicks to the groin, a wrist snap, and arm break.
• A torture sequence has been greatly reduced. We no longer see a pipe cutter being used on a man's leg.
• The raid on the wilderness cabin has lost a few violent moments: a bullet impact/blood spurt as a thug is dispatched with a shotgun, a thug being clubbed with a piece of ivory.
• A women crashes her car into an oil tanker causing it to explode: we no longer see her - dazed and bloodied - struggling to get out.
• A beating of a henchman as Seagal breaks into the
  oil refinery has been cut to remove him breaking an arm and kicks to the chest.
• The stand-off between Seagal and a group of hired thugs has been toned down: two blows to the head with a piece of lead pipe have cut, a close-up of a knife protruding from a face has been trimmed.

If you are up to a bit of ecological preaching then the uncut US DVD is available from US Amazon

• The scene in which Chow Yun Fat breathes fire by alcohol has lost 3 secs of him setting the card-throwing bad guy on fire. Consisting of two shots of the villan engulfed in flames screaming.

• Wong Fei-hung tsi sam: Siwong tsangba
• Huang Fei-hong zhi san shi wang zheng ba

Thanks to David

In the cinema version, a horse trip was deleted. When the Made In Hong video was examined in 2000, a closer look revealed that the horse fall was in fact achieved safely and the cuts were waived.

However the cut crept back into the DVD version when it was resubmitted in 2001. This was down to an administration error. By the time the error was spotted it was too late and so the DVD will be released with an unnecessary cut.

Cut when submitted in 1997

• Cut to remove a 'fuck' spoken by Glenn Cloase

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut sight of clearly unsimilated sex (cunnilingus) to achieve an '18' certificate. An R18 uncut was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut explicit sexual detail (in this case obviously unsimulated fellatio, semen on the face and oral genital contact during cunnilingus) to achieve an '18'. An 'R18' uncut was available to the distributor.

27:50s unofficial pre-cuts

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

• Street Fighters

Rated PG-13 in the US.

• The first heavily cut sequence is the battle in the chop-shop, when Mark Dacascos' hero takes on a group of thug mechanics. Not only have several body blows and weapons usage been trimmed, but an entire character - the blow-torch wielding villan - has had his minute long segment removed. The cuts are obvious and the scene looks choppy.
• The final showdown between Dacascos and the main bad guy (Paco Christian Prieto) is missing a number of martial arts moves, including repeated kicks, punches and a headbutt. This last cut is particularly obvious.

Some Sky showings were uncut.

1:19s pre-cut and a further 1:18s cut by the BBFC

• Terror at the Opera

All previous cuts waived when passed in 2002 As Terror at the Opera.

This Region 2 version is available at UK Amazon

Review from UK Amazon: Argento at his Best

One of Argento's most dizzying works but also one of his most enjoyable. This being Argento's ninth giallo, he knew all the conventions inside out, so he plays with them mercilessly, using flashbacks, jump cuts, juxtapositions in a captivating way.

The opening when the temperamental diva walks of the opera, is typical of the high style of the piece.

The ending is, admittedly, a bit of a disappointment, but it's sweetened somewhat by the sly reference to Phenomena. Brutal, beautiful and daring, this is Argento at his best.

3 cuts required for the 1990 cinema release and the 1991 Virgin video

Thanks to Rob:

1. A 4s zoom in to Inspector Alan Santini's (Urbano Barberini's) skewered tongue has been deleted.
2. 20s, ie most of the stabbing of Stefan the stage manager has been cut. He gets a knife through the neck and up into the mouth and then is subsequently stabbed repeatedly.
3. 9s showing the killer forcing a pair of scissors into the wardrobe girl's mouth have vanished

• Private Gold 24

38:26s unofficial pre-cuts

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut sexual detail (sight of semen on genitals) to achieve the '18'. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor.

17:00s unofficial pre-cuts, contains hardcore snippets

unofficial pre-cuts

Cut in 2005 with the following BBFC comments:

Compulsory cuts required to four scenes. Three scenes removed in their entirety:

1. a sequence showing the irresponsible use of fire in a manner that insufficiently stresses the dangers involved
2. a sequence showing a person incapacitated by alcohol being persuaded to perform dangerous stunts, as a result of which he is knocked unconscious
3. a real life sequence showing a security guard being seriously assaulted by a member of the public, which is repeated several times.

In addition, cuts were required to a fourth sequence showing a serious and life threatening accident, to remove repeated sight of the accident, encouraging callous attitudes to pain and injury.

A widescreen video version was submitted in 1999 and it seems to have passed without cuts

This Region 2 version is available at UK Amazon. The uncut version was shown on Channel 5 in 2005

1. The pre-credits sequence showing Gino (Seagal) beating-up the pimp is missing (9 secs) of Gino smashing the pimp's head through the side window of his car and throwing him over some trash cans.
2. The deli ambush is missing a single close-up shot of Gino pinning a thug's hand to the wall with a meat cleaver (1 sec). Resulting in the rearrangement of footage to accomodate the edit.
3. The fight in the pool hall has lost (8 secs) of Gino wrapping-up a cue-ball in his handkerchief - the BBFC clearly trying to disguise this makeshift weapon - resulting in the loss of the following dialogue: ...there's only two things stopping you - fear and common sense...and I'm gonna cut your fuckin' head off
4. The raid on Gino's home has been cut, deleting (7 secs) of Gino wrestling with an attacker and shooting him point blank in the head.
5. The final showdown in the kitchen between Gino and Richie (William Forsythe) is missing (26 secs). Gone is the sequence in which Richie attacks Gino with a knife, only to have his wrist snapped, then a rolling pin, which Gino takes away and proceeds to club him with, after putting Richie's head through a window.

An alternatively edited version has been shown on Sky which included all of the above footage. However, this was done at the expense of other cuts. Similarly on Channel 5

The cinema version and the Medusa VHS both suffered the same cuts in 2008

From WorldwideDVDForums:

• This slasher, in which the victims are girls in the telephone sex business, gave the BBFC a lot of problems. Four murders were trimmed, and virtually all the dirty talk over the phone was removed. The censor even removed a five second shot showing a bondage photo next to a telephone, and 11 seconds in which the killer puts a carrot into a victim's mouth.

• Zui jia zei pai dang
• Jui gaai chaak paak dong
• The Best Thief Partner
• The Outlaws

The video was resubmitted in 2005 with most of the cuts waived. However the animal cruelty stayed on the cuts list as outlined in the BBFC statement: Cuts required to sight of cruelty to chickens

• Various shots of Mok Siu-Chung and Frankie Chan breaking into cars were excised. Guess the BBFC didn’t want potential car thieves to get any ideas.
• After the scene in the nightclub there’s a scene where Mok Siu-Chung and Sharon Kwok are attacked by a gang. We lose the shots where Sharon pulls a balisong (butterfly knife) out of her bag, twirls it and uses it against the attackers.
• A close-up shot of Frankie Chan breaking into a house with a lock-picking kit was cut.
• A sequence where chickens are thrown at the baddies to disarm them was cut for animal cruelty.

The latest release from 1999 is uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon