BBFC Cuts P: Pn-Pz

Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World

Cut by the BBFC for a U rating

Summary Notes

Pocahontas sets off on a journey to England with Meeko, Flit, and Percy. Hearing rumors of John Smith's death, Pocahontas tries to prevent war and battle.

• 2012 Walt Disney Video RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 Walt Disney Video R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1999 Buena Vista VHS

From IMDb. The BBFC cuts were:

• to remove 3 instances of the word 'bloody'

Point Blank

Summary Review: Over the top parody?

Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) before making their demands. Only Rudy, a former mercenary and brother of one of the fugitives, can take out the criminals before more of the hostages die.

A tongue in cheek parody of that whole action movie genre, and a funny one at that. The slightly insane crime boss. Mickey Rourke grunts his way through the tough guy script with a bone dry delivery that make's you certain he's talking this whole thing seriously. Everything's over the top, the acting, the stunts, and Bruce Lee like battle's, an instant underground classic.

• US 1998 Lions Gate R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US Lions Gates Online Rent/Buy [US only] at US Amazon

• 1998 Home Entertainment VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The BBFC cuts were:

• 12s removed where Wallace threatens woman with a rifle that he pushes into her crotch
• 42s removed soon after where Wallace threatens a woman by pushing his hand gun into her bust and then forces her to suck the barrel.

Point Break

BBFC category cuts were required for a 15 rated 1991 cinema release. The subsequent VHS release was rated 18 uncut and was later released on DVD. The rating was reduced to 15 uncut for 2011 Blu-ray. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. Utah meets surfer Bodhi and gets drawn into the lifestyle of his new friend.

Cutting Edge

Gavin Salkeld surfs the BBFC cuts to Kathryn Bigelow's action thriller

Cutting Edge Episode 13: Point Break
 

MPAA

• 2013 Warner R0 Blu-ray
• 2011 Warner R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

• 2003 Pathe R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1993 Fox VHS
• 1992 Fox VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2011 Warner Home Video R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2001 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1991 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were to remove bullet impacts, strong language and brief nudity.

See details and video of the extensive cuts at Cutting Edge Episode 13: Point Break

Poison Ivy

Uncut version is available at:

cut

R Rated

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

• 2011 Warner R2 DVD
• 2009 Warner Online

The erotic scenes have been cut from the R Rated Version. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Unrated

• 2003 Pathe R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1996 4 Front VHS
• 1993 Guild VHS

The US release is uncut for the MPAA Unrated Version:

• 1999 New Line R1 DVD at US Amazon

Poison Ivy II: Lily

• Poison Ivy II

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2006 New Line Triple Bill R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

cut

R Rated

• 2004 Pathe R2 DVD
• 1996 Guild VHS

About 2 minutes of coy sex scenes were cut for the R Rated version. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Poison Ivy III: The New Seduction

• Poison Ivy: The New Seduction

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2006 New Line Triple Bill R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

cut

R Rated

• 1997 EIV VHS

A longer version was passed 15 without cuts for the 2007 Ayngaran Blu-ray

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

BBFC category cuts for PG rated VHS. Uncut for PG rated cinema release and uncut for 12 rated DVD. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.

PG

• 2013 Warner [Police Academy 1-7]  RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2004 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1987 cinema release

• 2004 Warner  R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1987 Warner VHS

Thanks to Andrew:

• The cut was to Steve Guttenberg jokingly opening a tube of superglue.

Not quite sure as to why this was cut. Some could argue kids could imitate it. True, but you still get to see Guttenberg applying the glue to a megaphone, then G.W. Bailey sticking it to his lips.

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

BBFC cuts for cinema release and VHS, but uncut on DVD. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.

PG

• 2013 Warner [Police Academy 1-7]  RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2007 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2004 Warner Home Video Video

US: Uncut and MPAA PG rated for:

• 2004 Warner R1 DVD via US Amazon

• 1989 Warner Home Video Video

The cuts were for BBFC banned weaponry:

• In the scene where Lassard and Fackler go to the pool room. After entering from outside, it cuts to the inside on the line "Watch me hussle this old fart...", completely omitting Lassard and Fackler's entrance. This is because bad guys in the bar are seen throwing their weaponry behind the bar for safekeeping. The weaponry includes the then banned nunchukas

• 1989 cinema release

Police Story

• Ging chaat goo si
• Jackie Chan's Police Force
• Jackie Chan's Police Story
• Jing cha gu shi
  Police Force

No BBFC or MPAA cuts but the film exists in several versions.

• 2018 Eureka Limited Edition [Police Story + US Version + Extended Version of Police Story 2] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Cine-Asia/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2001 Medusa/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD

This version is uncut and includes the cop peeing himself

pre-cut

• 1998 MIHK VHS
• 1987 cinema release

A few scenes have been pre-cut and in particular a fear-stricken cop peeing himself is missing.

shortened

• 2018 Eureka Limited Edition [Police Story + US Version + Extended Version of Police Story 2] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 1987 Palace VHS

Police Story 2

• Police Story Part II
• Police Story II
• Ging chaat goo si juk jaap

No BBFC or MPAA cuts but the film exists in several versions.

• 2018 Eureka Limited Edition [Police Story + US Version + Extended Version of Police Story 2] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazo

US: The Japanese Extended Version is uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated for:

• 2007 Weinstein Dragon Dynasty Special Collector's Edition via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

Reviewers have generally said that the original Hong Kong Version is preferred. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com .

• 2002 Medusa/E1 R2 DVD at UK Amazon

shortened

• 1994 Polygram VHS
• 1990 VPI VHS

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . 10:39s of plot including some humorous jokes were removed for brevity.

Police Story 3: Supercop

• Supercop
• Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat

The uncut Hong Kong Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 1994 Imperial VHS

A cut US Version was created in 1996 to cash in on success of Rumble in the Bronx. The US Version was cut to reduce scenes involving drug use. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Poltergeist

• Poltergeistas

Exists as a Theatrical Version and an Extended Version. Neither are cut in the UK or US.

Promotional Material

Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi (Spiderman, Evil Dead, The Grudge) and director Gil Kenan (Monster House) contemporise the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and hold the youngest daughter captive, the family must come together to rescue her before she disappears forever.

Director Gil Kenan has revealed in an interview with Collider that the upcoming Blu-ray will feature an Extended Cut that adds 7-8 more minutes to the film. He's basically satisfied with the theatrical version and said that the material that's about to be put back in was initially removed due to pacing. This is largely background material introducing the family.

• 2015 20th Century Fox video
• 2015 [2D + 3D] cinema release

US: The Theatrical Version is PG-13 rated for intense battle sequences, disaster-related action and brief sexual content.

The Pom Pom Girls

Originally R rated and uncut, presumably this was released in the UK. Later PG rated for a cut US release

Summary Notes

A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with another guy. Another player can't decide which of two cheerleaders he wants to be with. Meanwhile, the Big Game with Hardin High School is approaching, and a prank war is in full swing.

R Rated

• 2004 Hollywood DVD Video

• 2013 Scorpion Entertainment RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Pompeii  

BBFC advised category cuts were required for 12A rated cinema release and 12 rated DVD/Blu-ray. The BBFC cuts were applied worldwide including the US where the film is MPAA PG-13 rated

Summary Notes

A slave turned gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.

• 2014 Entertainment One [3D + 2D] RB Blu-ray
• 2014 Entertainment One [2D] RB Blu-ray
• 2014 Entertainment One R2 DVD
• 2014 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

This work was originally seen for advice. The company was advised that the film was likely to receive a 15 certificate but that their preferred 12A classification could be achieved by making some changes.

The company was advised:

• to reduce stronger moments of violence where there was a dwelling on particular acts and
• to reduce the emphasis on blood on bladed weapons.

When the film was formally submitted, changes had been made which addressed these concerns. Consequently, the film was passed 12A.

The BBFC further commented in the 2014 Annual Report:

The company removed some focus on detail of a man impaled by a bloody spike and also reduced the focus on blood.

• 2014 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment [3D + 2D] RA Blu-ray
• 2014 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment [2D only] RA Blu-ray
• 2014 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment R1 DVD

Summary Notes

Vasu (Vishal), is a guy who due to some misunderstandings has come out of his rich joint family headed by his mother (Radhika Sarathkumar), and sets up a money lending business. D alias Divya (Shruthi Haasan) a modern girl falls for his good nature. A businessman and a contract killer, Anna Thandavam (Mukesh Tiwari), rubs Vasu the wrong way and bitter battle erupts.

• 2014 cinema release

• Distributor chose to remove moments of strong violence in order to obtain a 12A. An uncut 15 classification was available.

Poor Albert and Little Annie

• I Dismember Mama
• Crazed

See trailer from youtube.com

US: The longest version is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2009 Televista R0 DVD titled I Dismember Mama via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Up Chuck Cups

Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way.

When this film was originally shown in theaters, patrons were given free paper "Up Chuck Cups" when they purchased their tickets.

No one gets dismembered and there isn't even any gore. The best review suggests mediocre but watchable.

• 1988 Network VHS titled Crazed

From IMDb:

• Heavy edits to the scene where the maid is forced to strip at knifepoint, and later flashbacks to the same sequence

• 1979 Intervision VHS titled Poor Albert and Little Annie

All European releases seem to be this same version. Not sure how this fits in with the US versions

Poor Cecily

• Lady in Trouble
• The Erotic Adventures of Poor Cecily

Massively pre-cut and then further cut by the BBFC for 18 rated VHS and DVD.

Summary Notes

A poor little rich girl is sold into slavery to pay for her dead father's gambling debts in Renaissance France. The married couple who buy Cecily try to have their way with her, but she decides to have none of it, and runs away. The husband, in hot pursuit and with loaded pistol, dies in the chase. Poor Cecily, while on the run, unwittingly enters the land of a rich countess, and witnesses sexual debauchery.

2:58s

pre-cut
17:55s

• 2014 Salvation/Jezebel R2 DVD
• 1998 Salvation VHS
• 1987 Harmony VHS

From IMDb.

The cuts remove the entire and infamous dungeon-sequence

Poor Cow

• Poor Cow - geküßt und geschlagen

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1967 cinema release. It is not know if these cuts persisted to home video releases, all 15 rated.

Summary Notes

A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone she takes up with his mate (another thief) who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up in the nick. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure. Her son goes missing and she briefly comes to grips with what is most important to her.

• 2016 Studiocanal RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 Studiocanal R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2016 cinema release

• 2001 Momentum Pictures video
• 2001 Warner Home video

• 1988 Warner Home VHS

• 1967 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were to unspecified sex references.

Cinema version cut by 32s so I guess the video will be too.

Pop Party 13

This video may have the distinction of being the first victim of a new law removing an exemption from BBFC censorship for music videos. It was cut for category on the day that the new regulation came in, 1st October 2014

• 2014 Universal Music TV video

• Distributor chose to remove stronger sexual content within music videos and to remove a use of strong language for PG. An uncut 12 was available.

Pop Party 14

Heavy BBFC category cuts required for a PG rated 2015 DVD

Promotional Material

The Number 1 kids' music brand. Pop Party 14 includes a bonus DVD with videos from Charlie XCX and Ella Henderson.

• 2015 Universal Music TV CD/DVD Combo

• Company chose to remove three videos which contained moderate bad language, mouthed strong language, and moderate sex references in order to obtain a PG classification. An uncut 12 classification was available.

The Porn Brokers

Passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for:

• 1977 cinema release

From article [pdf] :

A semi-autobiographical documentary by the hard-core film-maker John Lindsay about the fledgling porn industry. Consisting mostly of vox pops, the film is partly a defence of porn (it ends with the voiceover declaring, In the final event Seventies British Cinema porn is rather like television. If you don't like it you can simply turn off ') and partly, and more curiously, an indictment of its own audience as sad punters who embody typical male weakness -- 'Men are such suckers when they look at pretty birdies, Lindsay remarks, adding, Men are nuts, they like to see this crap

• 1973 cinema release

Porn Diaries

• 9to5: Days in Porn

Uncut version is available at:

The German release is uncut and 18 rated for:

• De GoodMovies R2 DVD via UK Amazon titled 9to5: Days in Porn

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2010 Strand R1 DVD at US Amazon titled 9to5: Days in Porn

Summary Review: Titillating, realistic, sensitive

Strand Releasing brings us a new look at the porn industry with 9 to 5: Days in Porn , a titillating, realistic, sensitive film. It is a look at the people who work in adult films.

What we want to know is what kind of people make porn movies---what motivates them and how long can they last? Does porn affect their personalities and their private lives?

The film does not glorify porn or porn stars but rather it is an honest look at the industry. It is real and totally unbiased and no conclusions are drawn. Of course the movie does titillate but that is because the actors themselves do but that was not the purpose.

• 2010 TLA R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

Company chose to remove clear images of explicit sexual detail during the filming of scenes for sex works and in clips from sex works. An R18 was available with these images uncut. Six compulsory cuts were also required to remove images of abusive and potentially harmful sexual activity.

The BBFC further commented in the 2010 Annual Report:

In some cases explicit sexual detail could not be justified and cuts were required before works were classified '18'. The Porn Diaries, a documentary about the contemporary US porn industry, is one such example.

The film includes fly on the wall footage of porn scenarios being shot that contain several brief images of explicit sex, pornographic in nature, together with images of dangerous, degrading and abusive sexual activity that would invariably be cut from sex works at 'R18'. Several cuts were required before the documentary was passed 18 .

The Pornographer

• Le Pornographe

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

Passed R18 uncut for:

• 2002 Tartan DVD (unreleased?)

The US release is uncut and MPAA unrated for:

• 2005 Koch Lorber R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon : Not that Bad

Now in his late-fifties/early-sixties Jean-Pierre Leaud is still a fine actor who hits all the right notes in his performance as an aging pornographer. Leaud plays Jacques, a pornographer that had a slew of hits in the seventies but has retired. He now has a wife and an adult son he rarely speaks too, but decides to return to making movies.

Problem is, porn has changed since Jacques was making it and he's not able to make it the way he wants it too. As his world falls apart around him, Jacques begins to re-examine himself and, in the process, begins to lose his mind.

The movie is actually a really good character study, although it sometimes takes itself to seriously. The movie has probably got more attention for it's graphic sex scene than anything else. This scene (which occurs about 30 minutes into the movie) is graphic...But it's not. You see more of the guy than you do of the girl, in fact you really don't see anything of the girl. It is, technically, graphic...But.

A lot of the reviewers on here say the movie is dull. I didn't find it dull; I actually found it pretty interesting and thought provoking. It's no masterpiece, it's not in a league with masterpieces, it's not even the best look at the world of pornography, but it's definitely an underrated film.

• 2002 Tartan R2 DVD
• 2002 cinema release

The BBFC commented: Sight of man ejaculating on woman's face removed. Contains explicit images of real sex.

Portrait of Hell

The 2002 DVD was cut by the BBFC: Compulsory cut required  to sight of cock fighting.

The Possession  

Uncut in the UK on home video. The Theatrical release was cut for an MPAA PG-13 (after a failed appeal against an R rating). The US Unrated Version is uncut

• 2013 Lions Gate (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2013 Lions Gate R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Original Version was uncut and R Rated. The distributors appealed the R Rating but the rating stood. The Original Version was not released and was then cut for a PG-13.

• 2012 cinema release

US: cut Theatrical Version was released for cinema and home video

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . About 1:39s of cuts were made to 28 scenes to tone down the not particularly violent original. One use of the word 'fuck' was also deleted.

Possession

• The Night the Screaming Stops

Never cut by the BBFC, but was banned as a video nasty.

There are several versions around the world but the 118min PAL/123min NTSC version is attributed with the tag Director's Cut. There is a rumour that 5 minutes were edited out the octopus baby miscarriage on the metro. This appears to be false.  The director himself has stated that the birth scene never did last 10 minutes. However a fair few scenes were cut during editing one of which clarifies what happens to Anna (Adjani). To the director's knowledge, none of these have ever made it to any release of the film.

Summary Review: Art Horror

Set in the outbreak of world war 3, a couple, Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill, are undergoing a marital breakdown apparently mirroring the split of Berlin where they live. The wife cuts herself in the neck with an electric carving knife and partakes in an affair with an octopus creature.

During a secretive business trip away, Mark learns that his wife Anna is growing restless in what he believed was their happy marriage. Upon his return home, he learns from her that she wants a divorce. They both go through a series of different emotions related to their situation

Possession is totally extraordinary. Packed with symbolism, it can be read on so many possible levels of interpretation it's bewildering.  Set in a European city (obviously cold war Berlin) in an alienating mixture of ultra modern buildings and decaying grandeur, visually it evokes a sense of dislocation.

Thematically, it seems to be a study of a marriage in the last phase of destruction, with Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani. What follows is a nightmarish and surreal two hours of startling images, bizarre acting and frequent bloodletting. Possession is a challenging art-horror.

• 2013 Second Sight RB-Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 Second Sight R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1999 Visual VHS

US: The Director's Cut is Unrated for:

• 2014 Toufaan R0 Blu-ray

• 1982 VTC VHS

VTC released the film on VHS in September 1982. It was banned as a video nasty in September 1983. In September 1984 it was cleared of obscenity in a jury trial and was removed from the list. VTC re-released the film with a toned down cover in December 1984.

• 1981 cinema release

The Possession of Joel Delaney

R Rated

UK: Passed 15 uncut for moderate violence, threat and occult theme with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2007 Sound & Media R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2008 Legend R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Performance and Intensity

A woman begins to suspect that her brother is possessed by a voodoo spirit.

I first watched this movie when I was just a teen and was riveted to the TV screen. I was amazed at the performance of the characters and the intensity of the plot.

If it was to be redone today there would be no doubt superb special effects to make it seem realistic. Shirley MacLaine is quite the actress no matter what part she is playing on the big screen and even now I have high respect for her ability to perform.

• 1971 cinema release

From UK Amazon :

• Reel 11 - The incident in which Joel menaces a woman with a flick-knife was shortened.
• Reel 12 - The scene in which Joel forces a woman to eat dog food from a bowl was shortened.

See Banned International: The Post
 

Postal

No cuts by the BBFC to the Metrodome DVD in 2008 but the cut US version was submitted. The uncut German DVD runs 6:26s longer. See pictorial cuts from movie-censorship.com

There is a US Directors Cut due for release though which runs at 117mins in NTSC

The cuts were basically to remove sexual innuendo and Taliban jokes presumably for reasons of political correctness

Cuts from alternative versions on IMDb

• Richard telling that an follower of D.O.O.M. works at Little Germany and will smuggle them in.
• While the Taliban walk to their van to get to Little Germany, Osama yells "Shotgun" so he can sit on the front seat.
• A sleepy Uncle Dave getting woken by Dude so he'll go to Little Germany too.
• Longer suncream scenes.
• Dude telling Richard to stop speaking with a queer German accent on the walkie. Followed by an conversation between Dude and Dave about Richard's retard-status.
• Extended report of what happened with the Little Germany Security Guards.
• Communication problems between Osama and Mohammed about the van that is parked outside.
• Mohammed telling the Taliban that Tariq knows where Dave and his girls live, because he visits them frequently.
• Instead of just announcing the show "They had it coming" about the victims of 9/11, they showed portions of it before the Taliban switched channels.
• Dave not believing Richard believes the stuff he wrote in his Bible when he was stoned.
• Dude trying to defend himself in the bunker, but getting beat down by Starr.
• Dave promising he won't smoke anything again if that makes Richard happy.
• When Mohammed asks for volunteers to wear an explosive belt, a Taliban volunteers Mohammed. But Mohammed declines, saying he would be happy to do so, but it is forbidden to him.
• The Taliban congratulate Abdul the retarded Taliban on his "luck".
• Seminar guy talks about Side 5 in his book which helps enslaving employees without having to use chains. But for those who want to be on the safe side he also sells chains.
• The baby-stroller scene is extended and shows an actual baby inside the stroller.
• Mohammed keeps the Taliban from getting out of the van in the final shootout for quite a while, so he can be safe a little longer.
• Osama trying to get some change back from the coin-operated telephone.
• Dude feeding his dog with an disembodied hand near the end.

Note that the US unrated version is the same cut movie as the R rated version but had deleted scenes added to the end credits

Power in Our Hands

Noted as having a re-edited version but no other information.

Promotional Material

Power in Our Hands is a ground-breaking documentary, containing newly digitised archive footage available to the public for the first time, on the Deaf community's fight for civil rights and principally, the right to be heard.

Combining social history and archive film with contemporary interviews, and released in the 125th anniversary year of the British Deaf Association, Power in Our Hands explores the secret history and heritage of the Deaf community in the UK.

• 2016 cinema release

Power Rangers: The Movie

+ cinema cuts

Prank

BBFC cuts were required for 15 rated VoD release in 2017.

Summary Notes

Stefie, a lonely young boy, is approached by Martin, Jean-Sé and Lea to record their daily pranks with his cellphone. The four prankmeisters decide to set up an antic that goes beyond anything they've done so far... But who will be the victim? PRANK is a funny and cruel coming-of-age story about friendship, peer pressure and the loss of innocence.

• 2017 Under The Milky Way VoD [UK only] at UK Amazon

• Cuts were required to remove sight of a young child in the same frame as pornographic images playing on a television screen. Cuts required in accordance with the Protection of Children Act 1978.

Pranks

• The Dorm that Dripped Blood
• Death Dorm

The cut R rated version was banned in the UK as one the celebrated video nasties. It was later released on VHS and DVD after BBFC cuts. A Director's Cut turned up in the US in 2011.

Summary Review : Typical Slasher Stuff

Another 80's college film in which all the "students" look older than expected. This is typical slasher stuff, with overly dramatic music that sounds ripped off from Psycho . Don't expect anything earth-shattering; you do get a cheapie, yet solid release for fans of 80's slasher/horror.

Expect a low budget, some bad acting, and if those are things you are able to tolerate then Pranks ain't half bad. Best served with lots of beer and a roomful of friends.

• 2011 Synapse R0 DVD/Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

See  article from  mcbastardsmausoleum.blogspot.com : Director's Cut

If you think you've seen this film totally uncut... think again! Synapse Films is presents The Dorm that Dripped Blood in a never-before-seen alternate version containing additional scenes, extended gore sequences and a different sound mix.

This transfer was created from the only existing 35mm answer print of the original Directors' Cut entitled Death Dorm , a version of the film thought to have been lost for over thirty years.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• 2003 Jef R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2010 Cornerstone R2 DVD
• 2003 Vipco R0 DVD
• 2001 Protected DVD
• 2001 Vipco VHS
• 1992 VPD VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• 10s were cut from a scene showing a janitor being murdered with a drill.

• 1982 Canon VHS

Released by Canon in June 1982. It was added to the DPP list of banned video nasties in October 1983. It was dropped from the list in September 1985

Pray For Death

• Pray for Death
• A nindzsa imája a haláláért

Cut by the BBFC for an 18 rated 1986 cinema and VHS release. Also cut in the US for an R rating although there is also an Unrated version.

Summary Notes

After a peace loving Japanese immigrant and his family become victims of a crime syndicate, a master ninja emerges.

Unrated

• 2016 101 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 101 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Hopefully this is the Unrated version but the running time doesn't confirm this.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2016 Arrow Video (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon

The uncut version should run for about 98:27s but Amazon notes the release at ~92:00s. The Arrow release promotional material says that this release is based on the US Unrated version but the running time is then inconsistent.

Greece: There are reports of an uncut Greek VHS

• 1986 Video Programme Dists VHS
• 1986 cinema release

From IMDb:

The film's UK home video release was cut by nearly four minutes. Any shots in which throwing stars and nunchaku are used were removed, as well as several scenes of bloody violence and Aiko's rape scene.

Predator

Originally passed 18 uncut by the BBFC but a heavily cut German version was distributed 2001-2003 with an 18 rating. Downgraded to an uncut 15 in 2013. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

A team of special force ops, led by a tough but fair soldier, Major "Dutch" Schaefer, are ordered in to assist CIA man, George Dillon, on a rescue mission for potential survivors of a Helicopter downed over remote South American jungle. Not long after they land, Dutch and his team discover that they have been sent in under false pretenses. This deception turns out to be the least of their worries though, when they find themselves being methodically hunted by something not of this world.

• 2017 cinema release

UK: Passed 15 uncut for strong bloody violence, strong language and sex references for:

• 2013 20th Century Fox [3D + 2D] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2018 20th Century Fox 3 movie Collection RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2014 20th Century Fox [3D + 2D] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 20th Century Fox Ultimate Hunter Edition RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray
• 2008 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2007 20th Century Fox Definitive Edition R2 DVD
• 2006 20th Century Fox Special Edition R2 DVD
• 2001 20th Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1998 20th Century Fox VHS
• 1988 Film & Video VHS
• 1987 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2018 20th Century Fox (RA) 4k Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2018 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2018 20th Century Fox (R1) DVD at US Amazon
• 2010 20th Century Fox Ultimate Hunter Edition RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2004 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

pre-cut

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

Thanks to Luis Canau. The German censors cut the film to avoid indexing:

• 23:43 - Dutch (Schwarzenegger) fires a mortar into a hut - we don't see a man projected into the air
• 24:06 - Similar shot, with a scream being affected by the edit
• 24:16 - 6 shots cut, removing a man in flames shot by Dillon (Carl Weathers), followed by him warning Dutch of an enemy, which is then shot by both (a shot presented the soldier being pierced by bullets, from behind)
• 24:40 - When the helicopter in which the Russians where about to escape is blown away, we don't get to see a man falling out, in flames
• 24:51 - After an explosion, a scene is cut in which two men are projected in the air, falling down on the water
• 25:17 - A soldier on a tree is shot by a machine gun. Two shots of him falling down are cut, including one with him partially burning
• 25:27 - Billy (Sonny Landham) shots two soldiers, amongst explosives. One is burned by the flames, but we don't see any of this;
• 25:45 - The famous "stick around!" scene is removed. Three shots are cut: the enemy approaches from behind, Dutch turns around and throws the knife, and then says the one-liner. They left the enemy entering the frame though. The audience should think it's one of the good guys following the leader? We can still hear part of the scream that Schwarzenegger makes while he throws the weapon;
• 1:08:22 - When Mac (Bill Duke) is killed by the predator we don't get to see a shot taken from a low angle, in which his head is dripping blood and his body jerks;
• 1:10:10 - Other famous shot is almost totally removed: when Dillon's arm falls to the ground we don't see two shots of it still firing the machine gun and a third shot, in the middle, of his face reacting to the pain. There's only a brief moment of the arm hitting the ground left.

Predator 2

• Depredador 2

The film was originally cut in the US for an MPAA R rating. The cuts have persisted to all releases since and is the best available. The film suffered category cuts in Australia for an M rating, but was passed uncut at R18+ and later MA15+.

Summary Notes

LAPD lieutenant Mike Harrigan and his cocky detective partner Jerry Lambert soon realize that what seemed a bloody feud between voodoo high priest King Willie's Jamaican gangs and Ramon Vega's Colombian drug gang is actually the work of a scary third party. Peter Keyes's federal team shields the crime scene even for the LAPD. BUt after forensics proves it must be an alien, who keeps making victims, the chase brings them all together.

Cutting Edge

Gavin Salkeld's Cutting Edge Episode 38:
Predator 2  

cut

best
available

• 2008 20th Century Fox R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

• 2005 20th Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1991 CBS/Fox VHS
• 1990 cinema release

• 2018 20th Century Fox 3 movie Collection RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2009 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

• 2005 Fox Special Edition R4 DVD

Australia: The R rated Version was passed R18+ uncut for:

• 2000 Fox R4 DVD
• 1990 cinema release. Unreleased as distributors made cuts for an M rating

• 1991 Fox VHS
• 1990 cinema release

The OFLC category cuts were:

• 2 shots showing bad guys snorting cocaine
• an exchange between Harrigan and his boss loses the line: Which means you're cutting off my dick and shoving it up my ass. Also 'Goddammit' is shortened to 'dammit'.
• A sacrifice scene was shorn of a stabbing, a man being riddled with bullets and another being gored with a claw. The aftermath of the violence is missing a shot of a skinned victim hanging upside down.

There are no censorship issues with this film.

Premature Burial

Cut by the BBFC for 1962 cinema release. Uncut on home video. Uncut in the US.

Summary Review: Fun and Macabre

Guy Carrell apparently overcomes his all-consuming fear of being buried alive but soon becomes obsessed again, building a crypt designed to guarantee that he will not fall prey to his most dreaded nightmare. Trying to prove that he has been cured of his phobia, he opens his father's tomb and is shocked into a catatonic state. His worst fears are realized as he is lowered into a grave and covered over.

A fun, macabre journey into madness with a superb actor, Ray Milland, at the helm.

Unrated

• 2015 Media Sales/Final Cut Entertainment R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2005 Optimum Roger Corman Collection R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Kino Lorber RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon released on 12th May 2015
• 2015 Kino Lorber R1 DVD at US Amazon released on 12th May 2015
• 2002 MGM (Masque of Red Death + Premature Burial) R2 DVD via US Amazon

• 1962 cinema release.

From IMDb:

• Remove all shots of maggots being poured out of the poison-cup
• Remove all shots of earth being shovelled onto Emily in the coffin
• Remove all shots of Doctor trying to uncover Emily's body and face when she lies buried, and the shot of her face when it is first seen stained with earth.

Preparez vos mouchoirs

• Get Out your Handkerchiefs
• Get Your Handkerchiefs Ready

Cuts were waived for the 2007 Arrow DVD. The age restriction was also reduced from 18 to 15.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The Presidio

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2001 Paramount R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1989 CIC VHS

47s

R Rated

• 1988 cinema release

Avoid the R Rated US DVD version which is missing an overall 47s of a sex scene with Meg Ryan. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Presumed Innocent

Cut by the BBFC for a 15 rated 1990 cinema release. The cuts were retained for subsequent home video releases and the rating was also increased to 18.

Summary Notes

When the female deputy prosecutor R.K. Sabich had an affair with is murdered, he is chosen to lead the investigation. However, when he digs too deeply, he finds himself framed for the murder.

Cutting Edge: Quick Trims

Quick Trims 25: Presumed Innocent on YouTube.
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• 2010 Warner R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1999 Warner R2 DVD
• 1991 Warner VHS

UK: Passed 15 after 10s of BBFC category cuts for:

• 1990 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were to remove the lines:

• He was trying to fuck her to death
• Paying to suck his cock in a public place

Pretty Baby

Uncut version is available at:

The 1981 pre-cert VHS was released uncut. It was noted as significant that it was never prosecuted under the 1978 Protection of Children Act.

The pre-cert video was eventually passed 18 uncut with previous cinema cuts waived for:

• 1987 CIC VHS

Later passed 18 uncut for:

• 2007 Paramount R2 DVD at UK Amazon

See  article from  sbbfc.co.uk :

Examiners considered that, given that legal cuts had been required in 1979, it might be necessary for the same cuts to be implemented for 1987 video classification. However, examiners also expressed scepticism about whether the cuts were really necessary, suggesting they might have been an overly cautious response to the new legislation. At least one examiner even floated the idea of passing the video 15 uncut, given its visual discretion.

James Ferman sympathised with the suggestion that the original cuts should now be waived and showed the video to the Board's President and Vice Presidents. Ultimately it was concluded that All admire the film and support waiving the original film cuts . Accordingly, Pretty Baby was classified 18 uncut for video release, with the previous cinema cuts waived, on 4 September 1987.

Although this permitted the existing pre-cert VHS copies to remain on the shelves, no fresh release of Pretty Baby took place on VHS.

Summary Review: A Difficult Story

A pre-teen girl grows up in a house of prostitution in the Storyville section of New Orleans in 1917.

A beautifully filmed movie which tells a difficult story with a subtlety and power.

The movie is quite revealing about the business of prostitution during that time, but it is never exploitative and gives one the sense of how it really was, and what might happen to children born into prostitution.

Malle's dispassionate take on all of this outraged viewers a quarter-century ago, but it all seems rather tame today.

banned
Cardiff

• 1979 cinema release

See  article from  sbbfc.co.uk :

James Ferman said he was forced to make minor edits under the 1978 Protection of Children Act:

• Reel 4 - 6s deleted in the scene in the bathroom, delete moment where Madame pulls away towel which Violet is holding in front of her for modesty, and cut straight to close-ups of Violet and man looking at each other
• Reel 5 - Delete full-length nude shot of violet posing for Bellocq on the sofa. In fact after representations from director Lous Malle, this second cut was reduced to optically darkening Violet's public area so that nothing could be seen.

This cinema release was banned by Cardiff Council but accepted by councils elsewhere.

Pretty Woman

The BBFC passed the Director's Cut 15 uncut for the 1998 Buena Vista laserdisc and 1999 Buena Vista video/DVD

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

Prey

• Alien Prey

Cut by the BBFC for X rated cinema release in 1977. The film was released in the US with sex scenes cut for an R rating. This cut US version was released on pre-cert VHS and ended up being seized by the police during the video nasties panic. The BBFC cinema cuts were applied to this cut US version for BBFC approved VHS in 1986 and 1995. An extended but still incomplete version was released on DVD in 2004 with previous BBFC cuts waived. The film was restored and complete for MPAA Unrated DVD/Blu-ray in 2018

Summary Notes

Jessica awakens when an alien spacecraft lands nearby. After dispatching a young couple, the alien assumes the identity of the recently dispatched young man. Jessica and her possessive lover Josephine invite "Anders" in when it appears he's hurt. Soon Jessica becomes suspicious of Josephine's overbearing ways, and relies more on the alien for support, but his purpose on earth remains unclear.

• 2018 Vinegar Syndrome RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

See video from YouTube. Vinegar Syndrome restored censored material from a scene where Anders feasts on flesh from the neck of a girl. (Thanks to Colin for the lead)

shortened

• 2004 Anchor Bay Video

US: An extended but still short version is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2009 Redemption R1 DVD

Some material has been restored but it is till incomplete

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

cut

• 1995 Arthouse VHS
• 1986 Stablecane

• 1981 Vampix VHS

The film got caught up in the video nasties panic end ended up being seized by the police. There was no follow up and the film was never listed as an official video nasty.

• 1977 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• Cut to reduce shots of Anders feasting on a girl's body.

Prey of the Jaguar

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2007 Echo Bridge R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Review from IMDb : Bad

This is a cheaply made, entirely predictable, badly directed movie that features some of the worst acting ever put straight to video. The scenes where Maxwell Caulfield laments his killed family are so bad they end up being hilarious. There is no revenge movie cliché that is left out here.

• 1999 First Independent VHS
• 1996 First Independent VHS

See cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• Master Yi uses his nunchucks to take out 2 opponents
• Missing sight of thug with banned nunchuks
• Jaguar using a throwing star has been cut as this also was a banned weapon at the time.

The film has not been cut by film censors but the US DVD/Blu-ray covers were edited to remove all references to homosexuality, in particular removing a gay protest banner and deleting the word 'gay' from the description that the heroes were 'gay activists'.

In Turkey in 2018, Ankara authorities banned a LGBT group from screening Pride at a cultural event.

Priest

In the US the cut Theatrical Version is MPAA PG-13 rated. There is also an Unrated Version. Both versions were 12/12A rated by the BBFC.

Summary Notes

A priest disobeys church law to track down the vampires who kidnapped his niece.

Unrated

• 2011 Sony R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Sony R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2016 Sony [Priest + Legion] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon

cut

• 2011 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The MPAA cuts were:

• The film was toned down by small edits to reduce noise of blows and to reduce blood.

Priest of Love

An abridged version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2002 C'Est La Vie R2 DVD
• 1993 Mayfair VHS

From  IMDb:

Also released in an abridged version lasting 94 minutes. As well as inevitable cutting of some material the shortened version also rearranges the placement of some of the flashback sequence and ends with Lawrence's death excluding the New Mexico epilogue.

• 1987 MIA VHS

• 1981 cinema release

Primitive London

Cut by the BBFC for X rated 1965 cinema release. Uncut and 15 rated on home video from 2009.

Promotional Material

The sensational follow-up to London in the Raw, Primitive London sets out to reflect society's decay through a sideshow spectacle on 1960s London depravity and manages to outdo its predecessor.

Here, we confront mods, rockers and beatniks at the Ace Café, cut some rug with obscure beat band The Zephyrs, smirk at flabby men in the sauna and goggle at sordid wife-swapping parties as we discover a pre-permissive Britain still trying to move on from the post-war depression of the 1950s.

• 2015 Bfi Video R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2009 BFI video

• 1965 cinema release

Prince of Darkness

• John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

Passed 15 uncut with previous distributor cuts restored for:

• 2002 Momentum R2 DVD via UK Amazon

The Netherlands release is uncut and 16 rated for:

• NL R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2003 Universal R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Creepy and thoughtful

It's dark, creepy and thoughtful and just a step away from being a cult classic. It's a heady mix of quantum physics, religious doctrine, and questions about the origins of Christ and Satan,

A group of people, college grad students, their professor, and an emotionally shattered priest, are trapped in an old spooky church with something horrible.

Carpenter has made a nasty, atmospheric, stylish and grippingly effective little horror movie, this is not a movie for the fainthearted. But more to the point, it's loads of fun

• 2000 Universal/4 Front VHS

From IMDb. This version was edited to avoid an 18 rating. Cuts include:

• a shorter bike-stabbing sequence
• the removal of some swearing
• a brief cut to soften the scene where Calder cuts his throat with a splinter.

R Rated

• 2000 Channel 5/Guild VHS
• 1988 Guild VHS
• 1987 cinema release

Princess Madam

The  longer Hong Kong Version suffered 33s of cuts of which 3s were attributable to the BBFC

3s

pre-cut
30s

• 1995 MIA VHS

It looks like shots of cocaine on naked breasts has been pre-cut. The BBFC cut was probably blood on naked breasts during the extraction of a bullet. See article from movie-censorship.com

Prison Girls

Banned by the BBFC from a 1973 cinema release. Uncut and X rated in the US.

Summary Notes

Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to her pimp even though he beats her, one overcomes her frigidity, one gets gang raped, two join in a threesome, and one goes back to her criminal lover shortly before the police show up.

• 2012 Desert Island Films R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The film was originally X rated in the US.

• 1973 cinema release

Prison Heat

Prison Love Doll

• Wonderful World of Wendy Whoppers: Prison Love Doll

See Isalnd of Fire

See Sadomania

Prisoners of the Lost Universe

• Apodrasi hilion kindynon

BBFC category cuts were required for a PG rated cinema release and VHS. Hopefully uncut for 2015 home video release.

Summary Notes

Through a series of coincidences, Carrie, Dan and Dr. Hartmann all fall through a teleporter device Hartmann has invented. Transported to a what appears to be a prehistoric world in a parallel universe and unable to find the Doctor, Dan and Carrie must figure out a way to get back home. Before they can do that, however, they must deal with tribes of savage cavemen, as well as brutal warlord named Kleel who has taken a liking to Carrie and seems to be unusually well-supplied with Earth technology.

• 2015 Odeon Entertainment (RB) Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

• 1986 Nickelodeon VHS
• 1984 cinema release

Pritchard vs Dainton

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following BBFC comments: Cuts required to remove sequences of real assault, public nudity, defecation and urination. Cuts required on the grounds of potential harm to likely audience and others by imitation. Cuts also required in line with UK laws relating to public indecency and assault.

Ptitchard vs Dainton had cuts to remove sight of glasses being broken over heads. This was not just because of concerns about imitation but also because the film makers may have commissioned a real criminal offence in the UK in order to produce the sequence.

Although there are no constraints on nudity at '18', the BBFC will not classify material which is the result of the commission of a criminal offence in the UK. This policy takes into account the new offence of 'exposure' under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which came into force in 2004. The BBFC already had an established policy on public nudity in line with the broader common law misdemeanour of 'indecent exposure'. On these grounds, cuts were made to public nudity in Pritchard Vs Dainton, which contained full frontal nudity as men ran along public streets.

Private

• Fallo!

A softcore version was passed 18 by the BBFC. US releases feature the Director's Cut

Summary Review: As Expected

Private is a collection of six stories based on the joys of sexuality and the eroticism of a new generation of women.

Tinto Brass' movies are sexually laced, and by design whimsical. Within minutes after the introduction end you can expect to see a nude female in a risque scene, which is typical of a Tinto Brass movie. That is exactly what I was expecting from Private, and that is exactly what I received.

• 2014 Cult Epics Tinto Brass Maestro Of Erotica Cinema (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2013 Cult Epics RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2013 Cult Epics R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2010 Cult Epics R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Director's Cut features 5 scenes with blow jobs were prosthetic penises were used.

• 2004 Arrow R2 DVD

See Sex Film Cuts: The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann
 

A Private Collection

• Une collection particulière
• Une collection particulaire

   

The pre-cut Theatrical Version was banned by the BBFC for 1977 cinema release although further cuts qualified it for an X rating later in the same year. The Theatrical Version censors real sex via masking by the narrator's carefully placed finger. The uncut Oberhausen Cut reveals what's behind the masking, but real bestiality has proved too much for modern day censors and so has been cut from recent German and 2014 UK releases.

Summary Notes

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk's own collection of vintage erotica. Originally intended as part of his 'Contes immoraux', it was released first as a separate short, and is therefore marks the turning-point between Borowczyk's career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.

The Oberhausen Cut is longer and was shown at the short film festival in that city in 1973.

best
available

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

Thanks to Gary Couzens:

The Theatrical cut and Oberhausen cut were both passed in 2014 as components of The Short Films directed by Walerian Borowczyk and included as extras on the Arrow dual-format release of Immoral Tales . See further details about the version's in review from film.thedigitalfix.com

In the theatrical cut, when we see some vintage erotic photographs, the film's narrator André Pieyre de Mandiargues' finger obscures some of the more explicit details, which include images of penetration, but these are uncovered in the Oberhausen Cut.

The main difference is towards the end when a children's cartoon is intercut with footage from the turn of the twentieth century depicting genuine bestality between a woman and a dog. This was pixelated in the German Blu-ray edition of Immoral Tales and replaced by a black screen in Arrow's edition, so as to comply with the laws concerning extreme pornography .

• 2014 Arrow Film Distributors [Part Subtitled] video

The Theatrical Version sees explicit sex masked from view (See The Oberhausen Cut
cut above for further details).

• 1977 cinema release

• 1977 cinema release titled Une collection particulaire

The Private Lesson

• Private Lessons
• Lezioni private

A short version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2011 Cornerstone R2 DVD

• 1976 cinema release

Private Lessons

Cut by the BBFC for child protection issues. Some US releases are uncut others are reported to feature body double nudity for that of Sylvia Krystal.

Summary Notes

An immigrant housemaid seduces a 15-year-old boy and later fakes her own death as part of his chauffeur's blackmail plot. Troubles arise when the two start to fall in love.

Private Lessons is one of the top grossing independent films of all time pre-Miramax. Private Lessons was released in 1981, starring Sylvia Kristal, Eric Brown, and Howard Hessman. Private Lessons was the first in a genre of soft core, teenage, wet dream, pictures.

• 2016 Cinema Epoch (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon

Summary Notes

But just to let you know, it has been altered from the version, which is on VHS tape. It has also been revealed that Silvia Kristal had a body double, her name is Judy Helden.

However, Ms. Helden only appears in two scenes in the movie, and they are not the famous scenes which those of us in the 35 to 40 age group, who love the movie all know. Miss Helden's scenes appear towards the end of the movie, where we see aroused nipples on a breast, in one shot of the backside that does not match up with Sylvia Kristal's.

• 2006 Cinema Club Video

No further BBFC cuts were made when re-submitted in 2006. However the version submitted was pre-cut to eliminate the same material as the previous version. The increased running time is additional, uncontentious footage.

UK: Passed 18 after 3:20s of BBFC cuts for:

• 1992 Braveworld VHS
• 1987 CIC VHS
• 1982 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• Cuts were made in several scenes under the Protection of Children Act. Basically every shot where you could see Kristel's nudity and the boy in the same shot was removed. The scenes affected were the striptease, the bath scene and the two sex scenes. In the storyline the boy was meant to be 15 years old

See Watch Me

Private Property

Banned by the BBFC in 1961. Not released in the UK since. Released in the US in 2016 on MPAA Unrated Blu-ray/DVD Combo.

Summary Notes

Duke and Boots, two young thugs, hold up a California gas-station owner. Duke, viral and savage, taunts the slower and psychologically-confused Boots because he has never made a sexual conquest. Duke offers to seduce a woman for Boots and the pair force a passing motorist to pursue a sports car driven by Ann Carlyle, the lustful wife of a insurance-company executive who has some desires of her own not being met by her husband.

• 2016 Cinelicious Pics (RA) Blu-ray/(R1) DVD Combo at US Amazon

• 1961 cinema release

The Professional: Golgo 13

• Golgo 13

A re-edited version was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2007 Manga/Anchor Bay R2 DVD at UK Amazon

It seems that the extra material is the restoration of the opening credits, previously omitted.

• 1989 Manga VHS
• 1988 cinema release

See The Mercenary
 

The Professionals: A Hiding to Nothing

Cut in 1998. The 2004 DVD re-release is reported as being uncut

The offending scene depicted a character entering some premises by use of that good old 1970s TV cliche the credit card! The BBFC demanded that this should be cut as it depicted the use of what they termed "criminal technology".

Thanks to Dave Matthews (see New Avengers' and Professionals websites)

Project A

• 'A' gai wak
• Jackie Chan's Project A

Uncut un the UK on DVD but there also exists shortened versions

Summary Notes

In late 19th Century Hong Kong the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. Reluctantly, the Coast Guard is given money to fight these pirates, but the pirates themselves have many contacts (that is, bribed officials) in the government, and seek to thwart the Coast Guard's efforts to eliminate them. One Coast Guard officer is Dragon Ma, who is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made fools of.

• 2012 Showbox/Cine Asia/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD
• 2002 Medusa/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD
• 1999 MIHK VHS

• 1984 cinema release

• 1989 VPD VHS

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . The approx. 8 minutes shorter version mainly lacks ridiculous comedy scenes. The abduction of Samo Hung is missing because Mahjong is not familiar to a Western audience.

Project A II

• Project A 2
• Project A Part II
• Jackie Chan's Project A 2
• A gai wak juk jap

BBFC category cuts for a PG rated 1988 cinema release. A short version was passed 15 for 1988 VHS then uncut since 1999 VHS. Not cut by censors in the US but there is a shortened version.

Summary Notes

Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt police superintendent.

PG-13

• 2012 Showbox/Cine Asia/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2002 Medusa/Hong King Legends R2 DVD
• 1999 MIHK VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated for:

• 2012 Echo Bridge Jackie Chan 4 Film RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

There are 2 variants of the prologue/credits for Chinese and English language

• 2011 Echo Bridge R1 DVD

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . This version is missing 4:37s, mostly short shots that no one will miss

• 1988 VPD VHS

• 1988 cinema release

Project Shadowchaser: Night Siege

• Project Shadowchaser II
• Armed and Deadly
• Night Scenes: Project Shadowchaser II
• Night Siege

The BBFC cut 56s from the 1994 Lazer video.

There are 2 source versions, R Rated and unrated. The unrated version has about 33s of extra gunshot wounds.

Project Wild Thing

BBFC category cuts for a PG rated cinema release.

Summary Notes

David Bond is concerned. His kids' waking hours are dominated by a cacophony of marketing, and a screen dependence threatening to turn them into glassy-eyed zombies. Like city kids everywhere, they spend way too much time indoors - not like it was back in his day. He decides it's time to get back to nature - literally. In an attempt to compete with the brands, which take up a third of his daughter's life, Bond appoints himself Marketing Director for Nature. Like any self-respecting salesman, he sets about developing a campaign and a logo. With the help of a number of bemused professionals, he is soon selling Nature to British families. His humorous journey unearths some painful truths about modern family life. His product is free, plentiful and has proven benefits - but is Nature past its sell-by date?

• 2014 Revolver Entertainment R1 DVD at US Amazon  

• 2013 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

The distributor chose to fully obscure one use of strong language in order to achieve a PG classification.. A 12A classification without cuts was available.

The BBFC added in its 2013 Annual Report

Strong language was also an issue with the documentary Project Wild Thing, which deals with the subject of children losing their connection with nature in modern society. In the film, the director attempts to promote the benefits of the natural world to children and their parents.

During one scene he becomes frustrated as he rehearses a speech and uses strong language, which again had been bleeped by the film makers, but insufficiently well. The company chose to obscure the word more completely, resulting in a PG classification for mild bad language and infrequent mild sex references.

Project X

There is a Theatrical Version and an Extended Version with a little extra nudity.

• 2012 Warner [Theatrical + Extended] R0 Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

US: The Extended Version is MPAA R Rated for:

• 2012 Warner [Theatrical + Extended] R0 Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The Unrated Version adds some extra partying with a few more breasts being revealed along with a bit of gross behaviour. Nothing too controversial though.

• 2012 Warner [Theatrical + Extended] R0 Blu-ray/R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2012 Warner R2 DVD   at UK Amazon
• 2012 cinema release

The BBFC commented in a Podcast that the 18 rating was required as teenage characters partook in copious amounts of drugs with absolutely no negative consequences.

US : The Theatrical Version is MPAA R Rated for:

• 2012 Warner [Theatrical + Extended] R0 Blu-ray/R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2012 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2012 Warner VOD to buy [US only] at US Amazon

Prom Night III: The Last Kiss

pre-cut

Cut TV Version passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2005 Sound & Media R2 DVD
• 1990 CBS/Fox VHS

Thanks to Floyd:

Not cut by the BBFC but a pre-cut television version was submitted as per the US DVD releases. The only uncut DVD release is available in Australia

Cuts from www.dvdcompare.net :

• A shot of the janitor's pacemaker bloodily exploding out of his chest is trimmed.
• When the principal cuts off his finger, the shot is trimmed of blood squirting, and a shot of the finger falling to the ground in slow-mo is replaced by a close up of the principal's reaction.
• A shot of Alex standing up and his flag falling down is cut completely
• During the locker room confrontation - "kicked your ass" is changed to "kicked your butt"
• An alternate shot of the teacher screaming is used; in the original it shows a closer shot with blood squirting on his face.
• A brief shot of blades coming out the back of the teacher's head is lost completely.
• Cuts to overhead shot of couple having sex. The original showed a side view with one of Mary Lou's breasts exposed and then a rotating overhead shot, matching the rotation of the overhead burial shot which exposed both of Mary Lou's breasts.
• Overdubbling of guidance counselor's profanity including a couple of "fricks" and "wearing his teeth for earrings".
• An alternate shot of Shane's heart coming through the back of the couch is used which is less gory. The original adds a quick close up of the the heart in Mary Lou's hand which is much bloodier and does not show him Shane screaming.
•  A "You silly bitch" is inaudible and an alternate shot is used where Alex says "you bitch" rather than "you fucking bitch".

There was much talk of a Director's Cut with the director being put under pressure to get a low rating, at least for the Theatrical Version. However the first batch of DVD/Blu-ray feature only the Theatrical Version and Ridley Scott now seems to be playing down the idea of a Director's Cut.

See This, That and the Other

Rated PG-13 for thematic material including war atrocities, violence and disturbing images, and for some sexuality.

The film was edited prior to release without change to the PG-13 rating or the consumer advice.

The Promise

• Wu ji

The  shortened International Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2009 Technicolor/Momentum Blu-ray
• 2009 Technicolor/Momentum R2 DVD

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . The Original Hong Kong Version contains a little extra sex and violence.

The Promised Land

• Ziemia obiecana

There exists an Original Version and a Director's Cut.

Summary Notes

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew and a German, pool their money together to build a factory. The movie follows their ruthless pursuit of fortune.

• 2004 Vision R1 DVD at US Amazon

Following the original theatrical release the was made into a mini series for Polish TV. The director was obviously impressed by the TV version and he re-cut the film using some of this TV footage to replace the original footage. This  Director's Cut is significantly shorter than the original version.

• 2014 Second Run R0 DVD at UK Amazon

Property of the State

BBFC category cuts were required for a 2017 15 rated cinema release.

Summary Notes

Based on the true story that gripped Ireland in the 1990's, Property of The State tells of a disturbed young man by the name of Brendan O'Donnell. Seen through the eyes of his sister Ann Marie, piece by piece she threads together the events that ultimately lead to the harrowing murders of a young mother, her child and a local priest in the forest of East Clare, Ireland. Ann Marie lived through it all. As the loving sister of a loving brother, she became the sister of a murderer and the sister of a man described as the most evil man in Ireland. She had not committed a crime, yet many saw her guilty by association.

• 2017 cinema release

• Distributor chose to remove bloody detail from a suicide scene in order to achieve a 15. An 18 uncut was available.

Prophecy

• Prophecy: The Monster Movie

The same cuts were applied to 1987 CIC video but the certificate was downgraded to a 15

• Cuts to a raccoon being beating with a garden tool on grounds of animal cruelty

Prophecy

• God's Army
• God's Secret Army

R Rated

UK: The US Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2011 Lions gate/Miramax at UK Amazon
• 2010 Lions Gate Online
• 2010 Lions Gate R2 DVD
• 2002 Buena Vista R2 DVD
• 1996 Buena Vista VHS

US: The US Version is MPAA R Rated for:

• 2011 Echo Bridge RA Bu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 1999 Dimension R2 DVD at US Amazon

There is also a European release, titled God's Army, featuring different uncontentious footage:

• A sepia-tinted opening sequence shows Thomas Dagget sitting in in a swing, talking to Lucifer
• The sequence where the first angel falls to Earth is shorter
• The exorcism sequence at the end is shorter and has no special effects.

Prostitute

Uncut version is available at:

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong real sex for:

• 2011 BFI Online
• 2011 BFI R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The BBFC commented:

A dramatised documentary about prostitution in late 70s/early 80s Britain, was originally passed X on film in 1980, with cuts to explicit sight of a man being masturbated while visiting a massage parlour. It is a bleak scene with no particular sexual charge. Under current Guidelines, this illustration of the unglamorous reality of the sex trade could now be passed uncut for DVD release at 18.

Promotional material: Fully Uncut

Tony Garnett, one of British television's most critically acclaimed figures, has been responsible for producing some of the most radical and controversial UK drama, and is associated with ground-breaking directors such as Ken Loach.

His directorial debut, Prostitute, is the tale of two women - Sandra (Eleanor Forsythe), an ambitious but nai ve Birmingham working girl who moves to London with the hopes of securing wealthier patrons, and Louise (Kate Crutchley) her social worker friend who is fighting to change the antiquated and hypocritical prostitution laws. As both strive to achieve their goals, a cold dose of reality dashes their hopes, and the built-in biases against women in society are unmasked. This frank and controversial expose' is finally presented here fully uncut and uncensored.

• 1980 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• To delete explicit sight of a man being masturbated while visiting a massage parlour.

See Teenage Prostitution Racket
 

See Banned: Self Censored List Film List
 

See Teenage Prostitution Racket
 

The Protector

• Wai lung mang tam
• Wei lung meng tan

Cut for a US R rating and further cut by the BBFC for cinema and VHS. The Unrated US Version was then passed uncut by the BBFC for 2007 DVD. Later the film was re-editted by Jackie Chan for the Hong Kong Market.

Summary Review: Not a Successful US Intro for Jackie Chan

Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni are sent to Hong Kong to investigate a kidnapping. Once in Hong Kong, the pair causes no end of trouble for both drug kingpin Mr. Ko and the local authorities.

It is open to debate but the Hong Kong seems to be generally preferred. See below.

Unrated

• 2012 Showbox/Cine Asia/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2007 Contender/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD

16s

• 1986 Warner VHS
• 1985 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com : 16s of MPAA cuts to violence:

• cuts to the shooting of the giant
• cuts to criminal being electrocuted on pinball machine
• cuts to shooting of Michael

Dissatisfied and immensely disappointed with the US Version, Jackie Chan went back and re-shot and added new sections of the film for the Hong Kong Version, including the addition of a whole new subplot. But he removed all of the nudity from his version.

See Rosemary's Killer

Psych-Out

• Psych Out

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1972 cinema release. Later uncut on VHS and DVD albeit with a missing scene on DVD. Similarly for the US MPAA Unrated release.

Summary Notes

Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose members include Stoney, Ben, and Elwood. They hide her from the fuzz in their crash pad, a Victorian house crowded with love beads and necking couples. Mumblin' Jim's truth-seeking friend Dave considers the band's pursuit of success "playing games," but he agrees to help Jennie anyway.

Unrated

• 2004 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2015 Olive Films DVD (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2015 Olive Films DVD R2 DVD at US Amazon

From IMDb. All DVD releases are missing a brief scene where Jenny tries on clothes in a hippie shop. This scene was present on all VHS versions.

• 1993 Missing in Action VHS

• 1990 RCA/Columbia VHS

• 1972 cinema release titled Psych Out

From IMDb. The BBFC cuts were:

• heavy edits to the yard fight between the workmen and the hippies.

Psychic Killer

• Killer Force
• The Kirlian Effect
• The Kirlian Force

Uncut by the BBFC for 18 rated 1978 cinema release and 2000 DVD. Pre-cut for 1992 VHS. Uncut and MPAA PG rated in the US.

Summary Notes

Mental patient Arnold Masters, hospitalized for a murder he didn't commit, learns astral projection--the art of leaving one's physical body and transporting the soul someplace else--from a fellow inmate. Upon his release, Arnold uses his new powers to bump off the people he holds responsible for his arrest, his mother's death while he was imprisoned and the price of meat! Lt. Morgan and Lt. Anderson are the cops on his trail, while his caring shrink, Dr. Scott, tries to prevent any more deaths.

MPAA

• 2000 Horror Video

• 1978 cinema release

• 2016 Vinegar Syndrome (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2008 Dark Sky Films R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

pre-cut
9s

• 1992 Vipco(2) VHS

The pre-cuts were:

• Cut to remove blood on the breasts in a shower murder

Psychic Killer II

See Island of Death

Psycho

Cut by the BBFC for cinema release but uncut for VHS. Separately cut for US release but these cuts have persisted into all worldwide DVD releases since.

cut

MPAA

• 2013 Universal Vol 1 [7 films] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Universal Masterpiece Collection R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 Universal Online
• 2010 Universal Blu-ray
• 2010 Universal DVD
• 2003 Universal DVD
• 1999 Columbia/TriStar DVD

US: The Reclassified R Rated Version was released for:

• 2017 Universal Psycho 1-4 Collection R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2014 Universal Steelbook R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2014 Universal R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2012 Universal Masterpiece Collection R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon

However from on article at movie-censorship.com it seems that TV versions shown on BBC and German RTL are more complete than worldwide cinema/DVD releases

In particular the extra footage:

• Norman Bates monitors Marion through the hole a bit longer. She takes off her bra, followed by another shot of Normans face in a close up. After that, we see Marion again, taking the bra off completely. [still preserving her modesty though]
• After Norman Bates has carried Marion's body out of the bathroom, the shot of him looking at his bloody hands is a bit longer. His bloodied hands make another re-appearance before he washes them in the bathroom

• 1998 cinema release
• 1986 CIC VHS

From cuts details on IMDb :

VHS releases are fully uncut. The shot of Marion removing her black bra before her shower which was removed by the US censors remained intact in the UK.

• 1960 cinema release

The BBFC cuts list read:

• Drastically reduce shots and sounds of girl being stabbed in shower; the deletions to include all shots of her breasts or navel.
• The shot of her doubled in the bath afterwards should also be removed.

Psycho II

The theatrical version was cut for gore. Uncut on DVD, but versions have been spotted with missing nudity

Summary Notes

Now declared legally sane, Norman Bates is released from a mental institution after spending 22 years in confinement over the protests of Marion Crane's sister Lila Loomis, who insists that he's still a killer and that the court's indifference to his victims by releasing him is a gross miscarriage of justice. Norman returns to his motel and the old Victorian mansion where his troubles started, and history predictably begins to repeat itself.

• 2017 Arrow Video RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2003 Universal DVD
• 1987 CIC VHS

No BBFC cuts  but DarkAngel reported that the scene where a voyeur is spying on Meg Tilly in the shower is missing flashes of (body double?) nudity

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2018 Universal RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2017 Universal Psycho 1-4 Collection R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2014 Universal 4 Movie Psychos R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2013 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

cut

• 1983 cinema release

From IMDb. Scenes of gore were shortened in the original theatrical version.

Always uncut in the UK and US
 

Always uncut in the UK and US
 

Psycho Lover

• The Psycho Lover
• 7 calze di seta insanguinate

Banned by the BBFC for 1971 cinema release. Cut in Australia for an R rated cinema release in 1978. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.

Summary Notes

A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife, but with a new twist: he will brainwash a patient he is treating into committing the crime.

See article from refused-classification.com which identifies the scenes likely to have offended film censors:

Two scenes at 2m and 14m involve Marco raping and killing women. The latter also shows him having sex with the body. Cuts would probably have been made to one or both of these attacks. Two other women are attacked at 34m and 77m, but neither result in onscreen rape or murder.

• 2003 IMAGE/Something Weird [The Psycho Lover + Heat of Madness] R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1978 cinema release

• 1971 cinema release

Psycho Puppet

• Delirium

Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Passed 18 after BBFC cuts for 1987 18 rated VHS. Not released in the UK since.

Summary Notes

An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.

This is one of the strangest and definitely one of the most atypical titles to be found in the whole list of infamous Video Nasties. The concept has potential but ends up being confusing and dull.

The first slasher half is rather exciting, with a couple of truly nasty murder sequences and the most laughably inept police investigation ever, but the second half is painfully tedious and derivative of much better films.

• VoD at YouTube titled Delirium
• VOD to rent/buy [US only] at US Amazon titled Delirium

• 1987 Global Sales VHS titled Psycho Puppet

The BBFC cuts were:

• To edit a scene of a topless woman being impaled with a spear.

• 1982 VTC VHS titled Delirium

The video was added to the DPP list of nasties in November 1983 but was later dropped in May 1985

Psychomania

• The Death Wheelers

Cut by the BBFC for 1972 X rated UK cinema release. Passed 15 uncut for 2016 DVD/Blu-ray. Cut and uncut versions exist is the US.

Summary review: Ridiculous

A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected.

This film is hindered by a weak script and quite apathetic acting, but somehow it's ridiculousness makes the film work.

Unrated

• 2016 Bfi R2 DVD/RB Blu-ray Combo at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2017 Arrow Special Edition (RA) Blu-ray/(R1) DVD Combo at US Amazon
• 2013 Cheezy R1 DVD
• 2010 Severin R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1972 cinema release

From Gary (see Blu-ray review from film.thedigitalfix.com ). The BBFC cuts were:

• Reel 1 - Remove the sequence showing the cyclists wrenching a car's wing mirrors off and breaking a car's windows.
• Reel 2 - Remove sequence where cyclists kick down a row of warning cones.
• Reel 4 - Shorten the sequence where a girl motor-cyclist runs down a pram in a super-market.

I presume these cuts were for antisocial behaviour the BBFC didn't want to encourage, even in a film passed for eighteens and over. In the last scene, the woman who is knocked over's knickers are visible, but I doubt the BBFC considered that sexualised violence.

The Psychopath

See The Killing Kind

Public Enemies

The Extended Version was passed 18 uncut for the Universal 2009 DVD/Blu-ray

Pudsey the Dog: the Movie

BBFC category cuts for a U rated 2014 cinema release

Summary Notes

A heartwarming, quintessentially British adventure for all the family, PUDSEY THE DOG: THE MOVIE follows cheeky London stray dog, Pudsey, who is quite happy being a lone ranger, looking out for number one, until he meets siblings Molly (Izzy Meikle-Small), George (Spike White) and Tommy (Malachy Knights). After losing their father, their mother Gail (Jessica Hynes) is moving the family to the sleepy village of Chuffington and Pudsey tags along, to the dismay of their landlord, Mr. Thorne (John Sessions), and his cat Faustus. As Pudsey starts to settle in with the family and realize what he was missing when he was alone, he stumbles across Thorne's evil plan and he determines to save them and the whole village.

• 2014 Entertainment One R2 DVD
• 2014 cinema release

• Company chose to remove a single use of mild bad language ('bugger') in order to obtain a U classification. An uncut PG classification was available.

• 2014 cinema release. Unreleased in favour of a cut U rated version

The film was originally passed PG uncut but the distributor preferred a cut version and so resubmitted the film with view to accepting cuts for a U

BBFC category cuts were required for a 12A cinema rating in 2015.

Summary Notes

A young man travels back in time machine to a fantasy kingdom to save its queen from the tyrant commander Sudeep.

• 2015 cinema release

• The distributor chose to remove sight of both a blood spurt and a bloody incision across the front of a throat-cutting victim's neck in order to achieve a 12A classification. The cut was made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy. A 15 uncut was available to the distributor.

BBFC cuts were required for 12A rated cinema release in 2016.

• 2016 cinema release

• Company chose to remove two moments of strong bloody violence (blade embedded in man's head, accompanied by blood spurt, and bloody bullet impact to chest) in order to achieve a 12A classification. A 15 classification was available without these cuts. Additionally, compulsory cuts were required to a scene of cockfighting.

Pulp Fiction

Uncut and 18 rated for UK cinema release. Cut for drugs use by the BBFC for VHS and DVD until 2008. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

See Case Study about Pulp Fiction from bbfc.co.uk

• 2014 Lionsgate RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 cinema release
• 2012 Lions Gate Tarentino XX (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Lions Gate RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Lions Gate R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2011 Lions Gate Online
• 1994 cinema release

The BBFC commented in the 2009 Annual Report:

Up to date advice suggests such specific visual details do not in themselves provoke a harmful response which would justify intervention at the adult category. In line with similar decisions in recent years, Pulp Fiction was passed at 18 without cuts.

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2012 Lions Gate Tarentino XX (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2011 Miramax/Lionsgate RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2011 Miramax/Lionsgate Award Winning Collection R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2002 Miramax Collector's Edition R1 DVD

• 2008 Buena Vista Collector's Edition R2 DVD
• 2008 Disney R2 DVD
• 2002 Buena Vista Collector's Edition R2 DVD
• 2001 Buena Vista R2 DVD
• 2000 Buena Vista VHS
• 1995 Buena Vista VHS

The BBFC explained: the cut:

The video of Pulp Fiction arrived for classification in April 1995. The scene involving the injecting of heroin by Vincent was more of a concern on video, where it could be replayed repeatedly and out of context.

3 seconds were reframed on the Buena Vista video versions of 1996 to remove a close up of heroin injection. The BBFC cut this on the grounds of potential harm to viewers: the injection image is known to be hypnotically seductive to some potentially addictive young people and is nearly an advertisement for the pleasures of heroin injection.

The BBFC requested the scene be reframed to ensure sight of the needle entering the vein was off-screen.

See  article from mashable.com :

A comment from a BBFC examiner speaking about censorship issues with the UK cinema release reveals BBFC examiners   profoundly disagree with the apparent decision of French censors to take out a shot of John Travolta high whilst driving his car after injecting heroin.

The Punisher

• El castigador

Exists as a Theatrical Version and an Extended Version but the Theatrical Version is preferred.

Summary Notes

Special agent Frank Castle had it all: A loving family, a great life, and an adventurous job. But when his life is taken away from him by a ruthless criminal and his associates, Frank has become reborn. Now serving as judge, jury, and executioner, he's a new kind of vigilante out to wage a one man war against those who have done him wrong.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com:

The Extended Version contains additional uncontentious plot lines but the result is described as simply too long.

• 2004 Columbia/Tri-Star Home video
• 2004 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2018 Lions Gate Home Entertainment RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2004 Lions Gate Home Entertainment R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2018 Lions Gate Home Entertainment Amazon Prime VoD [US only] at US Amazon

The Punisher

The Theatrical Version was cut in the US and further cut by the BBFC. The BBFC cuts were waived in 2013. Uncut in Germany

Australia

• De Laser Paradise R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Austria : Released uncut for:

• At XT-Video [Uncut + workprint] R0 DVD

Australia : Uncut and R18+ rated for frequent violence for:

• 2016 Umbrella (RB) Blu-ray

The scenes originally cut for a US R rating are restored to the film for this version but are mastered from a lower quality source.

Thanks to David who noted that the uncut version of The Punisher was shown on UK Spike TV in May 2017.

• At XT-Video [Uncut + workprint] R0 DVD

15s

• 2013 Anchor Bay RB Blu-ray
• 2013 Anchor Bay R2 DVD

From IMDb. The US MPAA cuts for an R Rating include:

• Sailor hand being chopped of by blade, on yacht (1 sec).
• Close-up shot of nanny's head (face) and body sliding down, after being shot (2 secs).
• Gangsters bodyguard being shot sitting down at restaurant, lots of blood (4 secs).
• Mr Franco shooting a guard at Tanaka's building, close-up of head shot (1 sec).
• The Punisher kicking a guard in the red room, we see his body fall through spikes (1 sec).

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

15s

• 1990 RCA/Columbia VHS
• 1990 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• An early fight is missing a double ear clap
• Two shots of men being hit in the throat by a thrown knife are missing
• Cuts to a scene showing Castle decimating a bar with a machine gun and grenades
• A fight in a restaurant is missing hands being pinned by blades
• Lady Triad putting a gun in a Mafioso's mouth and then pulling the trigger gives the impression of being cut to remove the results of the wound
• The scene of the Punisher breaking a girls neck has been shortened
• Various sights of weaponry are cut, including a spiked ball, a crossbow, a harpoon and blades in a shoe

Thanks to MM, May 2007: Zone Thriller

The version shown on Zone Thriller although longer than the BBFC version (restoring a few bits of violence & the lengthy destruction of the casino) it still lost among other things a few bits of violence on the boat. (Hand-severing, man hit with chain, harpoon to a mans eye & a shot of a spiked ball flying through the air before it hits another man)

Punjab 1984

BBFC category cuts for a 12A rated 2014 cinema release

• 2014 cinema release

• Company chose to reduce a scene of violence (a man's face being held down in sand, in order to suffocate him) in order to obtain a 12A classification. An uncut 15 classification was available.

Puppet on a Chain

• Alistair Maclean's Puppet on a Chain

A short version was passed 15 uncut with previous BBFC cuts restored for:

• 1999 Odyssey VHS

• 1970 cinema release

From IMDb. The cuts were:

• Some topless nudity
• shots of a man's bloody face during a hotel fight

The submitted running time was noted as 102:32s = 98:26s PAL

Puppetmaster

• Puppet Master

Cut for an MPAA R rating but the Unrated Version is uncut in the US. The Unrated Version was cut by the BBFC for VHS and the cut R rated version was released on UK DVD.

Summary Review: Great Fun

Neil Gallagher found the secret to Toulon's puppets who come to life and then killed himself. Alex and his psychic friends come to investigate and are stalked by Toulon's puppets who have a variety of strange traits including a drill for a head and the ability to spit up leeches.

My first thoughts as I inserted the disc was that it'd be a cheesy, laughable pile of 80's horror rubbish. So I was in for a pleasant surprise. If you can get past the initial presentation of the movie (it feels every bit as low-budget as it is), you'll find it to be creepy, intriguing, and above all, great fun.

The puppets themselves could have been a whole lot worse. The effects are hardly Lord Of The Rings, but through a strange combination of live-action and extremely well-animated stop-motion, the puppets don't make you cringe every time they show up on screen. They're probably better actors than some of the live actors even, it's difficult to tell who's more wooden. But it's hardly a character-driven story. It's an unusual story nonetheless, and it definitely interested me enough to watch it right through - and then pick up the first sequel!

• 2010 Razor [2D + 3D] R1 DVD at US Amazon

1:35s

• 2000 Film 2000 R2 DVD
• 2000 Film 2000 VHS

US: Cut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2018 Full Moon Pictures (R0) Blu-ray/(R0) DVD Combo
• 2010 Wizard R1 DVD

The R rated US version is 1:35s shorter than the unrated release. See pictorial cuts details for the R rated version from movie-censorship.com :

• The aftermath of Andre Toulon shooting himself is shorter
• Frank and Megan have less sex whilst Blade is watching
• Detailed look at Dana's neck wound is missing
• 3 punches where Neil hits Alex in the face are missing
• Less detail as Tunneler burrows into Neil's leg
• Less detail of Neil's severed fingers
• Less detail of Neil being cut into by Blade & Tunneler
• A scene showing a leech emerging from woman and entering Neil's mouth is missing

Thanks to MM who confirms that the Zone Horror Channel have been showing the film uncut. Perhaps now the BBFC are ready to pass the film uncut

• 1989 EIV VHS

From IMDb :

• Cut by 3s to remove a brief shot of a woman's breasts after her top was ripped away during the elevator dream sequence.

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

Cut by the BBFC for 1960 cinema release and the cuts have persisted into all releases since.

Summary Notes

The hellions of St. Trinians are recruited to a sheik's harem. Little does he know what he's letting himself in for.

best
available

submitted
99:06s =95:08s

• 2007 Optimum/Studiocanal R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1988 Warner VHS
• 1960 cinema release

Thanks to Vincenzo. The BBFC cuts were:

• Reel 3 – Shorten the striptease in the school hall.
• Reel 5 – Shorten the striptease in the night club.

Pure Luck

• Danger public

BBFC category cuts were required for 1992 VHS. The cuts were waived for PG rated DVD in 2016. Uncut and MPAA PG rated in the US.

Summary Notes

The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl...

MPAA

• 2016 Media Sales UK [Previous cuts waived] video

• 2009 Universal Pictures R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1992 CIC VHS

Pussy Talk

• Le sexe qui parle
• Talk
• The Sex Who Talks

The softcore version was banned by the BBFC for 1976 cinema release but given a GLC London certificate. Later the softcore version was further cut for 2000 DVD.

Summary Review: Good piece of cinema

Le Sexe Qui Parle is in that rare class of rather famous films which actually happen to be really good pieces of cinema. Penelope Lamour stars as a woman who discovers that her vagina has developed both a life and voice of its own. This soon becomes a problem for not only her, but her philanthropist husband as well...As the vagina becomes more and more vocal (no pun intended), it ends up causing more and more trouble.

Narratively speaking, Le Sexe Qui Parle is flawed with a fair amount of noticeable continuity errors, and the rushed ending does leave a bit to be desired in terms of resolution of the plot.

On the other hand, technically speaking, Le Sexe...has the look of any classy French production, hardcore or otherwise, from the period. The cinematography and general look of the film are both first rate, and the original musical score is quite an incredible mix of easy listening pieces and classy jazz/disco sounding tunes.

• 2000 New Vibration/Eurotika R0 DVD

The BBFC commented:

Cuts required to remove details of sexual assault.

• 1976 cinema release

The Pussycat Syndrome

• Orgia stin Kerkyra

The 1988 Electric video is an abridged version of the cinema version that was cut by 14s

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

See review from IMDb : Terrific fun

The Pussycat Syndrome is terrific fun, an exploitation film that is highly enjoyable from beginning to end that does not insult the intelligence of the viewer. Ajita Wilson and Tina Eklund are a perfect pair of opposites cast as fashion models who, in between assignments, decide to travel around sunny Greece, picking up male hitchhikers, swimming nude, meeting a rich man and his frigid artist wife and having a torrid lesbian three-way with the aforementioned wife, suddenly no longer frigid -- the usual antics one would expect in Greece. There's also a beauty contest in which Ms. Wilson is a shoo-in while Ms. Eklund spends 90 percent of the film stark naked, and boy does she look terrific this way! Both actresses turn in effortlessly good performances. Clearly they were having fun during the filming. There are two hardcore scenes in the uncut version of the film, one of which has our two heroines and their two current men of the hour having lots of carnal fun while the track "Let's Do It" playfully romps in the background. A more romantic, piano-based theme is played often on the soundtrack and it is very pleasing to the ear. No, this is not a deep, intellectual viewing experience, but if you are looking for fun for fun's sake, you can't go wrong with this film. Enjoy!

Pussycats Paradise

• The Nudist Story
• For Members Only

UK: A short version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2012 Cornerstone R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: released for

• R0 DVD at US Amazon

• 1960 cinema release

Film cuts restored in 2006 for a 15 rated video/DVD