BBFC Cuts S: Sb-Sm

Scandal

From cuts details on IMDb

Upon its original UK release, the chief censor at the BBFC claimed to be able to see a couple in the background of an orgy scene who were actually having sex on top of a piano. Although the footage was not clear enough to confirm this, the scene had to be optically blurred to cover up the offending genitalia!

Three are 3 US versions of the video/DVD:

• complete 114 min. unrated version
• slightly edited 111 min. unrated version
• heavily cut 105 min. R-rated version

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

Scandalized!

See Satanic Sluts III: Scandalized

Scandalous Photos

• Photos Scandale

The 2009 Nucleus DVD was passed 18 uncut by the BBFC

Scar

• Blizna 3D

A 3D version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2009 Universal R2 DVD

• UK 2009 Universal R2 DVD

The 2D version is shorter as it omits some of the special effects showing off the 3D but irrelevant in 2D. Note that some of these omissions are in gore scenes. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• UK 2008 cinema release

Scare their Pants Off!

including Satan's Bed

Composite DVD with 2 features and many trailers cut in 2005 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts were made to remove trailers for The Sin Syndicate and Prostitutes Protection Society, in addition to cuts in the feature itself.  Cuts required to remove images which may endorse or eroticise sexual violence.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US: Indian sacrifice

The extras are a good selection of trailers and short subjects, the most notable being a 40 minute story of a NYC prostitute which is sleazy and oddly compelling at the same time.

Scarecrows

• Paratrooper

Uncut version is available at:

1988 US horror by William Wesley with Ted Vernon and Michael David Simms. See IMDb

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2007 MGM R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Claustrophobic tension

Five people heist the Camp Pendleton payroll, kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows.

Scarecrows is basically a glorified zombie movie, and pretty much plays out like one as the characters are picked off by their unworldly adversaries. The fact that the entire film takes place in what appears to be real time and in only one location ensures that it benefits from a claustrophobic tension, which benefits a film like this greatly. Truly frightening and a wonderful horror film.

3:57s

R Rated

• UK 2007 Blackhorse/Cornerstone R2 DVD

3:57s

R Rated

• UK 1991 Polygram VHS
• UK 1989 Lazer VHS
• UK 1989 cinema release

Scarface

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Universal RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2004 Universal R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2000 Colmbia/TriStar R2 DVD
• UK 1994 CIC VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Universal RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2003 Universal R1 DVD at US Amazon

The director had a battle to get his final version passed R rather than the NC-17 the MPAA offered on the first 3 submissions. De Palma won an appeal and released his final cut of the film with an R Rating. There are still suggestions that more violent footage was made, but dropped earlier during the editing process.

Summary Review: Masterpiece

Scarface is a 23 year old masterpiece directed by Brian de Palma and is so influential that it defined a decade in some ways, in terms of the fashion that main character Tony Montana (Al Pacino) wore and the music and the era of the drug industry that also defined the 80s.

This is a film that certainly glorifies violence and creates a cool guy who is also a real nasty piece of work, the film is iconic with great quotable lines and a new generation has embraced this fully, so its legacy is safe and in terms of being a masterpiece, yes this is clearly one of the great movies of all time.

• UK 1987 CIC VHS
• UK 1984 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• The chainsaw sequence was cut and the line: And now the leg...

Scars of Dracula

Down classified to 15 for versions submitted in 2002 and 2006 (Optimum Releasing)

From IMDb

The UK cinema version was cut by the BBFC to remove a scene of Dracula lapping blood from Tania's chest wound, footage of Tania's dismembered limbs and a shortening of the Priest's scarred face during the bat attack.

A further BBFC-requested cut to the torture of Klove with a poker was waived after the distributors made a music edit instead.

The cuts have never turned up in any print to date and may no longer survive.

Schizo

• Amok
• Blood of the Undead

uncut

The BBFC waived its cuts when resubmitted on DVD in 200

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from IMDb: Psychological Terror Twists

Pete Walker and his loyal scriptwriter David McGillivray were pretty much England's most controversial duo of filmmakers back in the glorious seventies. Opposite to Hammer's and Amicus' successful but politically correct horror movies, these two provided the British (and other) genre fans with provocative and violent films, stuffed with social criticism and obscene undertones.

Their movies ("Frightmare", "House of Whipcord"...) aren't genius, but at least they always have originality and a handful of effective shock-moments. Same goes for this "Schizo", which remarkably blends an innovating slasher premise with some of the genre's oldest and most delightful clichés.

"Schizo" basically is a simplistic horror movie (up till a certain point, at least), but it's praiseworthy how Walker & McGillivray make efforts to throw in psychological terror twists. The extended fright-scenes are well mounted and the make up effects are quite nasty despite the low budget production values. As usual in Pete Walker's movies, there's a twisted and very ingenious shock ending that marvellously illustrates the director's aversion to political correctness.

Highly recommended!

Thanks to Salote:

• At 0 min - During opening voice-over, suggestion that schizophrenia makes its victims violent was removed. This was achieved by removing the words "violent and":
  
  "Schizophrenia, a mental disorder sometime know as multiple or split personality, characterised by loss of touch with environment and alternation between violent and contrasting behaviour patterns."
  
  So that the text should now read -
  
  "...and alternation between contrasting behaviour patterns."
   
• At 12 mins - In flashback of man on train, sight of knife slashing stomach of bare-breasted woman after she leans back on bed screaming.
   
• At 74.5 mins - When mallet hits woman's head as she waits for bus, two shots of her face covered in blood were removed (offscreen blows remained). After second blow with mallet in vision, four more shots of bloody face before she sinks to the ground were removed.
   
• At 83.5 mins - Sight of needle emerging from head next to woman's eyes was removed (needle entering back of head and initial turn of head remained).
   
• At 84.5 mins - Close up of needle sticking out of side of dead woman's eye was removed (MS as camera pulls away may remained).
   
• At 95 mins - When woman has flashback of mother copulating, all sight of her bottom being slapped during sex and also of her in suspender belt with legs wrapped around man (before child watches from door) were removed.
   
• At 96 mins - Attack on woman's bare stomach was reduced to minimum establishment only, removing knife slashes and stabbing of stomach and all prodding and slashing of blood-stained torso, resuming on child hitting offscreen.

Thanks to Salote:

• Reel 5 - Shots of knife slashing across naked woman's stomach in flashback killing of mother by her daughter were considerably reduced.

The packaging for Image's 2001 US DVD release retains the controversial tag-line that was dropped from the film's UK theatrical campaign following complaints from mental health organizations: Schizophrenia...when the left hand doesn't know who the right hand is killing!

Scooby-Doo

• Scooby Doo

2001 cinema release and 2002 DVDs all cut by 1s: Distributor chose to remove sight of potentially imitable martial arts techniques (kicks to head). A '12' uncut was available to the distributor.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Schoolgirl Hitchhikers

• Jeunes filles impudiques
• High School Hitch Hikers

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2010 Redemption R1 DVD  at US Amazon

Summary Review: Fairy tale

Said to have a fairy tale feel to the mixture of jewel heist and softcore sex and plenty of nudity.

Summarised as fun exploitation

Passed 18 after 56s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2010 Salvation R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Compulsory cuts were required to remove sight of a restrained woman being beaten on the breasts and stomach with a cane
• and to remove sight of the same woman's breasts being twisted.

Score

Uncut version is available at:

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2010 Cult Epics R0 Bu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2010 Cult Epics R0 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Period Piece

Liberated '70s couple seduce another couple into experimentation with bisexuality and group-sex.

The film calls for sexual liberation and it a fun look at sex and dialog of the stoned 70's. In the UNCUT version of Score Gerald Grant and Cal Culver (Casey Donovan of gay porn fame) engage in explicit, X-rated sexual activity.

The bi-sexual theme may not sit well with a lot of folks and perhaps that is what makes the film so special and is is part of the enduring charm. People have trouble with non-traditional sex (particularly for men).

Artfully photographed by Metzger himself and veteran cinematographer Franjo Vodopivec on location in Yugoslavia, has clever dialogue which removes outmoded notions of sexual parameters from the start.

This movie was WAY ahead of its time with some great erotic scenes, plenty of nudity and drug references. The lead actress (Claire Wilbur) is marvelous in her role as Elvira, the swinging married seductress. Lynn Lowry is quite convincing in her role as an innocent newlywed catholic school girl turned wild sexpot!

All in all, this movie is great fun to watch. It is an extremely enjoyable and often shocking piece of erotic cinema.

From IMDb:

• Missing almost all instances of male frontal nudity (while keeping male rear-views and all female nudity intact

Unknown version banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1974 cinema release

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove explicit images of clearly unsimulated sex, masturbation and cunnilingus

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove an instance of explicit sexual detail (unsimulated and clear sight of fellatio)

The Scorpion King

The 2002 cinema release was cut: The distributor sought and was given advice during post-production which resulted in the removal, prior to formal submission, of a headbutt delivered by the hero to the villain in a climactic fight sequence.

The subsequent 2002 Universal DVD releases were the same version

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

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

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

Scrapbook

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2005 Image R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

There is also an uncut European Crypt Keeper R0 DVD

From Sex Gore mutants: Twisted

'Scrapbook' is a low budget insular piece that looks into the mind of a serial killer and his unlucky victim. The scrapbook of the title is one that twisted Leonard (Tommy Biondo) has been working on for some time, it's a collection of polariods and pieces of deranged memorabilia that he's built up from years of brutal slayings. His victim this time round is the luckless Clara (Emily Haack) who he delights in degrading at every opportunity - beating, raping and torturing her over and over again.

'Scrapbook' is without a doubt one of the most brutal and horrifying films ever released...period. In fact I doubt there has ever been a film so scarily close to the bone in perfectly depicting the real terrifying intensity of the psyche of a serial killer.

I could wax lyrically for ages about just how jaw-droppingly stunning this film is but I wont. All I would say is that if you think you've got the stomach to sit through this one then waste no time in doing so. Powerful, provocative and gut wrenchingly disturbing - the must see independent horror movie of the year.

• UK 2003 Crypt Keeper R0 DVD

The BBFC commented when cutting the film in 2003:

Cuts required to remove sexual assault and humiliation, and sexualised violence

• 15:43s-18:24s. Remove in its entirety scene in which woman is raped and degraded, from forcible stripping through to, and including, sight of man urinating on woman.
• 53:21s-67:20s. Remove in their entirety the following consecutive scenes: humiliation of woman in the shower (including enforced stripping and photographs take); extended sexual humiliation and rape of woman. Remove also the subsequent repeat footage of shower scene (intervening shots of scrapbook may remain). Sight of man drilling door may remain.
• 84:30s-85:40s. Remove all sight of woman running knife across man's chest and penis., ending after wounds inflicted on chest.

Scream

A Danish Version features the Director's Cut/Unrated Version for:

• Dk Scanbox R2 DVD

~20s

R Rated

• UK 1998 Buena Vista R2 DVD
• UK 1998 Buena Vista VHS
• UK 1997 Buena Vista VHS
• UK 1997 cinema release

The R Rated Version was cut by about 20s in the US to avoid an NC-17 Rating:

• Casey's boyfriend's guts spill out in the uncut version, in the cut version there is only a view of the result
• Casey hanging from the tree is shown with half the frames cut out in the R-rated cut
• There is a missing brief shot of the girl getting her head crushed in the garage door
• Kenny, Gale's camera-man looks up with blood spurting out of his neck after having his throat slashed in the uncut version
• The 2 murderers originally stab more into each other with blood splashing onto the floor

Scream Blacula Scream

• Blacula II
• Blacula Is Beautiful
• Blacula Lives Again!
• The Name Is Blacula

The Video releases of 1998 (Cinram) and 2008 (Optimum) are uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

See review from IMDb: Sequel Worth Seeing

The members of the Count Dracula Society were on to something when they voted Blacula the scariest (theatrical) film of 1972.

Scream Blacula Scream proved a worthy follow-up. The voodoo angle was a logical next step, and, for a kid whose preference was for fright films, it did not disappoint.

And it STILL doesn't: I caught this one on a cable channel not too long ago, and I was surprised at how creepy it still is, after all these years. Pam Grier's character here is more sympathetic than the vast majority of the parts she's had over the years, and she is more than capable in the role.

William Marshall is as majestic as ever. The direction is even better than in the original. All told, a sequel worth seeing.

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 95:47s = 91:57s

Cut by 4:35s when DVD submitted in 2008: The distributor chose to cut eleven shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (oral-genital contact during cunnilingus, oral-genital contact during fellatio, oral-anal contact, penetration of the vagina by penis, penetration of the anus by penis and liquid resembling ejaculate on a female performer's face). An 'R18' without cuts was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove sight of explicit sexual detail (ejaculate on face and digital penetration)

Released when more liberal R18 guidelines were in force

Season of the Witch

• Hungry Wife
• Jack's Wife

The Video Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2008 Anchor Bay DVD

From version details on IMDb:

Originally filmed and released in 1971 under the title Hungry Wives which ran at 130 minutes, the movie was re-edited for foreign distribution and re-released as Jack's Wife a year later, running at 104 minutes. In response to George A. Romero's successful release of Creepshow in 1982, Jack's Wife was released on home video as Season of the Witch with the running time trimmed further to 89 minutes.

• 1994 Redemption VHS

Secondhand Lions

The cuts were reinstated for the 12 rated 2004 DVDs

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Secret Games

BBFC cuts were waived for the 2008 Pegasus DVD

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 2 DVD is available via US Amazon

The Secret Life of Bees

The Theatrical Version was passed 12/12A without cuts for the 2008 cinema release and 2009 20th Century Fox DVD

There also exists a Director's Cut.

Secret of Bruce Lee

See Bruce Lee: True Story

The Secret of Dorian Gray

• Dorian Gray
• Il Dio chiamato Dorian

The Italian release featuring the Long Version is uncut for:

• It Raro R2 DVD at UK Amazon

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

• US Raro R0 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 1999 Polygram VHS

• UK 1982 VideoForm VHS

The version is said to be missing much of the sexual content

The Long Version was passed X (18) uncut for:

• UK 1973 cinema release

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Company chose to remove sight of unsimulated sexual activity (cunnilingus, penetration with dildo and finger)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to make a cut to remove sight of clearly unsimulated fellatio

Secrets of a Call Girl

• Anna, quel particolare piacere
• Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment

The BBFC cut the 1974 cinema release.

The submitted running time was noted as 100:11s = 96:11s

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Secrets of a Door to Door Salesman

• Naughty Wives

No BBFC cuts noted to the 1986 video from Stablecane

Secrets of a Windmill Girl

Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Odeon Slap & Tickle Double Bill R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• UK 1966 cinema release

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 86:00s = 82:34s PAL

Secrets of Death Room

See Love Me Deadly

Secrets of Sex

• Bizarre
• Erotic Tales from Mummy's Tomb
• Tales of the Bizarre

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2009 Odeon R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Promotional material from UK Amazon

The first DVD release of this bizarre journey through the battle of the sexes. Released UNCUT for the first time. Digitally remastered from the original negatives in original widescreen ratio.

Directed by acclaimed exploitation filmmaker Antony Balch. Celebrated filmmaker Antony Balch directs one of the most idiosyncratic and unforgettable British movies of all time the film the censor tried to stop!

From beyond the grave, a 1,000-year-old mummy (voiced by Valentine Dyall) narrates a series of kinky stories to illustrate the age-old battle of the sexes. From cosmic thrills, supernatural kinks and swinging permissiveness, this is boy versus girl in a hip, psychedelic mix of vintage glamour and grotesque horror.

The submitted  running time was noted as 86:11s = 82:44s PAL

Seed of Chucky

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

US: The Fully Extended Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2007 Universal R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

68s

R Rated

• UK 2009 Momentum Online
• UK 2005 Momentum R2 DVD
• UK 2005 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• The Theatrical Version replaces an unexplicit shot of Chucky's fist masturbating, with an upper body shot.
• An uncontroversial scene is missing near the end when Jennifer Tilly is spotted by her daughter dragging away the maid she has just murdered.

Cut by 25s when submitted in 2008: Distributor chose to remove all sight of unsimulated sexual activity (in this case oral / genital contact ). An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor.

A Serbian Film

• Srpski film

See trailer from youtube.com

Best available at:

2010 Serbia adult horror by Srdjan Spasojevic.
With Srdjan Todorovic and Sergej Trifunovic. See IMDb

US: Invincible Pictures have a announced A Very Limited Edition uncut DVD release on 22nd May 2012

Denmark: The Danish release on the Cinematic Vision label is uncut but has no English subtitles for the Serbian soundtrack

• December 2010 - April 2011: Rejected by the Classification Board, cut, rejected, cut some more and then passed R18 after similar cuts to the UK release
• September 2010 - The R18 certificate was challenged by the government and the film was banned by the Review Board
• Current Status: Banned in Australia

Norway: Banned

See article from tnp.no

Norwegian Media Authority (Mediatilsynet) banned A Serbian Film because it contains violence with the sexualisation of children. Ove Wathne of Mediatilsynet told daily Dagens Naeringsliv that it is usually an ingredient that provides a basis for an assessment of the Authority.

In Norway films are self rated by the distributors. The Norwegian media censors step in on demand, presumably in response to complaints or controversy.

best
available

• US 2011 Invincible RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2011 Invincible R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The cuts are:

• cuts to the newborn baby scene
• cuts to the hooded sex scene revealed as incest

• UK 2011 Revolver Blu-ray
• UK 2011 Revolver R2 DVD
• UK 2010 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

Cuts required to remove portrayals of children in a sexualised or abusive context and images of sexual and sexualised violence which have a tendency to eroticise or endorse the behaviour. Cuts made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy.

These include cuts to the juxtaposition of images of children with sexual and sexually violent material. Although the Board does not regard these images as likely to contravene the Protection of Children Act 1978, the Guidelines state that intervention is most likely with, amongst other things, portrayals of children in a sexualised or abusive context.

See also BBFC case study from sbbfc.co.uk

See also full entry for Video Hits: A Serbian Film, including

• BBFC Extended Classification Information
• BBFC Cuts List
• Melon Farmers Review

The Serpent and the Rainbow

• Wes Craven's Serpent and the Rainbow

Passed 18 after 5s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2001 Universal R2 DVD
• UK 1988 CIC VHS

The BBFC commented:

• Cut required to sight of real animal cruelty (cock fighting)

• UK 1988 cinema release

Set it Off

The Theatrical Version was submitted for the 1996 cinema release, the 1997 EIV video/DVD and the 2008 Warner DVD. This was passed 15 without BBFC cuts.

There is also an inconsequential Director's Cut.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The Director's Cut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The Director's Cut US Blu-ray is available via UK Amazon

Seul Contre Tous

• I stand Alone

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2001 Strand R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• UK 2000 Alliance Atlantis VHS
• UK 1999 cinema release

The cuts for the cinema version were described by Michael Brooke as follows:

The sequence in question sees the butcher visit a cinema to watch a hard-core porno film that contains two sequences featuring a man and a woman clearly having penetrative sex (one in extreme close-up). He then leaves, returns to his flat, is taunted by his pregnant girlfriend and ends up punching her repeatedly in the stomach until she aborts their baby. All this is accompanied by near-continuous voice-over narration, which is quietly philosophical during the porno film, and violently aggressive during the subsequent assault (Your baby is hamburger meat now being a typical example).

And what makes the BBFC decision even more bizarre is the fact that instead of cutting the sex scene entirely, they opted for a Japanese-style blurring of the image, which makes absolutely no sense since not only is it still blindingly obvious what's going on, it also beggars belief that anyone watching the rest of the film (which in addition to the abortion sequence also features close-ups a young girl spurting gouts of blood from her neck, brains being splattered all over the floor and a voice-over consisting of near-continuous misogynist, homophobic and racist abuse) could possibly be disturbed by what must in fact be one of the *least* disturbing scenes in the film!

Seval

The BBFC passed the original version 15 uncut for the  2009 Ayngaran DVD

Se7en

Definitely not cut by the BBFC but there was a recent discussion in the news groups suggesting that the film had been slightly trimmed by the MPAA to achieve and R rating. This was then the version submitted in the UK. The cuts were apparently to the 'Lust' scene.

But Purdip adds:

I believe these cuts are unlikely, as the Criteriion Laserdisc version is 'R' rated and they certainly would have collaborated with David Fincher without hesitation to release the unrated version of the film as always.

7 Commandments of Kung Fu

• Seven Commandments of Kung Fu
• Gong fu qi jie
• Gung fu chat gaai

The 1982 cinema release, 1986 Xtasy video and 2003 DVD were all similarly cut  by the BBFC

The Seventh Curse

• Yuan Zhen-Xia yu Wei Si-Li
• Dr. Yuen and Wisely

The dubbed English version was passed 18 after 17s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1998 MIA VHS

The BBFC cut the film as follows:

• A woman is seen cutting her breasts with a knife. Both the knife cut and the resulting bleeding has been removed.

Note that there are 3 alternates ends available with edits for bervity.

• UK 1998 MIA VHS

Cuts as per the English Version

Severance

From Film Threat Writer James Moran interviewed by Jay Slater

I really expected the film to be cut, let alone to get an 18. I knew that the producers really wanted the film to get a 15 because it's a lot easier to sell.

The very first cut we did was two hours long and had lots and lots of violence: that torture scene went on for ages and it was really explicit. At two hours, the film was obviously too long and we trimmed it down so it ran far smoother.

When the movie was trimmed in the editing room, the torture scene was shorter, and as you don't see as much, it made it even more disturbing. If you focus on a gore effect for too long, it doesn't look realistic. So we kept much of the gore off screen.

The BBFC went for a split vote for Severance to be a 15 or 18. It ended up being a very hard 15 or a very, very close to being 18 with snips.

[Statement from the BBFC. We saw an unfinished version of Severance and told the company that it was borderline 15/18. They took it away, removed about seven minutes and then formally submitted it. It got a straightforward 15 because they'd toned it down from the original cut].

Can we expect a far more gruesome director's cut on DVD when it's launched in December 2006?

I don't think so. I think Chris is happy with the way it is and there wasn't that much gore that was cut out in the first place. As I said earlier, if more violence is added to the torture scene, it won't appear to be realistic.

Severed Ways

• Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America

The BBFC cut the the 2009 Soda DVD by 3s: Company removed a shot showing a dog being hit with a flaming stick and the dog's coat catching fire.

Sewage baby

• The Suckling

Unofficial pre-cuts of 25:30s with an additional 3:56s cut by the BBFC

Unofficial pre-cuts of 17:00s with an additional 10:15s cut by the BBFC

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The distributor chose to make a cut to sexual detail (clear sight of unsimulated oral-genital contact)

The BBFC cut 46s when submitted in 2008: The cuts were to the sight of clearly unsimulated sexual activity. An uncut R18 was available.

The hardcore original runs at 91:53s so at least 10:02s has been cut or pre-cut

Sex and the City

• Sex and the City: The Movie

The Extended Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for the 2008 Entertainment in Video DVD.

Sex and the City is a romantic comedy based on the well-known and long-standing television series of the same name. The film follows the romantic exploits and shopping forays of Carrie Bradshaw, a New York City based writer, and her three friends – Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. It was passed 15 for strong language, sex and sex references.

The BBFC Guidelines at 15 permit frequent use of strong language (e.g. 'fuck'). That particular term is used about half a dozen times in the film, with a couple of additional variations.

The BBFC Guidelines at 15 also state that sexual activity may be portrayed but without strong detail and that there may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour. The film contains four significant sex scenes; all are quite short and one involves three people. Although we see vigorous thrusting and some breast nudity, the sequences are sufficiently brief and lacking in detail to be allowed at 15 in this case. In one scene that doesn't involve any sexual activity there is a brief sight of a flaccid penis. The numerous strong verbal sex references in the film fall fairly and squarely within 15 classification category parameters.

The extra material is non-contentious.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The Extended Version region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The Extended Version region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Sex and the Other Woman

• The Other Woman

The 2009 Odeon DVD is uncut and sourced from the director's own archive

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

There is also a US DVD that has been re-edited (and shortened) for American tastes. The UK DVD is preferred.

See version details at gavcrimson.blogspot.com

Something seems amiss with this cuts timing info as it doesn't stack up with other versions

The original submitted running time was 87:37s = 84:07s

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to cut a shot of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (penetration of distended vagina by finger). An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor

Sex and Zen

• Rou pu tuan zhi tou qing bao jian

Cut in 2007 with the following BBFC statement: Compulsory cuts required to two scenes of sexual violence in order to remove elements of nudity and violence that tend to eroticise or endorse sexual assault.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Sex and Zen 2

• Yu pu tuan II: Yu nu xin jing
• Sex and Zen II

Passed 18 after 3:19s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1998 MIA VHS

From IMDb:

• edits to rape and sexual violence

Sex Beast: Idol of Darkness

• Inju nerawareta idol
• Idol of Darkness

Cut by the BBFC in 2003 with the following statement:

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

Sex Clinic

• Clinic Exclusive
• Clinic Xclusive
• With These Hands...

The BBFC passed the 2008 Odeon DVD 18 without cuts but this 1:21s shorter than expected. The BBFC noted the title as With These Hands... but the DVD sleeve uses the title Sex Clinic

The original running time was noted as 91:05s (87:26s)

Sex Drive

The 2009 Contender DVD identified as the Extended Version is the uncut US unrated version. The BBFC explained their 15 certificate:

Sex Drive is a comedy based upon a road trip taken by friends Ian, Lance and Felicia, as the former travels to a rendezvous with a woman he met on the internet. She has promised to have sex with him if he comes to see her and, as a virgin, he is keen to take up her offer. The work was classified at '15' for use of one use of very strong language, strong nudity, sex and sex references.

The use of very strong language occurs in a final fight scene between two women. BBFC's guidelines at '15' require that the use of very strong language be justified by context and this single use, said by a woman to a woman was felt to fit these criteria. The work also contains frequent use of strong language.

This version of Sex Drive contains frequent images of full-frontal male and female nudity, including close-ups on women's breasts. The nudity is intended to titillate, but is not sexual in context, so fits within BBFC Guidelines at '15', which state that nudity may be allowed in a sexual context but without strong detail.

Sex references include strong references to coprophilia, masturbation and plenty of ribald banter between the young characters about sex. There are also two sex scenes involving one of the main characters, where we see him indulging in unusual sexual practices. At '15', Guidelines state that Sexual activity may be portrayed but without strong detail and 'There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour.'

Finally, there is some moderate violence during a scene where Ian and his friends are confronted by the film's villains, including a comic moment where a character is shot in the leg.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

We are treated to a real Unrated this time, indicated by the enormous running time difference of over 20 minutes! From the very first minute we know that this won't be the usual kind of Unrated Version, since the movie starts with an introduction by the director and the producer making fun of the various conventions of Unrated Versions...only to present breasts and genitals in its purest form just a moment later.

The movie itself then provides everything the viewer could ask for: numerous extensions of nude shots and sex scenes as well as whole new footage, cruder dialogue, audio changes containing fouler language as well as random fart noises or simply naked women and genitals pasted into the movie just for the hell of it. Outtakes are used in the movie itself as well.

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

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

11:28s pre-cut

Cut by the BBFC in 2008 Distributor chose to remove sexual detail (in this case, clearly unsimulated cunnilingus) in order to obtain an '18'. An 'R18' uncut was available to the distributor.

Rejected for an R18 in 1999 when the BBFC were being inconsistent with their treatment of hardcore

Passed R18 uncut in 2000 after the BBFC had revised their guidelines to allow hardcore

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case, oral-genital contact). An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Company chose to remove sight of oral sex, in order to attain the requested category. An uncut certification was available

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to cut explicit sexual detail (unsimulated vaginal penetration)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Company chose to remove images of explicit sexual activity (in this case, sight of unsimulated cunnilingus)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts for requested 18 required to remove explicit sexual detail (clear sight of unsimulated vaginal penetration)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to make cuts to sight of explicit sexual detail (cunnilingus and vaginal penetration with a dildo)

Sex Play

See The Bunny Caper

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cut required to display of premium rate phone numbers which did not include call charge information

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to clear sight of oral-genital contact during scenes of cunnilingus

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. The distributor chose to remove a scene including sexual detail (clear sight of unsimulated oral-genital contact)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to the sight of clearly unsimulated cunnilingus

Cut when submitted in 2007 with the following BBFC statement: Distributor chose to remove sight of clearly unsimulated sexual detail (cunnilingus, penile and dildo penetration and sustained masturbation). An uncut R18 was available to the distributor.

The Sex Thief

• Handful of Diamonds (US X rated version)
• Her Family Jewels

The BBFC passed the video uncut in 1995

The film was released in the US as Handful of Diamonds with hardcore inserts featuring body doubles.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb

• Cuts were made to close ups of the opening sex scene featuring the naked dancing woman. Licking a guys chest was too much for the censor as was simulated fellatio.
• Also the inter-cutting between a further sex scene and a wrestling match.
• The films speeded up sex scene was also reduced.
• A sex scene involving handcuffs was reduced

35:00s unofficial pre-cuts with a further 4:30s cut by the BBFC

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove three scenes of unsimulated sexual activity (oral-genital contact and penetration) to achieve the 18 category. An uncut R18 was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts were required to the sight of topless female performers fondling each other in a London taxi and on a London street

The Sexplorer

• Diary of a Space Virgin

An unknown version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1986 Tower VHS

• UK 1976 cinema release under titles The Sexplorer and Diary of a Space Virgin

The submitted running time was noted as 85:16s = 81:51s

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to cut explicit sexual detail

Sexual Freedom in Denmark

• Dansk sexualitet
• Sensual Freedom in Denmark

The cinema release was banned by the BBFC in 1972

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

See review from IMDb: Insightful

This movie is about the morality, education, and responsibilities pertaining to sexual freedom. Not only that, it has the most amazing child birth sequence that could and should be used as a training tool and viewed by anyone that is interested in the miracle of child birth.

This very insightful movie should be shown in school sex education programs internationally along with material already being presented in that forum, and is and all around must see for anyone deemed mature enough. It is a great introduction to various pertinent aspects in the sexual arena. It's delightful!

The Sexual Life of Belgians

Scene (set in 1968) where a schoolteacher demonstrates to her class how to make a Molotov cocktail has been deleted.

The BBFC censored the title of this one. The original title, Sexual Intruder was considered as constituting a sexual threat.

In addition all the hardcore shots have been completely eliminated.

27:22s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 8s cut by the BBFC

The BBFC cut 15s in 2008: Distributor chose to make cuts to remove apparently unsimulated oral-genital contact in order to achieve an '18' classification. An uncut 'R18' classification was available.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove explicit sexual detail from an adult work in order to achieve an 18 category (in this instance, sight of explicit masturbation and vaginal penetration),

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Distributor was required to remove the line of dialogue "choke on it" during the depiction of fellatio

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cuts for requested 18 category required to remove explicit sexual detail (liquid resembling semen on woman's face and sight of man's fingers penetrating woman's vagina)

Sexy Sisters

• Die Teuflischen Schwestern
• The Devilish Sisters

Cut when submitted in 2004 with the following statement: A cut was required to remove an unambiguous rape scene where the principal character is raped by a man who raped her as a child, referring to her enjoyment of the previous rape and her enjoyment of the on-going rape.

Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The US release featuring the Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 1997 Troma R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Beware of a very cut US PG-13 version

Summary Review: Killer Chopsticks

This movie is unquestionably one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. The clown scene literally caused me to experience my first heart attack. (well maybe not, but I was laughing for 7 minutes straight) The killer chopsticks were brilliant, and the ancient prophecy was...well...hehehehehhe

• UK 2004 Hollywood R2 DVD
• UK Allied Troma VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• Cut to remove forcible revealing of a girl's breasts during the park scene

• UK 1996 cinema release

Shadowboxin'

The BBFC cut the 2008 Liquid Gold DD by 19s: Distributor chose to cut two shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (vaginal penetration by dildo). An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove clearly unsimulated images of sexual activity (in this case, masturbation and cunnilingus). An R18 uncut was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cut required to remove clear sight of explicit sexual activity (digital penetration)

64 33s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 3s cut by the BBFC

Shaolin

Passed 15 after 7s of BBFC cuts for:

• 2011 UK Showbox/Cine-Asia R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts were required to remove scenes of animal cruelty, in this case horses being tripped and made to fall dangerously.

Shaolin Drunk Fighter

• Royal Monks

The BBFC cut the 1986 VPD video and the cuts carried through to the 2003 Film 2000 DVD.

Shaolin Invincible Sticks

• Fists of Shaolin
• Gwan Wong

Passed 18 after 5:34s cuts for:

• UK 2003 DVD.com/Vengeance/Showbox R2 DVD
• UK 1986 VPS VHS as Fists of Shaolin

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2003 Videoasia R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Massive cuts in 1986 as the BBFC totally banned the chain sticks of the title. The BBFC had relented on their chain sticks ban by 2003 but the previously cut version was re-submitted. One of the fight scenes ended up as a DVD extra though. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Review from US Amazon: White-haired villain

Watch closely as this white-haired villain goes from school to school challenging and destroying anyone who knows stick fighting. This guy is really good with his stick/pole and it's very difficult for others to beat him. What is kind of bizarre about this one is that anyone who knows stick fighting is his enemy. I like this flick so much that I transferred it to my PDA and watch it sometimes at work. Some of the stick fighting scenes will have you seriously cracking up. You will surely play a few of these scenes over and over again!

The plot keeps you awake throughout! Definitely in my top 5%. You wont go wrong with this one at all.

Shaolin Soccor

• Siu lam juk kau
• Shao lin zu qiu

The Director's Cut was passed 12 uncut for the 2004 cinema release and 2005 Optimum DVD.

Note that dvdcompare.net  reports that outtakes have been moved from the end credits to DVD extras.

There is also a Hong Kong Theatrical Version missing 2 scenes compared to the Director's Cut. See article from movie-censorship.com

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

The International Version has been shortened with cuts to the plot and cuts to scenes of minor violence

From version details on IMDb

• The opening titles have been deleted. Replaced by main title over generic "Asian" background.
• The opening B&W bribery scene between Golden Leg and Hung has been deleted.
• A musical sequence with Sing and the gang outside of Mui's sweet roll shop has been reinstated.
• Dialog has been removed between Sing and Iron Head during the club scenes, and the song they perform is in a major key, rather than the original minor key.
• Also gone are some of the bottle-to-head smashes on Iron Head.
• The vomit and fart gags have been deleted from Sing's first soccer attack in the streets.
• All the initial meetings with the Brothers have been shortened.
• Dialog is often without the meaning the original version contained.
• Sing's apartment scene is deleted.
• Golf course scene between Hung and Golden Leg has been cut out.
• The final soccer match has a variety of cuts in it, mostly to take out the more extreme visuals featuring blood and violence.
• A cover version of "Kung Fu Fighting" is used over the last scene of the film and the end credits, removing the score entirely.
• References to Team Evil's use of illegal American drugs have been replaced with references to "training."

The Shaolin Temple

• Shao Lin si
• Death Chamber

A short version was passed 18 without cuts for:

• UK 1986 Eastern Heroes VHS

• UK 1986 Video Pacific VHS

• UK 1982 cinema release

Shaolin Wooden Men

• Shao Lin mu ren xiang

Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2007 Contender R2 DVD via UK Amazon

• UK 1998 Paradox/Kiseki VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• To remove the use of chain sticks

Cut by 6:43s when DVD submitted in 2008: The distributor chose cut nine shots containing clear images of real sex (i.e. manual masturbation, digital penetration of the vagina, penetration of the anus by penis, shots of a gaping anus and vagina, liquid resembling semen on a female performer's face and the purported simultaneous penetration of the mouth, vagina or anus by three or more others). An 'R18' without cuts was available to the distributor.

Sharky's Machine

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut at:

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 1998 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon

Passed X/18 after 9s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1986 Warner VHS
• UK 1982 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• Footage of two assassins killing an informant using nunchucks has been removed.
• Some sights of the weapons has been left in along with the use of a butterfly knife. In particularly a butterfly knife was shown being given a twirl before a finger severing. This submission predated the BBFC policy to cut all sights of such weapons.

Shatter Dead

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2002 Sub Rosa R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Not Good

Depressing tale about a world of the undead and a woman's trek to get home to her boyfriend's house.

The story is about a girl trying to get back to her apartment, that's it. There was some crappy gore and a xxx scene involving the female lead, her boyfriend and a pistol (a pellet handgun in reality). I threw away the DVD, just as I threw away my money when I bought it.

• UK 2005 Odeon R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts required to remove the sight of vaginal penetration with a hand gun

• UK 1996 Visionary VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• Cuts have been made to a sex scene where a girl is explicitly penetrated with a gun barrel

The Shield: Season 3 Episode 5: Mum

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 2007 Sony R2 DVD

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• Vic attacking Armadillo with a book has been shorn of 2 sequences
• Vic pushing Armadillo's face onto a cooker hot ring has lost 2 painful closeups

The Shield: Season 2 Episode 2: Dead Soldiers

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 2004 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• Vic attacking Armadillo with a book has been shorn of 2 sequences
• Vic pushing Armadillo's face onto a cooker hot ring has lost 2 painful closeups

The Shield: Season 2 Episode 3: Partners

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 2004 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• 3 sequences removed from Shane assaulting Frau on the bed

She'll Follow You Anywhere

• Passion Potion

Not cuts to the 2007 Redemption DVD. The running times suggests that this release is uncut.

The submitted running time was notes as 95:31s

The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid

• Uno sceriffo extraterrestre - poco extra e molto terrestre

Passed PG after 5s of BBFC cuts for category for:

• 1988 Medusa VHS

She's Too Hot to handle

See Too Hot to Handle

Shifty

The BBFC cut the 2009 cinema release and 2009 DVD/Blu-ray: Distributor chose to remove some aggressive and directed uses of very strong language ('cunt') in order to achieve a '15' classification. An '18' uncut was available to the distributor.

The BBFC explained further:

Shifty is an urban thriller set in the outskirts of London. After an absence of four years a young man returns to the area in which he was raised. He is alarmed to discover that his best friend has become a drug dealer. The film was passed 15 for very strong language and hard drug use.

The BBFC Guidelines at 15 state that there may be frequent use of strong language (e.g. fuck') but the strongest terms (e.g. 'cunt') will be acceptable only where justified by context. The former term is used extensively throughout the film and the latter on four occasions. The four uses of very strong language were considered to be contextually justified and allowable at '15 in this case.

The Guidelines at 15 also allow drug taking to be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse. This film includes many scenes of hard drug use and we see characters snorting cocaine and smoking crack pipes. There is also see a scene of implied heroin injection and several instances of reefer smoking. However, all the drug users in the film are depicted as wastrels and the dangers of using Class A drugs are clearly spelt out.

Shifty also includes infrequent scenes of violence. These fall fairly and squarely within 15 classification category parameters, in which violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury.

Shiner

Cut by 30s in 2007 for a 15 certificate: Distributor chose to make cuts to violence, man having arm broken and man shot in the head, to achieve a 15 category. An uncut 18 category was available to the distributor.

The distributors seem to specialise in promotional stuff rather than retail. Perhaps the 15 version was for a newspaper giveaway

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The Shining

The US features the longer US Version and is MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2007 Warner R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2007 Warner R2 DVD at US Amazon

From IMDB:

Three days after the release of the film, Stanley Kubrick and Warner Bros. ordered all projectionists to cut about 2 minutes from the coda at the end of the film

The shorter international version seems to be the preferred version by most reviewers

• UK 2008 Warner R0 Blu-ray  at UK Amazon
• UK 2008 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com:

When The Shining was ready for the export, Kubrick used the chance to change the movie a bit. The whole plot around Jack's alcohol problems and his physical brawl with Danny was deleted as well as the takeover of Danny's imaginary friend. Kubrick said that Europeans were more smart than Americans and would not need the additional stuff to get used to the background of the story.

• UK 2004 RNIB audio descriptive DVD
• UK 1986 Warner VHS
• UK 1980 cinema release

Shiny People

Shiri

The International Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2004 Tartan R2 DVD
• UK 2003 cinema release

There is also a Director's Cut that deletes the 53s of superfluous, if not nonsensical, scene

The Shiver of the Vampires

• Le Frisson des Vampires
• Sex and the Vampire
• Strange Things Happen at Night
• The Terror of the Vampires
• Thrill of the Vampires
• Vampire Thrills

Uncut at:

R Rated

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2007 Redemption R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• UK 2004 Redemption R0 DVD
• UK 1993 Redemption VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2012 Kino/Redemption R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2012 Kino/Redemption R1 DVD at US Amazon
• US 1999 Image/Redemption R0 DVD

Summary Review: Visionary vampire film

A young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple.

No one makes movies like Jean Rollin, and this is his masterpiece. Like most of his visions it seems to be about innocence and corruption, the attraction Evil has to Good, (and vice versa,) and the discovery of beauty in the unlikeliest of places.

This movie is very sexy, very slow, very weird. The music, lighting, absurd dialogue, and slow pacing help create a more poetic and imagistic type of film than we're used to here in the go-go States.

• UK 1971 cinema release titled Sex and the Vampire

Shock

• Beyond the Door II

Unrated

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2002 Hollywood R0 DVD titled Beyond the Door II at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2007 Blue Underground R0 DVD title Shock at US Amazon

• UK 1985 Stablecane VHS titled Shock
• UK 1978 X rated cinema release titled Shock

Shortened with plot scenes deleted for brevity. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Shock Corridor

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

UK: Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2006 Metrodome R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• UK 1988 Tartan VHS
• UK 1990 Palace VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2011 Criterion RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon
• US 2011 Criterion R1 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 1963 cinema release

Unofficial pre-cuts of 44:00s and a further 6:05s cut by the BBFC

Shocking Asia

Shogun Assassin

• Kosure Ookami: Sanzu no Kawa no Ubagurama
• Kozure Ohkmi 2
• Lone Wolf and Cub
• Baby Cart at the River Styx

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Eureka RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2010 Eureka Limited Edition Steelbook R2 DVD/RB Blu-ray via UK Amazon
• UK 2009 Eureka Lone Wolf & Cub Boxset R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2009 Cornerstone R0 DVD
• UK 2000 Vipco R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2000 Vipco VHS
• UK 1999 Horror Video

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2012 AnimEigo 5 Film Collector's Set RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2010 AnimEigo 30th Anniversary Edition RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2006 AnimEigo R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: A great film

A great samurai warrior served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid and sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule. He sent his ninja spies to the samurai's home. The ninjas failed to kill the samurai, but did kill his beloved wife. From then on, the samurai swore to seek out the Shogun and avenge the death of his love. The samurai roams the countryside with his toddler son taking on mercenary work for money until the final battle with the Shogun's three Masters of Death.

Shogun Assassin is a great film. Much "controversy" has arisen over the years regarding this film having been cobbled together from two other films in the Lone Wolf series. I think that what has been achieved is an extremely entertaining, fast-paced piece of action. By eliminating non-essential story lines and including a voice over narration, the action moves at break neck speed. The amount of blood spilled is so over the top as to be cartoonish, which only adds to the uniqueness of the movie.

If you have never seen Shogun Assassin or have seen it a thousand times, buy this DVD, it is well worth it.

Shogun Assassin is actually an amalgam of two 1972 films titled Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance and Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx. The producer decided to join the best bits of these two films (using around 10 minutes of the first film as a pre-credits flashback sequence to introduce the characters).

pre-cut
2s

• UK 1992 Vipco VHS

Pre-cut along the lines of the cinema version:

• The Vipco release is missing a short sequence early on just before the initial decapitation. In the US version, The Shogun lowers his head to reveal the baby wearing a circular mirror like a headlamp around his head (he is carrying the baby piggy-back), the mirror blinds his enemy allowing the Shogun to whack his head off.
• Also the scene on the boat with the eye gouging is there in both versions, but is a second or so shorter in the Vipco release.

• UK 1981 Vipco VHS

The video got caught up in the video nasties panic. Copies were seized and the distributors were prosecuted. But the prosecution failed and the videos were returned. Shogun Assassin was never officially listed as a video nasty by the DPP.

• UK 1981 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• Cut to edit shots of heads being sliced with swords
• Also the scene on the boat with the eye gouging is a second or so shorter

Shootfighter: Fight to the Death

• Shootfighter

Unrated

The MPAA Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut after BBFC cuts were waived for:

• UK 2002 ILC R0 DVD at U K Amazon

There is also US R rated version shorn of 40s of violence. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Review from UK Amazon: Great martial arts film

This is a great martial arts film. The main setting is the underground world of shootfigting, brutal cage fights with weapons where opponents fight to the death.

Entering this dangerous world are two good guys who are fighting for the money to keep their karate school from closing down. These guys have been trained by the world undefeated champion bolo yeung who is hard as nails. The two guys get in over their heads and one quits while the other chooses to carry on. The scene is set for a show down as bolo yeung and his disciple come to the rescue and fight with the bad guy from the karate kid movies.

This film takes all the good bits from your favourite martial arts films and turns them into a fresh faced exciting new film. It has light hearted moments and some supriseingly good acting. No martial arts film collection is complete without it my copy sit between Fist of fury and Out for justice. Five stars...

• UK 1993 New Age VHS

From pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• The sight of nunchukas was being routinely cut at the time of submission so 2 bouts where they are used have been curtailed
• A fighter puncturing another fighters chest and ripping out his heart is missing
• Another fighter's death is missing where his throat is cut, he spews out blood and crumples into a bloody heap on the floor
• The fighter Shadow bites a large chunk of flesh from an opponent but this has been cut.
• The brutal fight where Shingo beats Lee is missing kicks and blows to the head and Lee's arm being broken.

Shootfighter 2

33s pre-cut

Short Circuit 2

The BBFC cut the 2002 DVD by 2s: Cuts required to remove two uses of strong language for PG in accordance with the BBFC policy of not classifying two video versions of the same work in different categories.

The nunchaku shot was restored for the 2002 DVD release though the swearing remained cut.

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

The cinema version was further cut by 1s for the 1989 RCA/Columbia video and the 1995 VCI video

From cuts details on IMDb:

VHS versions were cut by the BBFC

• to remove a shot of man holding nunchakus
• to edit 2 uses of the word 'fucking' for a PG certificate (though some debate remains as to whether the swearing may have been misheard by mistake).

Shout at the Devil

A shortened version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2007 Showbox R2 DVD
• UK 2003 Prism R2 DVD
• UK 2002 Metrodome R2 DVD
• UK 1998 Wideappeal VHS
• UK 1998 Soveriegn VHS
• UK 1986 Medusa VHS

• UK 1976 cinema release

Showdown

Rated 18 after 6s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2008 DVD Digital R0 DVD
• UK 2000 Prism R2 DVD
• UK 1994 Imperial VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• Missing sight of fidgeting henchman twirling his butterfly kniife
• Missing site of butterfly knife as bad guy descends stairs and again as he walks towards the camera at the bottom of the stairs

There is a cut US PG-13 version to avoid

Showdown in Little Tokyo

The Unrated version was passed 18 after 9s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2001 Warner R2 DVD
• UK 1992 Warner VHS

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

• Three short cuts to a scene set in a Japanese restaurant.
• Firstly Sato's thug twirls a Butterfly Knife menacing the staff.
• Secondly the knife is seen as Kenner (Dolph Lundgren) disarms the thug and twirls the knife himself.
• Thirdly Kenner refuses to put the knife away whilst speaking with Murata.

US version rated 'R' (released in vhs, laserdisc, and dvd in the US) is more cut (totalling 13 seconds) as follows:

• The party in the pool lost a shot of an Oriental man walking with a topless woman
• Several shots of Yoshida caressing Angel before chopping her head are deleted
• The exact chopping of Angel's head is shown in two different angles, but only one in the R version.
• When the coroner opens the body bag, in the unrated version we get to enjoy two shots completely of Angel's separated head, but the R has only one intact.
• When Kenner stabs the fat guy under water, one brief shot of Kenner twisting the knife in the stomach while blood pours out, is removed. The cut FI-version is based on the full, unrated uncut version, so it features almost all material cut from it!

Showgirls

Uncut version is available at:

The US NC-17 Version is uncut for:

• US 2010 MGM Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2007 MGM R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The US R Rated Version is cut by 81s. FRom cuts details on IMDb:

• Edits to the pool scene
• Removed Molly's punch in the face
• Removed some of Molly's rape
• Removed much of Nomi's lap dance.

Review from UK Amazon: A Cult Classic

Showgirls is an excellent cult film. Its filled with terrible dialogue delivered by actors in performances that they'd surely rather forget. Paul Verhoeven - usually a top notch director - fails spectacularly with his fourteenth film and the script by Joe Eszterhas is laughable.

It stars Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi Malone (She's alone in the world, get the joke?), an ambitious young woman who has dreams of becoming a famous dancer in Las Vegas. Berkley's performance is something else. She smiles, she pouts, she shouts, she screams, she gyrates, she vomits, and often all of the above in the same scene. She is joined by Gina Gershon and Kyle MacLachlan, both similarly hamming it up to the extreme as Berkley's fellow dancer and the Entertainment Director respectively. Glenn Plummer also waves goodbye to any credibility in his performance as Berkley's quasi-love interest.

From reading this review you may wonder why I have given it five stars. The reason is this: You will never be more entertained in your life. It is hilarious, outrageous, ridiculous, completely unrealistic, shallow, stupid and ultimately a misunderstood masterpiece of everyone involved in the production doing everything wrong in perfect synchronicity.

A great piece of trash, go on, come over to the dark side!

• UK 2003 Pathe R2 DVD
• UK 2000 Pathe VHS
• UK 1997 Guild VHS

Cuts justified by the BBFC as follows: More problematic was Showgirls, an expose of the seamy side of Las Vegas, with a prurient emphasis on exploitative nudity, which was not only the subject of the film but its main selling point. In such a context, the sadistic gang rape of the only wholly sympathetic character in the film seemed unnecessarily extended and sensationalised. The rape was trimmed for cinema, and trimmed further for video, since the price of the rape could be adequately conveyed by the sight of the battered and bleeding victim.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

The cuts are all in the scene where Carver and friends rape Molly as mentioned above:

1. Carver slapping and punching Molly just before we see Molly being pushed back on the bed.
2. Carver slapping Molly's rear, then a second man starting to rape her
3. Then shots of Carver and 2 friends abusing Molly
4. A final shot of Molly grimacing from the continuing torment.

• UK 1995 cinema release

Shrek 2

Shrooms

The Extended version was passed 18 uncut for the 2008 Sony DVD/Blu-ray

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

Review from UK Amazon: Not especially scary

If I deeply analysed this film I could probably highlight more flaws than good points but at its heart Shrooms is enjoyable, deserves credit for endeavouring to put a new(ish) slant on a well trodden genre, locations and acting are good and it has a very good ending.

This is one of those films that may well be viewed more favourably the second time around as I did spend some of the film wondering whether or not I liked it which is never a good thing; but it gets better as it goes on, intensifies in the second half of the film and for me ended on a strong note.

The violent scenes are almost solely viewed via the hazy drug induced hallucinations of one of the cast, not always effectively it must be added and in a lot of ways it is difficult to see why this was rated as an 18 cert. Presumably this was on the basis of the drug taking premise of the film. Not an awful amount of gore is seen, it is quite understated maybe a tad too much; there are some incidences of misplaced humour inserted as well and it has to be said Shrooms is not especially scary.

Shuten Doji: The Star Hand Kid: Chapter 1: Hyoki

The Sicilians

An unknown short version was passed PG for:

• UK 2011 renown R0 DVD

• UK 1964 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 69:31s = 66:44s PAL

Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

Uncut at:

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong sexual content and very strong language with previous cuts waived for:

• UK 2009 BFI DVD Unreleased

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated For:

• US 2003 Lions Gate R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The BBFC commented:

The BBFC took the view that, in the light of the publication of new Guidelines in 2009 and the recent legal clarification of the 'harm test', the risk of harm identified with regard to this work could no longer be considered such as to provide a sound basis for intervention.

Summary Review: A perplexing film

It takes a certain kind of brave and twisted person to turn his life and body into an S & M performance piece. Bob Flanagan is both sick and brilliant. Flanagan survived cystic fibrosis until the age of forty-two - a very long time. He attributes this to constantly inflicting pain on himself relentlessly over the years.

His dominatrix partner Sheree, helps him with is goals. The various scenes are sometimes spliced with dark humor and other times simply shown in their bleak gruesomeness. There is nothing that Bob and Sheree have not done to him to inflict pain in the most disgusting ways possible. It's an entirely different world and it takes a strong stomach to watch. This is a perplexing film.

Passed 18 after 3:42s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2001 BFI R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

Cuts required to two scenes showing strong sado-masochistic activity (asphyxiation, the piercing of the skin of the penis, the insertion of a large metal ball into the rectum, the hammering of a nail through the tip of the penis) which would be highly dangerous if copied and which are likely to encourage imitation in viewers with an existing interest in sado-masochistic activity.

Sidekicks

Siege

The Silence

• Tystnaden

The film was passed 15 uncut for the 1999 Tartan Video

The uncut region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

The submitted running time was noted as 94:39s = 90:52s

Silent Assassins

All cuts waived when resubmitted in 2003

Nunchaku were cut from the film itself  as well as the front cover. The film also lost over a minute of graphic violence including hand severings and a dismemberment.

Silent Flute

• Circle of Iron

Cuts waived when passed uncut in 2008 complete with a 15 certificate

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from IMDb: Engrossing

"Circle of Iron" is a movie that looks beyond the action of martial arts into the mystique and philosophy associated with it. It was originally intended to be made by Bruce Lee, but he died before it could be brought to the screen, so David Carradine steps in to fill the role.

How well the movie accomplishes it's goal depends on how seriously you take eastern philosophies. It's all too easy to watch a few minutes of it and dismiss it as some weird barbarian movie with lots of karate. It is decidedly low budget.

However, if you watch the movie and *listen* to what it's trying to tell, it's extremely engrossing, as it addresses questions and concepts that all of us wonder about at some time or another.

The man making the journey in this movie, "Cord," is acceptable, if a rather generic role. David Carradine plays several roles, but his most striking is that of an eerie blind man who fights off his opponents with a hollow staff that whistles as he twirls it.

From IMDb:

UK cinema and 1988 video versions were cut by 51 secs by the BBFC to remove footage of fighting staff, a throwing star and a shot of a cow receiving a karate blow to its neck.

Silent Lies

Silent Madness

• Beautiful Screamers
• The Nightkillers
• The Omega Factor

Passed 18 after 1:34s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2002 Pegasus R2 DVD
• UK 1987 Avatar VHS

From cuts details on IMDb:

• When the woman's head is crushed in a vice, all close-ups are removed, along with all shots of blood.
• The sight of a dart embedded between a woman's breasts is taken out.
• Sexual dialogue about a syringe being twisted in a female doctor's buttocks is cut ("And when her pants are down...you get my drift, pal?").
• Shots of a deep gash in a woman's back and blood/gore on the weapon are removed.
• We do not see the electric prod superimposed over a female victim's face.
• The sequence in which a drill penetrates a man's skull is largely edited out.
• The scene of the doctor being chased through the air vent is shortened, with shots of spinning blades removed.

Silent Night, Deadly Night

UK: The Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2009 Arrow R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2007 Anchor bay R1 DVD at US Amazon

From IMDb: Parent Picket

The release of this film was picketed in the US by angry parents who were not happy to see Santa Claus depicted as an axe murderer. As a result, box office sales plummeted and the film was shelved for another year where it saw new light in an uncut video form.

Silent Rage

See video from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2001 Sony R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Modest

A straightforward cop vs unstoppable killer storyline was presented in a modest way without the unbelievable twists that one may expect.

It went on to be a commercial success on first release but it is unlikely to stand the test of time.

• UK 2000 MIA R2 DVD
• UK 1993 MIA VHS
• UK 1986 RCA/Columbia VHS

From cuts details on IMDb. Scenes of violence were cut:

• John Kirby's axe blow to a man's head has been deleted
• The next killing, this time of a woman is missing two shots of Kirby with a vicious looking knife
• Kirby's killing of Nancy Halman is missing the bloody aftermath as she slumps to the floor leaving a blood trail on the wall.
• The discovery of the corpse of Dr Vaughn with a syringe in his neck has less views of the body.

• UK 1982 cinema release

Silent Tongue

• Le gardien des esprits

The BBFC passed the 2007 Optimum DVD 12 without cuts

Silk

Passed 18 after 5s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1986 Medusa VHS

Note that there is cut US R Rated Version. It is not clear where the uncut version or else the R Rated Version was submitted to the BBFC

See Chillunu Oru Kadhal

20:55s pre-cut

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to make cuts to the sight of clearly unsimulated cunnilingus

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove sight of oral-genital contact under BBFC Guidelines

The Simpsons: Simpson & Delilah

Cut in 2002. The BBFC justified their cut of the DVD commentary track as follows:

To obtain this category, compulsory cuts of 0m 15s were required, some or all of these cuts were substitutions. A cut was required to sexual references in order to keep work in line with previous 'U' category. Reclassification policy does not permit two differently rated versions of works passed after July 94.

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

The 2003 cinema version and subsequent DVDs in 2003 and 2004 are all the same version cut by 12s. Cut required for U to remove head butt

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

The Sinful Bed

• Das sndige Bett

The BBFC cut the 1974 cinema release

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

See review from IMDb: Worth digging out

Back when i was a teen I remember seeing a movie called Sinful Bed. Basically it was a story in the perspective of the bed, and all the people who had the pleasure of using it. Starting before WWI and continuing to what was then present day (1972).

It was definitely an interesting film, and I'm surprised more people haven't seen it ye should check it out. It has to have been fifteen years since I saw this film and it has stuck with me all this time. I have vivid recollections of the plot and various scenarios within the film. From the opening credits to the films close. It may have been mildly pornographic (which was probably why we rented it in the first place). But had more story, and held your interest better than your average Baby Blue flick. It's worth digging out.

A longer version was passed 15 without cuts for:

• UK 2010 Ayngaran DVD

• UK 2010 cinema release

14:48s unofficial pre-cuts with a further 2:28s cut by the BBFC

Sinner's Blood

• Hard Riders

Passed 18 after 2:21s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1987 Xtasy VHS

54:58s unofficial pre-cuts

Sister Emanuelle

• Suor Emanuelle

The BBFC cut the 1979 cinema release

The US version omits hardcore scenes that are present in Italian and Scandinavian versions.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

The hardcore version features minimal hardcore elements of:

• Monica's oral intercourse with the conductor
• The (rather short) insertion of a penis during the dream sequence between Emanuelle and Rene.

Otherwise there is alternative material and longer sofcore scenes for:

• The love scene between Monica and her stepmother
• A somewhat longer shot of Monica and Emanuelle playing around after Emanuelle has tied her up in the barn

See also cuts details from dvdcompare.net

A few shots are missing from the US disk during the scene in the barn near the end, and after Emanuelle ties up Monika, she fondles and teases her a little (lasting about 10 seconds) before bringing out Gabriel Tinti. On this disc, there is an awkward jump from Emanuelle tying her up to going to retrieve Tinti, completely omitting the teasing bit.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Sister Street Fighter

• Onna hissatsu ken
• Jo hissatsu ken
• Nyô hissatsu ken
• Woman Certain Kill Fist
• Female Fighting Fist in Danger

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 BCI/Eclipse Double Feature Blu-ray via UK Amazon and via US Amazon
• US 2006 BCI/Eclipse Sister Street Fighter Collection R1 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

4:08s

• UK 1986 Stabelcane VHS

The BBFC cuts included:

• The BBFC took exception to many nunchaku sightings
• also to some ear claps
• amongst others

The US R Rated version was shortened and cut for violence by about 4:08s. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The Sitter

Unrated

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

• UK 2012 20th Century Fox [Extended + Theatrical] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2012 20th Century Fox Totally Irresponsible Edition R2 DVD at UK Amazon

R Rated

• UK 2012 20th Century Fox [Extended + Theatrical] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2011 cinema release

Sivaji: The Boss

• Sivaji

The DVD release of 2008 was passed uncut albeit with an 18 certificate

Thanks to Anthony:

Cut for a cinema release in 2007 with the following comment: Distributor chose to remove a scene showing the hero of the film throwing a firework into his mouth, lighting it and then spitting it out at somebody else. Cut was made to achieve a 12A classification. An 18 uncut was available.

With a little self contradiction, the BBFC also describe the cut as compulsory

Cut by 8s when submitted in 2008. The distributor chose to make a cut in order to obtain a BBFC 18 classification. The cut was to the sight of explicit sexual detail (digital anal penetration). An uncut R18 classification was available.

Distributor chose to cut clear sight of unsimulated vaginal penetration in order to gain an 18 classification.

The Six Million Dollar Man - Wine. Women And War

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut sight of a double ear clap to achieve the PG category, on the grounds of imitability. An uncut 12 was available to the distributor

22:00s unofficial pre-cuts

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: A compulsory cut was required to references in the work's main title which were likely to encourage an interest in underage sexual activity, in order for the work to achieve an 18 classification.

Skin & Bone

Skin Flick
aka:

• Skin Gang

The BBFC cut the pre-cut softcore 1999 Millivres video/DVD by 1:48s.

The hardcore version runs at about 88:00s = 84:29s, so the cuts total about 18:49s

A little background article from the director spotted on www.brucelabruce.com:

The working title was Gang of Foreskins, but since then it has been known variously as Even Skinheads Get the Blues, A Comedy of Aryans, and No Skin Off My Ass Part Two before I settled on the final title, Skin Flick. It will exist in both hardcore and softcore versions, the latter designed primarily for the more prudish Japanese and British markets. The hardcore version may be known as Skinhead Blue (my choice) or Skin Gang (Cazzo's lame choice).

The troublesome scene probably where a black man is gang raped by the skinheads. The skinheads chant "fuck the monkey" while fucking him ... he gets off on it. The hardcore version contains the interesting imagery of cum shots over Nazi literature.

This video caused much debate at the Board due to its violence, rape scenes and explicit detail that goes slightly beyond what the BBFC generally pass at 18. Whittam Smith seemed keen to consider the video for an R18 certificate on grounds of explicit detail but surely the skinhead violence would not sit very happily with the 'no violence' policy for sex videos, (along with the 'no sex' policy of course). There are hardly any gay licensed sex shops in which to sell it anyway so this clearly stupid idea went nowhere. As far as I can make out, this was one of Whittam Smith's more unilateral ideas and it unsurprisingly received scant support from anyone else at the Board.

Sky High

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

• US 2005 Tokyo Shock R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

11 minutes of extra material is mostly plot clarifications and character development.

• UK 2005 Optimum R2 DVD

Sky Kids

• The Fly Boys

The short International Version was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2009 Unanimous R2 DVD

The US Theatrical Version is 20 minutes longer

Skyscraper

• Infierno de cristal

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and R Rated for:

• US 2003 Madacy R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• UK 2003 Prism R2 DVD
• UK 1997 Medusa/Contender VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

Cuts to rape scene as terrorist Johnny assaults Carrie (Anna Nicole Smith)

• Shortened shot where Johnny rips Carrie's top and bends her across an office desk
• The rape is present but only after shots of Johnny groping Carrie's naked breasts have been removed.
• Also missing is Carrie ramming a paper knife into Johnny's leg

Slaughter High

• 1 April Fool's Day
• April Fool's Day

See 1986 trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 18 uncut with the previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2011 Arrow R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2009 Lions Gate R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary review: Not to be taken seriously

It is a comedy slasher with an April Fools Day theme. It is a mixed bag of good and bad acting that seems to appeal to those on a nostalgia trip for early slashers.

Generally well received when not taken too seriously.

• UK 1987 Locus VHS

From cuts details on IMDb

• Cut to remove shots of nudity and burnt breasts during the acid bath killings.
• Cuts to the electrocution of the couple making love and to sights of the burnt girls body.

Slaughterhouse

• Bacon Bits

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut at:

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2000 Entertainment programs R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Dark comedy

Owner of a closed down slaughterhouse sets his retarded psychopathic son on the people who want to take his land away and the unlucky teens that decided to party there.

If you are looking for a high class horror film that isn't low budget than don't buy this. But if you like independent horror/slasher films that are quite funny as well as semi gory (or if your a sucker for cheesy 80s slasher films) than by all means I recommend it.

• UK 1989 Braveworld VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com. Heavy BBFC edits to:

• shots of bloody bodies
• a woman being attacked
• a throat slashing
• heads being crushed
• a man's body in a meat grinder.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to cut shots of explicit female masturbation

The Slayer

• Nightmare Island

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2010 Cornerstone R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2001 Protected/Vipco R0 DVD

Summary Review: Minimal Gore

Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.

The film is quite good. two couples fly to a quiet island for a well-earned break, but Kay knows the horror that is waiting for them & sure enough they are killed off by this monster. Once the killings start & the storm comes, there's a good atmosphere .

Unfortunately, the gore is way too minimal, with a decent pitchforking scene being its only saviour.

• UK 1992 Vipco VHS

From IMDb:

• Edited to shorten a pitchfork murder

Sleepaway Camp

• Nightmare Vacation

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The Canadian release is uncut for:

• Ca 2005 Legacy R1 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

However the DVD is a bootleg and is only VHS quality.

Summary Review: Cult status

An above average slasher that is nudging cult status. The movie puts suspense and limited, but effective gore, to good use. It also has been noted as being 'charming despite its warped themes'.

pre-cut
23s

• UK 2004 Anchor Bay R2 DVD titled Sleepaway Camp

From cuts details on IMDb:

The cut footage was available to Anchor Bay for the 2000 DVD but was only available in VHS quality comparing badly with the bulk of the film. So Anchor Bay elected not to include the material in the film itself, but to include it as DVD extras.

The cut material is as follows:

• In the prank scene when Mozart's face hits the kid's naked buttocks, the slap sound effect is missing and then his "You guys are gross" line is out of sync with his lips.
• A shot of the naked guys running down the dock is completely missing replaced by a weird over-dubbed cat howl.
• The water-snake slithering out of Kenny's mouth is cut drastically to the point where you only see the final few frames of the shot after the snake has emerged.
• After Mel accosts the guys for throwing water balloons at Angela and Ricky and Paul tend to her, a shot of the guy's reaction to Mel leaving is cut, where one calls him a "wrinkled old dick".
• After Ricky sticks his finger up at Judy and walks off, a shot of Judy coming back with "Same to you" is gone.
• Many frames of Meg's corpse on the bathroom floor are cut, and Mel's reaction is cut up too - "He did it" should be followed by "to get back at me".

• UK 1986 CBS/FOX VHS titled Nightmare Vacation

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• Missing shots of chef screaming as he suffers burns to his face and arms
• Missing shots of the dead body of Judy with a slit down her back
• Missing shots of Ricky's dead body on the beach and of Angela screaming as the decapitated head falls away.

Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers

• Nightmare Vacation II

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 18 uncut with previous cuts waived for:

• UK 2004 Anchor Bay R2 DVD titled Sleepaway Camp II at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• UK 2002 Starz/Anchor Bay R1 DVD titled Sleepaway Camp II at US Amazon

Summary review: Fun Slasher

Enjoyable slasher with a twist that the crazed killer of the piece is a transvestite with an outrageous family history to 'justify' the craziness.

The film then delivers a great montage of gory deaths, nudity, humor, and fantastic one-liners.

• UK 1988 Futuristic VHS titled Nightmare Vacation II

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• Missing the opening scene where Phoebe's tongue is cut out as a pnishment for telling 'dirty stories'
• The stabbing and the shitty murder of Ally in the camp toilet was censored out.
• The stabbing of Diana loses a close up shot of the knife being twisted in Diane's stomach

Sleepaway Camp 3: Teenage Wasteland

• Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
• Nightmare Vacation III

The US release is Unrated and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2005 Legacy R1 DVD via US Amazon

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

cut

R Rated

• UK 2004 Anchor Bay R2 DVD

cut

R Rated

• UK 1990 Futuristic VHS

Sleepers

Not cut but raised from a cinema 15 to a video 18.

Sleepless

• Non ho sonno

Passed 18 uncut very strong bloody violence, strong threat and horror for:

• UK 2011 Arrow Neo Giallo Collection R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2009 Arrow R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2006 Pinnacle/Lighthouse R2 DVD
• UK 2002 MIA VHS

Sleepover

Company chose to remove one use of strong language to achieve a U classification.

Slipstream

• Slipstream: Bounty Hunter 2000

pre-cut

An Abridged Version was passed PG without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2004 EIV R2 DVD
• UK 1990 EIV VHS

• UK 1991 Sky Satellite TV

• UK 1989 cinema release

Sliver

Unrated

The US Unrated Version was submitted for the 1993 cinema release, 1993 CIC video and 2006 Paramount DVD.

The US R Rated version is missing 4 minutes from the sex scenes.

There is also a workprint that wasn't well liked by preview viewers. So it was substantially re-edited for the eventual release.

The BBFC cut 39s from the 2008 Liquid Gold DVD: Distributor was required to remove sight of unsimulated vaginal penetration by a dildo in order to achieve 18 classification. R18 uncut was available.

Slugs

• Slugs, muerte viscosa
• Slugs: The Movie

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

Passed 18 uncut with BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2010 Boulevard R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2009 Lions Gate video, not released

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Image R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Awesome production

Slugs has good gory effects and an awesome production. But there are some ridiculous things. The acting is very caricaturist, the music tries to be dramatic but ends up being annoying and exaggerated.

The slugs seems so real and gooey and my favorites scenes are the teen couple's death (sexual but hilarious), the talks with the English accent scientist, the hamster death (poor cute furry rat) and the preparations for eliminating the slugs!

Passed 18 after 42s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1993 VCI VHS
• UK 1989 New World VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• Missing bloody close up of Harold Morris chopping off his hand
• Missing shots of hamster struggling in cage with a slug on its back
• Mutiple cuts to the bloody death of the naked Donna, beset by slugs whilst lover Bobby looks on

Shown uncut on Zone Horror so presumably this was an indicator that an uncut version was due

The Slumber Party Massacre

• Slumber Party Murders

All previous cuts were waived for the 2003 Prism DVD and 2010 Nouveaux Pictures DVD titled Slumber Party Massacre

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from UK Amazon: A Bit of Fun

The plot is a slightly tweaked and thinly veiled rip off of Halloween, but this movie doesn't take itself anywhere near as seriously as John Carpenter's classic shocker, and this is perhaps its saving grace.

Like all good horror movies of the period, The Slumber Party Massacre aims to provide us with two things; mild titillation though its utterly shameless use of female nudity and cheap thrills though its corny murder moments. While the latter is hardly on a par with many slashers, it is a bit of fun. Some of the murders are quite inventive, if a little sparing on the gore.

As far as the nudity goes, the premise dictates a fairly abundant use of boobs and thighs.

Happilly, not only is the film graced with some deliciously and flagrantly gratuitous breast exposure, but the owners of said breasts are uniformly gorgeous.

This is not to everyone's taste but, if you've read this far with a smile on your face, I'm pretty sure it's the film for you.

From cuts details on IMDb

• The BBFC cut 30s of gore from several scenes
• The title substitution of Murders for Massacre is also reported as part of the knee jerk censorship implemented after the Video Nasties moral panic.

Slumber Party Massacre II

• Don't Let Go

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA unrated for:

• US 2010 Shout Factory Slumber Party Massacre Collection R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: Amusing Enough

More of a comic vein than its predecessor and now in a musical setting.

The weapon of choice is an electric guitar cum electric drill. The death scenes are very twisted with the killer playing guitar and singing as he kills his victims.

A favourite scene of mine involves death by acne. One of the central characters is actually engulfed by a rapid growing zit, until it pops all over the protagonist and she is presumed dead - that is until she walks through the front door about 10 minutes later.

The over-the-topness seems to be amusing enough. For bad movie fans, that is.

• UK 1988 Lazer VHS

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove explicit sexual activity (in this instance, semen on a woman's face, digital penetration, vaginal penetration, fellatio through underwear)

Small Town Massacre

Smokey Bites the Dust

Uncut version is available at:

PG

Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 1987 Video Gems VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA PG Rated for:

• US 2011 Shout Factory! Action Packed Collection R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• UK 1983 cinema release

Smokin' Aces 2: Assassin's Ball

Unrated

The BBFC passed the US Unrated version 18 uncut for the 2010 Universal DVD/Blu-ray.

There is also a US R Rated Version that was cut in the US by 2:26s

The Smuggler

• Luca il contrabbandiere
• Contraband
• The Napels Connections

The  BBFC cut the 1987 Elephant Video by 2:52s

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

• The scene with Luca stabbing guy in teh chests is missing bloody detail
• A scene showing a drug courier being burnt with a Bunsen burner has almost entirely been deleted.
• Murolo is killed with 3 shots in the uncut version but this is reduced to one by the censor
• A shooting through the mouth has been deleted
• Shots of bleeding bodies in Perlante's house have been reduced
• A shot of a man being shot in the throat is missing
• A man on the ground being shot in the face is missing
• A horse fall on TV has been removed
• The rape of Luca's wife with nudity has been deleted
• The shooting of a man in a car is less bloody
• Less shots in the death of a man in front of a car
• A man being shot in the stomach is less bloody
• Edits to a man being shot beside garbage bags

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon