11:04s pre-cut and a further 16s cut by the BBFC

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove images of explicit sexual activity (in this case, unsimulated cunnilingus) in order to achieve an 18 classification.

• Chikan densha hitozuma-hen: Okusama wa chijo

The video was cut when submitted in 1997

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum:

During opening sequence, the impact of the sex scenes was reduced by keeping the sound going but replacing the strongest visuals with shots of the mens's faces remembering or imagining the experience. (One scene of both men brooding required retention of both vision and sound of their silence).

Cuts were made as follows -

When fat, middle-aged man recalls or imagines scene of mutual masturbation on commuter train, explicitness of visuals was reduced by replacing the four strongest sections with shots of him thinking, as follows:

1. After woman's hand is inserted in man's unzipped trousers and she starts to masturbate him, cut away (vision only) after brief LS of them standing in corridor and insert MCU of him thinking, followed by bug CU of same, resuming on tight shot of their heads on train
2. When camera pans from their hands masturbating each other to tighter shot of her hand masturbating him, replace remainder of this shot with low-angle CU of him thinking, resuming on tight shot of their heads
3. After above tight shot, insert big CU of him thinking to replace CU of masturbation, resuming on tight shot of his hand insider her underwear, panning to include her hand in his shorts
4. After brief establishment of above masturbation shot, insert big CU of him thinking, followed by separate insert of a high angle mid shot of him at table, followed by separate insert of wide angle of two-shot of both men at separate tables, resuming on tight shot of mutual masturbation. After she climaxes and he watches her walking away in station, reduce younger man's memories of raping his girlfriend, as follows -

1. After he is established sitting astride her, remove all sight of him forcibly removing her bra, replacing visuals with insert of very tight profile of him, followed by separate mid-shot of him sitting at table on right of frame, followed by wide angle of both men sitting in silence (synch sound), resuming on tight shot of violent struggle on bed
2. after above struggle, insert CU of rapist remembering as he drinks tea, followed by wider shot as he puts down cup, resuming on tight shot of rape as he turns her over
3. after he turns her onto her back and begins to insert, replace visuals with CU of him thinking morosely to left of frame, followed by repeat of same insert to increase length, resuming on rape just before he kisses her and she begins to respond.

Same cuts for 15 rated cinema and video versions

No cuts reported for 18 rated videos

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

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut three scenes of unsimulated cunnilingus

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cut required to sight of a woman's throat being gripped during sex

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove scenes featuring clearly unsimulated sexual activity (cunnilingus)

Same cut version for cinema and video

Cut when submitted in 2002 (51s) and 2005 (26s) with the following BBFC comment: Cuts required to sight of animal cruelty (big cats tied up / tripped by wires)

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 to obtain an '18'. An 'R18' uncut was available to the company.

No further BBFC cuts when resubmitted in 2004

From Tim on the Anchor Bay Forum:

This version is still missing the original cinema cuts but the 5 minutes missing from the VHS releases has been restored

The cinema cuts apply to this release but the VHS print was based on a US PG release missing about 5 minutes

• Brothel customer removed from the opening brothel sequence
• Cut to the murder of Geoffrey Keen where a staking shot was replaced with one of 'less impact'

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove sexual detail (in this case, masturbation, cunnilingus, fellatio and vaginal penetration with fingers, penis and dildo)

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 1993

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Cut by 1s for cinema and the 1986 RCA/Columbia & 1990 VCI video.

• 1s has been cut from the scene where the underage Jodie Foster unzips Robert De Nero's fly on the grounds it would otherwise contravene the Protection of Children Act. The BBC clearly did not agree when they recently screened the film uncut.

• Taxi to the Toilets

All cuts waived when resubmitted in 2005. This decision is particularly notable as it contains explicit real gay sex and also includes an unsimulated golden shower scene (one man urinating in another's mouth)

• At 10 minutes - During scene in toilet, clear sight of man's anus removed.
• At 11 minutes - During same scene, sight of erect penis being touched by man after it is poked through hole in cubicle wall ('glory hole') removed.
• At 41 minutes - Explicit gay sex scene reduced by removing explicit sight of fellatio, anal sex, masturbation, ejaculation and handling of penis.
• At 47 minutes - During medical examination in STD clinic, shots of gaping anus removed.
• At 55 minutes - During 'film within a film' (in fact an educational film made by the German authorities for use in schools to warn children about strangers) , shots showing man's hand on boy's crotch and man apparently forcing boy's hand into his trousers removed. [Supposedly under the Protection of Children Act, although because of the close shots used you can't actually tell if it's the boy's crotch or the boy's hand].
• At 77 minutes - Golden shower scene cut to remove all sight of stream of urine coming from man's penis and going over other man's face and mouth. [This is done in a single continuous pan so it is clearly real].

This was released to cinemas without a certificate in 1982 but the educational film was cut  to avoid falling foul of the Child Protection Act.

The director refused to make cuts and withdrew his film from classification (hence no record of this submission on the BBFC website)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make a cut to remove sight of liquid resembling semen on genitals/anus

The cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2004

• Cuts are to the scene where Stiles is looking for some marijuana in his garage and Scott is confiding in him that he is a werewolf. 

Thanks to Andrew

The BBFC cut did not impress the BBC who broadcast the film in 1992 fully uncut at 6:30pm

Cuts were waived for the cinema version when resubmitted in 2003 and finally the follow up video/DVD in 2004

From Andrew:

I heartily agree with what you said though about the BBFC issuing an apology before any present or future screening of this classic family (yes family Mr Ferman) film.

The video version is still cut but hopefully will be resubmitted after the latest cinema re-release

In kid's films, martial arts weapons seem to cause more grief to the BBFC than they do to the victims.

The official BBFC cut time given is 1:51 seconds but there seems to be more footage changed than 1:51s via reframing and separate angles. The distributors probably re-edited more than required to implement the BBFC cuts

The cinema version was cut in 1990 as follows:, Thanks to Byron

First of all the nunchaku in this film are real, well rubber props but they are not sausages that happens in Turtles 2. Timings are aprroximate

1. At 17:49s. April is on TV interviewing the police chief and the turtles are watching. In the uncut version we see Leo, Don and Mike in front of the set watching and you can see Mike's nunchaku on his back barely he then kisses the screen when April comes on.  7 seconds of reframing where instead of seeing them sat down as soon as Mike sits down the picture zooms into the TV so all we can see is the TV with April on. This shot is also missing Mike kissing the screen we just hear the sound.
2. 2s. Mikes shell is blacked out when a shot from behind shows his nunchaku in his belt. In the same scene another second is cut when Mike is introduced as it is reframed to avoid seeing his nunchaku.
3. 2s cut. More reframing is used to prevent you seeing mikes nunchaku in his belt when conversing with April about frozen pizza. The idea seems to be cut the nunchaku on sight even if you need slow motion to see them. 3 seconds are gone again when Mike's back is darkened again when he is talking to April.
4. 20s cuts in the following scene where April is eating pizza with the turtles to hide the slight glimpse of the nunchaku in his belt. Next is his Cagney impression which is missing a shot from behind.
5. 3s reframing when Splinter is kidnapped.
6. When the Shedder is making his entrance and is about to address the foot there are 6 seconds of substitutions. In the uncut one when the red carpet is being rolled out for him you can see the foot solders in a line armed with sticks and the nunchaku. In the UK version we get to see the kids in the crowd above chewing gum and looking board. This is the cheap kind of censorship SKY 1 does in the day with wrestling putting pointless crowd shots in to cover up things.
7. When the turtles are watching April on TV again Raphael and Leonardo start to argue. 3s are cut here as when Mike gets up to go to the kitchen you can see the nunchaku in his belt at the side.
8. More reframing as Mike and Don watch a Tortoise and Hare cartoon by 8s.
9. One of the longest cuts is more obvious. Its the movies first big fight scene and Raph has just been thrown though the skylight and a big fight with loads of Foot soldiers. 1s is substituted when one of the foot solders who has jumped though is armed with nunchaku. A nunchaku contest occuring between the foot solder and Mike is removed, 48s, A very funny scene leaving the UK version to look really stupid. More reframing cuts appear though out the fight every time Mike hits anyone with his nunchaku or can be seen with his nunchaku in the slightest. Also Don's joke with him about them not being game show fans is cut. This is due to Mike's nunchaku being in shot and also misses Mike's line about everyone liking the USA versions letter turner Vanna White. A another cut is when a foot solder tries to chop up Mike with an axe while he is still on the floor. The axe chops are there but the picture is reframed so as not to see the forbidden nunchaku in Mike's hand. Next more cuts when more foot solders drop though the skylight causing the floor to give in and then as the turtles get up after landing in the basement. The scene ends when Aprils apartment sets on fire and brings to an end a cutting spree that including the nunchaku contest was cut by 1:27s.
10. Not a cut but an interesting line by Tatsu Shedders minion. He says in all versions of the film "kurso" when Shedder is angry at him which I am sure is Japanese for shit.
11. Cuts when Casey Jones and April retreat to Aprils farm in the country. 3s of Mike's nunchuka whilst punching a punch bag in a barn. 8s of Mike using his nunchaku in training. The next cut is pathetic and is one to a bit of blatant advertising for turtle wax. April is being given a shoulder massage by Casey after she appears in pain in a scene that starts their romance. As soon as he starts the massage in the UK version it cuts to the next scene and misses a comic scene of 24s for no apparent reason.
12. Another cut occurs when Mike and Don attempt to eat some leftover pizza. In the UK version when Danny says they might be some leftover pizza Mike gets excited then it cuts to the next scene missing 17s of Mike and Don inspecting the pizza and asking". The only conclusion is that the BBFC didn’t get the joke about penicillin.
13. The next cuts occur during the final fight of the movie. The turtles use the hot steam from the sewer pipes to burn the foot solders a shot of a foot solder getting sprayed in the face is cut this is 2s. Then a shot from over head of all 4 turtles over the bodies of the foot soldier is cut as it shows Mike 2s of spinning his nunchaku. A 13s cut occurs to April helping Mike take out some foot solders from on top of a pipe with a stick and to him whacking some foot solders with his nunchaku. When Mike and Don are fighting foot solders back to back doing bad jokes 2 seconds are cut to remove sight of nunchaku and the line by Mike of goes with it also the sequence is reframed so you cant see Mike is hitting foot solders with his nunchaku . Then after the famous trailer line by Mike of “god I love being a turtle” 1s is cut to stop you seeing Mike hold up his nunchaku and laugh. On the roof 1s is cut from a exchange between Mike and a nunchaku welding foot solder.
14. The following cuts are disgusting as they change the end of the movie and ruin the final fight with Shedder. This fight is cut badly and looks crap due to the cuts. Mike and Don do rock, paper , scissors to see who goes next. Mike loses then spins his nunchaku and goes for Shedder then it cuts to the next scene. So 9s cut. Then when the action starts again on the roof 1s is cut to stop you seeing Mike spinning his nunchaku in the air as the turtles run towards Shedder. 5 seconds are cut next showing Mike fighting the Shedder and getting knocked over. This is annoying as Mike is made out to be an idiot in the cut version who doesn’t fight Shedder or anyone else. Now comes a crucial cut that alters the ending. Leo charges at Shedder and is brought down. Shedder then puts his blade to Leo’s throat and tells the Turtles to get rid of their weapons. They throw them off the roof but then a 1s cut occurs cutting out Mike’s nunchaku getting caught on the ladder rung. This is a plot point for later that is missing from the UK version. Now Splinter arrives and Shedder takes his mask off revealing his scars from Splinter In the UK version as he charges at him 19s are cut. These are of Splinter using the nunchaku of Mike’s from the ladder rung to wrap around the Shedder’s blade who he then slings over the edge. He then holds him there dangling but Shedder has reached a knife which he then throws at him which he catches but in doing so the nunchaku wrapped around the blade unravels dropping Shedder to his doom. Then Splinter finishes his sentence from before “Without honour”. The UK skips all this and makes it out that Splinter simply grabbed the blade and slung him over the edge where he simply dropped to his doom with out no tense dangling or final attack or dialogue from Splinter.  However the fall in the UK version is from one single angle rather than 3 different ones. This cut really ruins the end of the film and lessons the danger to Splinter and the danger of Shedder.
    So the total movie cuts are of around 5 mins 28 secs. The BBFC should put an apology up before every screening of the new uncut version as they really made a right mess with this back in 1990.

The video is further cut as follows:

• Michelangelo is on the phone ordering a pizza when Splinter is giving the turtles advice. When Splinter hears that he is not listening and is on the phone he throws a book at him and shouts Michelangelo. For some completely stupid reason known only to the BBFC the scene was now missing the book throwing which by the way was the tamest throwing of a book I have ever seen. Also missing was some of Michelangelo’s dialogue when he orders the pizza due to the fact you can clearly see his nunchaku as he is spinning them.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2002

Some of the nunchuka images cut by the BBFC turn out to be sausages on close inspection

Same cuts to the cinema and video versions of 1993

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company opted to remove unsimulated sight of anal penetration with dildo, oral-genital contact and sight of semen on woman's face

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove unsimulated oral-genital contact in line with BBFC policy and guidelines in order to achieve the requested 18. An uncut R18 was available to the company.

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 penetration with a dildo

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove sexual detail (in this case, sight of a woman drinking a liquid resembling semen)

Cuts made prior to submission to BBFC

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to cut scenes of sexual detail (in this instance oral genital contact) to achieve an 18 certificate

The cinema release of 1999 and video releases from 1999 & 2000 all suffered the same cut to remove a scene where a balisong (butterfly knife) is opened up.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004

The BBFC explained that the passage of time had reduced the impact of the images to a significant degree, making the prospect of harm more remote.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Thanks to MM

• Cuts to scenes of sexual violence in the early murder of a naked girl in the forest
• Cuts to scenes of the massacre of girls in the apartment at the end of the film.
• Other cuts were butterfly knife twirls & a brief shot of a nurses dead body
  in a shower (blood on breasts)

imdb review:

Another Tight, Low-budget Messterpiece from Bronson/Thompson,

Compared with the ridiculously shoddy Death Wish sequels, most of Charles Bronson's 1980s collaborations with J. Lee Thompson are masterpieces. In fact, even with the high ratio of bad actors and technical shortcomings, films like Evil That Men Do and this one, 10 to Midnight, kick modern hardboilers right in the balls.

• Le Locataire

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• Tenebre
• Unsane
• Shadow
• Sotto Gli Occhi dell'Assassino

Passed uncut in 2002

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Cut for a cinema 18 certificate by 4s

The arm chopping scene loses the shot of the victim holding the stump whilst it sprays blood between her fingers.

Videomedia then released this cut version on video pre-VRA. and it was doomed to take a leading position on the video nasties list. It was finally released on video in 1999.

• The Tenth Kingdom
• Das 10te Königreich
• Das Zehnte Königreich

Cut when submitted in 2000 to remove a double ear clap.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US

Virginia and Tony Lewis (Kimberly Williams and John Larroquette) live in a New York apartment. One day a dog enters Virginia's life. However, the dog is not just any ordinary dog, but Prince Wendell (Daniel Lapaine) changed into a dog by an evil Queen (Dianne Wiest). Soon trolls enter the story along with magic, and the story begins.

The acting talent in this movie is phenomenal. Rutger Hauer plays the Queen's woodsman, with his own poignant story. Warwick Davis is Acorn, a criminal with a tongue-in-cheek character. Ed O'Neil is perfect as Relish the Troll King. Scott Cohen as Wolf took a little getting used to, but once I realized how he fit into the story I enjoyed his antics and characterization. Camryn Manheim makes an interesting Snow White. Ann-Margret brings class to Queen Cinderella.

The story is an adult fairy tale. There is violence in the movie as well as a number of intense scenes that are likely inappropriate for children below the age of 7 or 8. However, for everyone else this movie is fun and complicated. If you enjoy fantasy, and you can be open-minded about how fantasy is approached, this movie could be perfect for you.

The full length and uncut version was passed 15 uncut in August 2001.

Cut by 18s + cinema cuts

1. Schwarzenegger's attack on the bikers loses the shot of a biker falling on to a stove. The shot of a knife in a biker's back has been reduced.
2. Various shots are missing of Sarah (Linda Hamilton) attacking guards and a doctor with a broom handle on her escape from hospital. The BBFC censored this not because of the level of violence, but because it was initiated by a character who is meant to be something of a role model. Sarah beats the guard over the head with a bat 4 times in the original version. This was reduced to twice for the cinema version and to just once for the 15 video. It is a myth that the original contained 6 beatings. The original also had Sarah hitting the doctor on the arm with the bat, she then swipes him on the back of the leg to make him collapse, all that remains in this version is the hit on the arm.
3. When Schwarzenegger rescues Sarah, he has a small fight with the prison staff. He hits one in the chest with a bat (which remains), but immedietly after he should throw that guard head first into the wall (this is completely cut). Also, when Schwarzenegger pulls the cop out of the car, he throws him face first into a pole: this is reduced.
4. 3s has been cut from the shooting of a SWAT team at approx 114m into the video

US theatrical version, no cuts required for an 18 certificate

This is one of the few films where a higher rated version has been made available, ie the 18 rated special edition. The BBFC believe that if the marketing of a film is aimed at the original certificate, ie the 15, then children of that age group will want to watch it regardless of the certificate awarded.

• Night School

These cuts rescued the video from the video nasties list

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category., The cuts were Compulsory. Compulsory cuts were required to remove obscene images (in this case, evidence of urination during sexual activity)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove sight of liquid resembling semen on a woman's pudenda and sight of clearly unsimulated penetration of a woman's vagina by a cucumber.

• The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Although it has not been cut by the BBFC, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4 is the pre-cut version which removed the pointless alien subplot and the subplot of Jenny's abusive mother; all these cuts apply to the dialogue, there were no cuts to the violence.

The uncut version The Return Of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was roughly 20 minutes longer than the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation re-issuing.

Thanks to Bleach on The Melon Farmers Forum

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 1996

• At 24.5 mins - As man sits astride woman, sight of him twirling butterfly knife, later sight of his hand groping up her skirt and, after removing underwear, of his hand up skirt again were all removed.
• At 31 mins - In barn with woman tied up, two shots of man groping her groin over her skirt were removed.
• At 40.5 mins - During fight by car, after head is pushed through windscreen, sound of head scraped against glass and shot of foot kicking victim and subsequent crunching sound were all removed.
• At 56.5 mins - After blonde woman is slapped, second slap, stomach punch and head butt were all removed.
• At 76.5 mins - After bald man slaps woman twice, his headbutt to her was removed.

By 2008, after a couple of complaints, the BBFC decided that the DVD release should be 18 uncut.

From The 2007 BBFC Annual Report:

The Board did receive letters questioning the rating, and when the work came in for DVD release it was reconsidered and the rating raised to ‘18’.

Perhaps the BBFC should should create a new certificate explanation: Suitable for people aged 15+ but rated 18 to be on the safe side

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from Amazon UK

'30 Days of Night' is the movie based on the best selling graphic novel by Steve Niles. The story begins when a group of vampires flock to Barrow, Alaska where the sun sets for 30 days, allowing them to feed without the burden of sleep to avoid lethal sunlight. Because of the cold, the vampires' senses are weakened and a few of the town's residents are able to hide. One resident is Sheriff Eben Olemaun (Josh Hartnett), who attempts to save the town and the lives of the few remaining townspeople, including his wife Stella (Melissa George).

This was probably the film that I was most looking forward to in 2007 and when I finally got to see it, I wasn't disappointed at all. At the time when I first watched this film I hadn't read any of the comics, so the story was new to me, but I enjoyed it all the same. I've read the comic since seeing this and the film version has a lot more added to it, which I feel was definitely necessary as only the beginning and the end are featured in the original. There's plenty of gore, a great storyline, good characters, lots of scares and some excellent camerawork. The setting of Barrow feels very isolated and creepy and very, very atmospheric. The vampires have twisted, ugly faces and make eerie, high pitched wails to each other and speak in their own language, taking the sexy, seductive image away from the over-used and tired character.

Overall this is without a doubt one the best films of 2007 and is definitely the best vampire film I have ever seen.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove sight of liquid resembling semen on faces, and of oral-genital contact during cunnilingus,

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (in this case, digital vaginal penetration, masturbation and oral genital contact during cunnilingus)

• 3 Ninjas 4
• 3 Ninjas 4: High Noon at Mega Mountain
• 3 Ninjas 4: Showdown at Mega Mountain
• 3 Ninjas: Showdown at Mega Mountain

Cut for video when submitted in 1998 (the same version was resubmitted in 2001)

Punches, kicks, head-kicks, head-butts, ear-claps, nunchaku, a throwing playing card (!) - similar to a death star, a yo-yo with blades sticking out of it (no I'm not making these up), throwing darts, the list is endless. One cut removes a kid peeing himself when a villain yells in his face.

Cut for both cinema and video release

Passed uncut in 2005

A reader noted that a recent Channel 5 showing for the film included a fight in a convenience store that featured nunchakus. As this coincidently lasted a minute it seems logical that it was this scene that offended the BBFC.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove a single use of strong language (''fucking") and a moderate scene of implied sex

Same cuts for cinema and video version.

Cut in 2007 to avoid an R18 certificate

• Die Blechtrommel

Synopsis: A young boy growing up in Nazi Germany decides to stop growing

Cuts waived in 2003

The cut's were waived when the BBFC decided that the disputed scene did not constitute an indecent image. You do not see Maria's pubes and it seems likely (from other evidence - eg the book about the making of the film) that Scholndorff made her wear masking tape at this point. The offending shot simply shows a young boy pressing his face against a woman's pubic region (not actually her vagina). 

It is  a serious film with  little else to comfort paedophiles and expert views agreed that the scene was no more indecent (or vulnerable to misuse) than some of the other scenes in the film, such as the sherbert licking.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

A shot has been deleted from the scene where the young Oskar is seen burying his head in Maria's pubic area.

The film had previously been transmitted uncut on Channel 4.

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 2004 with the following statement: Cuts required to remove sight of abusive knife play during sexual activity. Company also chose to cut explicit images of oral-genital contact, dildo penetration, masturbation and penetration with finger for 18. The sexual detail, though not the knife play, could have been passed R18.

The context in which explicit imagery occurs is a key factor in the BBFC’s decisions. But every work is different and it is not possible to list the sort of situations which justify real sex at ‘18’. Images of real sex were cut from a collection of erotic short films, Tinto Brass Presents – 4, to obtain an ‘18’, on the grounds that the work was too close in tone and intent to a sex work designed to produce sexual arousal.

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

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove clear sight of unsimulated oral-genital contact and penetration

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove shots of oral-genital contact during cunnilingus in order to secure an 18 classification

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove material of an explicit nature, that is, oral genital contact, masturbation and vaginal penetration

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove explicit material, that is, masturbation and oral genital contact, in order to attain the requested 18 category. An uncut R18 was available.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove two scenes of unsimulated, sustained and vigorous masturbation in order to achieve the 18 rating. R18 uncut was available.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (masturbation, cunnilingus and vaginal penetration with a dildo) to gain an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove scenes of unsimulated cunnilingus and dildo penetration

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove shots of clearly unsimulated sexual activity to gain an 18 classification (cunnilingus and fellatio). An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor.

17:41s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 6:04s cut by the BBFC

• Bo hao
• To Be #1

Subtitled widescreen version

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2005

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

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cut was required to remove instance of animal cruelty (in this case a horse falling forward over its head in a shoot-out scene)

Cut in 2003 with the following BBFC statement: Compulsory cut required to sight of real animal cruelty (cockfighting)

• La Noche del Terror Ciego
• Crypt of the Blind Dead
• Night of the Blind Dead
• La Noche de la Muerta Ciega

Some cuts were waived but the BBFC again made cuts when submitted in 2005 with the following comment: Cuts required to eroticised sexual assault

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US

"Tombs Of The Blind Dead" is the first, the originator, and it RULES. Church bells become dinner bells, as the ominous tolling of the chimes signals the rising of the dead Templar Knights, an undead sect of religous warriors who weren't that nice when they were alive. A few centuries in the grave hasn't tempered their humors much, and now they're blind to boot, hunting by sound (and they hear REAL good), seeking fresh human blood to sustain their lumbering, unholy existences. Some brutal flashbacks show us that the Templars were into human sacrifice, big time, and these scenes are pretty gruesome. What's cool about this film is that these zombies are horsemen, too, and the overall effect reminds one of a more ghastly precursor to the Ringwraiths/Naz'gul from 'LOTR'...the Templars are horror icons, and deservedly so. And the wicked ending is the perfect finish to a movie like this.

There are two versions of this entry, an English-language version and a longer, 'uncut' Spanish version. I highly recommend the Spanish version, as it is far nastier, bloodier, etc., and the film on this one has been cleaned up much better. The English version loses much of the shock value, and the picture is crap. A couple of the scenes in this version are edited into the film in a different order.

Redemption Video version submitted in 1994

The major cut is to a rape scene which occurs before the attack of the Templars in the cemetery. The BBFC have removed well over a minute of the detail of the rape scene. In the cut version all you see of the rape is the heroine being pulled to the floor.

The uncut version (97m) has been released in Europe on the Redemption Benelux label

Cut when submitted in 1988

All BBFC cuts were waived for a 15 certificate when submitted in 2006.

Thanks To Gavin:

It is not known yet whether this version will include the MPAA and BBFC cuts made at the rough cut stage.  But given most of them were rough cut, the chances are slim. Even if lost, this release would be the definitive version.

The Ultimate Edition will be released in the UK on 17th July 2006 and is available on region 2 DVD which can be ordered from UK Amazon

Same cuts for all Warner & MGM 12 rated video versions

According to the BBFC: Tomorrow Never Dies followed the pattern of the recent Bonds of being slightly too violent for its intended audience. When it opened in the cinema, the Board considered that, on grounds of violence, the film had just scraped through as a 12, yet to our surprise, the British public, for all their reported concern about screen violence, lapped it up, content to treat James Bond as fantasy violence. The producers were alerted to the probability that, if 12 were to remain the target category on video, the film might need further cuts in violence, since the Video Recordings Act laid down the need to assess the likelihood of underage viewing, which in this case was a virtual certainty.

Cut for cinema release and suffered an additional 6s of cuts for video. In addition, there have been further sound pre-cuts throughout the video.

• Reduced impact sounds in fight at Carver's (Jonathon Price's) studio party
• Bond gets hit by a baseball bat twice instead of four times
• Reduced impact sounds in Chakra torture scene
• Reduced impact sounds in fight in bike shop
• Reduced impact sounds of Wai Lin's (Michelle Yeoh's) kung-fu kicks
• Reduced sound of man being scalded by steam
• Reduced sound of Carver being hit by an engine and then his death scream
• Reduced impact sounds of Bond's (Pierce Brosnan's) climatic fight scene
• Cuts to scene where Michelle Yeoh dispatches one of the bad guys by means of a throwing star.
• Removed scene of Michelle Yeoh taking throwing star from a hidden compartment in her shoe
• Cuts to scene where Bond stamps on a man's face

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove three sequences of clearly unsimulated real sex (vaginal penetration)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove images of semen or liquid resembling semen on woman's face in order to achieve an 18 classification

Cut when submitted on video in 2000.

• Scenes of sexual violence were cut in which naked women were being terrorised, including a scene in which a woman is being fired at with a nail gun.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

The film has been playing uncut on Zone Horror channel so presumably the BBFC would not cut the film if it were to be resubmitted.

Review from imdb (Presumably the uncut version)

The Toolbox Murders starts out with 20 minutes or so of grisly and very well done kill scenes, all of which involve tools. If you like violence, then you'll love the introduction of this film.  If you're a sucker for nudity in horror films, then you'll appreciate the introduction to this film for that as well.

After the kills are complete, however, many people will be bored by the lack of action that takes place on screen until the final moments of the movie. The middle portion of this movie is a lot of talk with little or no gore. I didn't mind this, because I found the dialog between the killer and the kidnapped girl to be very interesting.

Lots of people complain that the acting in this movie is terrible. These people cannot be horror buffs, as I have seen countless other films in which the acting is much MUCH worse. I would go as far to say that the acting in this film is very decent.

If you have the attention span to sit through 'slower' moments of this film, then you'll find something to enjoy in it. I give The Toolbox Murders an 8/10.

There were cuts to virtually every murder

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut clear sight of real sex (masturbation)

10:33s pre-cut

8:10s pre-cut

• I Corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale
• Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence
  Carnal Violence

The cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2007

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon for release on 26th Nov 2007

From publicity material:

Whores meet saws in Sergio Martino's fine gem of a slasher-giallo. Starring the delicious Suzy Kendall, the film details the exploits of a black-gloved, saw-wielding psychopath determined to molest and mutilate his way through a group of beautiful, vacationing students, all of whom seem to have lots of trouble keeping their clothes on.

Passed again without BBFC cuts in 2005 but the running time suggests they re-submitted the massively cut 1996 version.

Available in an unrated "director's cut" that contains an additional 23 minutes which is available via UK Amazon. I am not convinced that the stand alone DVD is in fact the advertised directors cut. The best bet seems to be the box set

Thanks to Andrew and Chris, April 2008: Zone Horror

The Toxic Avenger is being shown on Zone Horror in the uncut version. All the gore and nunchaku scenes are included-even the famous head squash in the gym! Graphic yes, but its so badly done that to me it just becomes a moment of black comedy genius, a la Bad taste, Braindead etc.

To be honest if Braindead can get through uncut in the UK over a decade ago and Re-animator having been passed (and society didn't crumble from the release of either) I really cant see how the Toxic Avenger would cause any concern.

Passed without BBFC cuts in October 2003 but it is still missing the gore ie the killing of the boy on the bike, heavy cuts to the restaurant robbery including the use of nunchakus

Approximately 20:00s unofficial pre-cuts when submitted for cinema in 1986 and for video in 1986 and 1996.

Temporarily and accidentally sold in an uncut recording when first released

In response to a query to the BBFC:

Toxic Avenger was never actually cut by the BBFC. However, the version submitted to us was heavily pre-cut by the distributors before it was sent in. The version classified (without cuts) by the Board runs at about 75 minutes, whereas the full version runs about 90 minutes. From what we understand a number of sequences of gore and violence were toned down throughout and a scene involving the use of chainsticks was also removed because, at the time, it was well known that the Board did not allow the use of these weapons in films). It is entirely possible that it might be possible to classify a stronger version of the film now - perhaps even the full version, but we cannot say for sure without a formal resubmission.

It appears that the pre-cuts were as follows:

1. Dialogue cut heavily from the scene in the locker room, where Slug, and Wanda talk about hit-and-run pedestrians.
2. Slug, and Wanda screwing, is briefly shortened.
3. Heavily cut; the famous head-crushing. The hit-and-run kid moving, and the crew backing up with the car, and crushing his head, and Wanda and Julie going out to take pictures of the corpse, and then the crew driving away, are all cut out in a row.
4. Shinbone alley; Cigarface kicking O'Clancy, who's on the ground.
5. Shinbone alley; Toxie repeatedly punching Cigarface, lasts longer.
6. Shinbone alley; Toxie bashing Knuckles' nose off, is cut out.
7. Shinbone alley; Toxie gouging the transvestite thug's eyes, is completely cut out.
8. Shinbone alley; Knucles passing out.
9. Shinbone alley; Toxie punching Cigarface into the barrel, is shortened.
10. Shinbone alley; Toxie bashing Knuckles, and the transvestite thug's heads together, is no more.
11. Taco-bar; Leroy shotgunning a guy, is reduced.
12. Taco-bar; the shot man squirming on the floor.
13. Taco-bar; Frank ripping Sarah's panties off, and some dialogue, like I did always wanted to poke me a blind bitch.
14. Taco-bar; Frank's hand-stump splattering blood.
15. Taco-bar; Frank trying to get up from the floor, with his one hand only.
16. Taco-bar; Toxie stuffing Frank to the oven, is shortened.
17. Taco-bar; a brief body shot of Leroy's mangled face, is gone.
18. Taco-bar; a shot of a dead dog is deleted. And a bunch of dialogue has also gone for continuity.
19. A brief close-up of Rico's boiled hands, is deleted.
20. The drug-dealer's body squirming around in the weight machine, along with a juicy close-up of the mangled head, is no more.
21. Wanda's ass boiling, is shortened.
22. Toxie ducking down, and making a thug slash his friend, and Toxie pushing a thug's knife to its owner, have been completely deleted.
23. Cigarface squirming after he's shot, is no more.
24. Slug beating the old granny with her cane has been cut from four hits to just one.
25. When Toxie nears the mayor, flashbacks of a close-up of Frank's arm being pulled off, and the weight machine murder (now shown from a more grisly angle), have been cut out.
26. The mayor digging his own guts, is reduced.
27. The body shot of the dead mayor, is omitted

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut clearly unsimulated sexual activity (dildo penetration) to achieve an '18' certificate. An R18 without cuts was available to the distributor.