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Valachi Papers

Cut by the BBFC for cinema but uncut on home video. Uncut and R rated in the US  but there is also a cut PG rated version

R rated

• 2006 2 Entertain R2 DVD
• 2006 Orbit R2 DVD
• 1992 Braveworld VHS

IMDb reports this as the uncut version but it is a couple of minutes shorter than the submitted UK cinema release

• 1972 cinema release

Valdez Is Coming

Compulsory cuts required under BBFC policy on animal cruelty to sight of horses being deliberately tripped and falling

Valentine

Pre-cut by the US producers prior to release for political reasons at the time. The same cut version has been released ever since.

Summary Notes

Five women are stalked by an unknown assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day

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MPAA

• 2001 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2001 Warner R1 DVD a t US Amazon

From IMDb. According to director Jamie Blanks a lot of the violent scenes were trimmed down. This was not done to satisfy the MPAA (the original cut was rated R ). Instead Warner Bros. thought that due to the political climate the amount of violence as shown in the original version was not tolerable at the time. The cuts were:

• There is a scene in a TV spot where Kate and Adam are in the bar and she says: why am I surrounded by all this craziness ; then Adam says it's Valentine's day people get lonely and start acting strange ; then she says you're not acting strange .
• A scene where Dorothy is attacked by the killer and dressed as the Cherub was cut.
• Shelley's death was trimmed heavily. Originally, her neck actually split open and spewed blood. Now it is only implied.
• Ruthie's death originally contained blood flowing out into the shape of a heart. This was digitally cleaned up later on to decrease impact.
• The death of Kate's neighbor Gary, was trimmed. He was originally hit with the iron 11 times, instead of the 2 shown in the film.
• Dorothy's stepmother, Kim Wheeler (Benita Ha), is murdered by the cherub. After Paige is electrocuted in the jacuzzi, her skin begins to melt.
• Deleted scene: After Kate finds the mask in the elevator, and talks to Gary, she goes back inside her apartment. Then, she looks inside her closet and realizes that most of her outfits are missing.
• Another deleted scene was right after Shelly's funeral. All the girl's are on top of a building having drinks and talking about their childhood with Shelly.

Never cut, but the title would become more notorious when picked by by Russ Meyer for his Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

See The Blood Beast Terror

Vampire Circus

Cut by the BBFC for 1972 cinema release. Some cuts were subsequently restored for home video but most have been permanently lost

Summary Review: One of the much better Hammer movies

A village in Nineteenth Century Europe is at first relieved when a circus breaks through the quarantine to take the local's minds off the plague. But their troubles are only beginning as children begin to disappear and the legacy of a long-ago massacre is brought to light.

One of the much better Hammer movies, with much blood and nudity, to say nothing of an even more startling child abduction/murder.

The visiting circus theme gives the film a tremendous boost. People and animals turn into each other and a dance by the tiger/lady is, as they say, worth the price of admission alone.

Super, well paced, sexy, bloody, horror.

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Unrated

• 2012 Strawberry Media/Spirit [Great British Movies triple bill] R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2011 Strawberry Media/Spirit R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2002 Carlton R2 DVD

US: The same UK DVD version is MPAA Unrated for:

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

This is the best available version with remaining material cut by the BBFC assumed to be lost.

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88:23s =84:51s

• 1987 Futurevision VHS
• 1972 cinema release

From IMDb . UK censor Stephen Murphy requested many cuts to the film in 1972 though Hammer succeeded in shortening his original demands.

BBFC edits were made to:

• the whipping scene toned down
• a dagger in the face deleted from the opening scene
• the forest attack by the panther
• footage of the mutilated remains of the family.

Vampire Ecstasy

• The Devil's Plaything
• Der Fluch der schwarzen Schwestern

Cut by the BBFC for 1973 cinema release. Uncut on 2013 DVD. Cut for a US R rating

Summary Review: Mind Control

A lesbian vampire's soul is kept on in the bodies of her descendants.

No movie has had so many gorgeous women under mind control, and naked. Marie Forsa, as the busty Helga. One wishes they made more movies like this one.

Unrated

• 2013 Medium Rare video titled Vampire Ecstasy at UK Amazon

• 2005 Retro-Seduction Cinema R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2005 E.I. Independent R1 DVD at US Amazon

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . 25 cuts adding up to 17:26s of cuts to the sex scenes.

• 1973 cinema release titled The Devil's Plaything

Vampire Hunters

• Tsui Hark's Vampire Hunters
• The Era of Vampires

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

• 2003 Columbia/TriStar DVD

There is also a longer Singapore Version. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Vampire Journals

The Vampire Lovers

Cut by the BBFC for the UK cinema release. Cuts gradually restored until fully uncut by 2008. Also originally cut in the US for nudity that was not allowed in an R rated film, but again cuts were later restored.

Summary Review: A Gem

The Countess is called away to tend a sick friend and imposes on the General to accept her daughter Marcilla as a houseguest. Some of the villagers begin dying, however, and the General's daughter Laura soon gets weak and pale, but Marcilla is there to comfort her.

Vampire Lovers is a particularly fine example and a cultural milestone that heralded the arrival of vampires as being romantic, charismatic and seductive.

Essentially defining the vampire for the generation of films that would follow Ingrid Pitt carries the cast and production effortlessly on a tide of charisma, charm, grace and almost preternatural beauty.

The film's much vaunted eroticism, through solely projections of male fantasy, are undoubtedly stirring. Ingrid's seduction of Madeline Smith when she chases her round the room before falling onto the bed alongside her is as erotic as anything I have seen onscreen.

Vampire Lovers is a gem which deserves to be savoured and relished.

M Rated

• 2016 Final Cut Entertainment R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2014 Media Sales/Final Cut RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2014 Shout! Factory / Timeless Media Movies 4 You R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2013 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray/ R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2003 MGM Double Feature [with Countess Dracula] R1 DVD

Australia: Uncut and M (PG-15) Rated for:

• Au 2011 Shock Entertainment R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon

This release has been criticised for some distortion on the audio track

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• 2002 ILC Prime R2 DVD

From IMDb:

• BBFC Cuts were waived, but the Ingrid Pitt nude shot was not included in this version.

US: Cuts partially restored and still MPAA R rated for:

• 2000 MGM VHS

The existing material cut from the opening and closing beheadings was restored in 1998.  The alternate angle extending the opening beheading was either not found, or doesn't exist. The Ingrid Pitt nude scene remained cut. See  article from  dvdtalk.com

• 1987 Rank VHS

UK: Passed X (18) after 4s of BBFC cuts for:

• 1970 cinema release

From IMDb:

• Cuts during the opening decapitation scene.
• Cut to remove a brief 1 sec full-frontal nude shot of Ingrid Pitt getting out of a bath tub.
• Cuts to the sword beheading at the finale.

There are 2 further points that have been discussed:

• An extended opening decapitation, showing it from another angle. This cut was never restored, maybe lost, or maybe never made it into the final cut anyway.
• There's also a rumour that there was a final shot with a female vampire biting into a bloody breast. Nothing has been found to support the rumour.

• US Embassy VHS
• US cinema release

The US censors hacked out the nudity, but the film still qualified for an R rating for violence. The end result pleased nobody as it didn't end up widening the distribution and annoyed adults who were expecting the much talked about sexy version.

Vampires Suck

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

The Unrated Extended Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2011 20th Century Fox video

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2011 20th Century Fox (Theatrical + Unrated versions) RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2011 20th Century Fox (Theatrical + Unrated versions) R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

PG-13

• 2011 20th Century Fox video

• 2011 20th Century Fox Blu-ray
• 2011 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2010 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

• This film was originally shown to the BBFC in an unfinished version. The BBFC advised the company that the film was likely to receive a 15 classification but that the requested 12A certificate could be achieved by making cuts in five sequences in order to remove sight of a flick knife being opened and to remove or reduce a number of crude visual and verbal sex references. When the finished version of the film was submitted, all five scenes had been reduced acceptably and the film was classified 12A .

Vampyres

• Blood Hunger
• Daughters of Dracula
• Las Hijas de Dracula
• Satan's Daughters
• The Vampire Orgy
• Vampyres: Daughters of Darkness
• Vampyres: Daughters of Dracula

Uncut version is available at:

The Uncut Re-edited Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2003 Anchor Bay R2 DVD via UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2010 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2003 Blue Underground R1 DVD at US Amazon

Avoid the US Anchor Bay DVD which is cut by 29s even though it proclaims otherwise

Amazon Review: Quality-looking film

A pair of bisexual women living in a dark, decaying mansion have a craving for blood and sex. Hitchhiking in long black cloaks, they lure men home and then take them to bed, slash them with knives, and dump the bodies, making it look like a car wreck. They like one guy so much they keep him around for days and he knows something bad is happening, but he's not sure what. Some people camping nearby also suspect that the women are up to strange things....

The violence is strong even though there's more blood than gore, plenty of sex and nudity, and some very lyrical, beautiful scenes. The ending throws a whole new, darker twist on the proceedings and ties it all together nicely. It has kind of a "Hammer Films" look to it, but the storyline is more along the lines of Jean Rollin. Even though the budget was small, this is a quality-looking film.

• 1989 Rank VHS

From cuts details on IMDb :

This was pre-cut as per the cinema release but lost a further 26s with BBFC edits to:

• a lesbian shower scene
• sexual thrusting during the sex scene between Fran & John
• the stabbing of Rupert
• blood being licked from John's arm wound
• close ups of Fran & Miriam's naked bloody bodies in the pre-credit scene
• the stripping and stabbing of Harriet in the cellar

• 1975 cinema release

The submitted running time was 86:31s = 83:03s PAL

Never cut in the UK or US

The Van

A Re-edited Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2007 20th Century Fox R2 DVD

• 1997 Fox VHS
• 1996 cinema release

Van Wilder: Party Liaison

• Van Wilder
• National Lampoon's Van Wilder
• National Lampoon's Van Wilder: Party Liaison
• Party Animals... wilder geht's nicht!

2002 Germany/US comedy by Walt Becker

The 2002 cinema release and the 2003 Momentum DVDs all feature the US R rated Theatrical Version.

See pictorial version differences from movie-censorship.com

The US unrated version runs a minute longer featuring extra scenes:

• There is an additional scenes at the job interview with a fat boy making fart noises before collapsing and the call for a medic.

• Two gay guys pitch their case for a job laced with innuendo.

• A gag about Collosus the dog and fancy cakes

• An extra shot of Taj with a bare breasted girl

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

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

Vanessa

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

Passed 18 uncut for strong sex and sexualised nudity for:

• 2008 Severin R0 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2010 Severin Video on Demand (worldwide) at TlaCult.com
• 2010 Severin R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Pleasant enough

This is a German version of the classic Emmanuelle. An Austrian convent schoolgirl inherits her uncle's string of brothels in the Far East.

Sex scenes here are of the very softcore variety (The whipping scenes are limp, lame and some of the least convincing around).

Olivia Pascal is absolutely lovely as are two of the other ladies but the rest of the cast far less so.  Acting quality is par for course in a softcore flick - fairly mediocre.

As mildly amusing erotica, it's a pleasant enough way to spend the evening.

• 1989 VPD VHS

The cuts were:

• to a scene where Vanessa straps herself to a machine to get whipped.

• 1986 Stablecane VHS

The cuts were:

• to a scene where Vanessa straps herself to a machine to get whipped.

• 1977 cinema release

The cuts were:

• to a scene where Vanessa straps herself to a machine to get whipped.

Vanishing Point

Uncut by censors but exists in two versions, a complete UK version and a shortened US version.

Summary Notes

Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours. After a few run-ins with motorcycle cops and highway patrol they start a chase to bring him into custody. Along the way, Kowalski is guided by Supersoul - a blind DJ with a police radio scanner. Throw in lots of chase scenes, gay hitchhikers, a naked woman riding a motorbike, lots of Mopar and you've got a great cult hit from the early 70's.

R rated

• 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Steelbook RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2002 Twentieth Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The US Version is uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2009 20th Century Fox [US + UK Versions] RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2002 20th Century Fox [US + UK Versions] R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The US Version omits the part of Charlotte Rampling playing a pot smoking hitchhiker. She appears in two scenes towards the end of film where she meets Barry Newman and the morning after. Reviewers have noted that the scenes slow down the action just as it is reaching a climax, and have criticised the scene for gay stereotyping.

R rated

• 1971 cinema release

US: The US Version is uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2009 20th Century Fox [US + UK Versions] RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2002 20th Century Fox [US + UK Versions] R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Vault of Horror

• Further Tales from the Crypt
• Tales from the Crypt, Part II

Uncut by the BBFC for 1973 X rated cinema release, 1993 VHS and DVDs in 2009 and 2016, but the 1988 VHS was the cut US PG rated version. Initially rated R uncut for theatrical release in the US, but was cut for PG rated home video until released uncut for 2014 Blu-ray.

Summary Notes

Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of their demise. Stories revolve around vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.

• 2016 Media Sales/Final Cut Entertainment RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 Media Sales/Final Cut Entertainment R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2009 Orbit R0 DVD
• 2003 Vipco R0 DVD via UK Amazon
• 1993 Vipco VHS

• 1973 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2014 Shout! Factory [with Tales from the Crypt] RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

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MPAA

• 1988 CBS/Fox VHS

• East West [with Frightmare] R0 DVD

From IMDB. The cuts for an MPAA PG rating were:

• Tale 1: Full-motion scene of Daniel Massey hung upside down with a tap in his neck, shuddering as the waiter pours glasses of blood and hands them out. In the cut version, entire section replaced by a still frame of same.
• Tale 2: After Glynnis Johns hits Terry-Thomas on the head with a hammer, blood spurts out, and he falls backward out of frame. The cut version becomes a still frame when the hammer makes contact with the head. The ending shows four shelves of her husband's body parts neatly preserved in jars, including one labeled Odds and Ends . The cut version shows only the first two shelves.
• Tale 5: When the publisher gets his hands chopped off by the paper cutter, the camera dollies in as he continues screaming, holding out his bleeding stumps

Significant BBFC category cuts were required for a 12A rated 2015 cinema release

• 2015 cinema release

• The distributor chose to remove shots of strong violence and bloodshed (in this instance, beatings, stabbings, shootings, sight of blood spurts and sight of bloody injury detail), as well as detailed images of hard drug use, in order to achieve a 12A rating. A 15 without cuts was available.

BBFC category cuts for the 12A rated cinema release in 2014

UK: Passed 12A for moderate violence and innuendo after 50s of BBFC category cuts for:

• 2014 cinema release

• The distributor chose to cut scenes of strong violence (a blood spurt from a cut throat, blood dripping from a man suspended upside down, a heaving beating and the bloody tip of a spear emerging from a man's chest) in order to achieve a 12A rating. An uncut 15 was available.

• Veyyil
• Vesavi

Cinema release cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove sight of suicide attempt whereby man draws razor blade across his wrist with accompanying blood spurt in order to achieve a 12A classification. A 15 classification was available.

See The Waking Hour

Venus in Furs

• Le Malizie di Venere
• Devil in the Flesh
• Venere nuda
• Venus im Pelz
• Venere in Pelliccia

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

Italy: Uncut for:

• It Cecchi Gori R2 DVD via UK Amazon

• 2012 Shameless Pop Erotica Box Set [+ The Frightened Woman + Baba Yaga] R0 DVD
• 2007 Argent/Shameless R0 DVD

From www.lovelockandload.net . The BBFC specified their cuts as follows:

• Remove all sight of woman's tearful screams turning to pleasure as man continues to rape her (this pleasure being indicated by her making moaning sounds and winding her arms around his neck). Intervening shots of other people may remain.

From the 2007 BBFC Annual Report:

• The 1993 cuts were to a long scene of a rape and a scene where a preteen boy watches a couple having sex through a keyhole. As the boy was never present in the same place as the scene of sex, this material could be restored. But the rape scene was felt to endorse 'rape myth' attitudes and cuts were still required to remove this material.

• 1993 Redemption VHS

From the 2007 BBFC Annual Report:

• The 1993 cuts were to a long scene of a rape and a scene where a preteen boy watches a couple having sex through a keyhole.

• 1971 cinema release

• 1970 cinema release

Versus

• Down to Hell 2
• Ultimate Versus

There is an Unrated Director's Cut.

Ultimate Versus is an Extended Version produced 3 years after the initial release with extra CGI material, new fights and changes to the music score.

From US Amazon : A Cult Hit

Versus is a cult hit from the beginning. Ryuhei Kitamura's film has all the ingredients for stylish mayhem: Zombies, Guns & Gangsters, Samurai Swordplay, Slick humor, a cute chick, anime-like fantasy and mystery. The story revolves around prisoner escapee KSC2-303(Tak Sakaguchi, from Shinobi, Death Trance, Azumi) stuck in the Forest of Resurrection to seek safe haven. Unfortunately, the crime lord supposed to grant him this has his own motives and he finds himself against a mysterious supernatural opponent to whom he is linked. This flick is a stylish relentless, rampaging zombie action-noir-horror hybrid that Hollywood probably wishes it thought of it first.

The difference between the R1 Ultimate Edition and the previous R1 Special edition are:

• More Blood and gore.
• It looked like all the fight scenes have been extended.
• added: a renewal scene- Dark hero encounters zombies(3 scenes) more extended. Back-flips mayhem galore
• Zombies holding katana swords in the beginning scene.
• Ohba extended zombie encounter scene
• extended action sequence, zombie encounter- 3 Assassins going to the forest meeting a lot of zombies instead of just meeting up with Matsuda and Ohba.
• Katayama extended fight scene with assasins.
• New music/new dialogue on some scenes. Added scenes appear a lot sharper than the film itself. The film itself is re-mastered, although it still maintains that murky look.
• Extra CGI and color correction
• And a lot more of added 11 minutes of action and mayhem!!

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

A Very Brady Sequel

All cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2003

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

From newsgroup discussions

Well I have some basic training with their use (and I know some good martial artists who are proficient) and I can absolutely guarantee that without extensive training (many months at least) the only person you'll hurt with nunchaku is yourself. They are a difficult weapon at best.

Which is exactly the point made by A Very Brady Sequel - and I repeat my allegation that the BBFC-snipped version is actually more dangerous than the uncut version, because while the nunchakas are still visible, the repeated scenes of the user knocking himself out with them have largely been removed.

Rated R for language and sexual content.

The film was previously submitted to the MPAA prior to release and rated PG-13 For mature thematic material involving teen sexuality, partial nudity, and brief strong language.

A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas

• A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

Unrated

UK: The Extended Cut was passed 18 uncut for frequent drug use for:

• 2012 Warner [2D + 3D Theatrical + 2D Extended] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: The Extended Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 New Line [Theatrical + Extended] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . It seems unlikely that the additional material would have had problems with an R Rating

R Rated

• 2012 Warner R2 DVD
• 2011 cinema release [2D&3D]

Always uncut in the UK and US

V/H/S/2

Summary Notes

Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.

Unrated

• 2013 Koch Media R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Theatrical Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2013 Magnolia [Theatrical + R rated Versions] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD/VHS Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2013 Magnolia [Theatrical + R rated Versions] RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2013 Magnolia [Theatrical + R rated Versions] R1 DVD at US Amazon

See pictorial cuts  from movie-censorship.com :

Some of the goriest moments were blurred by using digital effects that suggest that the recording camera was just having technical problems right at the following moments:

• When the cult leader cuts the camera man's throat, the camera has an image error and doesn't show the bloody details.
• When the mass suicide happens, the picture is distorted again in the R-Rated. The bloody headshots are disguised by this effect.
• The enormously headshot with the shotgun that causes the cult member to lose half of his head was made more harmless by distortion
• When the missing student shoots himself in the head with the revolver, this is hidden by distortion

Vice and Virtue

• Le vice et la vertu
• Laster und Tugend

Cut by the BBFC for X rated 1963 cinema release. Uncut in the US.

Summary Notes

During the last year of the 2d world war, german officers keep young and pretty girls as prisoners in a French castle for their only sexual pleasure while the others are fighting...

• 2015 Kino Lorber (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2015 Kino Lorber  R1 DVD  at US Amazon

• 1963 cinema release

Victim

An important landmark in censorship history as it was the first UK film to mention the word 'homosexual'. The BBFC cut 1 line of dialogue for an X rated cinema release, albeit after an appeal which cancelled 3 other cuts to dialogue. The age classification tumbled from 16 in 1961, 15 in 1986, 12 in 2004 and PG in 2005. The US release was also controversial with an initial refusal in 1961 for a rating under the Hayes Code. Times were a changing and the film was released the following year.

Summary Notes

A prominent lawyer goes after a blackmailer who threatens gay men with exposure (homosexual acts still being illegal). But he's gay himself.

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• 2005 cinema release

UK: Presumably the cut 1961 Theatrical Version was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2014 Network RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2005 Carlton/Network R2 DVD at UK Amazon

UK: Presumably the cut 1961 Theatrical Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• 1986 VCI VHS

UK: Passed X (16) after BBFC cuts for:

• 1961 cinema release

UK: From IMDb .

This was the first English language film to use the word homosexual. Due to the film's subject matter the BBFC studied the script before official submission and several lines of anti-homosexual dialogue were removed.

Eventually John Trevelyan agreed to pass the film after cuts to 4 lines of dialogue including Melville Farr's confession to his wife of his homosexual urges ( Because I wanted him. I WANTED him! ).

Surprisingly 3 of these were rescinded upon appeal, including Farr's legendary admission, and the only cut made to the film was the removal of a line of dialogue referring to an adolescent boy making the wrong choice .

US: See article from en.wikipedia.org .

The film Victim was deemed to be too frank and liberal in its treatment of homosexuality, and, thus, was initially not given approval by the censorship code.

However, in 1962, the Hollywood Production Code had agreed to lift the ban on films using homosexuality as a plot device. A few years later the code itself would be replaced by the Motion Picture Association of America, which introduced age-appropriate classification for films. Initially, Victim was generally classified as an adult film, often with the X classification that was initially given to pornographic films.

When Victim was released on VHS in America (1986), it was given the PG-13 rating.

See Code 7 Victim 5!

Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide 2: Draconian Days

There exists and Original Version and an Extended Cut of the documentary. The Trailer Reel was cut by the BBFC

Promotional Material

Released to tie in with the 30th Anniversary of the Video Recordings Act, July 1984 and limited to 6,666 individually numbered sets, each comes with postcards featuring the DPP Section 3 cover art and Graham Humphrey’s original cover art.

The Video Nasties continue to be a major source of interest to this day, and after the crtical and sales success of Video Nasties 1, comes the return! Video Nasties 2 is released to tie-in with the establishment of the Video Recordings Act.

Unrated

• 2014 Nucleus Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Documentary is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Severin Films R0 DVD at US Amazon

• 2014 Nucleus Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 14th July 2014

• Compulsory cuts were required to remove sight of real animal cruelty (a live animal being cut open with a knife, during a trailer for 'Last Cannibal World'). Cut required in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy.

The BBFC further commented in the Annual Report covering 2014:

Cuts were required to the documentary Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide 2 to remove a scene of a live crocodile being cut open with a knife. The footage featured in a trailer for Last Cannibal World; the film itself was also cut before its original X classification in 1977.

Director Marc Morris commented via Twitter:

Can't say the animal cruelty cut bothers us.

Videodrome

Cut in the US for an MPAA R rating. This cut Theatrical Version was released in the UK for 1983 cinema, 1990 VHS and DVD but the 1987 VHS was heavily pre-cut. The Uncut Unrated Version was released in the UK on Laserdisc, but wasn't available on mainstream home video until 2015. The US Criterion home video releases are uncut and MPAA Unrated.

Summary Notes

Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show--he discovers "Videodrome." His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy.

In Videodrome, James Woods plays a Canadian television entrepreneur, a man who provides material - usually suspect, often porn - for cable TV. In the course of his seedy research he finds a pirate broadcast of a strange, compelling programme. The torture and masochism he glimpses as the programme hisses and breaks up is ... well, it looks real. Or is it just incredibly well made, with the interference and fluctuating picture quality just an example of good engineering and clever directing, simulating clandestine status to give the show a bit of edge?

A disturbing, thought-provoking, hugely entertaining film. If you enjoy the unusual, if you appreciate the surreal, if you like to be challenged and explore irony, this may be a movie you'll love.

Unrated

• 2015 Arrow Video RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2015 Arrow Video R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2015 Arrow Video RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon
• 1999 Universal Laserdisc

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2010 Criterion RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2004 Criterion R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

70s

• 2011 Universal R0 Blu-ray
• 2002 Universal R2 DVD
• 1990 CIC VHS
• 1983 cinema release

The US cuts for an R Rating were:

1. During the screening of Max's (James Wood) Samurai Dreams video a shot of a dildo is very much shortened
2. The first appearance of the Videodrome programme is slighter shorter as it loses a glimpse of pubic hair and a female victim being strangled
3. The sequence in Harlan's (Peter Dvorsky) lab after the Rea King Show uses a toned down take of a woman being whipped.
4. Nickie's (Debbie Harry) ear piercing loses several shots; Max moving the needle across Nicki's body, Nicki's cry of 'God', the needle being pulled out of the ear, a close up of the other ear being pierced and a pan to reveal Max & Nicki making love afterwards.
5. The scene of Max shooting his second partner is slightly shortened.
6. The death of Convex (Les Carlson) does not show his innards briefly erupting.

The 1990 CIC VHS video carries the following statement on the cover: Includes Footage not previously available on video in the UK. This refers to the previous pre-cuts to the R rated version being restored from the 1987 VHS release. This statement does not mean that it is the uncut Unrated Version.

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• 1987 CIC VHS

See pictorial cuts from movie-censorship.com . The 1987 video suffered 6 cuts:

• Niki asking Mak to cut her with a pocket knife whilst showing a previous wound on her neck
• Max piercing Niki's ears
• Niki burning herself with a cigarette
• The sight of body shot by Max is missing
• two shots of Barry with his stomach bursting open are missing

A View to a Kill

Cut by the BBFC at the advice screening stage and the cuts have persisted for all releases since

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MPAA

• 2013 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 20th Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2012 MGM RB Blu-ray [Bond 50 Collection] at UK Amazon
• 2012 MGM R2 DVD [22 Film Collection] at UK Amazon
• 2008 MGM R2 DVD
• 2007 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2006 Sony R2 DVD
• 1993 Warner VHS
• 1985 cinema release

US:

• 2012 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2012 MGM Bond 50 Collection RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2007 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

The BBFC commented:

The film was originally viewed by the BBFC in an incomplete form, with the music score unfinished and the opening and closing credits missing.

During this advice screening, the BBFC requested that a heavy crotch kick and a double neck chop, both given by Bond, be removed from the film to get a PG rating. These cuts occur during the fight in the hidden room under Zoran's stable. If you watch the scene closely, or even frame by frame, the scene is somewhat sloppy in a couple of places. When the film was edited, the pre-cut version was submitted for a formal rating.

During this stage of classification, the Board asked for an alteration to the opening titles on a shot of an almost nude woman. Its hard to speculate which woman this refers to, but viewing the titles it seems likely that it could be the woman seen through a scope near the beginning, who becomes defocused and blurry whenever she turns the front of body towards the camera, or the mirrored image of the dancing women at the end as Michael Wilson's name appears. She too, goes out of focus on a profile shot where her nipples almost become clearly visible.

With this last change made, the PG rating was awarded.

BBFC category cuts for a U  rated version

• 2014 cinema release

• Company chose to reduce scenes of mild violence and threat, and to remove more detailed verbal references to violence, in order to obtain a U classification. Cuts made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy. An uncut PG classification was available.

The BBFC further commented in the 2014 Annual Report:

Viking Adventures from the British Museum is a documentary about that museum's exhibition and is specifically aimed at children at Key Stage 2 level in primary education. It features new artefact discoveries and dramatic reconstructions of Viking life hosted by young presenters.

A number of scenes included images of historical weapons, often within dramatic reconstructions or being used to show how certain strikes or blows could injure a human.

Although clearly in an educational context, the frequency and focus on realistic violence was more in line with PG Guidelines, and the distributor chose to make significant cuts to reduce the intensity and sense of violent threat to achieve a U classification.

• 2014 cinema release Unreleased as the distributors opted for a U rated version

Viking Queen

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

G Rated

UK: Passed PG uncut for mild nudity and violence for:

• 2007 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA G Rated for:

• 2004 Starz/Anchor Bay Double Feature (+Vengeance of She) R1 DVD at US Amazon

In 2012 Hammer Films made a general call for information about a possible more explicit version of the film.

• 1967 cinema release

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 91:39s = 87:59s PAL

From IMDb:

• Cut by the BBFC to heavily edit shots of Salina being stripped and flogged, and
• scenes of caged prisoners being lowered into a fiery pit.

Vikings

The series is filmed with 3 options for nudity. The French release shows full nudity, the German release has nudity hidden by optical blurring, and the US version has fully clothed alternative takes of nude scenes.

• 2013 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Blu-ray promises 9 extended versions, presumably the uncut version

• 2013 20th Century Fox R1 DVD

Village Of Doom

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cut required to remove sight of a chicken being kicked and ill-treated

A long version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2009 Ayngaran video

The BBFC explained:

The BBFC Guidelines at 12 state that Violence must not dwell on detail. There should be no emphasis on injuries or blood . In this version of the film, there is some focus on sprays of blood when people are shot, and on the hero defeating his opponents by breaking their bones, making it too strong for a 12 classification and placing it at 15 instead. This version is longer than the version which was passed 12A on film and contains stronger violence.

VILLU also contains some mild bad language, including uses of shit , bloody and bugger .

• 2009 cinema release

The Vindicator

• Frankenstein '88

Seems to have passed PG when the bleeping completely obscures 4 uses of th2 word 'fuck' but 12 when the bleeping is only partial

Summary Notes

An aspiring filmmaker goes through the ups and downs of romance when he falls for a Christian woman who says she only wants to be friends.

• 2012 Seyons DVD

The BBFC noted:

The BBFC's Guidelines at 12A'/'12 state The use of strong language (for example, 'fuck') must be infrequent . This film includes four bleeped uses of that particular term, uttered in each case by the hero. Although an attempt has been made to disguise the strong language through the use of the audio bleeps, the original words are still clearly identifiable, particularly if the film is watched with the optional English subtitles. The film also contains mild bad language that includes the terms shit , hell and God .

• 2010 cinema release

The BBFC noted:

The film contains several uses of mild bad language including shit . It also includes bleeped words that are not identifiable. BBFC Guidelines at PG state that there may be Mild bad language only .

Violation of Justine

• Justine de Sade
• Justine

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

• 2013 Blue Underground [Fifty Shades of de Sade 4 films collection] R0 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1993 Atlantic VHS

The Violation of the Bitch

• The Coming of Sin
• Secrets of the Bitch
• La visita del vicio
• Sex Maniac
• Sodomia

The Director's Preferred version was passed 18 after 1:15s of BBFC cuts for:

• 2010 Hb R2 DVD
• 2004 Hanzibar R0 DVD
• 1999 Pagan VHS titled The Coming of Sin

The BBFC cuts were to:

• an attempted rape scene
• a bondage scene

The Dutch version titled Sex Maniac and Italian version titled Sodomia feature added hardcore inserts.

pre-cut

• 1987 Krypton VHS titled Secrets of the Bitch

pre-cut

• 1986 Mighty Fair VHS titled Violation of the Bitch

• 1981 Hokushin pre-cert VHS titled Violation of the Bitch
• 1979 cinema release titled Violation of the Bitch

The International Version eliminates several crucial scenes in their entirety and alters the opening credits to play out over a later scene.

The Violator

See Act of Vengeance

Violence Jack 1: Evil Town

BBFC
30s

Pre-cut
2:58s

Passed 18 with 2:58s pre-cut and 30s cut by the BBFC for:

• 2005 Manga R2 DVD
• 1996 Manga VHS

Uncut for:

• R0 DVD via US Amazon

Sex, violence, bondage and cannibalism cut. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Violence Jack 2: Hell's Wind

Passed 18 after 6:43s of BBFC cuts for:

• 2005 Manga R2 DVD
• 1996 Manga VHS

Uncut for:

• R0 DVD via US Amazon

Sex, violence, bondage and cannibalism cut. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Violence Jack 3: Slumking

Passed 18 after 25s of BBFC cuts for:

• 2005 Manga R2 DVD
• 1996 Manga VHS

Uncut for:

• R0 DVD via US Amazon

Sex, violence, bondage and cannibalism cut. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Violent City

• Città violenta
• La Cité de la violence
• The Family

See trailer from youtube.com

Unrated

UK : The Italian Version was passed 18 after BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2004 Hollywood R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2008 Blue Underground R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The US Anchor Bay/Blue Underground DVD version restores eight minutes of footage originally cut by United Artists for the U.S. release. Because these scenes were never dubbed into English, they are presented in their original Italian language with English subtitles.

• 1971 cinema release

The Violent Enemy

submitted
cinema
93:59s
=90:13s

UK: Unconfirmed but running times suggest that the cut cinema version was passed PG for mild violence without further BBFC cuts for:

• 2006 Odeon R0 DVD

UK: Passed U after BBFC cuts for:

• 1969 cinema release

See Sudden Justice

See Once a Thief

Viper

• Bad Blood

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

The Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2002 Delta R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2002 Delta VHS

There is also a cut US R Rated Version to avoid

• 1994 New Age VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• An ear clap was removed where Travis is fighting off a bad guy

A Virgin Among the Living Dead

• Christina, Princesse de l'Erotisme
• Christina: Princess of Eroticism
• Among the Living Dead
• Desideri Erotici di Christine
• Los Suenos Eroticos de Christina
• Une Vierge chez les Morts Vivants
• Zombie 4: A Virgin Among the Living

There are multiple versions, the most widely distributed are the Director's Cut and Producer's Cut. The BBFC cut a hybrid version for the most recent UK releases.

Summary Notes: Visually stunning

A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of her father's will. After a while she discovers that they are all in fact dead and her decision to live with them turns into a nightmare. Unable to leave she's drawn into a macabre underworld through visions of nude satanic rituals and her own impending sacrifice.

The movie is very stylish as is typical with Franco's work, but also rather visually stunning, with the shots of the lush forest surrounding the chateau.

• 2013 Redemption Re-mastered Edition [Directors + Producers Cuts] RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon titled Christina: Princess of Eroticism
• 2013 Redemption Re-mastered Edition [Directors + Producers Cuts] R1 DVD at US Amazon titled Christina: Princess of Eroticism

Unrated

• 1985 Careyvision VHS

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

• 2013 Redemption Re-mastered Edition [Directors + Producers Cuts] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon titled A Virgin Among the Living Dead
• 2013 Redemption Re-mastered Edition [Directors + Producers Cuts] R1 DVD at US Amazon titled A Virgin Among the Living Dead

The Producer's Cut splices in zombie footage from Franco's Zombie Lake.

• 2002 Arrow R2 DVD
• 1994 Redemption VHS

The BBFC cuts were

• The rape sequence preceding the satanic ritual has been partially deleted.

Maybe this is also the cut UK version

The Virgin and the Gypsy

Cut by the BBFC for 1970 cinema release. Unconfirmed but the cuts probably persisted into home video

Summary Notes

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.

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• 2007 Fremantlemedia/Arrow R0 DVD Video at UK Amazon

UK: Passed AA after BBFC category cuts for:

• 1970 cinema release

See Rings of Fear

Virgin Witch

• Lesbian Twins

Uncut at:

R Rated

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2011 Odeon R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2004 Anchor Bay DVD
• 1993 Redemption VHS
• 1983 Intervision pre-cert VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2012 Redemption Re-mastered RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 Redemption Re-mastered R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2006 Image/Redemption R1 DVD

Summary Review: Looking Good

Christine gets her big chance at modelling when she applies at Sybil Waite's agency. Together with Christine's sister Betty they go to a castle for the weekend for a photo shoot

On one hand critics criticised: yeah there's this coven of witches, and a couple of cute girls are being lured into it, but that doesn't prevent this film from being only so-so at best. One of the girls becomes the plaything of the head female witch, but any potential eroticism is wasted as they never actually do anything together. Aside from a couple of brief moments when the girls are without their clothes, this film was just plain boring.

On the other hand some critics have lightened up on the film seeing it in its 2012 pristine transfer. Perhaps because it makes for even more appreciation of the beautiful Ann and Vicki Michelle.

submitted
88:31s =84:59s

• 1979 Intervision VHS

Passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for:

• 1972 cinema release

The cuts were to sex scenes

• London 1971 cinema release

• 1971 cinema release

UK: Passed 12A for moderate violence after 11s of BBC category cuts for:

• 2013 cinema release

Visions of Ecstasy

Banned by the BBFC for 1989 video release on grounds of blasphemy. the ban was challenged and upheld by the Video Appeals Committee and the the European Court of Human Rights. The blasphemy law was repealed in 2008 and the BBFC ban was revoked for an uncut 18 rated DVD release in 2012.

Unrated

• 2012 4Digital/Redemption [Visions of Ecstasy + Sacred Flesh] R0 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Sacrament [Visions of Ecstasy + Sacred Flesh] R1 DVD at US Amazon

See BBFC press release from bbfc.co.uk :

Visions of Ecstasy is a 19 minute short film, featuring a sequence in which a figure representing St Teresa of Avila interacts sexually with a figure representing the crucified Christ. When the film was originally submitted to the BBFC in 1989, for video classification only, the Board refused to issue a classification certificate. This decision was taken on the grounds that the publication of the film, which the issue of a BBFC certificate would permit, might constitute an offence under the common law test of blasphemous libel.

The Board is required, as part of the terms of its designation under the Video Recordings Act 1984, to seek to avoid classifying any work that might infringe the criminal law. Therefore, the Board had no alternative at the time but to refuse a classification. The Board's decision to refuse a classification to the film was subsequently upheld by the independent Video Appeals Committee.

In 2008, section 79 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act abolished the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel. This means that the BBFC is no longer entitled to consider whether the publication of the film might comprise a blasphemous libel.

The BBFC has carefully considered Visions of Ecstasy in terms of its current classification Guidelines. These reflect both the requirements of UK law and the wishes of the UK public, as expressed through regular large scale consultation exercises. With the abolition of the offence of blasphemy, the Board does not consider that the film is in breach of any other UK law that is currently in force. Nor does the Board regard the film as likely to cause harm to viewers in the terms envisioned by the Video Recordings Act.

The Board recognises that the content of the film may be deeply offensive to some viewers. However, the Board's Guidelines reflect the clear view of the public that adults should have the right to choose their own viewing, provided that the material in question is neither illegal nor harmful. In the absence of any breach of UK law and the lack of any credible risk of harm, as opposed to mere offensiveness, the Board has no sustainable grounds on which to refuse a classification to Visions of Ecstasy in 2012. Therefore the film has been classified for video release at 18 without cuts.

• 1970 Axel VHS

The BBFC decision was subsequently appealed to the Video Appeals Committee who upheld the ban.

Director Nigel Wingrove then took his case to the European Court of Human Rights , but again lost his case. By Mark Kermode:

Visions of Ecstasy, an innocuous (if rather silly) short film depicting 'the ecstatic and erotic visions of St Teresa of Avila was banned in the UK in 1989. In the film, St Teresa is first seduced by her own sexual psyche, and then mounts and caresses the crucified body of Christ. Technical shortcomings notwithstanding (hands which seem to move freely despite apparently being nailed down) the film raised a problem for the BBFC, which is forbidden from classifying material which may infringe the laws of the land.

Despite support from the likes of Derek Jarman, the BBFC concluded that, if prosecuted, a 'reasonable jury' was likely to convict Visions of Ecstasy as blasphemous. Not to be defeated, director Nigel Wingrove took his case to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that the very existence of a blasphemy law contravened the freedoms of expression enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights.

In a mealy-mouthed ruling, the Court agreed that Freedom of expression constitutes one of the essential foundations of a democratic society , but with the caveat that freedom carries with it duties and responsibilities including a duty to avoid as far as possible an expression that is, in regard to objects of veneration [i.e. religion], gratuitously offensive to others and profanatory . Which effectively meant that Wingrove was allowed his freedom of expression unless such freedom offended his Christian peers. In which case, he wasn't...

Visiting Hours

• The Fright
• Get Well Soon
• Terreur a l'hopital central

Uncut version is available at:

Cut by the BBFC for 1982 cinema release. The same cut version was briefly banned as Video Nasty in 1984. Released again in the same cut form on VHS in 1986. Uncut in the US

Summary Review: Not your everyday slasher

A crazed, women-hating killer (Ironside) attacks journalist Deborah Ballin (Grant). When he discovers that his attack didn't kill Deborah, he comes to the hospital to finish what he started.

The movie is really quite tense at times. The attack at Deborah's home is frightening, especially the dumb waiter scene. And the climactic chase is amazingly pulled off. The acting is alright and the music is also to note, and adds a lot of atmosphere.

This is much different from what you'd probably expect, and is worth a look. Definitely not your everyday slasher.

• 2014 Shout! Factory Killer Double Feature RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2011 Shout! Factory Killer Double Feature R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2006 Starz/Anchor Bay R1 DVD

VoD:

• 2014 VoD at YouTube

• 1986 CBS/Fox VHS

ITV broadcast the uncut version in 1989 and got rebuked by the authorities.

UK: The cut cinema version was released on pre-cert video for:

• 1984 CBS/Fox VHS
• 1983 CBS/Fox VHS

It was listed as a video nasty in September 1984 but was soon dropped from the list in November 1984.

UK: Passed X (18) after 1:10s of BBFC cuts for:

• 1982 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• Cut to edit a scene where Colt traces his switchblade knife across Lisa before slashing her shirt
• Cuts to shots of Colt stabbing Sheila and to her pained facial expression
• Then more cuts in the same scene with Colt kicking her Sheila to get a response for the photographs he is taking of her.

The Visitor

There is an uncut European Version and a shorter US Version

Summary Notes

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil.

MPAA

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

US: The European Version is uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2014 New Video Group RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2014 New Video Group R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• Drafthouse Films VoD [US only] at US Amazon

• 1987 Warner VHS

UK: The shorter US Version was passed X (18) uncut for:

• 1974 cinema release

Viva

Unrated

The Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2008 Nouveaux R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2009 Cult Epics R1 DVD at US Amazon

There is also a cut US R Rated Version shorn of about 12 minutes of footage.

Voices

• Nightmare

submitted
91:25s
=87:46s

The cut cinema version [unconfirmed] was released on pre-cert video for:

• 1982 VCL VHS

Passed AA after BBFC cuts for:

• 1973 cinema release

Voyage of the Damned

There exists a version that is 23 minutes longer than the Theatrical Version

Summary Notes

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

• 1986 Channel 5 VHS

PG

• 2006 Sound & Media R2 DVD
• 2000 Carlton R2 DVD

• 1976 cinema release

• 2013 Shout! Factory/Timeless Media RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

The Voyeur

• L'Uomo che guarda

Cut by the BBFC for an 18 rated softcore release. Uncut in the US

Summary Review: Close to hardcore

At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed Dodo is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.

What is so unique about Brass' films of this decade (and to a slightly lesser degree his 1980s films as well) is how they manage to combine eroticism with an explicitness that is close to hardcore porn, and that without ever looking seedy or overly stylish. Greatly supporting this effect are the music of Riz Ortolani and the excellent cinematography by Massimo Di Venanzo.

With L'Uomo che guarda Brass seems to be telling the porno makers: this is how a sex film can and should look like.

• 2015 Cult Epics (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2013 Cult Epics [Tinto Brass Collection 4] R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2008 Cult Epics R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2016 Argent R2 DVD
• 2012 Argent Re-mastered R2 DVD
• 2012 Argent Online

The cuts were made by the substitution of reframed or alternative shots

The BBFC commented:

• Distributor chose to remove clear and explicit sexual detail (in this case vaginal penetration with a cigar) in order to achieve an 18 classification. An uncut R18 was available. R18s can only be sold in licensed sex shops.

• 1998 Nouveaux VHS