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Valachi Papers

Passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

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

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

• UK 1972 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 127:45s = 122:38s PAL

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

See The Blood Beast Terror

Vampire Circus

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Unrated

UK: Passed 15 with some cinema cuts restored for for:

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

• UK 2002 Carlton R2 DVD

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

• US 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.

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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• UK 1987 Futurevision VHS
• UK 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

Unrated

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong sex and nudity with cinema cuts waived for

• UK 2013 Medium Rare video titled Vampire Ecstasy at UK Amazon

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.

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

• UK 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:

• UK 2003 Columbia/TriStar DVD

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

Vampire Journals

The Vampire Lovers

R rated

M Rated

UK: Passed 15 uncut with the brief nude shots of Ingrid Pitt restored for:

• UK 2008 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• US 2013 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray/ R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 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

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.

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R rated

UK: The US 1998 Restoration was passed 15 with BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 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:

• US 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.

• UK 1987 Rank VHS

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

• UK 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:

• UK 2011 20th Century Fox video

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

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

PG-13

• UK 2011 20th Century Fox video

• UK 2011 20th Century Fox Blu-ray
• UK 2011 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• UK 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:

• UK 2003 Anchor Bay R2 DVD via UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2010 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 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.

• UK 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

• UK 1975 cinema release

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

The Van

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

• UK 2007 20th Century Fox R2 DVD

• UK 1997 Fox VHS
• UK 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:

• UK 2008 Severin R0 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

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

• UK 1989 VPD VHS

The cuts were:

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

• UK 1986 Stablecane VHS

The cuts were:

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

• UK 1977 cinema release

The cuts were:

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

Veiyil

• 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.

Velu Nayakan

The Velvet Vampire

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

UK: Passed 18 after 1:05s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2012 Shameless Pop Erotica Box Set [+ The Frightened Woman + Baba Yaga] R0 DVD
• UK 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.

• UK 1971 cinema release

• UK 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

The Very Best of Irish Adult Home Videos

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.

A Very Dirty Dinner Party

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:

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

US: The Extended Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 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

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

Victim

Passed PG without BBFC cuts for

• UK 2005 cinema release

• UK 2004 Carlton R2 DVD

• UK 1986 VCI VHS

• UK 1961 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 99:57s = 95:57s PAL

Videodrome

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

The Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 1999 Universal Laserdisc

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

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

Summary Review: Surreal

A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.

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.

70s

R Rated

• UK 2011 Universal R0 Blu-ray
• UK 2002 Universal R2 DVD
• UK 1990 CIC VHS
• UK 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.

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70s

• UK 1987 CIC VHS

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

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.

US:

• US 2012 MGM Bond 50 Collection RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

A View to a Kill

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Passed PG after BBFC cuts for:

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

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.

US:

• US 2012 MGM Bond 50 Collection RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

Vijeta

Viking Queen

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

G Rated

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

• UK 2007 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA G Rated for:

• US 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.

• UK 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.

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

Villu

A long version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 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.

• UK 2009 cinema release

The Vindicator

• Frankenstein '88

Violation of Justine

• Justine de Sade
• Justine

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

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

• UK 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:

• UK 2010 Hb R2 DVD
• UK 2004 Hanzibar R0 DVD
• UK 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.

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• UK 1987 Krypton VHS titled Secrets of the Bitch

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• UK 1986 Mighty Fair VHS titled Violation of the Bitch

• UK 1981 Hokushin pre-cert VHS titled Violation of the Bitch
• UK 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:

• UK 2005 Manga R2 DVD
• UK 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

1988 Japanese Anime by Takuya Wada

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

• UK 2005 Manga R2 DVD
• UK 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

1990 Japanese Anime by Osamu Kamijoo

Passed 18 after 25s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2005 Manga R2 DVD
• UK 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:

• UK 2004 Hollywood R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 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.

• UK 1971 cinema release

The Violent Enemy

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93:59s
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UK: Unconfirmed but running times suggest that the cut cinema version was passed PG for mild violence without further BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2006 Odeon R0 DVD

UK: Passed U after BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1969 cinema release

Violent Tradition

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:

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

There is also a cut US R Rated Version to avoid

• UK 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.

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

Unrated

• UK 1985 Careyvision VHS

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

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

UK: The Director's Cut was passed 18 after 1:19s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2002 Arrow R2 DVD
• UK 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

Virgin Treasures

Released when semi-hardcore R18 guidelines were in force.

Virgin Witch

• Lesbian Twins

Uncut at:

R Rated

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

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

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

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

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88:31s =84:59s

• UK 1979 Intervision VHS

Passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1972 cinema release

The cuts were to sex scenes

• London 1971 cinema release

• UK 1971 cinema release

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

• UK 2013 cinema release

Visions of Ecstasy

Uncut at:

UK: Passed 18 uncut for nudity and sex involving religious images for:

• UK 2012 4Digital/Redemption [Visions of Ecstasy + Sacred Flesh] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 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.

• UK 1989 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.

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

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

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

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.

• UK 1986 CBS/Fox VHS

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

• UK 1984 CBS/Fox VHS
• UK 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 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.

Viva

Unrated

The Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2008 Nouveaux R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 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:

• UK 1982 VCL VHS

Passed AA after BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1973 cinema release

The Voyeur

• L'Uomo che guarda

See trailer from youtube.com

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

• US 2008 Cult Epics R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

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.

• UK 2012 Argent Re-mastered R2 DVD
• UK 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.

• UK 1998 Nouveaux VHS