BBFC Cuts W: Wa

Wages of Fear

• Sorcerer

The European version was shortened. The US version is complete

Summary Notes

A group of outcasts from different backgrounds and nationalities are forced by misfortune to work in an oil-drilling operation in South America. When fire breaks out of control, four of the outcasts are given the opportunity to earn enough money to get out by transporting six crates of unstable dynamite through miles of jungle in two ancient trucks.

• 2014 Warner R1 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 1998 Universal R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

shortened

• 1978 cinema release

See Murder Obsession

The Waking Hour

• Velvet Vampire
• Cemetery Girls

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for;

• 2011 Shout! Factory Vampires, Mummies and Monsters Collection R1 DVD titled The Velvet Vampire via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2007 Cheez Flicks R1 DVD titled The Velvet Vampire

Summary Review: Psychedelic 70's vampire film

Celeste Yarnell wanders through the Southern California desert (in a dune buggy) as the mysterious Diane LeFanu. After inviting a swinging couple (Michael Blodgett & Sherry Miles) to her desert home for a weekend, the couple are soon pulled into Diane's bizarre psychedelic bloodsucking world.

The film is very slight on the gore front and has a few topless scenes on the sex front.

The film seems to have a found a few fans who appreciate the psychedelic sound and visuals but many reviewers report that they found it very tedious.

• 1984 cinema release titled The Waking Hour

• 1983 Cyclo VHS titled The Waking Hour
• 1983 Prime Time/CBS Fox VHS titled The Waking Hour

Walk a Tightrope

BBFC category cuts were imposed for a 1963 A rated cinema release.

Summary Notes

Ellen (Patricia Owens) is happily married and very much in love with Jason (Terrence Cooper), but she is being blackmailed by her former husband as their annulment had never gone through. She sets up a complex plan with a hired gunman, Lutcher (Dan Duryea), to kill the ex-husband when he comes for some more money, but the current husband comes in unexpected and Lutcher, not knowing one from the other, kills him. Oops!

• 2014 Network Video

• 1963 cinema release

A Walk Among the Tombstones

BBFC advised category cuts were made for a 15 rated cinema release and home video.

Promotional Material

Private investigator Matthew Scudder (Liam Neeson) is hired by a drug trafficker to find those responsible for the kidnap and murder of his wife.

Following the trail Scudder uncovers some dark secrets leading him to think that his employer’s wife was not the first victim and her murderers are going to strike again. Can he stop them before they claim another victim?

• 2015 Universal Studios R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2015 Universal Studios R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Hopefully the BBFC advised cuts haven't found their way into the US release.

• 2015  Entertainment One RB Blu-ray
• 2015  Entertainment One R2 DVD
• 2014 cinema release

• This work was originally seen for advice. The company was advised that the film was likely to receive an 18 certificate but that their preferred 15 classification could be achieved by making cuts to reduce a scene of sexualised threat and to remove an accompanying aggressive use of very strong language directed at a woman. When the finished version of the film was submitted for formal classification, edits had been made to this scene. The formal submission was consequently rated 15.

Walk the Line

The BBFC passed the Extended Version 12 uncut for the 2009 20th Century Fox Blu-ray

Walkabout  

Uncut by the BBFC albeit after an appeal against proposed cuts for the 1971 cinema release. There exists a shortened version in the US, athough the Unr

Unrated

• 2012 Universal RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 cinema release
• 2008 Universal R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1999 4 Front/Polygram VHS

Note that the 2012 Universal release was marked 15, perhaps for extras or trailers

UK: The UK Version/Director's Cut was passed AA (14) uncut for:

• 1971 cinema release

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

• 2010 Criterion Special Edition Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2010 Criterion R1 DVD at US Amazon
• VOD to rent/buy [US only] at US Amazon

• 1971 cinema release (cut version never released as cuts were waived on appeal)

From IMDb:

• Initially cut to remove full frontal nude shots of the girl in order for an 'AA' (14) rating. However the cuts were waived after an appeal.

Walker

• Os Imortais

All UK releases cut for animal cruelty.

Summary Notes

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat. All is being financed by an American multimillionaire who has his own interest in this country.

• 2003 Universal video
• 1988 CIC Video VHS
• 1988 cinema release

• Distributor required to remove 3 shots of cruelty to an animal (horse fall) in accordance with the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937.

Walker Texas Ranger: Line of Fire

• Season 2 Episode 3

Cut in 2007 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor removed sight of cockfight

Walker Texas Ranger: War Zone

Cut when Submitted in 1996

The Walking Dead: Season 1

• Episode 1
• Episode 2: Guts
• Episode 3: Tell it to the Frogs
• Episode 4: Vatos
• Episode 5: Wildfire
• Episode 6

European releases of Season 1 were cut TV versions, although Germany gets an uncut release in May 2013. US releases are uncut.

• 2011 Entertainment One Blu-ray
• 2011 Entertainment One R2 DVD
• 2011 Entertainment One Online

• 2011 Starz/Anchor Bay RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2011 Starz/Anchor Bay R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Germany: The uncut version of Season 1 is set for R2 release on DVD and Blu-ray

pre-cut

uncut
9s
7s
16s
12s
uncut

• 2011 Entertainment One Blu-ray
• 2011 Entertainment One R2 DVD
• 2011 Entertainment One Online

The episodes were shortened for a standard TV slot via uncontentious cuts. On top of that, episodes 2-5 were pre-cut for violence.

Episode 2: See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• 9s of cuts to Rick dismembering a corpse with an axe and then delving around in its innards

Episode 3: See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• 7s of cuts to a zombie feasting on deer

Episode 4: Thanks to Mike:

• Missing two explicit and gory zombie bites in the scene where the camp is attacked near the end. One of these - where a young woman is bitten in the throat, with screams and gushing blood.

Episode 5: See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• 12s of cuts to Carol twice driving a pickaxe into the head of her dead husband

Episode 6: Uncut for violence

US and UK home video releases are uncut.

In article from movie-censorship.com it is noted that there trivial extra shots in the US TV version likely to be attributed to working around advert breaks.

US and UK home video releases are uncut

The Walking Dead: Season 4

Episodes 9 & 14 have extended versions that will be released on Blu-ray

Unrated

• 2014 Entertainment One [Original + Extended Versions] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: Extended Versions of episodes 9 & 14 are  MPAA Unrated for:

• 2014 ANCHOR BAY [Original + Extended Versions] (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon

Episodes 9 & 14 have extended versions that are included as Blu-ray extras

Unrated 

• 2014 Entertainment One [Original + Extended Versions] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 Entertainment One [Original Versions only] R1 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Original Versions are  MPAA Unrated for:

• 2014 ANCHOR BAY [Original Versions only] R1 DVD

Walking the Edge

The BBFC cut the 1986 CBS/Fox video by 2:20s

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

Walking With the Enemy

Unreleased in the UK. Exists as a Theatrical Version and Director's Cut in the US.

Summary Notes

A young man, separated from his family in WWII, disguises himself as a Nazi SS Officer and uncovers more than just his family whereabouts.

Wanderlust

The Theatrical Version was passed 15 uncut for strong language and sex references and drug use for:

• 2012 Universal Online
• 2012 Universal [Theatrical + Bizzaro Cut] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Universal [Theatrical + Bizzaro Cut] R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2012 cinema release

• 2012 Universal Online
• 2012 Universal [Theatrical + Bizzaro Cut] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Universal [Theatrical + Bizzaro Cut] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

This version changes the plot significantly but does not seem to make the film funnier nor more interesting.

Wang Yu: The Destroyer

Cut when submitted in 2002: Compulsory cut required to sight of real animal cruelty (cock fight)

The War Lord

The 1965 cinema release was cut by the BBFC for an A rating. Presumably uncut on 2010 DVD.

Summary Notes

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.

• 2014 Eureka RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 Eureka R0 DVD at UK Amazon

This seems a minute shorter than the original 1865 submission to the BBFC. But on the other hand, the credits were later updated so it is hard to read to much into the timings

• 1965 cinema release

War of the Arrows

• Choi-jong-byeong-gi Hwal

The BBFC cut horse falls from the UK release of the Theatrical Version. There is also a longer Korean Version.

• 2012 Showbox Blu-ray
• 2012 Showbox R2 DVD

The BBFC commented;

• A cut was required to remove sight of unsimulated animal cruelty (in this case a cruel and dangerous horsefall, showing a horse falling forward onto its head and neck)

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . This version adds violence presumably cut from the Theatrical Version. However most of the additional material is plot which does not significantly change the movie.

Warlock

• Warlock: The Magic Wizard

R Rated

UK: A re-edited/extended version was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2011 Second Sight R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 1998 Lions Gate R0 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Fine Writing

A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit.

Though underwhelming in its production values, Warlock manages to outshine its contemporaries through fine writing, directing, and above all, acting.

pre-cut
45s

• 1991 Channel 5 VHS
• 1989 Medusa VHS
• 1989 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• Missing the warlock spitting a bitten off tongue into a frying pan
• The warlock doesn't show off the medium's eyes that he cut out
• Missing scene where Redferne kills a bat with a knife
• Missing the shot of Redferne hitting the ground after a fall
• replacement shot for Redeferne being dragged around by the Warlock's tether

The Warlords

• Tau ming chong
• Tou ming zhuang
  Warlords

Exists as the Original Hong Kong Version and a shortened International Version. The Internatiosn Version was cut by the BBFC for 2008 cinema release and 2009 DVD.

Summary Notes

It's a heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi. The story was filmed by Zhang Che in 1973 as The Blood Brothers.

• 2010 Magnolia Home Entertainment RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2010 Magnolia Home Entertainment R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2009 Metrodome R2 DVD
• 2008 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts were required to remove all sight of animal cruelty (horses being made to fall forward onto their necks).

The Warrior

• Musa
• Musa the Warrior
• Wu shi

Cut when submitted in 2003 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts required to sight of real animal cruelty (horses being forcibly tripped)

From Liberty Stink on The Melon Farmers Forum :

The cuts play havoc with a couple of scenes in this UK release (so it may better to get the uncut but abridged region 1 DVD available at US Amazon )

The 132 minute version (127 in PAL) is a shortened edit that has been criticised for losing characterisation and continuity. The complete version runs at 158 minutes.

See www.movie-censorship.com for further details

Warrior King

• Tom yum goong
• Honour of the Dragon
• The Protector

The Thai Version was passed 18 uncut for the 2006 cinema release and 2006 Contender DVD.

Note that there are also shorter US, French and German versions.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The Warriors

The Director's Cut was passed 15 uncut for the 2005 Paramount DVD.

The Director's Cut has been decorated with the addition of a comic strip introduction to Greek warriors and comic strip style inserts at scene changes. No changes to the live action though

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

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

Warriors of Heaven and Earth

• Tian di ying xiong

The BBFC cut 7s when the Columbia DVD was submitted in 2004: Cut made to horse falls

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

• Sàidékè balái

US: The Taiwan Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Well Go USA RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 Well Go USA R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2012 Well Go USA RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 Well Go USA R1 DVD at US Amazon

A Warrior's Tail

• Savva. Serdtse voina

BBFC category cuts were required for a PG rated 2016 cinema release.

Summary Notes

An international animation project that is coming out in Russian and English languages. It is a fairytale about a grand life journey of a 10-year old boy Savva devoted to help his Mom and fellow village people to break free from the vicious hyenas. Trying to escape from hyenas Savva finds himself in a magical world he had only heard stories of.

• 2016 cinema release

• Company chose to remove a single use of strong language ('motherfucker') in order to achieve a PG classification. A 15 uncut was available.

See Banned International: WASP

Marketed with a banner saying: Caution: Lewder, Cruder and Ruder as if this was an Unrated Version or extended cut. however this seems a clever ploy as it is just the standard theatrical version

Watch Me

• Private Obsession

Passed 18 after 8s of BBFC cuts for:

• 1999 Third Millennium VHS

Watchmen

Exists in 3 versions, the Theatrical Version, the Director's Cut and the Ultimate Version

• 2009 Paramount R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2009 Warner R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2009 Warner R1 DVD via via UK Amazon and  at US Amazon

Version details from US Amazon. The director's cut runs about 25 minutes longer, and incorporates more elements from the comics, adds more violence, as well as more shots of Dr. Manhatten's schlong. Some of the previous scenes are reworked with additional dialogue.

Overall, the storyline and conversations are better fleshed out, and this version is truer to the comics. The largest additional addition is that of Hollis Mason's death.

• Rorschach gets additional dialogue, some straight from the comics.
• When Rorschach searches the Comedian's apartment shortly after the opening scene, he encounters two cops still stationed there. He fights briefly with them before jumping back out the window.
• Conversation between Dan and Rorschach (beans scene) is extended.
• All flashbacks extended, with the exception of Sally's.
• Dr. Manhatten discussing the symbol on his forehead. Additional questions in the face to face with Dr. Manhatten. Dan and Hollis watch Dr. Manhatten go crazy on their TV set.
• Laurie getting interrogated by the military as they try to determine Dr. M's whereabouts (on Mars). Alessandro Juliani's scene has been reinserted. He plays one of the scientists who bursts in during the interrogation of Laurie to tell the military that they've located Dr. M on Mars.
• Probably the biggest addition is the depiction of Hollis Mason's death at the hands of the knot heads. Interestingly, the death is done from poor Hollis' POV, where he imagines himself fighting the gangsters of the 1940s. He delivers left and right hooks to Captain Evil, before being done in by "Moloch". The score for the death scene is very fitting.
• Dan taking revenge on an isolated knot head at a bar, post Hollis' death. It's a brutal revenge.
• The shootout by hired hitman Roy Chess is much more brutal- e.g. more blood and gore, fingers blown off.
• Conversation between Dr. Long and Rorschach is extended.
• Longer jail-break scene with arguments between Rorschach and Laurie. Prison guards open fire on Dan's ship.
• Longer conversation between Dr. M and L on Mars.
• Riot scene is longer with more conversation between the Comedian and the rioters.
• Agent Forbes (Fulvio Cecere) has a larger role as the government agent in charge of handling all the Watchmen.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• 2009 Paramount R0 Blu-ray
• 2009 Paramount R2 DVD
• 2009 cinema release [2D + IMAX]

Waterloo

Video/DVD versions of 1986, 1991 & 2000 all similarly cut to remove horse falls

Waterworld

The Theatrical Version is uncut for the 1996 cinema release and CIC DVDs.

An extended TV version was broadcast and later issued on US DVD.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Waves of Lust

• Una ondata di piacere
• A Wave of Pleasure

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Raro R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Retro Allure

A young couple becomes embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games, sex games, betrayal, spouse abuse, and murder.

An early lurid exploitation gem from the future director of Cannibal Holocaust.

The female leads, Dionisio and Turner aren't shy and jump into their roles, including some lesbian scenes, with enthusiasm.

The film's low budget and locations work together to create a unique charm. The soundtrack and wardrobes also contribute to the film's retro allure.

• 1988 Sheptonhurst VHS

• 1976 cinema release

Waxwork

• Reise zurck in der Zeit

The BBFC waived their cuts for

• 2001 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD

See cuts details from dvdcompare.net :

Note that there is R rated and unrated US versions. The UK DVD is the uncut unrated version

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

See review from IMDb : Silly, but not a total waste of time

If you can get through the first half hour of this film, which features bad dialogue and stiff performances, you may just enjoy it.

A small group of spoiled teens (and one nice girl) go into a mysterious wax museum after hours and each succumb to a different, and dangerous, display. John Rhys Davies is here as a tortured, dramatic werewolf. Miles O'Keefe is a hair product dependent Count Dracula, who seduces the rich-bitch of the group into a nasty, bloody, gross-out dinner party. The Nice Girl (Deborah Foreman) is drawn into the S&M world of The Marquis De Sade (as played by the too seldom seen J. Kenneth Campbell) and it is up to the rich boy turned nice guy to save her before she is whipped to death. Once all of the displays are filled, the characters within are unleashed, and it becomes a war within the wax museum as the remaining heroes must now battle the wax monsters and their transformed friends.

All in all, this plays more like a comedy than a horror film, but the violence, when it appears, is so over-the-top that splatter fans won't be too disappointed.

• 1989 Locus VHS
• 1988 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• Edits to a whipping scene where Sara receives 2 less lashes
• Cut to dialogue between Mark and De Sade re Sara achieving orgasm through whipping

Way of the Dragon

• Meng long guo jiang
• Return of the Dragon
• Fury of the Dragon
• Revenge of the Dragon

Heavily cut by the BBFC for UK cinema release and VHS. Uncut for DVD but old cuts crept back into the Universal DVD

Summary Review: Recommended

This is the story about Tang Lung (Bruce Lee), who visits a Chinese Restaurant in Rome to help out against thugs that are trying to take it over.

This is possibly the best movie Bruce ever appeared in. It has a much-more-consistent pace, and Bruce not only shows his lighter side but gets to show what he is really made of, particularly in the climactic classic fight against Chuck Norris (look at the speed of those kicks!).

Definitely recommended, even if you're not a Bruce Lee fan.

• 2015 Mediumrare RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon
• 2003 Medusa/E1/Hong Kong Legends 30th Anniversary Tribute R2 DVD
• 2001 Medusa/E1/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2014 Shout! Factory Bruce Lee Premiere Collection RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2013 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Hong Kong: Uncut for:

• 2009 Indies Asia/Zoom Blu-ray via UK Amazon

• 2005 Universal DVD
• 1997 4 Front VHS
• 1986 Rank VHS

The BBFC really didn't like the martial arts fights in this movie and made extensive cuts. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• 1974 cinema release