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Wolf Creek

• US Weinstein R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Unrated Version features 2 extra plot scenes and 2 extra violent shots adding up to about 5 minutes extra. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com :

• Confusing filler with Kirsty waking in the morning after a party with Ben by her side.
• A long scene showing Liz investigating the garage where Kirsty was held captive
• Longer view of amputated fingers
• More shots of the stabbing of Liz

R Rated

• 2007 Optimum Blu-ray
• 2006 Optimum R0 DVD
• 2005 cinema release

The Australian distributors opted to make 2 minutes of cuts to achieve a MA15+ (like a UK 15) rating for cinema release, rather than an R18+ (like a UK 18). It seems that UK releases are the uncut version.

 See  pictorial cuts details from  movie-censorship.com

The Wolf of Wall Street

Reportedly cut for an R rating in the US

Summary Notes

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. DiCaprio plays Belfort, a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 36 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.

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R rated

• 2014 Universal Pictures UK Steelbook R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 Universal Pictures UK R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 Universal Pictures UK R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: According to what could just be press hype, it is reported that Scorsese had to trim sex and nudity to prevent the film being slapped with an NC-17.

The film ended up rated R for sequences of strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language throughout, and for some violence.

It seems that a 4 hour version is now set for home video.

Kenya : Banned by the film censor

Malaysia: Self censored: Cinemas give up without even submitting it to the censor

See more international cuts and bans at Banned International: The Wolf of Wall Street

Wolfhound

Unrated

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2002 Jigsaw R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2002 New Concorde R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2002 New Concorde R1 DVD

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The Wolfman

Exists as a Director's Cut and Theatrical Version

Summary Notes

Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. His father sent him from the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor to an insane asylum, then he goes to America. When his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns to his father's estate to learn that his brother's mauled body has been found. Reunited with his estranged father, Lawrence sets out to find his brother's killer... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Someone or something with brute strength and insatiable blood lust has been killing the villagers, and a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline comes to investigate.

Unrated

• 2010 Universal R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 Universal R2 DVD at UK Amazon

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

• 2010 Universal R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2010 Universal R1 DVD at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . The extra material adds depth to the plot and is worthwhile. There are a couple of extra snippets of violence, but these are nothing to with any classification issues.

• 2010 Universal Video
• 2010 cinema release

The Wolverine

Cut for an MPAA PG-13 rating. There is also an uncut Extended Version

Summary Notes

When Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.

Unrated

• 2013 20th Century Fox Extended Edition [3D + 2D] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: The Extended Cut is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2013 20th Century Fox [3D+2D] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

This version promises a little harder edge with extra material that could not be included in the US MPAA PG-13 rated Theatrical Version. The BBFC notes that this version contains a little more strong language (3 'fucks' instead of 1). The BBFC also notes gore, which it did not do for the Theatrical Version. Still fits in a BBFC 12 rating though.

See  article from  cinemablend.com : Better than the Theatrical Cut

The extended cut contains both a whole new sequence and an extended version of another. The first comes after Logan and Mariko (Tao Okamoto) have checked into the Love Hotel. In the original cut Wolverine has a dream about Jean (Famke Janssen) while standing guard and passes out, but in the unrated one he is accosted by a group of Yakuza and nearly gets stun-gunned to death before getting saved by Mariko's knife-throwing skills. The extended scene, meanwhile, is a longer version of the ninja battle in the third act. Not only does the scene have Wolverine performing much better in the fight, it also has Yukio (Rila Fukushima) getting in on the action.

In addition there's more blood spatter throughout the film's fight scenes and more baddies vapourised into a bloody mist.

See  pictorial version details from  movie-censorship.com : Improvement

This longer version really is quite a lot more brutal and bloody than the original one, which already was quite explicit for its PG-13 rating. Digital blood was used quite often to make scenes harder, other scenes feature more action, blood and gore in general.

The additional action and violence are not the only alteration, of course. Wolverine's vocabulary is more explicit.

The Extended Cut certainly does its part to improve the film.

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PG-13

• 2013 20th Century Fox Limited Edition with Comic Book RB Blu-ray
• 2013 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray
• 2013 20th Century Fox R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated for:

• 2013 20th Century Fox R1 DVD

The BBFC commented that the Theatrical Version had been the 3rd most complained about film of 2013:

The Wolverine was classified 12A in the summer of 2013. Twelve members of the public contacted the BBFC, with several arguing that language featured in the film was unacceptable at 12A. Parents thought it was particularly unacceptable for the Wolverine character to use strong language. There is a single use of strong language in the fi lm, noted in the BBFCinsight, plus moderate and mild bad language throughout.

The Woman in Black

Cut by the BBFC for a 12 rating. Passed uncut at 15 but unreleased. Uncut in the US with a PG-13 rating

PG-13

• 2012 Technicolor/Momentum video not yet released

The BBFC commented:

The film was originally classified 12A for cinema release and 12 for video release after visual cuts, visual darkening and sound reductions were made in a number of scenes. This is the uncut version of the film, restoring the cuts and reductions originally made, and has been classified 15 for strong supernatural threat and horror.

US: Uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated for:

• 2012 CBS RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 CBS R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2012 Technicolor/Momentum RB Blu-ray
• 2012 Technicolor/Momentum R2 DVD
• 2012 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

Distributor chose to reduce moments of strong violence / horror in order to achieve a 12A classification. Cuts made in line with BBFC Guidelines and policy. A 15 classification without cuts was available.

In addition to the 6 seconds of visual cuts, substitutions were also made by darkening some shots and by reducing the sound levels on others.

See  Cutting Edge: BBFC Cuts to Woman In Black by Gavin Salkeld

• Sound effects edited to tone down the jump associated with Arthur spotting the ghost of the Woman In Black in a window of the house
• Sound effects edited to tone down the jump associated with the Woman in Black appearing behind Arthur standing at the same window as above
• Creepy claps of thunder muted when Arthurs spots ghostly children outside the house
• 4s of the hanging have been removed and details of the rest of the scene have been reduced via visual darkening, shadowing and muted sound
• 3s of a young girl taking a step whilst engulfed in flames have been removed
• Volume of a shrill scream from Nate turned down just after girl in flames scene.
• 4 cuts to the decomposed and injured faces of children. The BBFC darkened the scenes or else applied shadows.

From  Interview with David Cooke and Craig Lapper from  telegraph.co.uk . Senior BBFC examiner Craig Lapper explained:

• When we make cuts, people think in terms of 'snip-snip', but these days, with digital, there are so many other ways you can make a film more acceptable. You can suggest soundtrack changes and things like colour darkening, putting shadows in to obscure the more gory elements of a scene." So in The Woman in Black, we didn't hear the crack of the woman's neck as she hung from a noose – and, thanks to the cunning use of shadows, neither did we see her face.

From the 2012 BBFC Annual Report: Top film of 2012 for whinges

The film generating the majority of public feedback in 2012 was The Woman in Black. The film generated £21m in UK cinemas in 2012, making it the second most popular British film of 2012 after Skyfall. 134 of these cinema-goers complained that the film was too dark and unsettling for a 12A certificate. Some said the sense of threat, coupled with the theme of supernatural deaths of children in the film, was too disturbing for young audiences.

See Hammer Films: Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death

Woman - Stories Of Passion - The Diamond Merchant

Cut in 2006 unusually without a BBFC justification.

Women Behind Bars

• Des Diamants pour L'Enfer
• Vias pour Mourir
• Prison Sado pour Femmes
• Punition Cell

Uncut version is available at:

Only UK release has been banned as a video nasty. Uncut in the US

Summary Review: Naked Isn't a Problem

A small-time hood attracts the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but things become even more interesting when his moll murders him and is slammed behind bars where she faces all manner of electric shock treatments to various parts of her anatomy.

There's tons of nudity, a lesbian scene and a couple torture sequences but this is still fairly clear for a Franco WIP film.

Romay has never been accused of being a good actress but she fits her role fine here and she's certainly cute so watching her naked isn't a problem.

Franco himself plays a gangster in the film.

• UK Go VHS

The video briefly made the banned video nasty list in August 1984 but was dropped in October 1984

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2013 Blue Underground Bad Girls Behind Bars Collection R0 DVD at US Amazon
• 2007 Blue Underground R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Women in Cages

• Bamboo Doll's House
• Woman's Penitentiary
• Women's Penitentiary

Banned by the BBFC for 1972 cinema release and cut for 1986 VHS. Uncut in the US

Summary Review: Tropical Prison

Set in a nameless Latin American prison but filmed in the Filipino jungle. The film featured a mixed cast of local Philippines and American exploitation regulars, but it's remembered as the first high-profile role for the later Queen of Blaxploitation, Pam Grier.

Grier plays the sadistic warden, a pot-smoking lesbian with a fully-equipped torture chamber (including a guillotine!). The New Fish , a ditzy blonde ex-stripper called Alabama, has taken the heroin possession rap for her pimp boyfriend. She knows too much, so the pimp blackmails her cellmates to execute her.

A competent and well-shot entry in the tropical prison genre from Filipino director Gerry De Leon, it places the embittered ex-addict and prostitute Grier in the position of slave owner, watching her white charges toiling away in the plantation with obvious ironic glee.

• 2011 Shout! Factory Women in Cages Collection RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2011 Shout! Factory Women in Cages Collection R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1986 Apex VHS

• 1972 cinema release

Women in Cell Block 7

Women in Cellblock 9

• Tropical Inferno
• Frauen fur Zellenblock 9

Banned by the BBFC for 2004 video

Summary Review: For the sex & gore crowd

This sexploiter was quite clearly made for the sex & gore crowd. Thus we have here several beautiful women (nude most of the time), who are imprisoned and raped and tortured and raped and killed and raped.

We normally criticise movie characters as two-dimensional when they are underwritten - here even "one-dimensional" would give too much credit

Compared to other Franco flicks the cinematography is exceptionally good and at times even inspirational. The sets are fine too, although it has to be said that torturing instruments that are meant to aid interrogation completely fail their purpose if they almost instantaneously kill.

• Anchor Bay Entertainment UK Video

The BBFC commented:

Women in Cellblock 9 contains many sequences depicting the abuse, torture and humiliation of naked women. These sequences were found to be in conflict with the Board's published classification guidelines, which prohibit scenes that eroticise or endorse sexual assault. The Board's strict stance on titillatory sexual violence is supported both by public opinion and by a large body of media effects research.

In addition, The Protection of Children Act, as amended by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, makes the distribution and showing of indecent photographs of a child under the age of 18 a criminal offence. One of the lead actresses in Women in Cellblock 9 was just over 16 at the time the film was made. The Board was in no doubt that many of the sexualised scenes involving her would therefore be illegal. Although the amendment will not take effect until May 2004, the BBFC cannot classify material which would be in circulation in breach of the Act.; The Board considered the option of cutting the work. However, the quantity of scenes involving eroticised sexual violence, combined with the indecent photographs of a person under 18, meant that cuts were not a viable option.

Women in Love

Passed 15 without further BBFC cuts for:

• 2004 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1988 Warner VHS

There's no mention of cuts being restored so presumably the cut cinema version has become the definitive version.

• 1969 cinema release

From IMDb:

• The nude wrestling scene posed problems for UK censor John Trevelyan who was concerned by the homoerotic undertones. The film was only passed after Ken Russell made some edits to the original print to reduce full-length shot of Gerald standing motionless before the wrestling begins and to darken shots of the wrestling itself.
• The sex scenes between Gerald and Gudrun were also reduced on the censor's request.

The male wrestling scene was a British censorship milestone. It was the first to show full frontal male nudity, albeit reduced by the censor.

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 129:41s = 124:30s PAL.

Wonder Boys

No BBFC cuts but the US version was cut and may well have been submitted here too.

• In the theatrical version Tobey Maguire mistakenly refers to Alan Ladd's death as a suicide. After complaints from Ladd's family, Paramount removed the offending line in all future releases of the film, including home video. VHS and DVD releases carry a disclaimer, shown before the feature, warning that the film has been edited for content.
• The video release appears to have been edited for language as well. Early in the film, when Michael Douglas is picking up his editor at the airport, he turns to him and says "you're fucked-up" but an overdubbing has him saying "you're high." Near the end of the film, when Robert Downey Jr. is chasing Vernon with his car, Vernon says "Motherfucker" but this was overdubbed to "man" for the video release.

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Unrated

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

• 2012 Soda Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Soda R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2012 Soda Online

US: The Extended Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Docurama R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2012 cinema release

The Words

There exists a Theatrical Version and an Extended Version

Unrated

• 2013 cinema release

US: The Extended Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Sony [Theatrical + Extended] RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 Sony [Theatrical + Extended] R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

See  article from  flix66.com :

The Extended version is 5:29s longer than the theatrical cut. There is more strong language. Some of the scenes are extended or use different angles. The camera at times lingers longer on the actors to convey the emotion of the scene. The ending in the extended cut seemed more ambiguous and open to interpretation. The ending in the theatrical cut explained things more fully and was more upbeat.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

World Gone Wild

The World Ten Times Over

No BBFC cuts noted for the 12 rated 2009 Optimum DVD

World Vale Tudo Championshi 2

World War Z

The Theatrical Version was cut for a US PG-13 rating. There is also an Unrated Version that is significantly different

Summary Notes

United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.

Unrated

• 2013 Paramount video

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2013 Paramount [Theatrical + Unrated 2D + 3D] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon
• 2013 Paramount [Theatrical + Unrated] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

The Blu-ray is the Unrated Version and the DVD is the cut Theatrical Version

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PG-13

• 2013 cinema release

US: The cut Theatrical Version is MPAA PG-13 rated for:

• 2013 Paramount R1 DVD

See  pictorial cuts details from  movie-censorship.com . The movie proved very successful as a PG-13 movie with toned down violence. The Unrated version is better though.

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

The uncut cinema release was one of the very few examples of hardcore allowed by the BBFC in an X rating. A cut version was submitted for VHS though.

Summary Review: Unique and warped

A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with footage and interviews with Wilhelm Reich and Al Goldstein of Screw magazine. The film applies Reich's theories of Orgone energy and analogies of Stalinism as a form of Freudian sexual repression.

What makes W.R. such a unique and warped bird of art is how it challenges the viewer, provokes fully if not discussion then some kind of collision of intellectual and visceral reaction for those who at least meet the filmmaker halfway. Once in a while frustrating, but never ever boring, W.R. is a cinematic shock from a go-for-broke iconoclast.

Unrated

• 1971 cinema release

The cinema version is one of the very few films released with BBFC blessings from the Stephen Murphy and James Ferman era that contain hardcore scenes.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

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

pre-cut

• 1995 Connoisseur VHS

Censored for the video version. James Ferman indicated that he would have preferred the uncut version for video release but it was the censored version prepared for channel 4 that was submitted.

1. After opening credits a B&W Soviet sex-education film viewed through a kaleidoscope lens is obscured by animations of goldfish. Apparently this hasn't completely obscured the action and an erect penis can still be seen on close inspection.
2. Wall paintings of men and women masturbating have been blanked out
3. A sequence showing Jim Buckley having a plaster cast made of his erect penis has all the tumescent shots obscured by animated stars

These amended scenes can be found as an extra on Criterion's DVD release of WR.

Wrong is Right

• The Man with the Deadly Lens

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004 as Wrong is Right

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings

The Extended/Unrated Version is the only known home video release and is uncut in the US and UK

Unrated

• 2012 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 20th Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Extended Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2012 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

Wrong Turn 5

• Wrong Turn 5: Bloodbath
• Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines

Standard home video releases are the uncut unrated version. There is cut R rated version for US Blockbuster

Unrated

• 2013 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 20th Century Fox Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

Wrong Turn 6: The Last Resort

• Wrong Turn VI

Exists in a Theatrical and an Unrated Version

Summary Notes

A sudden and mysterious inheritance brings Danny and his friends to Hobb Springs, a forgotten resort deep in the West Virginia hills. Hobb Springs is being looked after under the watchful care of Jackson and Sally, a socially and awkward couple who introduce Danny to the long lost family he's never known. Soon, Danny is forced to choose between his friends and his bloodline.

• 2014 20th Century Fox [Wrong Turn 1-6] R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2014 20th Century Fox [Wrong Turn 6] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

In the US there is a Theatrical and an Unrated Version. It is not clear which version is being released here but previous UK video releases in the series have been Unrated Versions

• 2014 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2014 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

WWE: Armageddon 2004

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cut required to sight of dangerous and imitable behaviour (a noose being tightened around wrestler's neck during a wrestling match)

WWE: Backlash 2005

• Backlash

BBFC cut the 2005 Clear Vision DVD: Cut required to sight of dangerous and imitable behaviour (a wrestler using a scarf to strangle an opponent during a wrestling match)

WWF: In Your House 18: Badd Blood

During a bit of out of ring shenanigans, a wrestler is hit repeatedly over the head with a chair. The BBFC have reduced this to a single blow.