BBFC Cuts X

The X Files

• The X Files Movie
• The X Files: Fight the Future

Exists in a Theatrical and an Extended Version

• 2013 20th Century Fox [Theatrical + Extended Version] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

From IMDB. The video release has additional footage not shown in the theatrical release:

• In the opening scene you now see more of the alien. In the theatrical release we see it fight off one of the cavemen, killing it, and the other caveman gets up to see it lying on the ground draining out the black blood (or what fans know as black oil). In the video release, we see it run off after it kills one of the cavemen, and when the other caveman gets up, he tracks it down and then kills it using the broken end of his torch.
• In the scene with Mulder talking to the Well Manicured Man in the car, he reveals to Mulder that Samantha, Mulder's sister, was abducted by aliens at the request of her father, William Mulder, so she could be part of the colonization project, thus ensuring her survival in the colonization of Earth by the visitors. Also revealed is that when plans went awry, Mulder was intended, by his father, to seek the truth and reveal what had been done.
• There is also an added scene in the video release with Mulder running down the street after the hospital scene.

• 2013 20th Century Fox [Theatrical + Extended Version] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 1999 Fox Pathe R2 DVD
• 1999 Fox Pathe VHS
• 1998 cinema release

The X Files: I Want to Believe

• X-Files: Je veux y croire

In the US the film was cut for PG-13 rating but is uncut as an Unrated Version. Bother versions are 15 rated in the UK.

Summary Notes

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

Unrated

• 2008 20th Century RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 20th Century R2 DVD at UK Amazon

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

• 2008 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

• 2008 20th Century Fox Video
• 2008 cinema release

The Theatrical Version was said to be cut of some of the more disturbing scenes to avoid an R rating but they are not contentious enough to affect the UK 15 rating

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

X-Men: Days of Future Past

• X Men: Days of Future Past
• X-Men: Days of Future Past
• X-Men: Días del futuro pasado

Exists as a Theatrical Version and an extended Rogue Cut.

Summary Notes

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

• 2015 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2015 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Producer Simon Kinberg has spoken of plans for an Extended Cut. He said that the version will have 10 minutes of additional footage featuring Rogue. Kinberg called it the Rogue Cut , and said:

It's a big chunk, a substantial part of the movie. We want to give (fans) the fullest picture of the film --- behind the camera , and in front of it, with the Rogue Cut and provide more of the process we went through.

• 2014 Twentieth Century video
• 2014 cinema release

The BBFC cut 7:01s for the 2007 Future Publishing DVD: Distributor chose to remove a non-playable demo of the videogame BIOSHOCK featuring very strong violence in order to achieve a 15. An 18 uncut was available.

Xena - Warrior Princess: The Black Wolf

Cut when submitted in 2003 with the following BBFC explanation: Cut required to sight of double handed blow to sides of head ("double ear clap") by Xena, on the grounds that it is a highly dangerous and easily imitable blow performed by the heroine, occurs in a work with significant appeal to children

Xero

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2010 Cobra 2 Disc Collectors Edition R0 DVD at Adult Video Universe

See article from en.wikipedia.org : Aesthetic and gloomy

Xero is an aesthetic and gloomy trip into a world of lesbian erotic, eschaton phantasies and Japanese zen-tradition. It's a movie and a musical album of composers and producers Rockford Kabine. The movie derives it's effect from the close liaison of pictures and sound. Artistic references are the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Japanese Pink Film/Exploitation-genre, as well as the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone.

• UK 2011 4Digital/Redemption 2 Disc Collectors Edition R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

Distributor chose to remove several sequences of explicit sexual detail (masturbation, oral sex and penetration) in order to achieve an 18 classification. An R18 without cuts available.

X-ray

• Hospital Massacre

A heavily pre-cut version was passed X without BBFC cuts for 1981 cinema release. Rank subsequently released the same pre-cut version on pre-cert VHS in 1983. The 2015 Blu-ray release is the full length uncut version.

Promotional Material

Slasher horror written and directed by Boaz Davidson. 20 years after humiliating a young boy named Howard (Charles Lucia) on Valentine's Day, Susan (Barbi Benton) finds herself stalked by an anonymous figure during a routine visit to the hospital. Someone is roaming the hospital disguised as a surgeon, murdering all the staff before Susan can be examined. But can she escape before being captured by her mysterious pursuer?

• 2015 88 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

The 2015 Blu-ray release looks set to be full length uncut version.

pre-cut

• 1983 Rank VHS

UK: A pre-cut version was passed X (18) without BBFC cuts for:

• 1981 cinema release

IMDb notes that this version is heavily cut

Xtro

• Monstromo

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

UK: The Happy Ending Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2009 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• UK 2007 Film 2000 R2 DVD

US: The Happy Ending Version is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2005 Image [Xtro + Xtro II] R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Much to enjoy

If you can overlook its obviously low budget and tolerate the BBC Radiophonic Workshop-like synthesizer on the soundtrack, there's much to enjoy in XTRO. It's a simple tale of a family man returning to Earth after three years in the company of aliens whose customs and ways of life he hasn't completely surrendered.

Fans of the gross and outrageous will enjoy the sight of a fully-grown man being literally reborn and the several messy killings that further spice up this warped and somewhat disturbing British shocker. Although clearly inspired by Ridley Scott's Alien, XTRO actually bears more than a passing resemblance to Norman J.Warren's notorious Inseminoid, except things are much nastier here.

• UK 1992 First Independent VHS

• UK 1987 Polygram VHS

• UK Spectrum VHS

The pre-cert Spectrum video release was caught up in the video nasties scare as it was seized in Manchester, Birmingham & Newcastle. The BBFC pointed out that they had passed it uncut and the seized tapes were returned without getting listed on the official list

• UK 1982 cinema release

xXx

• Triple X

Cut for a PG-13 rating in the US and further cut by the BBFC for a 12 rating. The uncut Director's Cut is available in the US on DVD. The UK Xtreme version of the Director's Cut suffers the same BBFC cuts as the UK Theatrical Version.

Summary Notes

Xander "XXX" Cage is a thrill seeker who until now has been deemed untouchable by the law. NSA Agent Gibbons forces XXX to cooperate with the government to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring, and avoid going to prison. Gibbons sends XXX to enter this world of crime undetected where others have failed, using his natural athletic prowess and a whole lot of attitude. Xander must combat an organization led by a clever, ruthless and nihilistic Yorgi whose first target is the city of Prague.

Gavin Salkeld's Cutting Edge Episode 31:
xXx Films
 

• US 2005 Sony R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

pre-cut
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• UK 2005 Sony R2 DVD

The BBFC ironically noted that the headbutt cut was now waived anyway.

Note that UK video releases of The Xtreme Edition are nominally 15 rated but this is due to video  extras rather than the main feature.

The Theatrical Version is about 8 minutes shorter. Some cuts were for a PG-13, eg a woman provocatively posing on a bed, but some scenes were cut for pacing reasons.

~8:00s

• UK 2007 Sony R0 Blu-ray
• UK 2003 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD
• UK 2002 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

• Distributor chose to make one sound and vision cut to sight of headbutt in order to achieve a 12. An uncut '15' was available to the distributor.

XXX: The Next Level

• XXX 2 - The Next Level
• XXX: State of the Union

BBFC advised category cuts were required for a 12A/12 rated 2005 cinema release and home video. Uncut and PG-13 rated in the US.

Summary Notes

Agent Augustus Gibbons has selected an imprisoned former US Navy SEAL Darius Stone, a new agent in the XXX program, travels to Washington D.C., where they track a splinter faction of the U.S. military that attempts to overthrow the U.S. government and assassinate the President, led by Secretary of Defense and former 4-Star General George Deckert, Stone's former commanding officer whom he once led a mutiny against. But he's been targeted for assassination by a radical splinter group of dissenters deep within the United States government. The new XXX agent must uncover the insurgents from within. It is the nation's only hope to stop the first coup d'etat in American history.

Gavin Salkeld's Cutting Edge Episode 31:
xXx Films
 

• 2005 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2005 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2005 Columbia/Tri-Star Home video
• 2005 cinema release titled XXX 2 - the Next Level

The BBFC commented:

During post-production, the distributor sought and was given advice on how to secure a 12A classification. Following this advice, a sequence early in the film in which a man is stabbed from behind was changed prior to submission to remove detail of the knife emerging from his stomach. The submitted work was passed 12A without cuts.

xXx2: The Next Level

• xXx: State of the Union

Not cut by the BBFC but this comment appears on their website: During post-production, the distributor sought and was given advice on how to secure a 12A classification. Following this advice, a sequence early in the film in which a man is stabbed from behind was changed prior to submission to remove detail of the knife emerging from his stomach. The submitted work was passed 12A without cuts.
The same cut occurred in the 12A cinema version and the 12-rated DVD submissions of 2006.

Unfortunately Sony used the cut UK version for all European releases too.

See pictorial cuts at movie-censorship.com

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon