BBFC Cuts Z

Zabriskie Point

• Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point

The film was passed 15 uncut for the 2009 Warner DVD

From cuts details on IMDb

There are 2 versions

• The song that's playing when Daria drives away at the very end is either the continuation of a Pink Floyd song or else a Roy Orbison song

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

From cuts details on IMDb

• The song that's playing when Daria drives away at the very end is a Roy Orbison song

the BBFC noted the submitted running time as 111:01s = 106:35s

Zathura

The cinema release of 2005 was cut by 39s and the DVD/video release was cut in 2006 with the following BBFC statement: Distributor chose to remove dangerous imitable techniques (using aerosol as blowtorch and setting fire to sofa with the use of accelerant) to obtain a PG. A 15 uncut was available.

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

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Zero Day

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: A cut was required to remove a detailed description of building explosive devices and avoiding capture.

Zeta One

• Alien Women
• The Love Factor

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2006 Jezebel R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• UK 1995 Jezebel VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2002 Image/Jezebel R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary review: Cheesy

Cheesy Sci-Fi effects coupled with failed humour earns the comment of 'the most ridiculous films ever'.

Several viewers found it to be the fun sort of bad though.

• UK 1970 cinema release

From IMDb:

• suffered BBFC cuts which removed most of the nudity including Mark's assorted flings with naked women
• toned down torture of Zara by Bourdon.

The submitted running time was noted as 85:55s = 82:29s PAL

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2006 Eros DVD

• UK 2006 cinema release

Zoltan: Hound of Dracula

• Dracula's Dog
• Zoltan
• Dracula contro Zombi
• Zoltan il cane di Dracula

No BBFC cuts to the 15 rated 2003 DVD from Warner

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

See review from IMDb: A Fun Bad Film

Cheaply made horror film from the 70's that is surprisingly better than you might initially expect.

The film opens in Romania as soldiers uncover the underground tomb of the Dracula family. A soldier pulls the stake out of a puffy sheet in an opened casket and is soon bit to death by a giant of a hound. This is Zoltan and he soon pulls the stake out of his master - not Dracula but his servant - and the two begin a trek to the United States to turn the last surviving family member into their undead master.

The plot sounds ridiculous - and it is, but it strangely works as reasonable entertainment. The actors are all decent with Jose Ferrer lending cachet and clout as Branco. He does a fine job bringing some much needed credibility. The odd servant is played by none other than Reggie Nalder who just looks evil and up to no good. Throughout the movie he commands Zoltan telepathically. The rest of the cast is serviceable as well. Michael Pataki is believable as the last member of Castle Dracula and even plays the count in a flashback sequence.

The dogs do a good job and the director Albert Band, despite a lack of any sizable budget and some real poor lighting, creates just enough suspense and tension to keep this dubious project somewhat afloat. Don't expect any real scares, but there are a few scenes that are well-shot: the dogs attacking the small rented cottage and the dogs attacking the car are just a couple to mention.

A fun, bad film from the only decade where something like this could and would have been made.

Zombi 2

See Zombie Flesh Eaters

Zombie

See Zombie Flesh Eaters

Zombie Creeping Flesh

• Night of the Zombies
• Virus
• Inferno dei Morti Viventi
• Apocalypsis Canibal
• Hell of the Living Dead
• Cannibal Virus
• Hell of the Living Dead
• Zombi 4
• Zombi 5: Ultimate Nightmare
• Zombie Inferno
• Zombie of the Savanna

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2009 Cornerstone R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2004 Protected/Vipco R0 DVD
• UK 2002 Protected/Vipco VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2007 Blue Underground R1 DVD at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Awful but lots of Fun

From reading the reviews I was prepared for the worst when I purchased this dvd. I was actually surprised that it was better than most people seem to give it credit for! Sure it has an amazingly inept Ed Wood-ian sort of quality... ok yes, it IS in fact a terrible film, but it does have a lot going for it.

1. The entertainment value. Like Ed Wood's classics this film remains totally enjoyable and even has a certain lovable quality despite the fact that it's such an awful film. It's lots of fun and there's never a dull moment.
2. There are some truly effective Zombie sequences. The scenes involving the zombie priest at the mission, the zombie kid coming to life in his fathers arms, the dead native coming to life after his funeral ceremony. Also the zombie hag with a cat inexplicably ripping out through her stomach made me laugh. It made no sense, but it was still cool.
3. Last but not least, the gore. As the producers said, without blood and entrails, a film like this would be pointless. This film will make your stomach turn. It goes far beyond Dawn of the Dead as far as blood and guts. Even farther than Lucio Fulci's Zombie. The use of real raw meat and pig guts definitely helped Hell of the Living Dead live up to the splatter genre and then some. The extreme close-ups of maggots crawling through rotting flesh and a native picking them off and eating them were absolutely nasty! Also there are some well done exploding zombie heads.

Overall, if you're looking for Zombie crème de la crème, stick to Romero and Fulci, but if you're just in the mood for something gross and fun, check it out.

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It was banned as a video nasty in July 1983 after being successfully prosecuted in Brighton. It was dropped from the list in July 1985

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• UK 1982 cinema release.

The distributors cut 14 minutes especially the interminably SWAT team footage.

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• UK 1982 cinema release (unreleased)

However the distributors felt that the film was too long and decided not to release this version but to shorten it.

The Zombie Dead

• Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror
• The Nights of Terror
• Le notti del terrore

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

UK: Passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2002 Michael Lee/Vipco R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2002 Shriek Show R2 DVD at US Amazon

Summary review: Minimalist plot

A well liked zombie film with a minimalist plot about a professor who incants a few mystic rituals awakening a hoard of zombies who attack his mansion and its house guests.

The effective make up seems to trump the acting, script and special effects.

Fast pacing and lots of gore/nudity seem to have won reviewer's hearts.

3:11s

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10:06s

• UK 1986 Apex VHS titled Nights of Terror

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com. Extensive cuts, eg:

• A boy/man midget bites off his Mum's breast at the end.
• Multiple gut-munching scenes
• broken glass slicing into a woman's head

Zombie Flesh Eaters

• Zombie
• Zombie 2: The Dead are Among Us
• Zombi 2
• Island of the Living Dead
• Gli Ultimi Zombi
• Sanguelia

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

Passed 18 uncut after all cuts waived for:

• UK 2010 Cornerstone Flesh Eaters Collection Boxset R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2005 Anchor Bay Box of the Banned R2 DVD

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2011 Blue Underground Ultimate Edition R0 Blu-Ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2004 Shriek Show R1 DVD at US Amazon

Review from IMDb: Horror Classic

This is a horror classic of Lucio Fulci with a simple, but interesting screenplay. The unforgettable story begins like Nosferatu, with an empty boat arriving in a harbor with a zombie instead of a vampire; shows the naked body of two beautiful actresses, Auretta Gay and Olga Karlatos; is very gory, with a death that slightly recalls the famous scene of Buñuel in "Un Chien Andalou", when the zombie perforates the eye of Paola Menard; and has a very scary and impressive make-up, with zombies eating human flesh and biting and killing people.

The sister of Mia Farrow, Tisa Farrow, has a good performance in this cult-movie.

• UK 1999 Diskline VHS

It was felt that the video could have been released uncut in 1999 but nominal cuts were made to ensure that the version was different to that successfully prosecuted as obscene a few years earlier. A rather mythical rule was quoted that obscene videos couldn't be passed uncut for 10 years after the prosecution.

The retained cuts were:

• 4s of deletions from Paola Mernard (Olga Karlatos) having her eye pierced by a splinter of wood
• 14s cut from the body of Paola being eaten by zombies

• UK 1996 Vipco VHS
• UK 1992 Sachs Nicam VHS

The Vipco release was misleadingly described as 'complete'. The supposed justification was that it suffered no further cuts for home video and was the 'complete' cinema version. Other videos at the time were being further cut for home video.

• UK 1979 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com. The cuts were:

• 2 cuts, 7s: deletion of shots of policemans bitten throat with blood spurting from it
• 1 cut, 15s: deletion of Paola Mernard (Olga Karlatos) having her eye pierced by a splinter of wood
• 1 cut, 34s: deletion of almost all shots of Paola being eaten by zombies
• 1 cut, 10s: deletion of all shots of blood gushing from Susan's (Auretta Gay's) throat after being bitten
• 1 cut, 2s: deletion of a zombie having the top of his head sliced off during an attack on a church.
• 1 cut, 9s: deletion of Mernard's (Richard Johnson's) face being bitten
• 1 cut, 8s: deletion of a zombie biting a churchman's arm
• 1 cut, 3s: deletion of a zombie on fire having its head blown off
• 3 cuts, 4s: deletion of various zombies being hit and slashed in the face
• 2 cuts, 9s: deletion of Susan biting her boyfriend on the arm and then chewing the flesh
• In addition 26s is missing from the prologue showing a zombie being shot, but this was probably down to the distributor

Zombie Flesh Eaters 2

• Zombi 3

No BBFC cuts but most European versions are missing a 5 minute pre credit sequence showing Dr Holder and his assistant trying to re-animate a corpse.

This US DVD is available from US Amazon

Zombie Flesh Eaters 3

• After Death
• Oltre la morte
• Zombie 4: After Death

Germany: The German Export Version/Director's Cut is available for:

• De R2 DVD via UK Amazon

From pictorial version details at movie-censorship.com:

The German Export/Japanese VHS Version runs 7:40s longer with additional plot. The additional material is not vital but one scene adds a bit of extra explanation about the house barracade.

• UK 2010 Cornerstone Zombie Flesheaters Collection R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2002 Protected/Vipco R0 DVD via UK Amazon

Zombie Island Massacre

Thanks to Bleach on The Melon Farmers Forum:

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 1996.

• At 17.5 mins - After couple witness voodoo ceremony and make love on the ground, scene was cut away after first blow to man's head in close up removing the second and third blows to his bloodied head.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Zombie Nosh

• Flesheater
• Revenge of the Living Zombies

Passed uncut in 2003

Passed with cuts in 1993

Zombie Strippers!

Unrated

The US Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for the 2008 cinema release and 2008 Sony DVD.

Beware of the cut US R Rated Version with cuts to violence and alternative shots to remove much of the nudity.

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

Zombies: Dawn of the Dead

See Dawn of the Dead

Zombiethon

The Zone

Zoolander

The cut US PG-13 Rated was submitted to the BBFC for the 2001 cinema release and 2002 Paramount DVD.

However in the US the original submission was rated R. The producers cut the film to get a PG-13:

From ATTIC Censorship:

• The MPAA made cuts to a scene of an orgy between Stiller, Christine Taylor, Owel Wilson, Hansen, some New Zealand tribal warriors, and some Finnish midgets!. The cuts parts included the characters rubbed soil to each other and a sequence with a goat.

Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain

• Xin shu shan jian ke
• Warriors from the Magic Mountain
• Zu Time Warrior

The original Hong Kong Version was passed PG uncut for:

• UK 2002 Medusa/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• UK 1989 Rainbow VHS
• UK 1988 MIHK VHS
• UK 1983 cinema release

From IMDb:

The longer international English language version, Zu Time Warriors, includes a 25-min. bolt-on filmed in Canada with Yuen Biao as a modern day fencing champ transported via his dreams while in a coma to the Oriental fantasy setting of the film and awakening from the coma at the end.