BBFC Cuts Z

Zabriskie Point

• Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point

Cut by the BBFC for 1970 cinema release. Uncut on UK home video. The original US cinema release was abandoned after the studio insisted on too many cuts. After a change of boss the film was released uncut. 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

Summary Notes

An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot)...

R rated

• 2014 cinema release
• 2009 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2009 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1986 MGM VHS

• 1970 cinema release

Zathura

• Zathura: A Space Adventure

Cut by the BBFC for cinema and DVD. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

Two young brothers are drawn into an inter-galactic adventure when their house is magically hurled through space by the board game they are playing.

• 2011 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment R0 Blu-ray/R0 DVD Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2006 Sony Pictures R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2006 Sony R2 DVD
• 2005 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

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.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The Zero Boys

• Heros Boys

Cut by the BBFC for 18 rated 1986 VHS. Uncut for 15 rated 2016 DVD. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.

• 016 Arrow Video (RB) Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2016 Arrow Video (RA) Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at US Amazon

• 1986 Polygram Video [Pre-Cuts] VHS

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

Cut by the BBFC for 1970 cinema release. Uncut on home video. Uncut and R rated in the US

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.

R rated

• 2013 Odeonl R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• 2006 Jezebel R2 DVD
• 1995 Jezebel VHS

US:   uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2013 Redemption RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2002 Image/Jezebel R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 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.

Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2006 Eros DVD

• 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.

See Zombie Flesh Eaters

See Zombie Holocaust

See Zombie Flesh Eaters

See The Child

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:

Pre-cut for violence and further shortened for brevity for 1982 cinema release. Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Unbanned and uncut in 2002. Uncut in the US

Summary Review: Awful but lots of Fun

A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies.

 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.

The film remains totally enjoyable and even has a certain lovable quality. It's lots of fun and there's never a dull moment.

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 .

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. 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.

Unrated

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

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2014 Blue Underground [Zombie Creeping Flesh + Rats] RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2013 Blue Underground Midnight Movies 9 Double Feature R0 DVD titled Hell of the Living Dead at US Amazon
• 2007 Blue Underground R1 DVD titled Hell of the Living Dead at US Amazon

• 1993 Video Gems VHS

James Ferman refused to view a 1993 submission from Video Gems. This was during the Jamie Bulger moral panic and Ferman advised that it was not a good time to release a video nasty.

• 1982 Merlin VHS

The video was released in October 1982 and was banned as a video nasty in July 1983 after being successfully prosecuted in Brighton. It was dropped from the list in July 1985.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• 1982 cinema release.

The total distributors cut now totalled 14:32s minutes, especially the interminably SWAT team footage.

pre-cut

• 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

Massively pre-cut and further cut by the BBFC for 1986 VHS. Uncut for 2002 DVD. Uncut in the US but is missing a few uncontentious frames.

Summary Review

Professor Ayres discovers a secret in an ancient stone and when he opens a crypt, he revives zombies that kill him. He had invited three couples to visit him in his manor to reveal his discovery. However, they never get around to meeting the professor. Out of the blue, the zombies attack them and they seek shelter in the mansion. The creatures put the manor under siege while they protect themselves trying to survive to the horde of zombies.

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.

• 2016 88 Films [Uncut + Grindhouse Version] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 88 Films [Uncut + Grindhouse Version] R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 28th March 2016
• 2002 Michael Lee/Vipco R2 DVD via UK Amazon

• 2016 88 Films [Uncut + Grindhouse Version] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 88 Films [Uncut + Grindhouse Version] R2 DVD

• 2002 Shriek Show R2 DVD at US Amazon

From IMDb. The DVD releases from Shriek Show and Italian Shock are both missing a brief 4-second shot of a man turning around and falling back against a shutter.

3:11s

pre-cut
10:06s

• 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

Heavily cut by the BBFC for 1979 cinema release. Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Cut by the BBFC from 1992 to 1999. BBFC uncut since 2005. Uncut in the US

Summary Review: Horror Classic

Strangers looking for a woman's father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

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.

Unrated

• 2012 Arrow Steelbook RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Arrow Special Edition RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Arrow R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2005 Anchor Bay Box of the Banned R2 DVD

Note that the 2012 Arrow Blu-Ray disc included in Steelbook and Special Editions erroneously omits 6s immediately after the opening credits when the zombie carrying boat first comes into view. Replacement disks were provided.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Blue Underground R0 Blu-Ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2011 Blue Underground Ultimate Edition R0 Blu-Ray
• 2004 Shriek Show R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2010 Cornerstone Flesh Eaters Collection Boxset R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1999 Diskline/Vipco 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

• 1996 Vipco VHS
• 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.

• 1981 Vipco VHS

Vipco issued the "strong uncut version" in 1981 at a premium price which then got put on the Video Nasties list in October 1983. It stayed on the list throughout the panic so became one of the collectable DPP 39s

• 1980 Vipco VHS

• 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
• Zombie 3

Shortened for European and UK release. No further cuts by the BBFC. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into flesh-hungry zombies, and a trio of soldiers on leave must team up with a group of tourists and board themselves up in an abandoned hotel as they try to fend off the agile and aggressive living dead.

• 2002 Shriek Show R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

shortened

• 2015 88 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2015 88 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2009 Orbit Media/Cornerstone DVD
• 2002 Protected/Vipco DVD

No BBFC cuts but most European versions have been shortened:

• M issing a 5 minute pre credit sequence showing Dr Holder and his assistant trying to re-animate a corpse
• Missing scene where the infected terrorist flees to a hotel and demands a room
• Missing scene showing Nancy and Suzanna watching over Lia.

Zombie Flesh Eaters 3

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

There is an Original Version and a Director's Cut

• 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 barricade.

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

Zombie Holocaust

• Zombi Holocaust
• Dr Butcher MD
• Doctor Butcher M.D.

Uncut by the BBFC since 2000 18 rated VHS. Previously self censored for pre-cert VHS during the video nasties panic. It was seized by the police but never became an official video nasty. There is cut US version named Dr Butcher MD, but it is uncut under the title Zombi Holocaust.

Promotional Material

A macabre mix of the classic Italian cannibal and zombie cycles, ZOMBI HOLOCAUST features Euro-exploitation stalwart Ian McCulloch (CONTAMINATION) as an academic who heads to a remote Caribbean island to research an intriguing murder-mystery. Once there, he and his team (which includes the beautiful Alessandra Delli Colli from THE NEW YORK RIPPER) are shocked to discover that the tropical abode is home to a mad surgeon who is creating zombies out of the local flesh-feasting natives! Also known as DOCTOR BUTCHER MD, and heavily indebted to the work of Lucio Fulci and George Romero, this superb bout of splatter carnage comes from the golden age of Italian gore.

 
MPAA

• 2015 88 Films R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2015 88 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2010 Cornerstone R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2004 Cornerstone R0 DVD
• 2000 Orbit VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2016 Severin Films [|Zombie Holocaust + Doctor Butcher versions] (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2002 Shriek Show R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2016 Severin Films [|Zombie Holocaust + Doctor Butcher versions] (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon

From IMDb. The US version was re-edited and altered by distributor Aquarius Releasing Inc. and re-titled Doctor Butcher, M.D. . Among the changes:

• A new, completely pointless and unrelated opening title sequence featuring a zombie rising from a grave, which is actually taken from an unfinished anthology Tales To Rip Your Heart Out.
• The bulk of the original serious-sounding musical score was overlapped with a cheesy and a wonderfully irritating synthesizer one.
• Some dialogue and character development were deleted for pacing reasons.
• Even though the Doctor Butcher version is cut, there is an extra five minute sequence that takes place after Peter kills the sneaking zombie with an evanrude. In this scene, Peter and Lori are trying to get back to Obrero's hut. As they're walking, Lori falls into a trap, just missing a set of bamboo stakes sticking upward. As Peter attempts to pull her out, he sees two cannibal tribesmen and tells Lori to stay where she is and he hides behind a nearby tree. As the two cannibals see Lori in the trap, Peter runs out and hits one cannibal in the back of the head with a large stick, knocking him into the bamboo stakes. He then faces off with the remaining cannibal and beats him multiple times with the same large stick. He then finally gets Lori out and they continue to walk in search of Obrero.

• UK September 1983 VTC VHS

The video was seized subject to an Obscene Publications Act Section 3 Seizure Order. This is a legal gambit whereby victims admitted that the videos were 'obscene', and therefore subject to seizure, in return for that being the end of the matter and so avoiding an obscenity trial with the possibility of jail time.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• UK July 1983 VTC VHS

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 Lake

• Le lac des morts vivants

Unrated

UK: The Unclothed Version was passed 18 uncut for strong language, moderate sex and violence for:

• 2004 Arrow R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Unclothed Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2013 Redemption Re-mastered Edition (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2013 Redemption Re-mastered Edition R1 DVD at US Amazon

Zombie Nosh

• Flesheater
• Revenge of the Living Zombies

Cut by the BBFC for VHS but uncut on DVD

Summary Notes

A group of college students on an overnite hayride come across a group of maneating zombies. They must fight for their lives while trying to escape and warn the authorities.

• 2005 Stax video
• 2003 Michael Lee/Vipco R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1993 Vipco Video

See pictorial cuts from movie-censorship.com . 4 cuts:

• Zombie ramming his fist into a woman's stomach and pulling out her innards
• A zombie undressing a woman, killing her with a bite to her neck and then feasting on her breasts
• A zombie killing a woman by forcing his fist through her back and out of her chest
• A woman zombie feasting on a corpse

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

• Wicked Little Things

Generally available as uncut Unrated but there is also a US R rated version

Summary Notes

Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.

Unrated

• 2008 Technicolor/Momentum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2007 Lions Gate R1 DVD at US Amazon

See Dawn of the Dead

Zombiethon

The Zone

Zoolander

• Derek Zoolander

Originally R rated by the MPAA, but the film was subsequently cut, and after an appeal achieved a PG-13 rating. This version has been distributed worldwide since.  There is an alternative version of the titles though. 12/12A  rated by the BBFC for all UK releases. The film was banned in Malaysia, Iran and also banned for a while in Singapore.

Summary Notes

Derek Zoolander is VH1's three time male model of the year, but when Hansel wins the award instead, Zoolander's world becomes upside down. His friends disappear, his father is disappointed in him, and he feels that he's not good as a model anymore. But when evil fashion guru Mugatu hires Zoolander, he thinks his life has turned back round again, that is until he finds out that Mugatu has actually brainwashed him to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Can Zoolander and his new friends find out how to prevent the incident before it's too late?

cut

best
available

• 2016 Universal [Zoolander 1+2] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2015 cinema release
• 2012 Paramount R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2002 Paramount R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2001 cinema release

US: Rated PG-13 on appeal for sexual content and drug references for:

• 2016 Paramount RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2015 Paramount R1 DVD at US Amazon

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 an orgy sequence with a goat.

See Banned International: Zoolander

Zoolander 2

The film exists as a PG-13 rated Theatrical Version and an Unrated Extended Version.

Summary Notes

Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.

Unrated

• 2016 Universal [Zoolander 1+2] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 Universal [Zoolander 1 RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 Universal [Zoolander 1] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2016 Paramount RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2016 Paramount R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2016 cinema release

US: The Theatrical Version is MPAA PG-13 rated

Each world region has a variant version using animals and voices pertinent to each locale.

From IMDb:

Peter Moosebridge's portrayal differs based on each region's version of the film. In the American, British, Canadian, French, and Russian versions, he remains a moose. In the Brazilian version, he's a jaguar named Onçardo Boi Chá, voiced by Brazilian journalist Ricardo Boechat who anchors Jornal da Band on Rede Bandeirantes. In the Japanese version, he's a tanuki/japanese raccoon dog. In the Australian and New Zealand versions, he's a koala named David Koalabell, voiced by Australian entertainer David Campbell. In the Chinese version, he's a panda. In the UK Version, Peter Moosebridge was renamed Moosos Alexander and was voice by Veesos Alexander

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:

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

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.