BBFC Banned Cinema Films

99 Women

• Ninety Nine Women
• Der Heiße Tod
• 99 donne
• 99 mujeres
• Island of Despair
• Isle of Lost Women
• Prostitutes in Prison
• Sex im Frauengefängnis
• The Hot Death
• Women's Penitentiary XII

Banned for the UK 1969 cinema release titled Ninety Nine Women

The 2007 Redemption video was cut by 1:00s for animal cruelty

Summary Notes: A bit disappointing

The newest batch of detainees arrives at a remote women's prison. The fortress-like prison is ruled with an iron hand by Thelma Diaz (Mercedes McCambridge), a woman who has no qualms against death or torture. But when a new state official takes notice of the body count coming out of the prison, Diaz must prove her ability and hide the truth. As the powers that be turn up the pressure it sets up a daring escape by several of the ladies.

"Women in prison" flicks can be a mixed bag. Many offer the usual softcore action (usually of the lesbian variety) and / or nasty torture sequences that often exploit. But 99 Women doesn't really offer too much of either. 99 is actually more artistic than most of the "W.I.P." films that I've seen and as a result it comes off as a bit bland. The photography is fine but with most of the action taking place indoors the camera-work is not flashy. The acting is pretty decent but the script is a bit "talky" in an unnecessary way.

The softcore action is not awfully titillating since many of the scenes are shot in an "artistic" fashion the X-rated version does offer some hardcore inserts but you can easily tell they were added much latter since they don't match. "99 Women" has some style but not a lot of substance. A bit disappointing.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 with 1:00s of cuts

The US release featuring the Director's Cut is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2013 Blue Underground Bad Girls Behind Bars Collection R0 DVD at US Amazon
• US 2005 Blue Underground R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The US release featuring the X Rated Version/Notorious French Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Alternative Cinema/Blue Underground R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

This is a French local version with nearly irrelevant hardcore added in by another director shooting new footage.

491

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1968 cinema release

Summary Review: Shocking

It is written that 490 times you can sin and be forgiven. This motion picture is about the 491st.

This movie was an absolute bombshell when it opened in 1964. Proved shocking at the time with scenes including tacit allusions to sodomy and a scene depicting (out of shot) a dog rape!

Apart from that there was the naked portrait of a society in change where young people behave in a way unknown to their parents. This was unnerving, unsettling.

But the Problem with the movie is that despite its good intentions it doesn't work.

Ain't Misbehavin'
 

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1974 cinema release

Summary Review: Music Videos and Porn

Billed as: A Risqué Walk Down Memory Lane.

A large proportion of the film consists of soundies - short black & white films made for an early kind of video jukebox. So we get to see Fats Waller doing the title song, for instance. But there are also pieces from sound shorts, and features - an eclectic collection, from both sides of the Atlantic.

Interspersed between the musical numbers there are rather tame and clumsy vintage porn films. Surreal!

All Together Now
 

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1970 cinema release

Promotional review: Novel

Marsha's immature, animalistic husband neglects and mistreats her. She is driven to embark on an affair with a romantic Frenchman, but this likewise ends unhappily. Floundering, she sets out to write a series of love and sex novels.

She consults a woman doctor who is considered an authority on the subject of sexuality, and the doctor promptly seduces her. She uses her experiences as the basis for her novels but is finally unable to continue writing; and she takes her own life.

Anatomy of a Psycho

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1961 cinema release

Summary Review: Exploitation Classic...But...

The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution.

Great plot idea (man going insane over the wrongful death of his brother)- lousy deliverance.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2013 Vinegar Syndrome R0 DVD at US Amazon

Andrea

• Andrea the Nympho
• The Nympho
• Andrea: Wie ein Blatt auf nackter Haut

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1969 cinema release titled Andrea

Passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1970 cinema release titled Andrea
• UK 1970 cinema release titled The Nympho

Presumably uncut for the pre-cert video:

• UK Market VHS
• UK 1981 Derann VHS

Summary Review: A Good Appetite

Andrea is a young woman with innocent looks, but a ravishing sexual appetite. By using her sexuality she can get most anything she wants, but as each days passes she gets deeper and deeper into a world that she despises and fears she will never escape.

• UK 1970 cinema release

• UK 1974 cinema release

• UK 1967 cinema release

Maybe the nude version of Mermaids of Tiburon which was created a couple of years after the clothed and black & white version of 1962. This nude version was titles The Aqua Sex.

As the Naked Wind from the Sea

• Sex on the Beach
• One Swedish Summer
• ...som havets nakna vind

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1969 cinema release

Then passed X/18 after ^ 2:53s of BBFC cuts for

• UK 1987 Sheptonhurst VHS titled Sex on the Beach
• UK 1979 Intervision Pre-cert VHS titled As the Naked Wind from the Sea
• UK 1971 cinema release (subtitled) titled As the Naked Wind from the Sea
• UK 1970 cinema release titled As the Naked Wind from the Sea

Summary Review: Forgotten Gem

One Swedish Summer (which was the US title) is a forgotten gem from the days when skilled directors were at the helm of exploitation films, and while a fascinating viewing experience, it also serves to demonstrate just how thoughtless and pedestrian these kinds of films have become lately.

A handsome young male classical violinist experiences his sexual awakening one summer in the middle of teh Swedish nowhere.

One Swedish Summer boasts beautiful location photography as well as exquisitely beautiful music on the soundtrack, a combination of classical baroque and late 60's Europop. This is contrasted with close-up shots of female pubic regions, full-frontal male nudity, and several brushes with themes of voyeurism and sadomasochism.

The Awakening of Emily

Rejected for a 1983 cinema release.

One of Holly McCall's greatest performances came in 1976's The Awakening Of Emily, in which she starred as a virginal young teacher who was introduced to the wanton wonders of sex

Current UK Status: No release since the ban

Bamboo House Dolls

• Nu ji zhong ying
• Bamboo House of Dolls

Banned by the BBFC for the 1975 cinema release

Review from IMDB: Done Very Well

A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escape.

I bought this film on DVD and expected an over-the-top, Women In Prison exploitation ride that would have me guffawing and slapping my knee as I had a good old time watching the girls get taken advantage of. It's a guy thing. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that BHOD kept me glued to the screen from beginning to end. It's an exploitation film no doubt, but it's done very well!

Even if a story is just loaded with plotholes, it's still a good movie if the characters are enjoyable. The female prisoners are very attractive, and the actors portraying the villains are really digging into their roles - you can tell they're having a good time. The sex scenes, when violent, are choreographed very well, and are done tastefully. Many of the erotic scenes have a comedic nature, and are welcome pauses in an otherwise non-stop action fest.

Current UK Status: No release since the ban

There's an uncut Danish release but it has Chinese audio and Scandinavian subtitles

Barbed Wire Dolls

• Women Behind Bars
• Frauengefängnis
• Caged Women
• Women's Penitentiary IV

Uncut version is available at:

The cinema certificate was rejected in 1976 under the title Caged Women.

See review from IMDb: Comical, disorienting and depressing

Women in Prison movies come in several styles, ranging from tongue-in-cheek camp to disturbingly sadistic shockfests. Barbed Wire Dolls is a Jess Franco flick, so, as expected, it doesn't really fit into any pigeonhole. Overall, it feels like watching a repressed old man's secret fantasies, re-enacted half-assedly over the course of a three-day weekend by Franco's friends in exchange for a free flight ticket. The extremely low budget is clearly visible in every aspect of the movie, including the film quality, which is barely a step above that of a Mexican soap opera or 80s late-night infomercial.

Watching Frauengefangnis is like performing an experiment on yourself. The painfully slow pace, downbeat soundtrack, eternal scenes of pointless verbal abuse, mock torture, and idiotic dialog gradually turn your brain into glue. The movie is so sleazy, depressing, and confusing, that it's almost unwatchable in one sitting.

The creepy effect of this movie doesn't come from graphic violence, as there is none. What's disturbing is how tame and lifeless everything feels, given what's supposed to be taking place. For example, it's unnerving to watch a woman laugh while she gets tortured. The laughing isn't part of the script, but on more than one occasion, actresses in this movie unintentionally crack up throughout what's supposed to be a torture or a rape scene. The effect it at once comical, disorienting and depressing. It really has to be seen to be believed.

A 2nd attempt saw a cut cinema release in 1977 as Caged Women.

The censors cut this video by 41s when submitted by Anchor Bay in 2004

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 41s cuts

The Switzerland release is uncut for:

• CH VIP R0 DVD via UK Amazon

A Bay of Blood

• Blood Bath
• A Bay of Blood
• Bay of Blood
• Reazione a Catena
• Antefatto
• Bloodbath
• Bloodbath Bay of Death
• Bloodbath Bay of Blood
• Twitch of the Death Nerve
• Carnage
• Before the Fact: Ecology of a Crime
• The Ecology of a Crime
• L'Ecologia del Delitto
• Before the Fact
• Last House on the Left Part 2
• New House on the Left

Uncut version is available at:

A perverse reworking of La Ronde involving 11 graphic murders.

The BBFC refused this a cinema certificate in 1972 titled A Bay of Blood

The uncut version was released on the Hokushin label  in February 1983 titled Blood Bath. It was listed as a video nasty in March 1984. It stayed on the list throughout so became one of the collectable DPP39s

Re-released after 43s of BBFC cuts as Bay of Blood (Redemption, 1994)

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 18 rated 2010 Arrow DVD/Blu-ray

Summary Review: Granddaddy of all slasher movies

Bay of Blood is often called the "Granddaddy of all slasher movies". After watching Bay of Blood you can definitely see where Friday the 13th (made in 1980) got a lot of it's ideas. Saying that, Bay of Blood does not possess the single element that defined the slasher film, the indestructible, omnipresent killer.

The movie succeeds almost entirely thanks to Mario Bavo, who serves as both director and cinematographer, with his typical stylish flare which heavily influenced the great Dario Argento, his eye appealing use of color and interesting editing techniques, which include a lot of blurry dissolves give Bay of Blood an almost dream-like, surrealistic feel.

Current UK status: Passed 18 uncut.

UK: Passed 18 with BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2011 Arrow/ArrowDrome R2 DVD at UK Amazon for release on 3rd October 2011
• UK 2010 Arrow Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2010 Arrow R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 1999 Simitar R0 DVD via US Amazon

Bedtime

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1967 cinema release

Synopsis: Inbetweeners

Film begins at the end of one act of love-making and ends at the beginning of the next. It is a dialogue between two people who are neither in love nor married to each other.

The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival

• The Best of the New York Film Festival

Cinema certificate rejected in April 1975

Resubmitted and cut for cinema in August 1975

The Moira Maher video was cut when submitted in 1987

An explicit compilation of short films with just as strong scenes of sexual activity filmed during festival parties.

Compilation of 5 short prize winners from previous festivals:

• Introduction
• Eyetoon
• Baby
• The stripper
• 4. Norien ten (uncredited direction)
• Life with video

Thanks to Rustin Mann on The Melon Farmers' Forum

One of the shorts is directed by Penelope Spheeris. The story line is of a meek pharmacist hatching a plot to snag his loud sex-loving "hot" neighbour by making a simulated sex tape.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 5:00s cuts

The Big Doll House

• Bamboo Dolls House

Uncut version is available at:

Summary Review: Naive Silly Fun

The whole film has a tone of naivety despite of its run of sex and violence. The plot couldn't be more simple: a group of women in prison, led by the resourceful Collier (top-billed Judy Brown), plan an escape. Guards torment and molest prisoners. Prisoners get naked (though not as much as you'd expect for this genre). One evil head guard, Lucian tortures bad girls by tying them to tables and hanging snakes over them.

The fast paced film is surprisingly well acted, and delivers all the usual thrills you would expect, with a few witty lines and some hysterical monologues.

• UK 1971 cinema release

• UK 1987 Superfly VHS

An extended version was passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2003 Prism R2 DVD via UK Amazon

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Shout! Factory R1 DVD at US Amazon

The Big Racket

• Il Grande Racket
• Racket

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for a 1977 cinema release

Passed 18 after 14s cuts for video submitted by Michael Lee/Vipco in 2002

Summary Review: Good Script

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.

The Big Racket benefits immensely from a strong leading performance courtesy of Fabio Testi. Testi's portrayal of the angry police officer is perfectly judged to fit the movie, and I don't think there is an actor who could be better suited to playing the lead in this movie.

The script is really good, and finds time to flesh out its characters as well as deliver witty dialogue that is always a part of this movie's bigger budget American cousins.  It all boils down to a fabulous conclusion which serves in ensuring the movie gets the bloody end it deserves, as well as rounding off the story perfectly.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 14s cuts

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Blue Underground [Midnight Movies Triple Action Feature] R0 DVD at US Amazon
• US 2006 Blue Underground R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Bijoux de Famille

• Family Jewels
• Les Bijoux de famille
• Try It, You'll Like It
• French Blue

Banned by the BBFC for the UK 1975 cinema release.

Passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for 1976 cinema release

Summary Review: What might have been

Between Just Jaeckin's Emmanuelle packing Champs Elyse'es theaters to the rafters and the dirty movie deluge that was just around the corner, Continental carnal cinema got a taste of what might have been had the budding genre been allowed to progress logically without stringent government interference ruining its potential. French fornication filmmakers believed that their explicit sexual content would eventually be assimilated by mainstream entertainment. Alas, this was not to be, the country's draconian X Law - slapping humongous taxes on all aspects of adult film production and distribution - to blame only in part for this evolution or rather lack thereof.

The sole directorial effort of Jean-Claude Laureux, erstwhile cherished collaborator of the late great Louis Malle, remains an ambitious attempt to blend traditional cinema with the plentiful pulchritude and still simulated yet surprisingly graphic sexual activity allowed by recently relaxed censorship laws. By way of knee jerk reaction, the movie was briefly banned altogether by the commission for film classification until progressive Cultural Secretary of State Michel Guy overrode their decision, liberating the title for release with an 18 certificate.

This mild-mannered social satire of the country's privileged upper middle classes, themselves close to extinction post May 1968, plays out like a mixture of neutered Claude Chabrol and French boulevard theater.

Current UK Status: Passed X after BBFC cuts

Birds Mean Business

• UK 1968 cinema release

The Black Alley Cats

Uncut version is available at:

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1984 cinema release

Summary Review: Crude and Tasteless

Wanting revenge on a street gang for a rape attack, four young girls get together, take kung-fu lessons, learn how to shoot, form a gang called the Black Alley Cats and search out the gang that attacked them.

It's all very cheap, crude and tasteless but the background music during the lengthy sex scenes should be of interest to fans of lounge/psych music.

Current UK Status: Banned

US: Uncut for:

• US Something Weird R1 DVD-R via US Amazon

Black Market of Love

• UK 1967 cinema release

Black Sunday

• The Mask of Satan
• La maschera del demonio
• Revenge of the Vampire

Uncut at:

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1961 cinema release

• UK 1986 Stablecane VHS

From IMDb. The shorter re-edited US print  which was missing around 3 minutes of violence.

UK: Uncut European Version (Mask of Satan) was passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 1992 Redemption VHS

Summary Review: Wonderful black and white film

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.

Italian director Mario Bava exploded onto the horror scene with Black Sunday. The movie succeeds fantastically at conveying a bleak atmosphere of horror.

UK: Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2013 Arrow [Mask 0f Satan + Black Sunday + I vampiri] RB Blu-ray/R1 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2007 Starz Mario Bava Collection R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• UK 1992 Redemption VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Lorber Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 18th September 2012
• US 2012 Lorber R1 DVD at US Amazon released on 18th September 2012
• US 2007 Starz/Anchor Bay R1 DVD at US Amazon

Blew!

• UK 1976 cinema release

Blindman

• Il cieco
• Il pistolero cieco

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1972 cinema release

Summary Review: A Great Movie

A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, selling the women to bandit Domingo. Blindman heads into Mexico in pursuit.

This is currently a comic book western. But that doesn't mean that it's bad! It's a great movie and it's violent for a movie made in 1971, one scene at the end is really disgusting.

A great music score by Stelvio Cipriati, good action scenes and an amazing Tony Anthony makes it to one of the better spaghetti westerns. Don't miss!

Germany: Uncut for:

• De 2006 Koch R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2010 AFA R0 DVD at US Amazon

The Bloody Fists

• Bloody Fist
• Dragon Showdown
• Dang kou tan
• The Bloody Fist
• Deadly Buddhist Raiders
• Death Beach

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1973 cinema release

Passed X after BBFC cuts for UK 1976 cinema release

A Re-edited Version was passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for UK 2004 Firefly R2 DVD titled Dragon Showdown.

Summary Review: A Classic!

Basically it's about a bunch of Japanese martial arts experts harassing a Chinese village on the lookout for the secret dragon herb. The Japanese face hard resistance from the Chinese fighters who run a martial arts academy up in the mountains. Unanticipated assistance in terms of fighting expertise, however, comes from a refugee on the run.

The fighting scenes are not very realistic but cool anyway. A classic!

A Re-edited Version was passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2007 Dragon R2 DVD titled Bloody Fist at UK Amazon
• UK 2006 Firefly R2 DVD titled  Dragon Showdown at UK Amazon
• UK 2005 Dragon R2 DVD titled Bloody Fist
• UK 2004 Firefly R2 DVD titled Dragon Showdown

Bloody Friday

• Blutiger Freitag
• Freies Geleit oder die Geiseln sterben
• Violent Offender
• Violenza contro violenza

Uncut version is available at:

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1973 cinema release

Summary Review: Gratuitous Violence

Based on an actual Munich bank robbery.. Things don't go exactly as planned (wouldn't you know it); and, the heist turns into a hostage situation. Bloody Friday offers plenty of gratuitous violence, which must have been considerably more shocking in its day.

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2007 Synergy R0 DVD-R via UK Amazon at US Amazon

Bloody Mama

Uncut at:

Banned by the BBFC for the 1970 cinema release

Passed 18 after 11s of BBFC cuts for the 1986 Rank VHS

Passed 18 uncut for strong violence, sexual violence and incest references with previous BBFC cuts waived for the 2009 Optimum R2 DVD

Summary Review: Humour and repugnancy

Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion imaginable. The sadistic Herman sleeps with his Ma and Lloyd Barker is a spaced-out drug addict who sniffs glue.

It's a morbidly colourful mixture of negative southern poor white trash stereotypes, encapsulated in a family of sociopaths, with a vintage Shelly Winters bringing her trademark intensity to the role of Ma Barker and a great cast as her sons.

A mishmash of humour and repugnancy, it's definitely not for the squeamish.

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong violence, sexual violence and incest references with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2009 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2009 Optimum Online

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2007 MGM Roger Corman Collection R1 DVD at US Amazon

Bloody Pit of Horror

• Il boia scarlatto
• The Red Hangman
• A Tale of Torture

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

UK: Banned by the BBFC for 1967 cinema release.

Summary Review: Pyschovision

A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle to shoot some sexy covers for horror novels. Tragically for them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic and closet torturer.

Bloody Pit of Horror is one weird Gothic horror film with a creepy castle, a legend of a ruthless torturer promising vengeance from the grave, and really cool instruments of death lying round in abundance. It was even filmed in Psychovision.

On the negative side reviewers have found the plot silly and/or just weird. But on the whole the positives have outweighed the negatives and the general result is very much thumbs up.

US: The Original Italian Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2003 Alpha Video R1 DVD titled Bloody Pit of Horror via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 1993 Something Weird VHS titled A Tale of Torture

US: The shortened US Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Image/Something Weird Special Edition R1 DVD titled Bloody Pit of Horror via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Brute Corps

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1972 cinema release

Promotional Material: Brutal

A beautiful hitchhiker and a draft dodger travel to Mexico and encounter a pack of mercenaries awaiting their next mission in Central America. A terribly psychotic merc takes a liking to the girl which sets the couple on a brutal and violent course of torture and rape. Gritty and exciting, this one is not for the faint of heart.

Current UK Status: No release since being banned

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2011 Code Red R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Candy Snatchers

Uncut version is available at:

Summary Review: Classic exploitation

The Candy Snatchers is a very good example of the exploitation genre. It boasts a good plot with fine one liner dialogue and a wicked black sense of humour. The actor is also good. And to add to the mix, the plot featuring incest, drugs, murder, rape, and kidnapping is described as sleazy but light on violence.

There are several scenes that seem to have inspired Quentin Tarantino's homages to the genre.

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1973 cinema release

Current UK Status: Banned in the UK

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

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

The Case of the Smiling Stiffs

• The Case of the Full Moon Murders

Banned by the BBFC for the UK 1974 cinema release

Review from IMDb: Little Beauty

Long before Friday The 13th Sean Cunningham made this little beauty. It's actually the best movie he's ever made!

The story goes like this. A young girl realises she needs nourishment in the form of blood, and what better way to get it than through felatio!

So she breaks into people's houses during the night and does the dirty with the sleeping male occupants. The police (very akin to the Keystone Cops/Dragnet) are baffled by these dead males with massive erections and grins on their faces....

On a final note, take no notice of the supposed hardcore version. It doesn't exist

Softcore Version passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for the UK 1974 cinema release

Current UK Status: No release since

Coffy

• Coffey

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut at:

Banned by the BBFC for 1973 cinema release titled Coffey

A short version was passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for 1974 cinema release titled Coffy

Passed 18 uncut for 1998 Cinram VHS titled Coffy

Summary Review: Blaxploitation classic!

Coffy is a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin. Coffy sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.

Maxim magazine lists Coffy as number 7 on its list of the 50 best B-movies of all time, and there can clearly be no mistake about its status as a B-movie. Pam Grier shines in this hilarious action-packed blaxploitation flick where she first got her name as a 'black pin-up queen' during the early 70's.

This brilliant film mixes comedy right in there with the action. From the campy catfight scenes when Coffy dumps a salad bowl onto a blonde girl's head, to when King George makes his first appearance and steps out of his car in his pimp outfit, complete right down to the feather in his hat! The action is fairly consistent. There are a lot of guns firing off and endless catfights.

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2007 20th Century Fox [Best of Soul Sister Set] R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2003 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1998 Cinram VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2001 MGM R1 DVD at US Amazon

The Coming of Seymour

• The Boob Tube Strikes Again!

See article from templeofschlock.blogspot.com:

The softcore film was originally made as The Coming of Seymour but was released in the US as The Fabulous Fanny to relate it to a cartoon strip in Playboy. It was not a success and was reworked with extra scenes and re-released in 1977 as The Boob Tube Strikes Again!

The film is about a couple interacting with an X rated film on hotel TV. The film within a film is about the voluptuous cartoon character of Fanny, who dominates the daydreams of young Seymour. This sexual obsession stands in the way of his siring a child that will enable him to inherit the family fortune. Seymour thoroughly enjoys his attempts to impregnate as many beautiful women as possible, but each time he is unable to reach that million dollar climax.

Current UK Status: Not released since

Confessions of a Blue Movie Star

• Blue Movie Star
• Evolution of Snuff

Summary review: Mockumentary

A mockumentary showing the process of casting a porn movie, the legalities of underage wanna-be participants and the effects of becoming a porn star.

Trying to play it as an actual documentary, it doesn't really work but it is interesting nonetheless. A so-called snuff element comes into it at the very end but is rather disappointing. The only redeeming feature is actual deleted scenes from Wes Craven's Last House On The Left, which they play up as actual snuff footage.

The BBFC passed the 1978 cinema release X after cuts.

A cut version was then passed 18 for the 1986 Sheptonhurst video

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after cuts

Crash

Uncut version is available at:

See article from sbbfc.co.uk: Banned in Westminster

Perhaps in the light of the continuing media onslaught against the film, Westminster Council - who had previously given permission for the film to be premiered in their area as part of the 1996 London Film Festival - parted company with the BBFC at this point, insisting that cuts should now be made to the film before it was shown in the West End. The distributors declined to make cuts solely for screenings in Westminster and the film was therefore effectively banned from screens in the West End, including Leicester Square. However, cinema goers could easily see the film in neighbouring Camden where the council allowed the film to play uncut with its BBFC certificate

Summary Review: Brave Attempt

The film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg, becomes a futuristic love story set in the present. James (James Spader) and Catherine (Deborah Kara-Ungar) are a married couple so filled with inertia that they are desperate for some emotional connection by any means necessary. After a series of extra martial encounters they find themselves attracted to a group of disturbed members of a bizarre car-crash sect who enact famous car crashes for kicks. The pair soon find themselves willing accomplices in a tableaux of violence and desire until finally they attain some provisional approximation of actual love. Kara-Ungar's portrayal of Catherine exemplifies perfectly the icy detachment of a woman who appears to be observing herself from another galaxy.

Crash is, above all, a brave attempt to explore an almost un-bearable subject - the death of affect and our unconscious desire for violence.

London's Westminster Council demanded that the film should be cut. The distributors declined and the film was never shown

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut for all media except Westminster cinemas

The US NC-17 Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2007 UCA R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1999 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD
• UK 1988 Columbia/TriStar VHS
• UK 1997 cinema release

The US release is uncut and MPAA NC-17 Rated for:

• US 1998 New Line R1 DVD at US Amazon

Daddy Darling

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1970 cinema release

But then passed X (18) uncut for

• UK 1973 cinema release

Summary Review: Intelligent erotica

A young Danish girl (Helli Louise) seduces everything in sight after daddy refuses her naughty come-ons. She'll have a lesbian affair with her teacher, pretend that her teenage boyfriend is dear old dad and finally get to her stepmother

The taboo of incest is explored/exploited by Joe Sarno in this flick, but it's the daughter lusting after Dad and not the other way around.

For a film made in 1969, it's notoriety lies in its stretching the limits and possibilities of soft-core erotica, just before the advent of hardcore movies. It helps that the actresses are attractive, the nudity abundant, and the exploitation envelope pushed. All in all, a good example of reasonably intelligent erotica from a lost era, well-handled and well-executed.

US: MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 Retro-Seduction R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

France: Uncut for:

• Fr ARTE R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Deep River Savages

• Il Paese del sesso selvaggio
• The Man from Deep River
• Nel Paese del Sesso Selvaggi
• Au Pays del'Exorcisme
• Mondo Cannibale
• sacrifice

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The BBFC refused a cinema certificate when submitted in 1975 under the title The Man From Deep River

Review from imdb: Not much gore

I liked this one strictly for its exoticness. Me Me Lay looks great dressed or naked. She has a great face. I have the Prism edition video. That one is missing a brief cannibal scene that later showed up in Lenzi's Eaten Alive by the Cannibals. The cinematography was well done and I may catch some heat for this but I actually liked the music.

The love scene in the river came very close to XXX. A well placed bush (no pun intended) kept it soft-core. Not much gore, so jungle flick fans should like it. I know I did.

Derann released the uncut version on video in November 1982. It was listed as a video nasty in March 1984 but it was dropped from the list in September 1985

Re-released in 2003 after 3:45s cuts for animal cruelty for an 18 certificate

Current UK Status: Passed 18 with 3:45s cuts

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 Shriek Show R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Demons

• Les Démons
• Les Démons du sexe
• Las Poseidas Del Demonio
• Os Demonios
• She-Demons
• The Sex Demons

Uncut version is available at:

The cinema release of 1972 was banned by the BBFC.

Summary Review: A decent effort

The UK DVD of the Demons by Redemption is 103 minute directors cut restored by Franco in 2003 and is longer than the previous UK VHS release (which ran for less than 80 minutes). It is a decent effort not as good as some of Franco's earlier work but definitely better than the stuff he directed in the early 80's for Eurocine. Some scenes are in French without English subtitles!

It was granted a GLC X certificate though.

The 1981 pre-cert Go Video is a short 79 minute English language version.

The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for the 2008 Redemption DVD.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Redemption R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2008 Redemption R2 DVD

Deported Women

• Le deportate della sezione speciale SS
• Deported Women of the SS Special Section
• "SS Special Section Women

Uncut version is available at:

Cinema release banned in 1977.

A classic of Nazi filth & degradation according to one enthusiastic website.

Summary Review: Sombre

Deported Women of the SS Special Section offers not just women in prison, but women in a Nazi concentration camp.

This 1976 film is written and directed by Rino Di Silvestro (Werewolf Woman), who mixes and matches characters and plots to keep our attention beyond the nudity.

We start with a train car full of women, who are brought to the concentration camp and inspected by the medical staff. This means they get to be naked, which is obviously a main goal of this film.

As a sexploitation film this one is rather depressing, with appropriately somber music, and a tacit acknowledgment that there is some history behind some of what we are seeing. Still, there are several interesting vignettes as Silvestro comes up with plausible vignettes for the sex in this one, although provoking thought would not seem to be an obvious goal for a sexploitation film.

Current UK Status: Not released since ban

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2006 BCI/Eclipse Women Behind Bars Double Feature R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon.

Depraved

Banned by the BBFC for 1976 cinema release but resubmitted the same year and then passed X (18) after BBFC cuts

Resubmitted and passed X after BBFC cuts for 1976 cinema release

Current UK Status: Passed X after BBFC cuts

Derek and Clive Get the Horn

Uncut version is available at:

The BBFC banned the 1980 cinema release

The film was rejected on the grounds of abusive overuse of the swear words; Fuck & Cunt. (No F***ing PC asterisking out of swearwords on this site!)

Summary Review: Wallowing in vulgarity

Look... this isn't for everyone. It's Peter Cook and Dudley Moore going back for one last excursion into the world of Derek and Clive. For the uninitiated, Pete and Dud hit on an unsurpassed comic concept of wallowing in vulgarity and absurdity which knew no bounds. Fortunately, Cook was a brilliant comic who was at his best at improvisation. Moore could not have been a better foil and was able to keep up with Cook's ideas and helped taking them all the way to their - sometimes very clever or dreadful - end.

This is great fun and highly recommended to anyone who appreciates extremely ribald, imaginative comedy.

The BBFC passed the 1983 Polygram video 18 uncut

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2010 Universal R2 DVD  at UK Amazon and via US Amazon
• UK 1983 Polygram VHS

Desires of a Naughty Nympho

• Jack 'n' Jill 2
• Chuck Vincent's Jack 'n Jill 2

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1985 cinema release

Promotional Review: Classic porn!

VCA Gold Classics brings you a tale of orgies gone wild! Jill wants Jack to stop engaging in his carnal desires of group sex and tasting forbidden fruit. Tired of his exploits, she has some of her own. Filled with drama, laughs and some good old fashioned group trysts, Jack n Jill 2 will take you back! Classic porn!

Current UK Status: Not released since the ban

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2008 VCA R0 DVD at Adult Video Universe

The Dirty Mind of Young Sally

• Innocent Sally

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1975 cinema release

Summary Review: Edgy Softcore

Produced by the noted Harry Novak, the film star sharon Kelly who later became known as Colleen Brennan.

And the softcore is quite edgy and the girls are attractive and sexy. Reviewers haven't been quite so impressed by the male cast though.

A very short pre-cut version was passed 18 after 19s of BBFC cuts for 1986 European Creative Films VHS

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after heavy cuts

The US release is uncut and MPAA X Rated for:

• US 2004 Image Sharon Kelly Double Feature R1 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

Django

• Jango

Uncut at:

The BBFC rejected the 1969 cinema release.

The film was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for the 1993 Arthouse video.

The film was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for the 2004 Argent DVD.

Summary Review: Best non-Leone spaghetti Western

Don't listen to any claims made made for Bullet For A General, Django is without a doubt the best non-Leone spaghetti Western of all time. Corbucci's direction is more controlled here than anywhere else--less zooms, less jarring close-ups, and neater editing. And Django has to be one of the first action heroes to fire a heavy machine gun from the hip (without even pulling the trigger, no less!).

But make no mistake. This is Italian exploitation--love it or hate it. An ear is cut off, prostitutes fight in the mud, and our hero's hands are crushed in gory detail that would make One-Eyed Jacks mumble in disgust.

Current UK Status: Passed 15 without BBFC cuts.

• UK 2013 Argent (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2008 Argent R0 DVD at UK Amazon

US: A restored version with a little extra material is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2013 Blue Underground [Spaghetti Westerns Unchained] R0 DVD at US Amazon
• US 2010 Blue Underground RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2007 Blue Underground R0 DVD at US Amazon

Exhibition

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for a UK 1976 cinema release

An unknown version played in London cinemas with a GLC X certificate

An unknown version was released on pre-cert video for UK 1979 World of Video 2000 VHS

Summary Review: French Success

This is a documentary about French porno star Claudine Beccarie, containing several staged hardcore scenes.

Jean-Francois Davy's motivation was noble he really tried to present his subject as a fully rounded human being who just happened to be working in the sex industry. The result was a huge commercial hit in France where it played regular cinemas packed to capacity, before the 1976 X-law relegated it to more specialized venues until 1983 when Minister of Culture Jack Lang removed the X-rating which enabled Davy to re-release the film with added footage, again with great success.

The US release featuring an unknown version is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2007 Televista R0 DVD at US Amazon

Fantasm

• World of Sexual Fantasy

Uncut version is available at:

The BBFC banned the 1977 cinema released

Sex comedy in which a professor (John Bluthal) delivers an illustrated lecture discussing the ten most common female sexual fantasies.

Summary Review: Advanced for its time

This is an erotic film, quite advanced for its time.

A must see for those wishing to see softcore stars Rene Bond, Uschi Digart in the nude with their hairy bushes.

All the outrageous nudity is innocently explained away in scientific jargon by a Professor to get under the oppressive censorship of those times.

Worth the effort but with a grain of salt.

The BBFC passed the 1978 cinema release after 20:23s cuts.

Passed 18 after 8:00s of BBFC cuts for the 2010 Nucleus DVD

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 8:00s cuts

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 Synapse R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Australia: The Australian release is uncut for:

• Au 2004 Umbrella Double Bill R0 PAL DVD via UK Amazon

Fiebre

• Fever

UK: Banned by the BBFC for

• UK 1975 cinema release

Summary review from IMDB: Atmosphere of strangeness

In 1968 and 1969, Amando Bo and Isabel Sarli produced their three masterpieces: Carne, Fuego y Fiebre, three films that are unique in the world, three films that influenced John Waters big time and were a clear precedent to his revolutionary work.

Fiebre is an amazing piece of experimental film-making. The idea is Isabel falls in love with a horse. An so we see shots of her touching her breast over imposed with shots of the horse's organ for an hour nd a half. It sounds boring. It's not.

Bo's movies have an atmosphere of strangeness. They deserve a place in film history.

Fight for your Life

• Bloodbath at 1313 Fury Drive
• Getting Even
• Held Hostage
• I Hate Your Guts
• Staying Alive

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1981 cinema release

• UK 1982 Vision On VHS

The 1982 uncut video release from Vision On was banned as a video nasty in September 1984 and remained on the DPP list throughout the panic and so became one of the collectable DPP39's

The BBFC banned the 1981 cinema release.

Summary Review: Disturbing Scenes

Strange entry in the list in that most of the video is taken up by talking about vengeance rather than getting on with the job.

Three escaped convicts seek refuge at the home of a black minister and his family, there the family is humiliated and beaten. When his daughter is violated the family begin to embark on some vengeance.

A film which has very little to offer other than racial hatred and some rather disturbing scenes of violence. But so became a grindhouse classic.

Current UK Status: still banned

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for

• US 2004 Blue Underground R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Forced Entry

• Last Victim

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1982 cinema release

Summary Review: Rapist in the 1st Person

Likened to Joe Spinell's Maniac except the focus is more on the sexual perversion and assault rather than gory killing scenes.

It is filmed from the point of view of a serial rapist as he cruises round town looking for victims. Nancy Allen and Tanya Roberts fit the bill.

The first person narrative adds to the scariness and makes it more effective than most in the genre.

Current UK Status: Still banned

Four Days of Love

• UK 1977 cinema release

Garden of Torture

• Le jardin des supplices

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1976 cinema release

Summary Review  historical Softcore

Combining softcore pornography and historical romance, this film tells the story of a Antoine, a physician (Roger Van Hool) who, in 1888, was exiled to China due to his drug habit.

The Gatekeeper's Daughter

• La fille du garde-barrière
• The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard

The BBFC rejected the 1975 cinema release.

Thanks to Gary. Based on article from ovguide.com:

This very curious completely silent comedy includes some dramatic sequences and some fairly pornographic ones. The movie is made with titles, very much in the manner of early silent films.

Current UK Status: No UK release since ban

A Girl Called Jules

• Model Love
• La ragazza di nome Giulio

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1971 cinema release

Passed X (18) without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1975 cinema release

Pre-cert video released without cuts for:

• UK Gold Star VHS

Passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1986 Xtasy VHS

Summary Review: Worth the effort.

A distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama. Silvia Dionisio is perfect in the title role and this remains her best film. A bit difficult to trace but well worth the effort.

Hell Prison

• Femmine infernali
• El infierno de las mujeres
• Escape from Hell
• Hellfire on Ice, Part 2: Escape from Hell
• L'inferno delle donee

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1980 cinema release titled Escape from Hell

A version of Hell Prison substantially reworked for the US market with additional material featuring Linda Blair and re-titled Savage Island. This was passed 18 after 22s of BBFC cuts for UK 1986 EIV VHS

Original version was passed 18 after 3:46s of BBFC cuts for UK 1988 Sheptonhurst VHS titled Hell Prison

Summary Review: Eurotrash

All the girls look sweaty, stinky & dirty as they work, fight and make out with each other. That's about it for plot until they do escape and most of them get killed. Europeans love those downbeat endings.

It's always nice to see Peter Lorre lookalike Luciano Pigozzi in another piece of low-rent Eurotrash like this.  It's OK.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 3:46s of BBFC cuts

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2009 Shock-O-Rama Women in Prison Triple Feature R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon titled Escape from Hell

A version of Hell Prison substantially reworked for the US market with additional material featuring Linda Blair and re-titled Savage Island

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Wizard Entertainment R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Hells Angels on Wheels

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

The BBFC banned the 1967 cinema release

Summary Review: Classic

Anyone with a more than curious interest in the Hells Angels will enjoy this piece of nostalgia. This is one of the few films to be openly supported by the Hells Angels themselves.

While the story line may seem somewhat dated by modern standards, it does encompass what I feel to be some of the most classic aspects of the Angels lifestyle of the time. A real treat for the biker movie buff.

The BBFC cut 2:14s from the 1977 cinema release

The BBFC laid into the 1988 MIA video with 10:59s of cuts

The BBFC noted the 15 rated 2005 Cinema Club DVD as a re-edited version. Some previous cuts waived.

Current UK Status: Passed 15 after pre-cuts

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2003 Image R1 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

Hot Sex in Bangkok

• Heisser Sex in Bangkok

House on the Edge of the Park

• La Casa Speruta Nel Parco
• La Casa al Confini del Parco
• Der Schlitzer

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The BBFC banned a 1981 cinema release.

It was released on video uncut by Skyline in October 1982. It was listed as a video nasty in July 1983. It stayed on the list throughout the panic so became one of the collectable DPP39s

The 2002 Protected/Vipco DVD was passed 18 with 11:43s of heavy cuts.

Passed 18 after 43s of BBFC cuts for the UK 2011 Shameless DVD.

Summary Review: Interesting yet Chilling

A couple of rapists Alex and Ricky who are invited to a rich person's party. They decide to make their own cruel and twisted kind of fun such as murder and rape.

A harsh and unsettling Italian horror thriller from director Ruggero Deodato who definitely knows how to shock his audience.

The acting isn't all that great but the music is good with a funky disco song, some gory violence with torture, nudity, and sleaze abound.

Current UK status: Passed 18 after 43s of cuts

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for

• US 2002 Bedford R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

How Sweet It Is

• Sweet Dreams

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1982 cinema release

Summary Review: Old Loops

A couple's fantasies are acted out in vignettes as they read an oriental newspaper. Finally we see them perform themselves.

Noted for the appearance of 1974 Penthouse Cover Girl Brigitte Maier in several of the eipisodes.

The vignettes may be pre-existing loops and may not have been specially made for this film.

Current UK Status: Not released since

The US release is uncut for:

• US 2007 Alpha Blue VOD at Hot Movies
• US 2007 Alpha Blue R0 DVD at Hot Movies

Iguana with the Tongue of Fire

• L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco
• Die Bestie mit dem feurigen Atem

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1972 cinema release

Summary Review: Brutal Gaillo

In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. The Swiss Ambassador, who was the dead woman's lover, refuses to cooperate with the police due to his diplomatic immunity. John Norton, an ex-cop famed for his brutal working methods, is brought in to help and gets too deeply involved when he starts an affair with the Ambassador's beautiful step-daughter, Helen. Meanwhile, the brutal killings continue.

Germany: Uncut for:

• De R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut for:

• US 2009 Sinister R0 DVD-R at US Amazon
• US VOD to rent/buy [US only] at US Amazon

I Love You, No I Don't

• Je t'aime moi non plus
• I Love You No More

The BBFC banned the 1976 cinema release

Concerns a bisexual triangle involving Joe Dallesandro, Hugues Quester and Jane Birkin.

Review from UK Amazon: Twisted Love Story

As a lover of Gainsbourg's music, I was curious to see what his directorial debut would be like -- I went in with high hopes and wasn't disappointed. People familiar with Gainsbourg's body of work will know to expect to unexpected, what with his love for the surreal, bizarre and perverted.

Jane Birkin stars as Johnny, a tomboy truck-stop waitress, who falls in love/lust with homosexual garbage truck driver Krassky, played by Joe Dallesandro. Krassky leaves his boyfriend to pursue a relationship with Johnny, but things are more complex than they seem -- especially in the bedroom.

In Gainsbourg's hands, this very basic plot does become something very much worth seeing. The sex scenes are genuinely uncomfortable, but the two stunningly beautiful leads are perfect for this twisted love story.

Watch this film and make up your own mind; as a Gainsbourg fan you will definitely come away with a new appreciation for his body of work. Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus is a film made to be watched with an open mind .

The BBFC passed the film 18 uncut for the 1993 Western Connection video and 2007 Optimum DVD titled Je t'aime moi non plu

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks

Uncut version is available at:

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1973 cinema release

Presumably there is a date error in the BBFC database as the ban is 3 years before the worldwide release

Summary Review: Resplendent in khaki shorts

Dyanne Thorn returns in the storming sequel to She Wolf, and it seems to have been given a budget boost, as the setting moves to an Arabian oils sheik's kingdom in the middle of the desert, where Ilsa presides over his palace as right hand security guard and keeper of his harem of kidnapped beauties.

The film doesn't quite match the excesses of the first film in bad taste, and the camp comedy elements have all been increased, but there are still many gruesome scenes as the harem women are abused and tortured for various reasons, including a pretty revolting sub-plot to assassinate the sheik by deploying a bomb placed inside a woman's body that will detonate during sex!

Uniform fans will be pleased to see Ilsa resplendent in her khaki shorts and boots, but she does not have the same presence as in the previous film because she is herself punished at one point by despotic sheik, and its a shame to see that the film recycles her weakness of falling in love with a hunky American, which once again leads to her downfall.

Current UK Status: Still Banned

Netherlands: uncut for:

• NL 2006 Prime Time R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2000 Anchor Bay R0 DVD via US Amazon

US: Warning: The R Rated version is significantly cut for:

• UK 2012 Cheezy Flicks R0 DVD

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1975 & 1976 cinema release

Summary Review: Brutal

This film takes place in a Nazi concentration camp dedicated to pseudo medical experimentation on its prisoners. Ilsa, the commandant is portrayed in ruthless fashion by the stunning Dyanne Thorne. Thorne designs and carries out the most excruciatingly painful and torturous experiments on her helpless victims.

Thorne is the essence of cruelty for cruelty's sake. Thorne is the screen's incarnation of pure evil. I can think of no other film that is as disturbing as this one. The explicit sadism portrayed in this film may or may not have actually occurred as depicted. But unthinkable sadism, torture, cruelty and debauchery did actually occur in Nazi camps.

This is an unbelievably difficult film to watch because the brutality depicted is extremely graphic. After viewing this film I was shocked and I had a feeling of just how brutal the Nazis actually were.

Current UK Status: Still banned

Netherlands: Released uncut for:

• NL 2006 Prime Time R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2000 Starz/Anchor Bay R0 DVD via US Amazon

Innocent Girls Abroad

International Guerillas

• International Gorillay

See excerpt from youtube.com

Banned by the BBFC (a temporary ban not recorded in the BBFC database) for:

• UK 1990 cinema release

See article from en.wikipedia.org: Vilifying Salman Rushdie

This Pakistani comedy seizes on the controversy where Muslims were wound up by Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie is depicted in the film played by Afzaal Ahmad. He is portrayed as a criminal mastermind, working for an international organization devoted to destroying Islam.

The film was banned by the BBFC. The board cited the safety of Salman Rushdie as an argument for refusing the certificate, arguing that it could inflame some to violence.

Although the film portrayed Salman Rushdie very negatively, he opposed the ruling of the BBFC, arguing that:

As a writer, I am opposed in principle to the use of the archaic criminal laws of blasphemy, sedition and criminal libel against creative works, even in the case of a film which quite plainly vilifies me.

The ban was then overturned on appeal and the film was passed 18 uncut.

Rushdie later said:

If that film had been banned, it would have become the hottest video in town: everyone would have seen it.

While the film was a great hit in Pakistan, it enjoyed only a limited release in the West, where it went virtually unnoticed.

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 1990 Tooting VHS
• UK 1990 cinema release

J'ai tres Eruvie

Je t'aime moi non plus

See I Love You, I Don't

Justine and Juliette

• Justine och Juliette
• Swedish Minx

Kiss Me Quick

• Dr. Breedlove

Uncut at:

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1971 cinema release.

Passed 18 uncut for strong sex, sexualised nudity for UK 2012 Freemantle/Revelation Harry Novak Collection R2 DVD

Summary Review: Staggeringly bad

This was the first film produced by Harry Novak

Sterilox, asexual ambassador from a distant planet, comes down to earth in search of feminine breeding stock. A mad scientist treats the alien to dancing sex robots.

OK Kiss Me Quick is one quirky film with very little plot and enough bare chested women to go around for all. The make-up/FX are so lame you have to laugh.

Staggeringly bad. But of course that makes it bad enough to be good.

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong sex, sexualised nudity for:

• UK 2012 Freemantle/Revelation Harry Novak Collection R2 DVD at UK Amazon for release on 23rd April 2012

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2001 Image/Something Weird R1 DVD at US Amazon

La bête

• Death's Ecstacy
• The Beast
• The Beast in Heat

Uncut version is available at:

From article from sbbfc.co.uk:

Distributor pre-cuts reduced the length of a masturbation scene and removed some of the more explicit shots from the dream sequence, in which the heroine imagines having intercourse with the beast.

In spite of the reductions already made, the Board was sceptical about whether the film would be acceptable to the majority of local authorities, on whose behalf the BBFC classified films. Part of the problem was the film's sexual explicitness, even in the reduced version, which exceeded the standards currently accepted for the X category. However, a more serious problem was whether the central dream sequence might raise legal issues because of its suggestion of bestiality.

James Ferman wrote to the distributor:

We see considerable problems in passing this film as it stands, although I realise you have made a few cuts of [sic] the most extreme sexual material. Certainly, there are still a great many shots which we feel might be vulnerable at law, and beyond that, there is also much footage which we feel vastly exceeds the standards accepted by the vast majority of local authorities. The problem is that, with a director of Borowczyk's stature, the cutting required might be such as to damage the film artistically, and I do not think the Board would want to become involved in a war of attrition on a film of such consequence.

The film was further pre-cut to address James Ferman's concerns of:

• sight of horses copulating in explicit detail;
• a line drawing of a woman being mounted by an animal;
• close shots of masturbation
• close shots of genital detail;
• the more explicit moments in the dream sequence, including the beast rubbing his penis against a tree, the beast masturbating and placing his head between a woman's legs, and sight of the beast's semen flowing over the woman's buttocks, breasts and stomach.

But to no avail as the film was still banned by the BBFC

Summary Review: Most controversial film of the decade

An insane adult reworking of The Beauty and the Beast tale. This erotic fable was originally to be part of the Immoral Tales (1974) anthology, yet was put aside due to it's controversial subject matter then later transformed into this film.

The financially unstable son, Mathurin (Pierre Benedtti), and very rich, and horny Lucy Broadhurst (Lisbeth Hummel) are soon to be arranged in marriage. The home is full of history relating to the families most famous ancestor, Romilda. Lucy immediately becomes fascinated with Romilda, and stumbles upon her diary.

The tale is told of the day she was brutally attacked in the woods by a comical man / beast creature with a extra large penis. This scene is both shockingly powerful and hilariously funny all at once. Combining black humour, with graphic sexuality.

The extensively pre-cut version banned by the BBFC was passed X by London's council, the GLC in 1978. The film was also shown in cinema clubs without a BBFC certificate.

The distributor, Global Sales, submitted a US Version missing 9 minutes for the 1988 video titled Death's Ecstacy. This was passed 18 without further BBFC cuts

The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for the 2001 cinema release and Nouveaux Pictures DVD of 2001

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2001 Nouveaux R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2001 cinema release

The US release featuring the Director's Cut is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2005 Cult Epics R1 DVD via US Amazon

The US release featuring the Complete Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 Cult Epics Special Edition R1 DVD via US Amazon

La Jeune Fille Assassine

• Charlotte
• Una Vita bruciata
• Ein Wildes Leben

The Lady Hermit

• Zhong kui niang zi
• Chung kwai leung ji

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for the UK 1972 cinema release.

Summary Review: Quite spectacular

The film offers two wonderful swordswomen for the price of one. Shaw Bros.' top female martial arts star of the late 1960s, Cheng Pei Pei, stars as the title character, a famous veiled crusader who fights bad guys with her sword but has dropped out of sight when the film opens. Shih Szu plays an eager, whip-wielding aspiring swordswoman who seeks to track down Lady Hermit and become her student.

The villains are a gang of evil Taoist monks, led by Lady Hermit's old adversary, Black Demon. Lady Hermit and her two followers engage the gang in a series of extremely lively sword battles which are spread throughout the entire film. There are several great set pieces, including a bit where the characters fight on one of those perilous rope bridges across a gorge and the bad guys cut the ropes and Shih Szu has to hang on to the dangling remains of the bridge and climb and fight her way to the top. The climactic battle in a towering pagoda is quite spectacular.

Current UK Status: Never released since

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2011 Funimation R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Language of Lov

• Ur kärlekens språk

The BBFC banned the 1970 cinema release

Review from UK Amazon: Not recommended

Transferred from old 1970s video tape. content dated and not what I call erotic. It is about old duffers talking about sex. not recommended for viewing.

No cuts noted for the 1973 X rated cinema release

A short version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for the 1988 Sheptonhurst video

The film was passed 18 uncut for the 2008 Revelation DVD.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The Last House on the Lef

• Krug & Company
• The Men's Room
• Night of vengeance
• Sex Crime of the Century

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Two girls are kidnapped by escaped prisoners and are subjected to sexual humiliation, razor torture, rape, disembowelments and shooting. The parents of one girl avenge their death by chainsaw, throat cutting and castration.

Rejected for a cinema release in 1974

The video was released by Replay in June 1982. It was an early casualty of the video nasty panic and got banned in July 1983. It stayed on the list throughout and so became one of the collectible DPP39s

A cinema release was banned again in 2000. However it achieved an cinema club circuit release in 2000.

A subsequent video release was rejected in 2001

The video was again submitted in 2002 but this time the BBFC offered cuts. An appeal against the cuts proved unsuccessful and in fact resulted in additional cuts to those originally requested by the BBFC. The resulting Blue Underground video/DVD release of 2002 suffered 31s of censor cuts.

Further 2003 video/DVD releases (including one titled Krug & Company) from Anchor Bay have been edited differently but maintained the previous BBFC 2002 cuts

Finally passed 18 uncut by the BBFC in 2008

No cuts are noted to the 2008 Metrodome DVD identified as The Krug Edit

Summary Review: Brutal Realist Tragedy

While I think that people tend to get a bit hyperbolic when they talk about The Last House on the Left, I do think it's a fairly good film, especially given what the filmmakers were trying to do and considering their lack of experience, the era and the budget. Also, despite a filmic precursor, it just may be the earliest example of the horror subgenre of brutal, realist tragedy. However, it has flaws that would be difficult to overlook in a distanced assessment of the film.

But again, focusing on that amounts to hype now, and shouldn't be taken too seriously, lest it lead to inflated expectations. Just as surprising on a first viewing is that The Last House on the Left has an intermittent goofy sense of humor and a groovy attitude that is firmly mired in the early 1970s. The two policemen are really comic relief characters (and very funny at that), but there is also a lot of humor surrounding the criminal quartet--this almost becomes a black comedy at times. These sensibilities even extend to the music, which has a frequent hillbilly edge and lyrics that supply ex-positional material. Surprisingly, Hess, who plays Krug, wrote the music.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

Passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2008 Second Sight R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2009 MGM R1 DVD at US Amazon

Last Tango in Pari

• Ultimo tango a Parisi

Uncut version is available at:

Passed X after 10s of cuts for 1973 cinema release.

See case study from sbbfc.co.uk: Obscenity Prosecution

The Festival of Light, a pro-censorship pressure group, started a concerted campaign to prevent the film reaching British cinema screens, circulating copies of the script to MPs and writing to local authorities - with considerable success, since several dozen banned it.

However, it received favourable write ups from the film critics and played unopposed in most areas.

Events took an unprecedented turn, however, when Edward Shackleton, a Salvation Army member, brought a private prosecution against the film's distributors for publishing obscene material. The case ultimately collapsed when it was found that the Obscene Publications Act (OPA) did not apply to film.

• 1973 cinema release

A few dozen local authorities banned the 1973 cinema release.

The BBFC waived their cuts for:

• UK 2000 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2000 MGM VHS
• UK 1988 Warner VHS
• UK 1978 X rated cinema release

The US release is uncut and NC-17 Rated for:

• US 1998 MGM R1 DVD at US Amazon

The Last Temptation of Christ

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

Banned from cinema release by a few local authorities.

See article from sbbfc.co.uk:

Pre-release press hype suggested that the film would contain a blasphemous scene in which Christ fantasises on the cross about making love to Mary Magdelene. The Board received nearly two thousand letters and petitions from the public and pressure groups, a majority anxious about what they regarded as potentially blasphemous content, and the minority supporting the film's uncut release in the UK..

The BBFC took the unusual step of inviting twenty-eight representatives of the major Christian churches to view the film at the Board, and also took legal advice from a QC before making a decision. All who saw the film at the BBFC agreed that the film was not blasphemous in the legal sense, although it might have the capacity to offend some Christian viewers.

The film was duly passed 18 in 1988 without cuts and subsequently viewed by the Director of Public Prosecutions who supported the BBFC's decision that the film was not likely to be found Guilty of blasphemy by a Jury.

A handful of local authorities took the decision to ban the film, on the grounds of possible offence (in response to petitions against it) rather than blasphemy.

UK: At the BBFC the film was passed 18 uncut for:

• 1989 CIC VHS
• 1988 cinema release

Then passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2011 UCA R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2001 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2012 Criterion RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2000 Criterion R1 DVD at US Amazon

Late Night Trains

• Last Stop on the Night Train
• L'Ultimo Treno della Notte
• Don't Ride on Late Night Trains
• Night Train Murders
• Torture Train
• L'ultimo treno della notte
• Night Train - Der Letzte Zug in der Nacht
• The New House on the Left

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut at:

The BBC rejected the cinema release in 1976 under the title Late Night Trains.

Video Warehouse International released a cut video as Late Night Trains in 1981.

Cinehollywood released an uncut video in November 1981 under the title Night Train Murders. This version was listed as a video nasty in July 1983. This was dropped from the list in March 1984

Passed 18 uncut in 2008 as Night Train Murders

Summary Review: Decent Acting

This film borrowed heavily from Last House on the Left, but Night Train Murders is the better of the two. Good production values, excellent cinematography, an Ennio Morricone score, decent acting and a tight script.

The first third of the film introduces the main characters, most of whom seem to be prone to indulging in one perversion or another.

The "defilement" section of the film is a gripping, harrowing affair that escalates in viciousness before climaxing in a very brutal fashion.

The final act does not live up to the scenes that precede it. The director's desire to keep from glamorizing violence is probably why the ending feels somewhat restrained.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong scenes of sexual violence for:

• UK 2011 Shameless Slasher Nasties Triple Bill R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2008 Argent/Shameless R0 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2012 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2004 Blue Underground R1 DVD at US Amazon

Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

• Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3
• Leatherface
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
• TCM 3
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Summary Review: Unique and interesting

The film itself is extremely well-acted, especially by the lead, Kate Hodge. It is however, not the most pleasant film you will ever see and if the filmmakers intended it to be a gruelling and punishing experience, they definitely succeeded.

Despite these strong performances and excellent (and very gruesome) special make-up effects, the completed film is left damaged and confused in several key places. But, it is still one of the better entries in this particular series and is well-worth a look as a unique and interesting horror film.

The BBFC passed the cut US R rated version with no BBFC cuts for an 18 certificate for the 2004 Entertainment in video DVD.

The BBFC passed the US unrated version with an uncut 18 certificate for the 2004 Entertainment in video DVD.

Note that other cuts were implemented at an early stage of editing. These scenes were never completed and the unprocessed rough cuts have become DVD extras.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut US Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2004 EIV R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 New Line R1 DVD at US Amazon

Let Me Die a Woman

Uncut version is available at:

The 1980 cinema release was banned by the BBFC

The promotional material reads: Not for the faint of heart

This hilarious and horrifying documentary on transsexuals includes actual surgical footage of the operations and close-up looks at the results inside and out. Not for the faint of heart.

Passed X after BBFC cuts for a 1982 cinema release

The US release is uncut and MPAA X Rated for:

• US 2006 Synapse R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Life of Brian

See Monty Python's Life of Brian

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

• Libesbriefe einer Portugiesischen Nonne

Banned by the BBFC for the UK 1979 cinema release

The DVD was later passed 18 after 6:15s of BBFC cuts for UK 2004 Anchor Bay R2 DVD.

The BBFC commented:

The cuts were Compulsory. Distributor was required to cut indecent images of a child under the terms of the Protection of Children Act 1978, and images of sexualised torture.

Resubmissions of old works highlighted the impact of the change in the definition of a child. Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun featured sexualised nudity involving an actress who was under 18 at the time of filming. The BBFC judged some of the images to be indecent and cuts were therefore made

Passed 18 after 6:15s of BBFC cuts for UK 2004 Anchor Bay R2 DVD

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 6:15s of cuts

Love Variations

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC in April 1970 for:

• UK 1970 cinema release

From on article [pdf] from palgrave.com: Not seeking to entertain

Love Variations, one of the first British sex education films to show nudity in the UK, consisted entirely of alternating scenes of a family doctor showing diagrams of sex positions and illustrative tableaux of posed figures faking coition in increasingly unlikely and back-breaking postures.

The producers, of course, stressed their good intentions to the censors. The press book for Love Variations stated, a little disingenuously:

The film does not seek to entertain -- only to inform. The producers wish to point out that although the film is frank, comprehensive and explicit it will almost certainly prove unrewarding to those looking for titillation or sensation and will be of interest only to those motivated by a sincere desire to be informed.

The BBFC, indecisive about how to treat sex education films, accepted this but nevertheless at first rejected Love Variations on the splendidly perverse grounds that since the film was not entertaining it was unsuitable for cinemas, which were essentially places of entertainment.

When finally released, Love Variations smashed house records at the Jacey Tatler cinema in London,

Passed X (18) uncut in November 1970 for UK 1971 cinema release

A short version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2011 Odeon Slap & Tickle Double Bill R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1995 Jezebel VHS

Current UK Status: Passed 18 without BBFC cuts

Made in Soxe

Maîtresse

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

See article from sbbfc.co.uk: James Ferman explained the 1976 cinema ban:

After a second viewing with Lord Harlech and other Examiners, we now agree that this is really a picture which cannot be granted a national certificate at this time. We all feel it is a film of some merit which deserves a showing in Britain, but its subject matter and very frank treatment would, we believe, make it unacceptable to the majority of licensing authorities in the country without very heavy cuts, and these might change the nature of the film.

Summary Review: Bound to Intrigue

Gérard Depardieu as Olivier enters an apartment in order to rob the place, but unknowingly breaks into a haven for sadomasochistic fantasies. During the burglary he encounters Ariane (Bulle Ogier) who he had met earlier, but this time she is a dominatrix who controls situations as she dives into other people's madness.

Olivier is spellbound by Ariane as he falls in love with her, and it leads him into a scorching affair where he is bound to be burnt as he is mystified by Ariane's dark trade.

Maitresse is an avant-garde film as it explores in-depth the theme of sadomasochistic fantasies and its sub-culture as set in a love story.

However the film was shown uncut on the cinema club circuit.

The BBFC required 4:47s of cuts for the X rated 1981 cinema release.

The movie was a long time coming to video/DVD but all BBFC cuts were waived for the 18 rated 2003 BFI DVD.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut.

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2012 BFI RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon
• UK 2003 BFI R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The Man from Deep River

See Deep River Savages

Maniac

  See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The BBFC banned the 1981 cinema release.

The BBFC banned the 1998 Exploited video explaining:

Two (of the videos rejected so far in 1998) were serial killer films in which sex is linked with the pleasure of killing. In one of those films, Maniac, a series of defenceless women are stalked, terrorised, attacked and murdered, while being photographed in a deliberately sexualised way. The film is one of a genre known as 'stalk and slash', and here each stalking and killing is protracted, sometimes ending with the scalping of the victim. When the police eventually catch up with the killer, he survives, leaving us to anticipate that the stalking and mutilation will begin again. The pleasures on offer here seem to the Board to be unhealthy and dangerous because of the way that the killing of women is linked with the sexual arousal of men.

The BBFC required 58s of cuts from the 2002 Anchor Bay DVD.

Summary review: Shocking

This is definitely a film that will leave you thinking. The main reason being the main character Frank Zito aka Joe Spinell plays the most realistic psycho/deranged person I've ever seen on film. The whole time I was thinking is this guy really insane? Either this guy is a genius actor or he's really nuts. That's how real he is in this role. His presence will creep you out. He's the biggest weirdo I've ever seen on film.

The story focuses on frank the serial killer and his killings and insanity. Some of the scenes are gruesome, but they will keep you on the edge of your seat. You will be able to put yourself in both franks shoes and feel the victims terror as she is stalked and hides from Frank... Especially the subway bathroom scene. That's an intense scene. Frank keeps on killing till the end when his own demons finally come back to haunt him.

Any horror fan should have this in their collection.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 58s of cuts

US: The uncut Theatrical Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 25th September 2012
• US 2010 Blue Underground 30th Anniversary Edition R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2010 Blue Underground 30th Anniversary Edition R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Mantis in Lace

• Lila

Uncut at:

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1972 cinema release.

Passed 18 uncut for strong sex, sexualised nudity, hard drug use and bloody violence for the UK 2012 Freemantle/Revelation Harry Novak Collection R2 DVD.

Summary Review: Trippy

A topless dancer attracts, seduces, then murders the men she sleeps with using household tools.

This little gem is one of the first key films to combine gore with sleaze. Groovy 60s psychedelia, go-go dancers, sexploitation and horror, all beautifully photographed by Laszlo Kovacs, collide in a kaleidoscope of color and LSD laden sensibilities.

Not to everyone's tastes though, but Susan Stewart will win a few converts.

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong sex, sexualised nudity, hard drug use and bloody violence for:

• UK 2012 Freemantle/Revelation Harry Novak Collection R2 DVD at UK Amazon for release on 23rd April 2012

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2001 Image/Something Weird R1 DVD at US Amazon

Massage Parlour

• Massagesalon Der Jungen Madchen
• Massage Parlor '73
• Salon Massage

Uncut version is available at:

From IMDb:

France, a reporter working from an international news agency, manages to be paid to visit all of Munich's massage parlors. He wants to find the whereabouts of Sonia, a personal masseuse with whom he experienced perfect bliss.

Current UK Status: Not release since

The US release is uncut for:

• US 2011 Koch International/Mya R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

A clue to the reasons for the ban may lie in the synopsis: She describes herself as a naked prisoner in a windowless, doorless room from which she is finally delivered to hooded men with naked cocks in cock rings. With her head in stocks, she is whipped, fucked and humiliated.

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1962 cinema release

UK: Passed X (18) after ~14:00s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1963 cinema release

From IMDb:

• Passed after 14 minutes of cuts with heavy edits to the animal killings,
• scenes showing German drug addicts
• and the killing of a man by a bull.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2013 Blue Underground [Midnight Movies 11] R1 DVD at US Amazon
• US 2008 Blue Underground R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Monty Python's Life of Brian

• Life of Brian

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version available at:

All UK releases passed AA/15 uncut by the BBFC.

Based on article from en.wikipedia.org:

The film contains themes of religious satire which were controversial at the time of its release, drawing accusations of blasphemy and protests from some religious groups. Thirty-nine local authorities in the UK either imposed an outright ban, or imposed an X certificate (effectively preventing the film from being shown as the distributors said the film could not be shown unless it was unedited and carried the original AA certificate).

The film was also banned in Ireland, Singapore and Norway. The marketeers made use of the latter with the promotional line: The film so funny that it was banned in Norway.

Summary Review: A Very Naughty Boy

Hugely controversial at the time, the subject matter of The Life of Brian was considered strictly taboo in 1979, and even today it can still rattle a few cages, but ultimately the Python team all shared the same conviction that they were not poking fun at religion (or Jesus) per se, but at the people who blindly follow and misunderstand. In this way, The Life Of Brian became not just a comedy classic, but a ground-breaking movie that pushed the barriers of what was previously considered off-limits.

Each member of the Python team contributes immensely to the film, with Eric Idle supplying a classic Python tune as Brian is being crucified (Always Look On The Bright Side of Life), Terry Gilliam with some great visual gags, Terry Jones as the director of the film, Cleese and Palin turning in multiple brilliant performances (like Cleese's Reg, the leader of the PFJ, and the classic What have the Roman's ever done for us? sketch), not to mention Chapman as the unsuspecting hero.

However the cinema release was banned by 39 councils. (Who can overrule the BBFC for cinema showings)

Current UK Status: Passed 15 uncut

Passed AA/15 uncut for:

• UK 2007 Sony R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2007 Sony R2 DVD
• UK 2003 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1995 CIC VHS
• UK 1988 Film & Video VHS
• UK 1979 cinema release

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2008 Sony Immaculate Edition R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2008 Sony Immaculate Edition R1 DVD at US Amazon

More about the Language of Lov

• More about Language of Love
• Language of Love 2
• Mera ur kärlekens språk

The BBFC banned the 1972 cinema release under the title More about Language of Love

The BBFC noted in the 2009 Annual Report: Collection 2, Swedish Erotica, a compilation of three early 1970s films from Sweden (Wide Open, Love Play and More About the Language of Love) was passed 18 without cuts. The work, which includes explicit images of sexual activity, is now very dated. By contemporary standards it is clearly not a sex work, but rather a genuine attempt to inform and educate, and the Board concluded that there was sufficient contextual justification to allow these scenes at 18.

The BBFC cut 2:55s under the title Language of Love  2 for the 1983 cinema release and 1987 video

Passed 18 uncut for the 2009 Revelation R2 DVD titled Swedish Erotica Collection 2

Current UK Status: passed 18 uncut

Uncut 2009 Revelation R2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Mother's Day

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

The BBFC banned the 1980 cinema release

Shown on The Horror Channel in 2005

Summary Review: Camp Horror Classic

Horror comedy from Troma. A loving mother trains her sons to kidnap and torture innocent victims.

This is a true 80's horror classic, with a little bit of camp thrown in for fun! I can't say enough about this under seen little gem! For it's time and genre, the gore and killings are just fantastic. I really dig the script as well. I say that in my opinion, the acting is absolutely fantastic (contrary to other reviews).

The three actresses (Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce) that star in this movie seem to have a great chemistry amongst themselves. Their laughing and playing comes off smoothly and they are quite convincing as old college pals. Their scenes together flow naturally throughout the film and do not come off as contrived in the slightest bit.

The brothers Ike (Holden McGuire) and Addley (Michael McCleery) are SUPERB in their roles!! They truly give off the creepiest vibe with such ease that it's hard to tell that they are acting. Lastly, Rose Ross is fantastic in her role as Momma. She can be sweet, demanding, scary, demented, and creepy without batting an eyelash.

People have criticized this film for years but it is a film that really entertains the serious horror fan.

Current UK Status: No release since cinema ban

Netherlands: The Director's Cut was released for:

• NL 2001 Prime Time R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Anchor Bay RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2012 Anchor Bay R1 DVD at US Amazon
• VOD to rent/buy [US only] at US Amazon
• US 2000 Troma R0 DVD via US Amazon

My X Wife

Nazi Love Camp 27

• Living Nightmare
• La Svastica nel Ventre

Sirpa Lane heads a Nazi brothel but she has a secret to hide, she's Jewish

Banned by the BBFC for the UK 1977 cinema release.

Review from IMDb: Better than Salon Kitty

This is a Nazi sexploitation flick and it has not only plenty of nudity but explicit, hardcore pornographic shots as well.

That said, let me point out why this is a far better film than Salon Kitty. The two films are different versions of what is essentially the same story: a young Jewish woman during the Nazis' reign is sexually abused and exploited by the Reich eventually becoming the madame of a brothel that caters to Nazi officers where she spies for either the Nazi higher ups or the Resistance depending on which film you watch.

Nazi Love Camp 27 has budget sets and costumes, bad dubbing, and obligatory sexploitation scenes like whippings, the lesbian warden and several hardcore penetration shots including a gang rape. One would think that this was a thinly-veiled excuse for a porno, and to some extent it is, but it actually has a fairly coherent plot and you truly DO care about the lead character and even others. Yes, the final scene is a bit over the top, but you're still interested in what is happening right up to the end of the film --- not just fast forwarding to the next naked part.

Sirpa Lane's performance is strong and due to whatever quirk of talent or fate, she manages to convey the horror and the poignancy of her character's struggles. This is not to say that this is a great film, again know what you're getting into.

Current UK Status: No UK release since

The New York Ripper

• Lo Squartatore di New York
• Psycho Ripper
• The Ripper

Uncut version is available at:

Rejected in 1984. Lucio Fulci's film was  not only banned but all prints were escorted out of the country.

See trailer from youtube.com

Summary review:  Darkest and goriest

The New York Ripper was a great Italian horror film from Lucio Fulci, the film was filled with plenty of gruesome death scenes and lots of sleaze, sex and nudity in fact its probably one of the sleaziest Italian horror flicks ever seen.

When an old man finds a prostitute's severed hand under the Brooklyn Bridge the police decide to do a little investigating. It seems that the victim was heard speaking to a strange duck-voiced man. As the murders add up the police detective who's investigating the case recruits a psychology professor to help find out who this Donald Duck voiced maniac could be

This is a typical Fulci flick which means that the plot gets thinner during the course of the film and the bad acting which was adequate especially for this type of film could have been better but that's not important, if your a hardcore Fulci or exploitation fan then you'll obviously love this as the death scenes were quite brutal and very nasty.

One of Fulci's best.

The video version was submitted by Protected/Vipco and passed 18 in 2002 after 22s cuts.

Similarly cut for the 2007 Argent/Shameless DVD

Similarly cut for the 2011 extended Argent/Shameless DVD & Blu-ray

• UK 2011 Argent/Shameless Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2011 Argent/Shameless DVD at UK Amazon

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after cuts of 22-34s

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2009 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US 2009 Blue Underground Special Edition R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Oh Calcutta!

The 1978 cinema release was passed uncut

The 2008 Revelation DVD was passed 18 uncut.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

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

Onibaba

• Devil Woman

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1965 cinema release

• UK 1968 cinema release

UK: Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 1994 Tartan VHS

Summary Review: Mask

After being forcefully inducted as a soldier into war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors, killing them and selling their belongings to a greedy merchant. The woman comes to mistrust her daughter-in-law who has coupled up with a deserter, and begins to wear a facial mask she has taken from a slain samurai. Soon the mask will not come off again. In this disguise she is at first taken for a demon by her daughter.

The ensuing drama is a tale of their sexual tension in the high summer heat, which is exemplified by the swaying of the reeds/grass, the faster the reeds blow in the wind the higher the sexual tension.

Shindo also uses Black and White to stunning effect at a time when it was probably easier to film in colour. This is a Cinematic Masterpiece!

UK: Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2013 Eureka/Masters of Cinema RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2005 Eureka/Masters of Cinema R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 1994 Tartan VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 Criterion R1 DVD at US Amazon

The Opening of Misty Beethoven

The Opening of Misty Beethoven is a 1976 USA adult comedy romance by Radley Metzger.
With Constance Money, Jamie Gillis and Jacqueline Beudant.

Summary Review: A Jewel

Porn meets Pygmalion. Misty, the hooker, meets the sexologist who thinks he can transform her from the nadir of passion into someone who inspires passion. While Misty is trained for her big test, seducing a homosexual artist, the relationship between the doctor and Misty remains unsettled.

Radley Metzger has created an unbelievable amalgamation of great script, fantastic actors, and the best production value I've ever seen. Other films may have spent more on cheesy helicopter shots or period costumes, but you will never find a porn movie as good as this. The opening of Misty Beethoven holds up not only under the porn standard, but under any film standards.

The sex is not of the grind house variety that you find in most XXX films but it is highly erotic, entertaining and with Ms. Money, surprisingly romantic. This is a jewel of an erotic film.

The BBFC cut 1:55s from the softcore 1983 cinema release

The hardcore version was passed R18 uncut for the 2005 Arrow DVD. Released on the JoyBear label

Current UK Status: Passed R18 uncut

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

• US 2012 Distribpix Collector's Edition R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2012 Distribpix Collector's Edition R0 DVD at US Amazon

The Other Side of Madness

This was on Palace Video pre-VRA. It's a reconstruction
of the Manson "family" murders 'in realistic detail', to quote the sleeve. It's not very violent at all and could easily be cut today. It was rejected for largely political reasons within the BBFC. It's actually a rather good film.

Pamela

• The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann
• The Afternoons of Pamela Mann
• The True Story of Pamela Mann

The BBFC rejected the 1976 cinema release.

The BBFC cut the Hardcore Version by 8:59s for the 2005 Arrow/JoyBear DVD

Summary Review: Yeah for Radley Metzger!

A classic from the Golden Age of Porn.

When adult films of the 70's made their way back into the mainstream of popular culture, Radley Metzger most definitely holds his regard as the finest adult filmmaker ever. My first encounter with Metzger's work was The Opening of Misty Beethoven which, as a boy looking through a friend's parents videos, was far more than I'd expected. Years later, I was happy to view The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann, which, aside from the pornographic content, I found totally engrossing. I admit being completely shocked by the surprise ending!

Maybe it's the recent admiration of independent film that has made the acting in Radley's movies seem so much better, but his camera work is unsurpassed in his field. Beautifully shot, well acted smut, which borders on proving itself as erotica! Yeah for Radley Metzger!

Current UK Status: Passed R18 after 8:59s of cuts

The US release is uncut and hardcore for:

• US 2011 Video X Pix Platinum VOD at HotMovies.com
• US 2011 Video X Pix Platinum R0 DVD via US Amazon

Panic in Needle Park

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

See trailer from youtube.com

Summary Review: Moderately Worthwhile

The film focuses on the ups and downs of two doomed souls, Bobby and Helen, who wasted their lives in a downward spiral into hell without any realistic thought for tomorrow.

Panic has a bittersweet taste of an independent film: improvisational, free-form and razor-sharp realistic. There is no music throughout the film, only dialogues and real life sounds. It tastes like a stale cigarette. Depressive mood and sordidness of Manhattan's Upper West Side are reflected perfectly. Intense and disturbing depiction of heroine shots are almost documentary nature. 

The performances of Al Pacino and Kitty Winn are top notch. The role earned Winn the Best Actress Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.

The only downside is that it drags along at snails pace. It's moderately worthwhile and falls short of being a classic.

• UK 1971 cinema release

• UK 1974 cinema release

• UK 1987 Film & Video VHS

Passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2011 Second Sight Special Edition R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2005 ILC Prime R0 DVD via UK Amazon
• UK 2002 ILC Prime R0 DVD

UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The Porn Brokers

From article [pdf]:

A semi-autobiographical documentary by the hard-core film-maker John Lindsay about the fledgling porn industry. Consisting mostly of vox pops, the film is partly a defence of porn (it ends with the voiceover declaring, In the final event Seventies British Cinema porn is rather like television. If you don't like it you can simply turn off ') and partly, and more curiously, an indictment of its own audience as sad punters who embody typical male weakness -- 'Men are such suckers when they look at pretty birdies, Lindsay remarks, adding, Men are nuts, they like to see this crap

• UK 1973 cinema release

Passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1977 cinema release

Current UK Status: Passed X after BBFC cuts

Pretty Baby

Uncut version is available at:

Although passed X after BBFC cuts for 1978 cinema release, this release was banned locally by Cardiff Council.

Summary Review: A Difficult Story

A pre-teen girl grows up in a house of prostitution in the Storyville section of New Orleans in 1917.

A beautifully filmed movie which tells a difficult story with a subtlety and power.

The movie is quite revealing about the business of prostitution during that time, but it is never exploitative and gives one the sense of how it really was, and what might happen to children born into prostitution.

Malle's dispassionate take on all of this outraged viewers a quarter-century ago, but it all seems rather tame today.

• UK 1979 cinema release

This release was banned locally by Cardiff Council.

The 1981 pre-cert VHS was released uncut. It was noted as significant that it was never prosecuted under the 1978 Protection of Children Act.

The pre-cert video was eventually passed 18 uncut with previous cinema cuts waived for:

• 1987 CIC VHS

Later passed 18 uncut for:

• 2007 Paramount R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

Horror parody about a novelist whose dinner party is continually interrupted by psychotic women.

Pussy Talk

• Le sexe qui parle
• Talk
• The Sex Who Talks

The BBFC banned the 1976 cinema release.

See review from IMDb: Good piece of cinema

Le Sexe Qui Parle is in that rare class of rather famous films which actually happen to be really good pieces of cinema. Penelope Lamour stars as a woman who discovers that her vagina has developed both a life and voice of its own. This soon becomes a problem for not only her, but her philanthropist husband as well...As the vagina becomes more and more vocal (no pun intended), it ends up causing more and more trouble.

Narratively speaking, Le Sexe Qui Parle is flawed with a fair amount of noticeable continuity errors, and the rushed ending does leave a bit to be desired in terms of resolution of the plot.

On the other hand, technically speaking, Le Sexe...has the look of any classy French production, hardcore or otherwise, from the period. The cinematography and general look of the film are both first rate, and the original musical score is quite an incredible mix of easy listening pieces and classy jazz/disco sounding tunes.

A cut version was exhibited in London with a GLC X certificate for a while.

The BBFC cut the softcore version for the 2000 Eurotika/New Vibration R0 DVD.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 for cut softcore version

Quiet Days in Clich

• Stille dage i Clichy
• Not So Quiet Days

Uncut version is available at:

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1970 cinema release

Review from UK Amazon: A portrait of human depravity

Quiet Days in Clichy is an enjoyable and entertaining expose of the irreverent antics of two friends living a Bohemian existence in the Paris suburb of Clichy during the sexual revolution of the sixties.

The film is based upon the novel of the same title by American author Henry Miller whose publications were the frequent cause of controversy in the US throughout the author's life.

The film has been the subject of discussion and controversy since it was first released in 1970 and the FBI seized the only English-language copies as they came into the US through customs in San Francisco - consequently the film didn't make it to US theatres. The film has even been described by the Catholic Bishops Board of Review as a portrait of human depravity.

Nonetheless, it is unlikely to shock an audience of today - the film is neither vulgar nor depraved - it couldn't really be described as pornographic; instead it could be better summarised as intellectual erotica.

It is gentle and humorous. Like life, it lacks a traditional storyline and is, instead, a collection of experiences - some good, some bad, some funny, some not.

If you are not easily offended, and if you have imagination enough to be able to dream, then this film will transport you into a wonderful era and remind you of the simple pleasure of indulging in an irreverent existence.

• UK 1970 cinema release

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2003 Arrow R0 DVD at UK Amazon

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut.

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2011 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon for release on 25th January 2011
• US 2004 Blue Underground R0 DVD at US Amazon

Red Nights of the Gestap

• Le Lunghe notti della Gestapo
• The Red Nights of the Gestapo

See gallery from strangethingsarehappening
See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Summary Review: Sexually-centric

A film based upon the same Nazi brothel bugging theme as Salon Kitty.

Perhaps not as outrageous as one may expect from the packaging. However there are some attractive actresses getting into the fun.

The director seems to have done a good job with the talent available.

The BBFC relented on their cinema ban in 1981 but only after having inflicted 12 minutes of cuts

An uncut version was released for the 2010 UK Excalibur DVD. No sign of this version in the BBFC data base though, so presumably a bootleg.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 for the cinema after ~12:00s cuts

An uncut version was released for:

• UK 2010 Excalibur R2 DVD via UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2006 Exploitation Digital R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Requiem for a Vampire

• Vierges et vampires
• Caged Vampires
• Caged Virgins
• The Crazed Vampire
• Crazed Virgins
• Dungeon of Terror
• Requiem pour un vampire
• Sex Vampires
• Virgins and Vampires
• Virgins and the Vampires

Uncut at:

The cinema release of 1972 was banned by the BBFC

Video cut by 6:55s when submitted in 1993 by Redemption Films

Summary Review: Highly recommended

No one would be expecting a meaningful social commentary from a film with this title, but please bear in mind when watching that this a Jean Rollin film, so don't expect a meaningful story either. This is mad, it has kinky lesbians and they're vampires. Happy days!

It's quite light hearted for a Rollin flick and is at the fast end of his snail like pacing, but that isn't saying much on either count. It's no Daughters of Darkness either, so don't try to make sense of it, you'll end up as bonkers as Rollin.

Instead laugh at crap vampires and revel in the kink fest in the dungeon. It's bloody great and is a bona fide Eurotrash classic. Highly recommended.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after cuts of 6:55s

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Image/Redemption Re-mastered Edition RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon released on 29th May 2012
• US 2012 Image/Redemption Re-mastered Edition R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon released on 29th May 2012
• US 2009 Redemption R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodo

• Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
• Salo ou les 120 journees de Sodome

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Rejected for a cinema certificate in 1976

From Salò and censorship: a history

It was refused a certificate on the legal grounds of gross indecency. Gross indecency was defined in British law as anything which an ordinary decent man or woman would find to be shocking, disgusting and revolting, or, which offended against recognised standards of propriety.

Unlike the Obscene Publications Act - which at that stage did not apply to films - gross indecency allowed for no defence of artistic or cultural merit to be mounted on the film's behalf. Furthermore, there was no requirement to consider the film - or the film's purpose - as a whole. If any part of the film was indecent then the whole film was illegal.

After the 1976 (public) cinema ban but a DPP approved version was personally edited by James Ferman for exhibition in (private) cinema clubs.

An uncut version was however screened in 1995 at the NFT. It was also briefly shown uncut in a Soho cinema club in 1977 but that resulted in a police raid.

Summary Review: Not for the Faint-Hearted

There are few movies out there, if any, that can generate as much ire and disgust as Pasolini's Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma.

Not for the Faint-Hearted? You'd better believe it. And thus, it's hard to really "recommend" this film to anyone, as you wouldn't really "recommend" divorce - But it's a life experience you can gain valuable knowledge from.

The film takes it's inspiration / Modus Operandi from the Marquis De Sade's notorious novel The 120 Days of Sodom, which, if you have read it, you will know perfectly well what you can expect from the film. Transporting the setting to Mussolini-Era Fascist Italy, four Aristocratic Libertines subject their young subjects to Sexual Manipulation and Torture, both physical and psychological.

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2011 BFI R2/RB DVD/Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2000 BFI R2 DVD
• UK 2000 cinema release

Savage Streets

Uncut version is available at:

Linda Blair armed with a crossbow (a forbidden weapon at the BBFC) avenges a deaf friend who was gang-raped. The leader of the rapists gets shot with the crossbow and then set ablaze.

See Original Theatrical Trailer from youtube.com

Summary Review: Gratuitous Nudity

This sleazy tale of high school revenge with Linda Blair is a must for bad film fans everywhere.

This sympathetic tale tells the story of Brenda (Blair), a tough high school gal who spends her nights drinking peach brandy on the streets of LA with her equally tough friends. One night, they make the mistake of puttering with a gang called the Scars, and before you know it, the Scars have raped and beaten Brenda's deaf, mute sister. Once Brenda learns the truth of what transpired, she vows revenge on those responsible.

This is the pre-eminent 80's high school movie - terrible music, awful acting, questionable violence and gratuitous nudity.

Rejected for a video release in 1986

An abridged version was passed 18 after further BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1991 Channel 5 VHS
• UK 1987 Lazer VHS

Passed 18 after previous BBFC cuts waived for

• UK 2011 Arrow R2 DVD

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

Passed 18 after previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2011 Arrow R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2008 Navarre R1 DVD via US Amazon

Schoolgirls for Sale

Score

• The Score

Uncut version is available at:

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2010 Cult Epics R0 Bu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2010 Cult Epics R0 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Period Piece

Liberated '70s couple seduce another couple into experimentation with bisexuality and group-sex.

The film calls for sexual liberation and it a fun look at sex and dialog of the stoned 70's. In the UNCUT version of Score Gerald Grant and Cal Culver (Casey Donovan of gay porn fame) engage in explicit, X-rated sexual activity.

The bi-sexual theme may not sit well with a lot of folks and perhaps that is what makes the film so special and is is part of the enduring charm. People have trouble with non-traditional sex (particularly for men).

Artfully photographed by Metzger himself and veteran cinematographer Franjo Vodopivec on location in Yugoslavia, has clever dialogue which removes outmoded notions of sexual parameters from the start.

This movie was WAY ahead of its time with some great erotic scenes, plenty of nudity and drug references. The lead actress (Claire Wilbur) is marvelous in her role as Elvira, the swinging married seductress. Lynn Lowry is quite convincing in her role as an innocent newlywed catholic school girl turned wild sexpot!

All in all, this movie is great fun to watch. It is an extremely enjoyable and often shocking piece of erotic cinema.

The Cut US Softcore Version was passed 18 for strong sex and nudity with 6:53s of pre-cuts for:

• UK 2013 Arrow RB Blu-ray/ R2 DVD Combo

Current UK Status: The cut US Softcore Version was passed 18 with 6:53s of pre-cuts.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2010 Cult Epics R0 Bu-ray  at US Amazon
• US 2010 Cult Epics R0 DVD at US Amazon

Probably offended due to its S&M scene with Jamie Gillis & Serena which features anal & vulva whipping.

Secrets of Death Room

• Love Me Deadly
• Secrets of the Death Room

See trailer from youtube.com

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1973 cinema release titled Secrets of Death Room

Summary Review: Will You Love Me When I'm Dead

A grueling film about a lovely young housewife coming to terms with her compulsive necrophilia. Through frequent visits to the local mortuary, she finds a clandestine society of like-minded individuals.

The movie plays its subject matter pretty straight and delivers a decent enough and unusual B movie.

Current UK Status: Not released since ban

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Code Red Maria's B-Movie Mayhem R1 DVD titled Love Me Deadly via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Sexual Freedom in Denmark

• Dansk sexualitet
• Sensual Freedom in Denmark

The cinema release was banned by the BBFC in 1972

See review from IMDb: Insightful

This movie is about the morality, education, and responsibilities pertaining to sexual freedom. Not only that, it has the most amazing child birth sequence that could and should be used as a training tool and viewed by anyone that is interested in the miracle of child birth.

This very insightful movie should be shown in school sex education programs internationally along with material already being presented in that forum, and is and all around must see for anyone deemed mature enough. It is a great introduction to various pertinent aspects in the sexual arena. It's delightful!

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1987 cinema release

Summary Review: Dumbed Down

Ricky, the brother of the killer in the first film, talks to a psychitrist about how he became a brutal killer after his brother died, leading back to Mother Superior.

The murders are dumbed down a bit compared with the first part.

The acting, sets, cinematography, and even the special effects are mostly amateurish, and even laughable.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2012 Starz/Anchor Bay [Silent Night 1+2] R1 DVD at US Amazon

The Story of O

• Histoire d'O
• Die Geschichte der O

The BBFC banned the 1975 cinema.

The UK/US version of this film; is in many ways somewhat ludicrous for its cut, which does not compare to the original French version, which does indeed have English subtitles.

And let me say this now, get that version, not this one.

Review from UK Amazon: Badly Shortened

As the UK/US edit stands; it leaves many gaping holes in its poor dialogue dubbing, missing the sense of Réage's story, and at times makes very little sense indeed. The French version easily scores 5 stars for me on the basis it makes sense; and it is not cut.

However the film itself is Just Jaeckin's rendition of the seminal erotic novel, delving into a somewhat fantastical world of BDSM, it was after all written as a fantasy, not necessarily a depiction of real life. It is sensitive to the original novel, and excellently filmed, whereby it manages not to become gratuitous in its depiction of the scene.

It is most certainly worth viewing the French original, for its insight into the world of BDSM, although as with the book it is fantasy, but that clearly shows its faithfulness to the book, and is most certainly worth watching, and a valued addition to my DVD collection. Plus as a bonus you do get the original book with this edition, but then that is readily available on its own.

Short dubbed English version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for the 2000 cinema release and Arrow R2 DVD.

Current UK status: Passed 18 without cuts

Story of O Part 2

• Histoire d'O: Chapitre 2
• Histoire d'O: Numero 2
• Historia de O, II parte

Much softer and more light hearted than the original but was still rejected.

Shown widely across Europe on broadcast TV (eg M6)

The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh

• Lo Strano Vizio Della Signora Wardh
• Next!
• The Blade of the Ripper

Uncut version is available at:

See trailer from youtube.com

Review from US Amazon: Well-Crafted

A solid, well-crafted giallo that delivers the goods without achieving classic status.

The characters are interesting without being in any way sympathetic. The men are manipulative predators and the women play dangerous games. In the last act, the sado-masochistic undercurrents make way for a series of plot twists. While these are not too predictable, the final solution is unremarkable.

Sergio Martino stages some impressive set-piece.

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Argent/Shameless R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut.

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Argent/Shameless R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2005 NoShame R0 DVD at US Amazon

Stranger from Canton

• The Karate Killer
• Guai ke

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1976 cinema release

• UK 1976 cinema release

• UK 1987 VPD VHS

Summary Review: Downright visceral

The film features a solid cast of Hong Kong film luminaries and fight after brutal, bone-crushing fight.

Jason Pai Piao plays a dapper hero who catches knives in his teeth and takes bites out of them. The imposing Thompson Kao Kang plays the lead villain, a dangerous fighter who wields his queue--or pigtail--as a weapon.

The fights in this movie are downright visceral. If you enjoy the dark, violent martial arts films of this period, Stranger from Canton will be right up your alley.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2005 Crash Cinema Media R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Sweet Movie

Uncut version is available at:

The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness

See article from sbbfc.co.uk:

The film was viewed in 1975 by the Board's Secretary, Stephen Murphy, and the President, Lord Harlech. They agreed there was no prospect of classification and, in a letter to the distributor, Murphy noted: I regret that we are unable to offer certification for this film: nor can we see how it can be cut to make it acceptable to us. We accept that it is a film of some seriousness of purpose: though also of some obscurity. Nevertheless, in many respect, it goes beyond the standards of taste which the Board is currently prepared to accept.

In 1978, Connoisseur Films approached the BBFC, having being offered the rights to the film. They enquired about whether there was any prospect of the film being classified. There is no record in the Board's files of what James Ferman told the company, although there is a note that he spoke to them about it on 10 January 1978. Given that the film was never formally submitted, we can only assume that he discouraged the company.

The film was formally submitted by a new distributor, Lazer Films, in 1980. Examiners suggested that cuts should be made to remove any potentially indecent images from the Anna Planeta scene (which had not been an issue in 1975), to remove the whole sequence in which three men crap in competition and then show it to crowd, and to remove some of the more extreme open-leg shots towards the end of the film, in which Carol Laure wallows in liquid chocolate. [Laure herself had earlier fought a legal battle to have these shots suppressed]. It was conceded by examiners that certain other scenes, most notably the scene in which Miss Canada's husband urinates directly onto her, were very strong. However, it was felt that these scenes could not be cut without ruining the meaning of the film. However, in spite of negotiations between the BBFC and the distributor, the film was simply withdrawn from the classification process, possibly because of the difficulty of making cuts, in particular to the Anna Planeta sequence.

Summary Review: Dark recesses

There are some films that are designed to shock, some designed to titillate, some that delight in disgusting the view. For Makavejev, shock, disgust and titillation are never the purpose, but a means to a form of psycho-liberation. Makavejev in Sweet Movie hurtles us head first into the confronting theses of Post-Freudian Wilhelm Reich. We are forced to confront our relationship to our primal beings. He literally smears our consciousness with faeces, vomit and carnality.

We cannot watch orgiastic scenes of regressive acts, a sensual striptease played out inches from the faces of young boys, Carol Laure masturbating in a pool of molten chocolate without a visceral reaction. We are forced to confront our own repressed desires and shine a light in the dark recesses of our own psyche.

See also insightful  review on DVD Times

• UK 1975 cinema release

Withdrawn due to unacceptable BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1980 cinema release

Current UK Status: Still banned

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

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

Teenage Playmates

• Schulmädchen-Report 7: Doch das Herz muß dabei sein
• Schoolgirl Report 7: What The Heart Must Thereby...
• Lucifer's Angels

Uncut at:

Thanks to MichaelG and bleach

Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1977 cinema release

Summary Review: Retro-romp

A bunch of lovely teenage schoolgirls work at a secret brothel where they have sex with high paying older men. After the girls all get arrested for prostitution, several of them discuss how they wound up working at said brothel

It's done in a cinema-verite style regarding the declining morals, the conflict of promiscuity versus morality, parental guilt, and the pervading sense of anti-authoritarianism prevalent at that time.

As a light-hearted, soft-core retro-romp from that era it's a damned good time for those who can appreciate such things

US: Uncut and MPAA X rated for:

• US 2010 Impulse R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Telephone Book

UK: Banned by the BBFC for:

• UK 1971 cinema release

Summary Review: Underground

The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exuberant, attractive, young woman. Her exploits, encounters, and frustrations as she attempts to find a special someone, a caller who has class, as she puts it.

Funny, near brilliant, underground movie about the sexual perversions of everyday people. A terrific example of grass roots filmmaking were the creativity and ingenuity of the director.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2013 Vinegar Syndrome RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

The 1975 cinema release was famously banned. It wasn't formally rejected on video, but it was put on hold by James Ferman who refused  to consider the possibility of making an acceptable version.

See article from sbbfc.co.uk:

Tobe Hooper's seminal horror film was first seen informally by the BBFC's Secretary, Stephen Murphy, on 27 February 1975. Murphy regarded it as a good, well-made film but felt strongly that the level of terrorisation, particularly towards the end of the film, and the film's focus on abnormal psychology was unsuitable for a BBFC X certificate to be issued. The distributor reacted to this advice by making some minor reductions in the final scenes of terrorisation, formally submitting a slightly truncated version on 12 March 1975.

The ban persisted until 1999. An official BBFC comment from their website just before the granting of the cinema certificate in 1999 read:

Most questions about THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (and sequels) assume that the problem is one of violence or horror. In fact the reason that the film was refused certification was the result of the perceived degree of terrorisation of women and threat to defenceless women. The Board has for many years operated a very strict policy with regard to sexual violence, based on the incidence of this sort of behaviour in real life and the fact that a great deal of research does indicate that this is the one area where media representations do seem to have quite direct effects on attitudes and behaviour. The film was rejected by the Board on film and is most unlikely to be classified on video, where the law demands a stricter test, under amendments to the Video Recording Act 1984 contained in the Criminal Justice & Public Order Act 1994.

The BBFC finally relented on their ban in 1999 when they passed the cinema release and subsequent video/DVD versions 18 uncut with the following comment:

The notoriety of the film may owe a lot to its original rejection by the BBFC in 1975. It was passed for viewing in Europe, the USA, Australia and other countries. It received a GLC licence in the 1970s and was most recently shown in central London in 1998 under a licence from Camden Council. There is, so far as the Board is aware, no evidence that harm has ever arisen as a consequence of viewing the film. For modern young adults, accustomed to the macabre shocks of horror films through the 1980s and 1990s, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is unlikely to be  particularly challenging. Unlike more recent examples of the genre, violence in THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is throughout implied rather than explicit. By today's standards, its visual effects may seem relatively unconvincing.

Possibly the most notorious feature is the relentless pursuit of the 'Final Girl' throughout the last half hour or so of the film. The heroine in peril is a staple of the cinema since the earliest days. It is nonetheless legitimate to question the unusual emphasis THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE places on the pursuit of a defenceless and screaming female  over such an extended period. The Board's conclusion, after careful consideration, was that any possible harm that might arise in terms of the effect upon a modern audience would be more than sufficiently countered by the unrealistic, even absurd, nature of the action itself. It is worth emphasising that there is no explicit sexual element in the film, and relatively little visible violence.

Summary Review: Classic of its generation

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is undoubtedly one of the scariest films ever made and its raw power remains undiminished to this very day. Tobe Hooper somehow created a genuine fright machine which changed the face of the horror genre completely.

The story revolves around a group of teenagers being chased, terrified and murdered when they stumble upon a canabilistic family in the countryside. The main character, Leatherface, who's remorseless killings were loosely based on real life 1950's Texan murderer Ed Gein.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a classic of its generation and deserves to be part of any respectable film collection. Just don't watch it alone.

A pre-cut version was passed X by the GLC for a London 1975 cinema release

The film was shown in some others towns with a local authority certificate overruling the BBFC ban but the BBFC ban was enforced in others

The Pre-cert VHS was released uncut on the Wizard label in 1981

At around this time, the BBFC was once again asked to consider cuts for a legitimate video release but failed to see how an acceptable version could be produced. The film therefore fell into limbo and was removed from the shelves following the introduction of the Video Recordings Act.

Passed 18 uncut by Camden Council in London for a Camden 1998 cinema release.

It was given a late night screening at the 1998 London Film Festival and then ran successfully in Camden at the beginning of 1999.

The BBFC finally relented on their ban in 1999 when they passed the cinema release and subsequent video/DVD versions 18 uncut.

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

Passed 18 uncut after the BBFC finally relented on their ban for:

• UK 2009 Second Sight RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2008 Second Sight R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2002 Universal R2 DVD
• UK 1999 Blue Dolphin video
• UK 1999 Warner video
• UK 1999 cinema release

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2008 Dark Sky RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2006 Dark Sky R1 DVD at US Amazon

Thriller

• Thriller: en grym film
• Thriller: A Cruel Picture
• Thriller: They Call Her One Eye

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Rejected by the BBFC for:

• UK 1974 cinema release

Summary Review: Bleak

Gorgeous Swedish cult siren Christina Lindberg plays Frigga who cannot speak after a childhood trauma. A rather shady character kidnaps her and after getting her hooked on heroine, he forces her to work as a prostitute, and gouges her eye out when she refuses her first client. Frigga saves her money and pays for lessons in martial arts, before taking her revenge on those cruel customers and her pimp.

As the title suggests this is one viciously bleak film. From the barren wind swept Swedish landscape and eerie electric score to the hard core sex scenes and eye gouge scene which was created using a real cadaver, Thriller is a truly potent cult shocker.

Lindberg is a truly striking and unforgettable cult figure, carrying a shotgun and dressed all in black she is enigmatic and certainly makes shameless plagiarizer Tarantino's work look pale by comparison.

• UK 1974 cinema release

• UK 1976 cinema release

Current UK Status: never submitted on video. Passed X after heavy cuts for cinema

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2004 Synapse Limited Edition R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Trip

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

James Ferman was quoted as saying In the wrong hands , a tremendous advertisement for LSD. Dennis Hopper educates Peter Fonda in the pleasures of mind expansion.

Summary Review: Far out man!

The superb title music by Electric Flag sets the scene for one of the most adventurous of cinematic offerings.

Just why it was banned is unknown and seemingly absurd, of course it portrays drug taking with little emphasis on the dangers surrounding such indulgence, but to argue depiction of such behaviour promotes others to follow suit would suggest that all films with any violence or portrayal of war should also be banned.

Besides the beauty of the film renders all objections irrelevant. It offers stunning visuals and great actors. A real slice of psychedelic culture and despite seeming slightly dated, has it's heart in the right place. Far out man!

The BBFC banned the 1971 cinema release.

The BBFC banned the 1980 cinema release.

The BBFC banned the 1988 video release.

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2002 Channel 4 unreleased video version

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2004 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Tropic of Cancer

The BBFC rejected the 1970 cinema release.

Thanks to Gary:

Trivia point: It's almost certainly the first US major-studio film to feature the word 'cunt' in its dialogue - earlier than the usual film so credited, Carnal Knowledge.

See review from IMDb: Fairly Explicit

The movie had difficulty synthesizing Henry Miller's  sense of sacred and profane in harmony. It tried now with a Rip Torn voiceover reading from Miller's work, then with some poetic shots of the beauty of Paris. It never really seemed to succeed.

The movie could never find anything to focus on. It represents a string of vignettes, and they don't seem to lead to any common goal. Many scenes seem to concentrate on the minor characters for much too long, and without apparent purpose. Such picaresque efforts rely on the charm of characterization for impact, and this film has some of that, but not enough. It's structured as if somebody said let's make a film of Tropic of Cancer without actually feeling any passion for why they wanted to do that.

It was certainly interesting to see Rip Torn so young and so good-looking, and to see Ellen Burstyn in such a flagrant display of nudity. Some of the locales are accurately evocative, and Torn is reasonably credible in the lead. It is fairly explicit in the sexual scenes, and extremely explicit in its use of language.

You could watch it and not feel you've wasted your time, but be advised that you won't feel much rewarded, either.

Awarded a GLC X for showing in London.

Shown on Sky in early 1990s.

Shown at the Barbican in 2009.

Current UK Status: No UK Release

US DVD release scheduled for 2010

Venus in Furs

• Le Malizie di Venere
• Devil in the Flesh
• Venere nuda
• Venus im Pelz
• Venere in Pelliccia

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

The BBFC rejected the 1970 cinema release

Passed 18 after 2:32s of BBFC cuts for 1993 Redemption VHS

Summary Review: Skilfully Made

Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions of a young couple as Severin watches the beautiful Wanda writhing naked amongst furs. His disturbing peeping tomism triggers off a whirlpool of emotions due to a childhood episode which punishes voyeurism with pain.

The movie is worthy for your collection, especially if you like the movies from seventies. The performance of Laura Antonelli and Regis Vallee is not bad. The scenes are played and all film is made as erotic, not pornography.

Italy: Uncut for:

• It Cecchi Gori R2 DVD via UK Amazon

Violated Angels

• Okasareta A Hakui

Rape/revenge saga.

Virgin Witch

• Lesbian Twins

Uncut at:

Banned by the BBFC for UK 1971 cinema release.

Passed X (18) by the GLC (Greater London Council) for London 1971 cinema release.

Presumably the cut cinema version was released for UK 1979 Intervision VHS.

Released uncut for UK 1983 Intervision VHS.

Passed 18 uncut by the BBFC for UK 1993 Redemption VHS.

Summary Review: So-So at Best

Christine gets her big chance at modelling when she applies at Sybil Waite's agency. Together with Christine's sister Betty they go to a castle for the weekend for a photo shoot

Yeah, there's this coven of witches, and a couple of cute girls are being lured into it, but that doesn't prevent this film from being only so-so at best. One of the girls becomes the plaything of the head female witch, but any potential eroticism is wasted as they never actually do anything together. Aside from a couple of brief moments when the girls are without their clothes, this film was just plain boring.

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• UK 2011 Odeon R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2004 Anchor Bay DVD
• UK 1993 Redemption VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2012 Redemption Re-mastered RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon for release on 13th march 2012
• US 2012 Redemption Re-mastered R1 DVD at US Amazon for release on 13th march 2012
• US 2006 Image/Redemption R1 DVD at US Amazon

Wild Riders

• Angels for Kicks

Uncut version is available at:

Two juvenile delinquents break into a luxury house where they rape two women. They settle in the house, sell the valuables and kill a curious neighbour.

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The AVR Entertainment video was banned by the BBFC in 1987

The DVD was passed in 2003 with 32s of cuts but was never actually released.

Current UK Status: passed 18 after 32s but unreleased

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2006/BCI/Eclipse R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Women in Cages

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

Uncut version is available at:

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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.

• UK 1971 cinema release

• UK 1986 Apex VHS

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 3:19s of BBFC cuts

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

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

Woman's Best Friend