• 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

See review from IMDb: 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.

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

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

There are two 'uncut' versions doing the rounds:

• An official unrated Director's Cut as approved as the preferred version by Franco
• A French local version with nearly irrelevant hardcore added in by another director shooting new footage. This is generally referred to as the X rated version

The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The X rated region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon
The X rated region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

• Nu ji zhong ying
• Bamboo House of Dolls

The 1975 cinema release was banned by the BBFC

An escape attempt in a Japanese women's POW camp.

Current UK Status: No release since the ban

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

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 uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

• 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

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

• Il Grande Racket
• Racket

A cinema certificate was refused in 1977

Review from imdb: Good Script

My interest in Italian cinema is usually limited to horror films, but I made an exception for this crime flick - and I'm certainly glad that I did! Actually, The Big Racket isn't a world away from the popular Italian Giallo styling, only instead of having a vicious murderer on the loose; we have a small town at the mercy of a group of organised thugs. For a film with this sort of plot, it's surprising just how good The Big Racket is. Italian films from the seventies have a bad reputation for not making a lot of sense, but not only does this one make sense - it benefits from a great, multi-angled story as well.

The film sees a bunch of criminals sabotaging local businesses and asking for protection money from the owners to make them stop. The police presence in the town is largely ineffective, with the exception of one man - Inspector Nico Palmieri.

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.

Passed 18 after 14s cuts for DVD submitted by Michael Lee in 2002

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 14s cuts

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

Rejected in 1984

The 1984 cinema release was banned in 1984

Current UK Status: Banned

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

Current UK Status: Banned

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from UK Amazon: Classic exploitation

The Candy Snatchers is a totally awesome movie. There is nothing to hate in this classic exploitation. Fantastic plot with fine one liner dialogue and a wicked black sense of humour!

The acting is way above average for a 70's low budget pic. I was thrilled from start to finish, dare I even say that this is probably the best exploitation movie I have seen to date!

Tarantino must have seen this movie countless times, there are at least two scenes in the candy snatchers which reminded me of Kill Bill 2 and Reservoir Dogs!

The Candy Snatchers is the way to go if you REALLY want to see a classic from an era that will undoubtedly ever come again!

Although this is an exploitation movie, this movie is very light on violence and nudity, and I am glad it is! You don't need to be extreme to make a great exploitation movie.

The Candy Snatchers stands proud in my dvd collection. 10/10

Current UK Status: Banned in the UK

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

• Blue Movie Star
• Evolution of Snuff

The BBFC passed the 1978 cinema release X after cuts. This cut version was then passed 18 doe the 1986 Sheptonhurst video

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after cuts

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

Review from UK Amazon: 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. Unfortunately, the film hinges on a moment where the groups leader Vaughn, played by Elias Koteus who explains his philosophy of auto-geddon as a fertilising event rather than a destructive one to his disciple James. Koteus' delivery is addled and Spader (understandably) laughs; blowing the scene and almost the entire film with it.

Nevertheless Crash is, above all, a brave attempt to explore an almost un-bearable subject - the death of affect and our unconscious desire for violence. As we're bombarded with pseudo-events and war entertainment - designed to make us consume in ways that are of optimum benefit to multi-national conglomerates who really (forget governments) walk where the power is - Cronenberg's Crash is as much a road sign warning of our impending emotional bankruptcy as it is to the sexual ambiguity of the highway pile up.

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

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

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

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

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 on DVD in 2003 after 3:45s cuts for animal cruelty for an 18 certificate

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

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

• Les Démons
• Les Démons du sexe
• Os Demonios
• She-Demons
• The Sex Demons

The cinema release of 1972 was banned It was granted a GLC X certificate though.

Review from UK Amazon: 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!

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 uncut region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon

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

Rejected in 1977.

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

Review from US Amazon: Sombre

Deported Women of the SS Special Section offers not just women in prison, but women in a Nazi concentration camp. Not that what you see here looks anything like an actual Nazi concentration camp, but I suppose it is the thought that counts.

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. The women prisoners are watched over by women guards, and you know what that means in a prison movie.

Still, there are some interesting things happening in this film on. The male camp commandant, Herr Erner (John Steiner), not only gets a massage from his male orderly, but he wants one of the women prisoners, Tanya (Lina Polito), to love him because he knew her before she was captured. Tanya comes up with an interesting way of getting him that reminds me of a memorable scene in Ingmar Bergman's Cries & Whispers.

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

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!)

Review from UK Amazon: 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 the only filmed document (that I'm aware) of their collaboration on this particular comic endeavor - and its priceless. There's been a lot of talk about how they were at odds at this time, and the humour (and their relationship) was strained. Well, I've watched this countless times, and can't help finding the material and chemistry absolutely magic.

They did reunite for the release of this video (which had only been available for years as a bootleg). So all the noise about them disagreeing on the final product is up for debate.

What's not debatable (OK - for some folks it might be) is this is great fun and highly recommeded to anyone who appreciates extremely ribald, imaginitive comedy.

Oh, and some of the compalints about the 16mm film stock and poor lighting, etc... Please. This isn't a George Lucas epic. Its two well-matched, talented comics having some fun in a studio somewhere in London.

The BBFC passed the 1983 Polygram video 18 uncut

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

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

• Jack 'n' Jill, Part 2

• Jango

The BBFC rejected the 1969 cinema release.

Review from US Amazon: 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. The opening scene (blue-clad Nero carrying a saddle over his shoulder and dragging a coffin through the gooiest mud in film history) is beautiful. 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. Don't expect John Ford here. But if you're looking for something different, are curious about spaghetti Westerns but afraid to buy any because so many are horrible--then this is the movie for you!

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.

Current UK Status: Passed 15 without BBFC cuts.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available via UK Amazon

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

• Escape
• Hellfire on Ice 2: Escape from Hell
• Savage Island

Warden and guards dole out the punishment in a women's prison in the jungle.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

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

• World of Sexual Fantasy

The BBFC rejected the 1977 cinema released

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

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

Current UK Status: Passed X after 20:23s cuts

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

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

From www.imdb.com: Disturbing Scenes

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.

The 1982 uncut video release was banned in September 1984 as a video nasty and remained on the DPP list throughout the panic

Current UK Status: still banned

The uncut region 0 DVD is available from US Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available from via UK Amazon

• Intimate Entry

Review from Amazon US

Forced Entry is a sexually explicit and violent film dealing with a crazed Vietnam vet and his psychopathic tendencies to rape and kill women.

It is a prime example of early seventies adult and grindhouse films. The sex scenes are of the hardcore variety and according to the liner notes by the director, the rest of the film was created to allow for compliance with the then current obscenity laws of the country.

Forced Entry is really nothing more than a porn film masquerading as a "socially relevant" study of a war damaged individual. The low budget roots of this film are evident as there are multiple instances of things like the microphone being clearly visible. Check out the initial gas station sequence and a much more humorous hardcore segment later on where the mic slides into the frame.

The DVD print is ravaged, lines, blotches and many other imperfections throughout the whole film. This is probably the best that could be expected from this type of film but if you are looking for some sort of pristine print you will be disappointed. I would not recommend paying a premium price for this film on DVD. However, it is a film worth seeing if you are into the history of subversive film. I don't believe this disc is worth the asking price but it is worth seeing once.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• 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

The BBFC banned the 1967 cinema release

Review from US Amazon: Pre-Easy Rider Nicholson

I've seen this one three or four times on Speedvision. Kind of ruthless toward the women but conveys the style of the Hell's Angels.

Too bad about Adam Roarke. He was a good guy, a pretty good actor, stunt man and.... well he died a little before his time.  Somehow Jack Nicholson just doesn't fit in. Sonny Ralph Barger sure does!

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

• Heisser Sex in Bangkok

• 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

Banned from cinema release in 1973

Review from US Amazon: 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.

However, this film is still pretty extreme, but with a slant more towards sexual perversions than violence, and without the Nazi theme of it's predecessor its a lot less sleazy and offensive.

A recommended buy for fans of the first movie, as well as one for any cult enthusiast.

Current UK Status: Still Banned

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available Via US Amazon

Rejected in 1975 and 1976

Review from US Amazon: 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 for the sheer whimsy of impressing Nazi ideology and the gratification of her own views on the endurance of the female of the species. The buxom beauty and haughtiness of the barbarous Thorne perversely fixates the viewer as she doles out tortures in nonchalant and indifferent fashion.

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.

The power of this film is that it shocks the viewer. It puts the viewer in the place of the helpless victim. And the viewer does feel helpless. The viewer gets the idea of what it may have been like to be subjugated twenty-four a day to unspeakable fears and horrors. What form of corporal suffering and humiliation for the mere amusement and pleasure of these Nazi captors is next?

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.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via US Amazon

See I Love You, I Don't

• Justine och Juliette
• Swedish Minx

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

The 1978 cinema release was banned by the BBFC but it did get a reduced distribution via local authority X certificates and cinema clubs

Review from US Amazon: Most controversial film of the decade

This DVD has been a highly sought after film in the Walerian Borowczyk catalogue, and is considered by some to be ...the 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 opening close-up of a horse's throbbing vagina gave me a bit of a shock, and I soon realized that I was in for a very interesting ride.

The financially unstable son, Mathurin (Pierre Benedtti), and very rich, and horny Lucy Broadhurst (Lisbeth Hummel) are soon to be arranged in marriage at the failing Mathurin estate. 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.

My mouth was left a gasp from beginning to end with this outrageous film.

The distributor, Global Sales, pre-cut about 9 minutes from the 1988 video titled Death's Ecstacy

11 minutes of pre-cuts have been restored for a cinema certificate gained in February 2001. This version is accepted as the Director's Cut and is generally preferred over the Complete Version. All sex scenes are intact but there are a couple of scenes missing (for pacing reasons). Thanks to Marc:

The Director's Cut was passed uncut for the Nouveaux Pictures DVD of 2001

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The Director's Cut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The longer Complete Version region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

• Charlotte
• Una Vita bruciata
• Ein Wildes Leben

• 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

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

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.

Review from imdb: 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.

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

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

• 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

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

Review from US Amazon

I agree that while this film borrowed heavily from Last House on the Left, Night Train Murders is the better of the two. Good production values, excellent cinematography, an Ennio Morricone score, decent acting and a tight script, set Night Train Murders above Last House and other films of this type.

The first third of the film introduces the main characters and then gets them on a train (the night before Christmas) that is full of odd, quirky travelers - 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.  I was expecting a truly grisly and horrific conclusion. However, the director's desire to keep from glamorizing violence is probably why the ending feels somewhat restrained.

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

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut region 1 DVD is available from US Amazon

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

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

Review from UK Amazon: Unique and interesting

The 2004 UK DVD is absolutely packed with extra features, including an outstanding, in-depth "making of" type documentary, as well as some pretty shocking deleted scenes.

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.

The film doesn't entirely gel, probably due to the many cuts and all of the editing to comply with the censors, in order to secure a more mainstream release. Unfortunately, despite featuring several strong performances, 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 DVD gives you the option of watching either the unrated version or the cut version.

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

Documentary about sex change which includes controversial footage of the operation

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Libesbriefe einer Portugiesischen Nonne

The BBFC banned the 1976 cinema release.

The film was distributed on the cinema club circuit though.

Review from US Amazon: 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.

Ariane is an interesting character that separates her life and her profession as skillfully as do her slaves who consist of lawyers, judges, and other high ranked individuals who seek punishment from her.

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.

Schroeder's creation of Ariane's dual nature can be seen through her use of a downstairs apartment for her dark fantasies and her upstairs apartment for more accepted desires.

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.

As a cinematic experience, Maitresse  offers a shocking, for the unaware, experience that tells an intriguing story which imprisons the curiosity.

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 waived for the 18 rated 2003 BFI DVD.

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

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.

Review from US Amazon: Shocking

I'm not easily shocked or impressed with most horror films. 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. He calmly stalks his pray through the streets of NYC. I don't know how he manages to fool some of the people in this film but he does. They treat him like a normal guy until he tries to kill them when they least expect it.

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. I can see why it was banned in Germany and England. They were probably scared of it, considering how realistic it was.

The BBFC banned the 1998 Exploited video.

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

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 58s of cuts

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.

• Life of Brian

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).

Review from UK Amazon: A Very Naughty Boy

John Cleese once said that this film is what he'd most like to be remembered for, which coming from a man who wrote some of the best Python sketches and Fawlty Towers, should tell you something about how good this film is.

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

• 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

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

Review from Amazon US

Wow! Words can hardly express how much I love this movie! 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. I have been watching these movies for 25 years and this is definitely one in my top 5!

Shown on The Horror Channel in 2005

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Living Nightmare
• La Svastica nel Ventre

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

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

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

See review from US Amazon:  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 I've ever seen. It was also notorious for being banned in the U.K. This is easily one of Lucio Fulci's darkest and goriest films out there (O.K. maybe not THE goriest, I still think that Cat In The Brain holds that title), there is one scene that was quite sick and perverse that's guaranteed to make you squirm, yes I'm talking about the "Golden Toes" scene.

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.

I have to admit that I really liked this film a lot and it was one of Fulci's best, while not a classic like Zombi 2, it was still great and enjoyable.

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

When submitted in 2007 for an Argent Films DVD release, the film was shorn of 34s

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after cuts of 34s

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut all regions Blu-ray is available at US Amazon
The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut all regions Blu-ray is available via UK Amazon

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

A hardcore classic based upon Pygmalion.

Thanks to Gary

See review from IMDb: Simply a great film

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. Simply a great 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

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at Adult Video Universe

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.

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

A Golden Age US Hardcore classic

See review from IMDb: Yeah for Radley Metzger!

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!

The BBFC cut the Hardcore Version by 8:59s for the 2005 Arrow DVD (release on the JoyBear label).

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

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at Adult Video Universe

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

• 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

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

The BBFC rejected the cinema release of 1979

Review from US Amazon: Sexually-centric

The picture quality is highly impressive, jaw-droppingly so, and sound is clear, you can hear every sexual moan.

I'm not a fan of most nasty Nazi films, I find them to be cheap and boring lacking in what they promise as fantasy sex and gore pictures. Having read about this one being more sexually-centric than nasty I decided to make one last foray into this most reviled of cinema's exploitation sub-genres. I make no apologies for finding sexy women dressed up in Nazi uniforms titillating, which is where this fabulous trash succeeds above and so far beyond anything I've witnessed before.

The actresses here are the stars, both beautiful and plenty, everything else just gets in their way.

Thankfully the director had fantastic zeal and extracted the most lucidly lascivious performances I have ever seen. Though I must say that erotica is my personal bent, so perhaps what is on show here would be considered tame by today's purveyors of porn.

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 Excalibur DVD. No sign of this version in the BBFC data base though.

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

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

• 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

The cinema release of 1972 was banned by the BBFC

See review from IMDb:  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. My guess is that you're probably expecting some mad nonsense with kinky lesbian vampires. You won't be disappointed. 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Review from UK Amazon: 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.

Over the years, the film has created this almost mythical quality around itself, if mostly for the fact that it's still banned / badly cut in many countries around the World. Not so for us lucky Brits - The BBFC has passed the uncut edition since the Halcyon Days of 2000. Make no mistakes, if any film has the ability to transform you into a gibbering, crying mess, it's this one.

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. Pasolini does not shun from showing these in all their brightest colours, and considering that the great man was murdered mere months after the film's premiere, it can be surmised that it raised much anger amongst those artistically inclined.

Watch at your peril, without Mother and Children preferably.

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.

Cinema version & BFI DVD passed uncut in 2000

Current UK Status: Passed 18 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available from UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Rejected for a cinema release in 1984

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.

Review from US Amazon: Gratuitous Nudity

Definitely of major significance in Linda Blair's post-Exorcist career, this sleazy tale of high school revenge 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 ("careful Brenda, these dudes look dangerous"), 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

The video versions of 1987 (Lazer Films) and 1991 (Channel 5) had 11:28s pre-cut and a further 1:04s cut by the BBFC

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after extensive cuts

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

• The Score

The BBFC banned the 1974 cinema release.

See review from IMDb: Score without a Target

This is a pretty good movie but I'm not exactly sure who it was aimed at. Straight guys that want to see the gorgeous Lynn Lowry in hot, sapphic action might be tempted to watch it, but they will no doubt be left pretty jarred by the way Metzger intercuts the gay and lesbian sex scenes at the end.

Gays, on the other hand, probably won't relate too much to a movie about swinging married couples, although they will no doubt find it pretty funny how obviously gay the two husbands in this movie are to begin with (especially Lowry's husband played by gay porno actor Casey Donovan).

That just leaves swinging bisexual types like the characters in the film.

On the plus side, this is a Radley Metzger movie. Metzger is perhaps the only American who can make graphic sex movies that have any class at all. The acting here is also excellent, especially Lowry, Wilbur, and Gerald Grant--Donovan is good too but a little stiff. I'm not exactly sure who I'd recommend this TO, but I'd definitely recommend it.

Current UK Status: No release since

There are Australian and US DVDs available but most of the hardcore sex has been untidily cut

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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

Rejected in 1975. Was one of Stephen Murphy's last acts before resigning as chief censor

Review from IMDb

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.

Here is revolution at it's most personal, montaged together with lashings of wild humour. Allow your head to give up control and come along for the ride. Recommended to anyone who is willing to put their concept of themselves on the line a risk a flirtation with prurient madness.

See also insightful  review on DVD Times

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The 1975 cinema release was famously banned.

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

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.

Review from UK Amazon: 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. Made in the hot wastelands of Texas in 1974 with an incredibly low budget, director Tobe Hooper has 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, has become one of the most notable villians in cinema history; his remorseless killings were loosely based on real life 1950's Texan murderer Ed Gein.

You will know already whether this sort of film is for you - if you enjoy slasher thrillers and behind-the-seat suspense, this is the ticket. I stress however that this does not come beautifully presented or has special effects - it is filmed much similar to that of a documentary and is often described as gritty. But don't let this put you off - this actually adds to the realism of the situation and makes it a much scarier experience.

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.

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

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

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

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

The BBFC rejected the 1970 cinema release

Review from UK Amazon: Skilfully Made

In my opinion the movie is made skilfully, with crafted pictures and scenes. It reflects an atmosphere of early seventies also. If you have read the book by Sacher-Masoch you can find out this movie is trying to be a translation of the classic work of literature to modern film. Story, idea or course of action in the movie wants to be similar to book, just played in modern time. But that was not successfully accomplished.

Despite it, this movie is worth to see and be in 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.

The cinema release of 1971 was cut by the BBFC

The Redemption Films video release was cut by 2:32s in 1993

Cut by 1:05s when Shameless DVD submitted in 2007

Current UK Status: Passed 18 after 1:05s cuts

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