The DVD was submitted in 2005 and was not cut by the BBFC

In the US the film was cut by 3:10s for an R certificate.

• The cuts are to a masturbatory fantasy and lots of breasts. See detailed cuts at movie-censorship.com

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Chromosome 3
• David Cronenberg's The Brood
• La clinique de la terreur

The BBFC passed the US Unrated Version for the 2005 Anchor Bay DVD without cuts for an 18 rating.

From version details on IMDb

This version includes an additional 28 seconds of footage:

• the ripping and licking of the foetus
• the mallet murder of the old lady
• shots of the dead schoolteacher's battered face

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

Review from UK Amazon: Cronenberg get noticed

The Brood was David Cronenberg's third feature release and the film that got him noticed outside Canada and the horror genre. With heavy weight actors Oliver Reed and Samantha Egger, Cronenberg's excellent script - Oliver Reed said it was the best written part he had had since The Devils - and a story more psychological than outright horror, though there are a few gory scenes, Cronenberg was onto a winner.

This is a film that stays with you long after the final credits have rolled. There are many influences playing through the film, the brood children are reminiscent of the dwarf from Don't Look Now, Howard Shore's excellent strings only score a nod to Bernard Herrman's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

Get this DVD now! it should be in your collection, quick before some idiot does a remake with CGI brood and no plot or subtext!

The version was cut by US film censors at the MPAA to achieve an R Rating

The torture scene was slightly trimmed by the MPAA (Tony Dog's eye-ball popping out was cut) to avoid an NC-17 rating.

The resulting R rated cut seems to be the definitive version.

• Ian Fleming's Casino Royale

Cut on BBFC advice in 2006: This film was originally seen by the BBFC in an unfinished version, for advice as to the film's suitability at '12A'. The BBFC advised the company that the torture scene placed too much emphasis on both the infliction of pain and the sadism of the villain for the requested '12A' category. When the completed version of the film was submitted for classification, reductions to the torture sequence had been made, including the removal of lingering shots of the rope, close shots of Bond's facial reaction and the substitution of a more distant shot of the beating compared to the original version. This re-edited version of the scene was considered acceptable at '12A', where the Guidelines permit violence provided there is no dwelling on detail or emphasis on injuries.

See Gavin Salkeld's Detailed cut list for details of the cuts made to appease both MPAA & BBFC.

The releases in Scandinavia, Netherlands, Japan and Australia are all uncut.

Thanks to Floyd:

The Region 3 DVD is uncut, but there’s nothing graphic in the torture scene. There are a couple of lingering shots, most notably where Le Chiffre lands the rope gently on Bond's shoulder.

In the cut version when there is a distant shot of him walking around Bond he says ‘you‘ve taken care of your body’, and then in the next shot he’s swinging the rope before hitting Bond.

In the uncut version however, he lands the rope on his shoulder, and he leans over to him and says, ‘such a waste’.

The sound seems to be cut down as well of Chiffre swinging the rope before striking Bond, but nothing really shocking.

It seems that the hopes of an uncut US release are premature. The Irish 15A is the same version as the UK release. It appears that the German version has suffered even more cuts than the US/UK versions to achieve a 12 rating.

Perhaps the uncut version may have to wait on the (inevitable) Directors Cut.

From cuts details on IMDb

The movie had to be re-cut five times in order to achieve an R-rating. Most significant cuts include:

• graphic sexual activity during the climactic orgy sequence
• The death of a character named Annette The originally scripted scene showed her having her throat slowly pushed onto a pane of glass. The scene was filmed and very brutal, done all in one graphic cut. However, she shot was later replaced with her character's head split open in the front door. That scene was still trimmed heavily. In unrated versions the top of her head erupts and a splash of blood flies across the doorjamb.
• Rod's death had more blood
• Timmy's death was an on screen kill that featured gruesome spurting blood.
• A character's death at the climatic orgy was nixed for time and MPAA constraints. A male character's throat was slashed open.

1984 US film by Ken Russell

UK Cuts

Passed uncut in 2004 (all cuts waived) for a Film Four showing and then for a 2008 Optimum DVD

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The film was heavily cut (12:24s) in the US to avoid an X-rating. The European version, is available as an unrated video in the USA.

Cuts from the Internet Movie Database

The cuts for a US R rating are as follows including numerous MPAA-imposed cuts for sexual content/dialogue and a couple New World Pictures-imposed ones for unknown reasons.

• 16s of candid opening dialogue are trimmed in the R-rated version. After one of the group members tells Donny Hopper (Bruce Davison), "Fuck you, Hopper," the following lines present in the unrated version are all removed -- Donny: "I do. Every night. Me and my jar of Vaseline. I can fuck any woman I want and I don't even have to make her come." Female group member: "Really? Well, I'd rather get fucked by a vibrator than your cock any day. It's honest, loving, and I don't have to make breakfast for it in the morning." The dirty Adam and Eve joke in Donny's monologue that survives in the R-rated version is pushed up further than it appears in the unrated version, while the main titles are slowed down.
• In the scene where China Blue (Kathleen Turner) explains to Carl (John G. Scanlon) how she plays the flute and then gives him a blow job, the R-rated version shows it in one long take using alternate footage, with the camera never losing sight of his face as she goes down on him. The unrated version cuts away from him to show two close-up shots of her face next to his crotch, unzipping his bulging jeans and caressing the fly with her hand. These are bookended by an insert shot of an erotic, B&W line drawing, showing in triplicate, a Japanese woman giving a blow job to a Japanese man (who possesses one gargantuan erect penis and testicles). The unrated version of the scene runs 14s longer, because Turner says her lines more slowly.
• The beginning of the China Blue/Carl aftermath scene uses alternate take footage in the R-rated version, up through the shot of China making a gargle and answering "Miss Liberty." Carl's orgasm is over as he says "fucking incredible" once -- while in the unrated version, he's still having one as he says it twice -- and when he asks China her name, the camera again focuses on him in one long take. In the unrated version, shots of Carl alternate with four shots of China Blue bent down (with very smudged lipstick, as she wipes her mouth) and one shot of her hand turning off the radio. The R-rated version of this runs 14s longer again, mostly because both actors say their lines more slowly.
• The scene where China Blue's second trick (Pat McNamara) rapes her has been truncated in the R-rated version. It cuts to Reverend Shayne standing outside after one sexual thrust, while the unrated cuts to it after sixteen more thrusts (intercut with five different erotic, color drawings of Japanese men and women engaged in you-know-what) and is 16s longer.
• An additional 2 thrusts, totalling 2s, have been trimmed from the overhead shot of China Blue's second trick finishing the deed in the R-rated version. The unrated version has music over it, while U.S. theatrical prints have none.
• In the unrated version, China Blue calls trick #2 "sweetdick," a phrase which he then repeats. The R-rated version overdubs both utterances of the word with "sweetheart."
• When Reverend Shayne first gets in to see China Blue and tells her he's there to save her, she replies, "Why don't you fuck me, that'll save me" in the unrated version. The R-rated version overdubs the word "fuck" with "fix."
• China Blue goes on to tell Reverend Shayne that she's "Fit as a fiddle and ready for cock" in the unrated version. The R-rated version overdubs the word "cock" with "love."
• The R-rated version of the scene where Bobby Grady (John Laughlin) breaks into China Blue's apartment loses 21s of him turning on a wall-mounted TV and her VCR, which plays a porno tape of a man and woman having anal sex.
• 50s are cut from the R-rated version after Bobby unzips the red panties in China Blue's drawer. The unrated version goes on to show him pulling out a book and opening it up to reveal the same kind of erotic Japanese drawings that were seen during China Blue's rape. Bobby turns the pages, stands up, and confusingly looks back and forth at the TV -- which now shows the man having a threesome with two women and cultimating in one of them -- and the book, before he has a revelation. Later in the film, when Bobby pays his first visit to Joanna's (Kathleen Turner) apartment, he comments on a similar, albeit somewhat less graphic, piece of artwork hanging on her wall, saying that he "saw these a book once." This is left in the R-rated cut, so viewers who've only seen that version won't know where it was he saw it and what book he's talking about.
• The R-rated version of the shot where China Blue undresses Bobby as they're about to first have sex has 7s trimmed of her unzipping his jeans and starting to remove them.
• 1m 32s have been deleted from China Blue's and Bobby's first sex scene in the R-rated version -- 15s of them continuing to make out, the remaining 1m 17s of them doing the nasty in silhouette as he demonstrates all the new positions he just learned about in her book.
• A 2m 37s scene of Bobby and Amy (Annie Potts) having a fight in front of Jimmy and Lisa (Seth Wagerman, Christina Lange) during breakfast was removed from the U.S. theatrical version by New World Pictures, possibly because Amy is extremely unpleasant in it. Bobby gets annoyed at her for pouring maple syrup, which he doesn't like, on his pancakes, she gets annoyed at him for noticing a week after the fact that she got her hair done, and she needles him by insinuating to the kids that he's stupid and useless because he can't plant a garden and doesn't know what strontium 90 means. He finally has enough of her cutting him down, and leaves for work in a huff. This scene appears in the film after the one where Reverend Shayne knocks Bobby down and Bobby and China Blue make amends.
• New World Pictures broke the Grady family barbecue into two scenes in the U.S. theatrical cut. In that version, they bookend the scenes of China Blue being picked up by Arthur and Claudia (John Rose, Louise Sorel) in a limo and Reverend Shayne stabbing the blow-up doll. In the directors cut, the barbecue appears in its entirety immediately after that scene.
• The unrated version contains a 3m 38s sequence of China Blue putting on her wig and makeup, picking up a handsome, corrupt cop (Randall Brady) on the streets, taking him back to her place, handcuffing him to her bed while wearing a leather S&M getup, having rough sex with him -- which causes his wrists to get cut up by the cuffs and his legs to get cut up by her high heels -- and grinding his nightstick into his stomach before sodomizing him with it, as Reverend Shayne watches the entire thing from behind his peephole, stroking his missile vibrator up and down. All of this is intercut with one erotic B&W Japanese line drawing -- similar to the one shown during Carl's blow job -- and three blood red-tinted photographs showing policemen in the line of duty. Afterwards, Reverend Shayne lies down and goes to sleep, and she uncuffs the cop and asks if he'd like to take a shower there, as she's got Ivory soap which is 99 44/100% pure (repeating what Bobby said after their first time), but he just spits on her in disgust, and she washes her face off in the sink (echoing what Bobby did after their first time), crying, after he's left. The MPAA refused to give the film an "R" unless this entire scene was removed. However, the shot which follows this -- of China Blue putting on her makeup in the mirror, still crying -- remains in the R-rated version, making it unclear exactly what she's upset about.
• New World Pictures removed 2m 17s from the scene where Amy goes down to Grady's electronics store to try to rekindle with Bobby, again presumably because Amy is extremely unsympathetic. The theatrical cut of it ends when she tells him, "All I want is my husband." The director's cut continues with her saying that the kids need a father to teach them responsibility, and him telling her he doubts it'll do them any good with the two of them playing a charade in front of them. He lets her know he doesn't want to get back together, and she correctly figures out that he's met someone else, as she can "smell her all over" him. She then returns to her old ways, and starts nagging him about the other woman. After he admits in stride that he's having an affair, she warns him to remember his family and make a choice.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The Australian version, available on the Roadshow Home Video label, is complete and uncut

See details from angelfire.com

No BBFC cuts but scenes were removed in the US to avoid an MPAA NC-17. The 5s of excised rough cut footage has appeared on a Criterion laserdisc:

• Chris Tucker shooting the cop has the cop's brain bleeding out from his skull and him falling into the ground shortened (substituted with a close-up of Tucker), and when he's lying on the ground, Tucker shooting him repeatedly has lost a single shot.
• Larenz Tate bashing the guard with a broken nose with his gun is shown in a more tame angle in the R-rated edit.
• A shot cop bleeding from this throat in the car has been shortened by few frames.

Under threat from the MPAA, the director removed the final gun battle so that an R rating could be achieved. this cut version was submitted for the UK certificate and no further BBFC cuts were required

From cuts details on IMDb:

Reportedly, Desperado suffered severe cuts when initially submitted for an R-rating. The end sequence originally involved a large scale shootout between El Mariachi, Carolina, Bucho & his thugs. After seeing the amount of footage that needed to be trimmed, the director opted to delete the entire scene which currently ends in a slow-mo of Banderas blasting away. 2 additional scenes were also removed featuring the "crotch-gun" (seen in the guitar case) used during 2nd bar shootout and the same gun going off accidentally when Banderas is in bed with Hayek.

Not cut by the but the movie was cut to obtain a US PG-12 rather than an R rating from the MPAA.

• As shown on the DVD extras, the producers trimned down the scene where Vin Diesel's character is hijacking the truck towards the end. They removed the shots of the guy's arm being ripped by the wiring on the truck and the agony he expressed.

• Fast Times

From cuts details on IMDb

Not cut by the BBFC but the MPAA originally slapped the film with an "X" rating, stating that the male frontal nudity had to be cut from the boathouse sex scene. This cut, along with a few other trims to that scene, was made and the MPAA gave the film an "R" rating which was distributed worldwide

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

The following cuts were made after poor audience previews and to enable the distributors to get a US R Rating:

• Alfredo using scissors to deface pictures of girls in a porn magazine
• Various blood spattered shots are missing from a chainsaw attack on Gina by a tree
• The scene or Ryan stuck in a mantrap is missing a shot of his blooded foot and a subsequent scream
• A shot of a pen stabbed into Michelle's leg and its removal by a little girl is missing along with the subsequent maniacal laughing about the incident
• A shot of Michelle's bloodied hand nailed to a chair is gone as is a shot of a hook in Ryan's leg as he is suspended upside down. Further scenes of these victim's predicaments are also cut. As have the lines with Tex teasing Ryan: Hey, if you need anything... just twitch!; and Tex teasing Michelle: Don't ever think of leaving! Not before diner!
• Missing shots of Alfredo with a cut off leg and kissing a severed head before spitting on it and chucking it away
• The little girl's big chance for a kill has been deleted. She gets to pull the chord that releases a large hammer that swings down to hit Ryan on the head. Subsequent drinking of a cup of Ryan's blood is also trimmed
• Leatherface marking a line across Michelle's face to aim his chainsaw is missing
• Missing shots of Tinker's finger stumps and his ear on a grill and blood spattering onto Michelle
• Missing shots of gandpa being shot
• Missing shots of Michelle ripping her hand to free it from the nail in the chair.
• Missing shots of mom dying and uttering son of a bitch with her last breath
• Michelle gets less hits on Leatherface's head with her rock

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
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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.

All US releases through to the 2009 Special Edition are cut to get an R rating. The 2009 US Special Edition features the cut US R rated version but the cut scenes are included as a DVD Extra.

From cuts details on IMDb

• Gore was cut from the pre-credits sequence where the woman is pushed backwards onto a pickaxe.
• Mabel's mutilated body was originally on screen for much longer.
• The scene where the bartender is playing peek-a-boo with the Harry Warden dummy was edited so that no blood is shown. He was pickaxed up his chin and out his left eye, then dragged along the ground with his eyeball hanging out.
• The face-boiling of Dave was shortened so you don't see the after-effects while he is dying.
• Graphic head-on shots of Sylvia's shower impalement were deleted.
• A stock footage close-up of the miner's light being shown at the camera replaces the bulk of a shot of Hollis' bleeding face after he has been nail-gunned. In the widely-seen release, the scene picks up after Hollis has mostly turned away.
• Howard's hanging is shortened. In the original print, he was decapitated. The decapitation was cut out, so it looks like his body just falls, stops short when the end of the wire is reached, sprays blood all over Patty and Sarah, and then resumes falling. Not only do the cuts imposed render the scene senseless, but they also make it so there's no payoff to Hollis' earlier comment that Howard would lose his head if it weren't attached.
• Axel's left arm gets trapped under rocks in the cave-in at the end. He rips it off to get away, leaving his limb behind to horrify everybody else. But since the key footage of the arm removal all had to be removed itself, it is hard to see exactly what happened.

• Clive Barker's Nightbreed

No BBFC cuts to the US Theatrical Version submitted for the 1990 cinema release and 1991 Braveworld DVD.

From cuts details on IMDb:

Director Clive Barker was reportedly required to cut the film down to 101 minutes from the original 126 minute cut by distributor 20th Century Fox. They felt that this cut was too long and rather too explicit for an R-rated release.

Also, Barker shot additional scenes with David Cronenberg's Decker character to flesh out his mentality. The excised footage consisted of some very graphic gore during the climax, disturbing images in the monsters' lair and quite a bit of "unnecessary" character development.

There were also some strange sexual themes between the monsters and Boone that wound up on the cutting room floor.

  From Pop Matters see full article, Oct 2007: Melting Testicles

For those wondering if the “unrated” label of the Special Edition means more and more gore, the answer, oddly enough is undecided.

Rodriguez mentions a couple of scenes where the ratings board mandated massive trims (they involve brain eating and torso tearing), but the added back bits don’t really accentuate the excess.

Similarly, the director states over and over that he purposefully held back in certain moments, the use of post-production print deterioration and aging helping to increase the level of brutality in his mind.

So aside from a few additional seconds of melting testicles, and an overall augmented level of post-gunshot spray, Planet Terror plays exactly like it did in theaters.

The Extended & Unrated Special Edition is available at US Amazon

MPAA Censors in the US insisted on about 2:30s of cuts to  dialogue describing bestiality, oral and anal sex in order for the film to receive a 'R' rating.

From ATTIC the cuts include:

• In the class room, the dialogue which Cartman yells to Mr Garrison with a megaphone was originally How would you like to gargle rat jiz?, and not the milder How would you like to suck my balls?.
• The dialogue in the school counsellor's office by Mrs Cartman of what is "fisting": That's when the fist is inserted into the anus, or vagina for sexual pleasure was changed to a dialogue about licking ass.
• The "Scheisse" video was originally a video of Mrs Cartman sucking a horse's dick.
• Also, MPAA demanded that the film's title (!) have to be changed (they have a policy that all titles that pass them have to be rated 'G'!!) from "South Park - All Hell Breaks Loose" to its present. Very ironically, the MPAA didn't get the penis reference in the present title, and approved it!

From cuts details on IMDb

The 15 rated UK cinema version has an alternate electrocution torture sequence. In the original version, Neeson stabs two metal spikes into the legs of his hostage and connects the jump leads to them. In the UK version, he simply attaches the leads to the metal chair. This is completely different footage redone to secure a lower rating.

A similar if not the same cut version was released in US theatres. Cuts to the shoot outs, the torture scene and some fisticuffs have been shortened in length for the film's US release to secure a PG-13 rating.

The extended harder cut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• Team America

The BBFC didn't cut the 2004 cinema release nor the 2005 DVDs from Paramount. However the version cut for a US R rating was submitted.

From cuts details on IMDb:

• In the Unrated Version, the puppet sex scene is extended. It now contains shots of Gary performing oral sex on Lisa from behind and two separate shots of them urinating/defecating on each other, all of which had to be cut to secure an R-Rating.

See also pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

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

From cuts details on IMDb

The film was initially given an X-rating by the MPAA. The following are the scenes that were trimmed to receive a R-rating:

• Benny's death is optically cropped to remove the exiting drill erupting from his stomach.
• The innocent bystander used as a shield was bloodier before trimming.
• The stabbing of Helm in the bar had the bowie knife slicing up his stomach. Stills of this were actually featured in Fangoria magazine at the time of the film's release.
• Several shots of the scientists being killed by Quaid after he breaks free from the implant-machine were shortened.
• The scene of Richter's arms being severed was shortened.

This R Rated Theatrical Version seems to have become the definitive version

The following cuts were made for the US R Rated Version

1. During the screening of Max's (James Wood) Samurai Dreams video a shot of a dildo is very much shortened
2. The first appearance of the Videodrome programme is slighter shorter as it loses a glimpse of pubic hair and a female victim being strangled
3. The sequence in Harlan's (Peter Dvorsky) lab after the Rea King Show uses a toned down take of a woman being whipped.
4. Nickie's (Debbie Harry) ear piercing loses several shots; Max moving the needle across Nicki's body, Nicki's cry of 'God', the needle being pulled out of the ear, a close up of the other ear being pierced and a pan to reveal Max & Nicki making love afterwards.
5. The scene of Max shooting his second partner is slightly shortened.
6. The death of Convex (Les Carlson) does not show his innards briefly erupting.

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Review from UK Amazon: Surreal

Cronenberg has achieved a huge cult following with his take on horror and science fiction. It's sophisticated, often controversial, and always incisive. He dissects contemporary society by looking into the day after tomorrow and giving a caustic spin to the commonplace - the motor car, the condominium, the television.

In 'Videodrome', James Woods plays a Canadian television entrepreneur, a man who provides material - usually suspect, often porn - for cable TV. In the course of his seedy research he finds a pirate broadcast of a strange, compelling programme. The torture and masochism he glimpses as the programme hisses and breaks up is ... well, it looks real. Or is it just incredibly well made, with the interference and fluctuating picture quality just an example of good engineering and clever directing, simulating clandestine status to give the show a bit of edge?

A disturbing, thought-provoking, hugely entertaining film. Like many of Cronenberg's movies, though, you'll either love it or hate it. He's a man who doesn't seem to allow much room for a middle way. If you enjoy the unusual, if you appreciate the surreal, if you like to be challenged and explore irony, this may be a movie you'll love.