• Clive Barker's Candyman

All versions suffer the same cuts including the 'Collectors Edition' DVD release of 2006. See cooment below for an uncut release from Turkey

Uncut by the BBFC but pre-cut in all DVD regions by the distributors due to MPAA interference to achieve an R rating

• Gory death of the psychiatrist about 1 hour 7 minutes: A few frames are cut to the initial tearing and blood spurting as well as a frontal sitting scene of a shocked Virginia Madsen when blood spurts onto her face. The present cut shows merely a quick reaction shot.
• Also cut is a more graphic rocking of the doctor as he violently headbutts the table when Tony Todd's character Candyman is tearing away at his flesh. The screams of the doctor are reduced for sound impact too. C4 have always shown this film uncut and the distributor Columbia Tristar can be blamed for these cuts due to MPAA interference of which Tristar are a member of. The R1 version is cut the same, but the sound impact is not as severely reduced probably due to the prologic soundtrack
• Unrated workprints (bootlegs) of Candyman also contain a more graphic beating of Virginia Madsen's character 'Helen' in the toilets by the black youths who enter into the toilet and who kick her several times on the floor while she bleeds profusely from the head wound inflicted from the blow by the hook of the main youth. This is cut in all regular prints
• In the uncut print you can see Candyman's hook emerging from the doctor's stomach as he tears away ferociously and the blood spurts towards Virginia Madsen. This is not in R print, but is in the earlier VHS!

Thanks to David

I bought the Special Edition of Candyman on the Tiglon label on R2 in Turkey and was extremely happy to find that it is uncut. The DVD video is much better than previous releases as well as the audio being vastly improved instead of previous monaural surround. Todd's superbly deep bass voice booms now! Anyway the good part is that it must have been taken from an uncut master or VHS source and remastered. I checked it with my uncut VHS taped from C4's showing several years ago and it matches. Great stuff!

All the previous MPAA cuts are intact. The violent jerking forward of the psychiatrist, the three or more main blood spurts( but they are quick!), the reaction shot of Madsen as his blood spurts on her face are all there and his screams are not lessened for sound impact as before. There is a mistake on the back cover as it says runtime 99mins(this must be a quote refering to R1 NTSC speed), anyway at PAL rate it runs 95 mins 14 seconds with the Propaganda label at end.

On the commentary it is mentioned that the MPAA kept rejecting it as an NC17, as they hated the spurting blood in this scene- 68 mins at PAL frame- but they are all there in this R2 release. There is a God!

1984 US film by Ken Russell

UK Cuts

Passed with an 18 certificate in 2004 (all cuts waived) for a Film Four showing

Previous BBFC Cuts when submitted in 1985

• Opening dialogue (over credits) missing the line Fuck You, Hopper!
• Deleted sight of Miss Liberty reaching through trouser opening to stroke client's erect penis (concealed by his trousers) immediately after unzipping his flies
• Considerably reduced duration of mock rape of China Blue by removing much of the thrusting and the two most explicit Japanese erotic prints.
• During China Blue's S&M scene with policeman client, deleted emphasis on his truncheon being inserted and twisted in his anus, sadomasochism to be generalised rather than reaching a climax through anal penetration.

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

2004 US horror film by Zack Snyder

Available in the US in an R rated version to keep the MPAA happy but also released on video/DVD in an unrated version. The running time suggests that the UK cinema release is the R rated US version.

Thanks to David:

I can honestly say that after watching this film UNRATED it really sticks in your mind. You learn loads more more about the characters with this extra dialogue in terms of character development and the film is becomes like the original 1978 horror classic with all that nice gore included. Get it on R1, but I think the 'Restricted' US theatrical print is all we are getting in this country.

The R rated version suffers cuts as follows:

• When Ana arrives at the Bus Transport and sees the two zombies tearing someone apart in the back of the bus, there is a shot of a nude woman (bare breasted) looking dazed and confused. Very disturbing scene and I can see why the MPAA insisted on its being removed! In the Region 1 DVD - the woman's breasts have been obscured by digitally adding extra blood to the windscreen that the camera is viewing through. This extra blood is not added in the UK Region 2 version.

• Right after ANA and KEN meet up, they walk past a playground right before entering the small tunnel. As they arrive at the back entrance of the mall, everyone gets a surprise as this crazy looking dude comes running. He also brings some nice friends...While in the store, they see the toilet sitting there, which ends up going through the window.

• When MICHAEL shoots the mallet up through the zombie's neck into his head, extra brain matter was removed in the theatrical cut.

• Two dip shits discussing the zombie outbreak while CJ watches in anger.

• We actually get to see CJ waste the zombie janitor in the sports store.

• Right after the "Down With The Sickness" montage, instead of cutting to the sniper shot of Jay Leno, CJ is reading a women's top 3 list to BART who is asleep. #1 in his list is trust. GLEN tells the uncomfortable BART and CJ the first time he knew he was gay...lol

• A quick shot of NORMA grabbing that hotties cigarette right as ANDRE leaves for LIDA.

• The actual gunshots which hit Norma as her and Andre battle it out.

• A more realistic shot of the zombie baby right before getting done in.

• Michael and Anna make out in the shuttle bus before the "food-Andy meeting"

• A lot more zombies during their run for the gun shop. More Zombies, and more headshots.

• Awesome shot of a zombie's half-face after getting a shotgun blast by KEN.

• THE MISSING GUN SHOP EXIT: CJ runs to the roof with a propane tank and chucks it over. He's aiming with Andy's sniper rifle. Aim...Ready...Fire!!! How will we know if he shoots it? CJ exits the gunshop last, leaving right up to his exit from the truck and back onto the street. (Where the theatrical cut left you). CJ gets another zombie right before blowing up another propane tank.

• More gore is involved in the scene when the blonde babe gets sawn in half by Glen. Blood splatters on KEN's face blinding him, causing the turn-over.

• We get to see Michael actually place the gun up to his throat and Bang- suicide!

More from David:

I have checked all versions. The unrated US R1 versionis strangely censored to the scene of the topless female zombie. The scene is obsured. All other unrated versions are uncut.

• Innocents: The Dreamers
• Les Innocents
• Sognatori

Although there is an uncut NC-17 version, the US also released a cut version. About 3 minutes of footage were removed to achieve an R rating.

From ABC News

There hasn't been an NC-17 film in U.S. theatrical release since 1997 when Bent, a drama about Nazi persecution of homosexuals, and the porn comedy Orgazmo came out.

Bertolucci has publicly worried about the film's fate in America. The film risks coming out in the United States amputated and mutilated, Perhaps someone thinks that the U.S. public is too immature to see this.

But Fox Searchlight decided against any cuts. The specialty division of 20th Century Fox studios found itself in a difficult position after acquiring the film, which screened at the 2003 Venice Film Festival and London Film Festival.

Most NC-17 rated films have difficulty finding theaters and securing advertising in the United States. Many mainstream cinemas and media companies equate the NC-17 rating to pornography even though it was created to differentiate adult-only dramatic filmmaking from skin flicks.

But cutting the movie's content to get an R rating would likely enrage cinephiles who would be the target audience for a film like Bertolucci's.

• Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde

The US release was originally cut by the MPAA, but released in 'R' and unrated versions on video. The unrated version later received an 'R' rating when submitted for DVD release in 2004, and became the standard version available in America. The UK DVD uses this unrated print.

Footage removed from the 'R' rated version includes blood-splatter and a close-up of a throat-slash in the 'pigeon man' scene, and gory detail from the murder of the prostitute at Jack's front door.

The controversy over the digital altering of Eyes Wide Shut intensified when New York film critics joined their Los Angeles colleagues in condemning Warner Bros. for releasing a "censored" version of Stanley Kubrick's last movie. Criticising the decision to mask a sex scene, the letter signed by 28 members of the New York Film Critics Circle also sharply criticised the movie industry's system of motion picture ratings - G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17. The fundamental issue underlying this controversy is that the Classification and Ratings Administration of the Motion Picture Assn. of America (MPAA) is out of control, the New York critics wrote. It has become a punitive and restrictive force, effectively trampling the freedom of American filmmakers.

The latest flap over the Hollywood ratings board grew out of the digital alteration of a 65-second sequence of Eyes Wide Shut in which Tom Cruise's character walks through a mansion observing an orgy. In order to receive an R rating for the film - and avoid the commercially taboo NC-17 rating - filmmakers added digitized human figures strategically imposed in front of the actors to obscure the sexual acts depicted on screen. "Eyes" executive producer Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law, has defended the alteration, saying Kubrick's contract with Warner Bros. called for him to deliver an R-rated film. Harlan said he and Kubrick discussed the matter during production and decided they could add the digital changes if needed.
Kubrick died about four months before the film was released. Still, the New York critics, like their L.A. counterparts, went on record strongly condemning the decision by Warner Bros. to release a censored version" of the movie.

They also called for a full, detailed, chronological account of how the R-rated version was created. The process by which this bowdlerised edition of Kubrick's final film came into being has been shrouded in vagueness and misinformation, they wrote. A spokeswoman for Warner Bros., the studio arm of Time Warner Inc., denied suggestions that the film had been censored or that it had been changed without Kubrick's consent. During the editing process it became clear to Stanley that this scene wasn't going to get an R rating, and he talked to his editors about how digitally he could get an R rating and was very specific about what shots to mask, Warner Bros. spokeswoman Nancy Kirkpatrick said. Did he see the final version? Of course not, but this was the process he set up ... He discussed it with the entire production staff.... It wasn't any big secret. The issue for Kubrick was that he not cut the film, which he didn't. But the critics said the larger issue is that Eyes Wide Shut should "never have been threatened with an NC-17 rating, which they called a "de facto scarlet letter. NC-17 replaced the old X rating as a classification that prohibits viewing by anyone under 17, whereas R allows viewers under 17 to be admitted when accompanied by an adult.

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, host of the syndicated TV show "Siskel and Ebert," hit on the same theme last week, saying the alteration of "Eyes" underscored a fundamental flaw in the current ratings system. Ebert has called for an "A" rating to be established between the R and the NC-17 ratings, the way PG-13 stands between PG and R.

The UK video release suffered a further 10s of cuts on behest of the BBFC

From Fangoria

Monsters HD, the US 24-hour high-definition channel devoted to horror films, gave word that it will premiere the restored director’s cut of Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond in June 2006, in advance of its DVD debut.

With the filmmaker’s help, the Monsters team has reinstated scenes into the HP Lovecraft-inspired film that fans have only been able to read about for the past 20 years, and given the movie a fresh new look. The transfer is really stunning, Gordon says. Mac Ahlberg, the DP, did a beautiful job and it’s got all these lurid colors. It was fun to see it again and to see it looking so good. I think it holds up pretty well. Everything that was trimmed by the MPAA is now back in the movie and it was great to see it restored. I had a wonderful feeling after it was done. An enormous sense of relief.

The director goes on to relate the trials the movie went through before the ratings board: They were very upset and, I think, trying to get revenge for the unrated Re-animator. So we had to submit From Beyond at least a dozen times, maybe more. We ended up cutting out over a minute’s worth of material to finally get it released with an R rating. They really took out some of the best stuff.”

The scene that upset them the most—and as I describe it, it is truly disgusting—is when Jeffrey Combs’ character’s pineal gland has gone out of control and he’s hungry for brains. He attacks a psychiatrist, played by my wife [Carolyn Purdy-Gordon], and he plants his mouth onto her eye socket and starts sucking. And the material that was cut out was when he actually sucks her eyeball out, spits it onto the floor and the eyeball lands looking back up at him and he continues to suck her brains through the eye socket and the camera pushes in. It’s really disturbing and it’s the longest restored piece; my guess is it’s about 30 seconds or so. I think it’s the most horrific moment in the whole movie.

And it wasn’t just the visuals that is receiving an upgrade, but the audio as well, with a new Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. “The material was cut before the movie was mixed, so all that exists for it is the sound that was recorded on stage, which was mono, so we have to mix it back into the film,” Gordon says. Plus, I think we need some of those really truly disgusting sound effects for that brain-sucking scene.

The Region 1 Director's cut is on pre-release at US Amazon  (released Sept 11th 2007)

• Halloween 5 - The Revenge Of Michael Myers

From imdb

Some dialogue and gore was cut from the U.S. release, the latter to obtain an "R" rating:

• The scene in which the cop (Fenton Quinn) is killed outside of the Myers' house was shortened considerably. In the original version, as Michael is bashing his head into the glass on the windshield, there was a shot where you could see the glass embedded into his face.
• The shot of Mikey (Jonathan Chapin) quivering on the ground was shortened to avoid an "X" rating. You can still notice the abrupt jump in the shot before he is dragged away by Michael.
• In the documentary Inside Halloween 5 a cut scene is shown of a man removing Michaels mask and looking at it weirdly. Another scene cut was removed because it was considered too graphic. As Jamie is trying to climb back up in the laundry chute Michael stabs Jamie through her ankle. When Jamie emerges from the laundry chute you can see her ankle wounded and bleeding.

From Film Focus with spoiler warning

The R-Rated cut destined for worldwide audiances is not the cut of the movie director Alexandre Aja signed off, he was forced to make changes when the MPAA in America came back with the commercial-suicide rating NC-17. Aja said:, What they asked us to cut is basically a couple of minutes of the film.

They cut some close-ups of Big Bob [Ted Levine] burning and his eyes turning white. They cut a close-up of Lynne [Vinessa Shaw] being shot in the head; the muzzle-flash and the direct impact. It's very brutal. And they cut a shot of the gun being pointed at the baby. They also cut half a minute of the rape scene with Brenda [Emilie de Ravin].

This is a real spoiler; at the end they cut a bit of Lizard [Robert Joy] being shot. He's supposed to have been shot three times but they cut one of him being shot in the throat. Right now Doug [Aaron Stanford] is only shooting two times. In the original he was also hitting him in the face more. In the original cut it was more like he was dead so it was really something when you see him stand up again. Now, the way they cut the movie, you can tell he's going to stand up again. That's very stupid and I had a big, big argument with them about that.

The DVD, he says, will be a completely unrated version of the film. It'll be completely uncut for DVD, so I guess that's something.

From Brooks Bulletin

Cronenberg says that in two scenes, the Canadian and international DVD releases will have just a little more blood than the U.S. version, which had to satisfy the MPAA ratings people. I defy anybody to see the differences. I can't see them, even though I know if you go frame by frame you will. But they're so quick.

From Monsters & Critics

The MPAA is screwy and this feature proves it! They didn’t like a few blood squirts but didn’t say anything about Stephen McHattie’s diner floor death scene?

• Dernier empereur, Le (France)
• Ultimo imperatore, L' (Italy)

Originally 224 minutes in length, the US version was cut to 164 minutes for time. The scenes that were cut out were mainly Pu-yi's time in the Chinese concentration camp. In the recent director's cut, these scenes were restored and the movie's now uncut. The uncut version has been letterboxed, the 164 minute version is not

However it is interesting to note that towards the end of the film the protagonist sees the former prison warder in chains and approaches one of the officers in the street. In the Region 2 version of the film the officer responds, "fuck off" but if you view the region 1, this has been edited to "buzz off!"

• Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead
• Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead - The Never Dead Part III
• Phantasm III: The Third Power
• Phantasm: Lord of the Dead

From iF Magazine see full article

The DVD debut of Phantasm III in an unrated Director’s Cut version.

Director and writer Don Coscarelli added back into the film a number of different scenes of violence and gore that were originally cut out of Phantasm III due to a fight he had with the MPAA around the time of this film’s release.

One particular scene with the drilling metal ball into the skull of an unlucky victim was chopped to hell because of the MPAA. Now it’s added back into the film along with other scenes that were recut together by Coscarelli to form this new, longer, bloodier version of Phantasm III.

The Director's Cut DVD is available at US Amazon

From Canmag see full article

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are funny action heroes, but they’re still martial arts badasses. They have to take out the bad guys, and that requires violence. Too bad the ratings board won’t allow the best parts of their fights in the new TMNT film.

The MPAA set a mandate early on that nunchucks to the head will never pass a PG rating. Director Kevin Munroe said: They still use their weapons, it’s just you’ve got to kinda cut around it

Perhaps it’s best for the international marketability of the film. Nunchucks are absolutely illegal in the UK, said producer Thom Gray. You can't even show them being whipped around. You could show them in a belt but you can't show 'em [in use]. And the throwing stars are totally illegal. You get into Germany and Scandanavia and they really say, 'No way, that has to come out.'

It's not going to be that apparent in the fights because there's so much going on and your eyes are not even going to see it. But clearly we were told up front, don't whack anybody over the head with a nunchuck because it's going to come out.

TMNT opens to US theatres on March 23rd, 2007.