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Thundercrack!...

Remarkable cult movie with bizarre real sex passed 18 uncut by the BBFC


Link Here31st March 2024

Thundercrack! is a 1975 US adult comedy by Curt McDowell
Starring Marion Eaton, George Kuchar and Melinda McDowell BBFC link 2020 IMDb

A cult film that was notably unreleased in the UK for many years except on the cinema club circuit. The film was finally BBFC 18 rated without cuts for 2024 release. The BBFC noted that it contains strong real sex. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.

Summary Review

With a killer gorilla on the loose, a group of strangers find themselves stranded at a remote mansion of a grieving madwoman one dark and stormy night. They indulge in swapping bizarre personal backstories - and bodily fluids.

Imagine yourself a typical low-budget horror opening, in which random people gather around an old dark mansion during a nightly thunderstorm. They're all slightly eccentric characters with unusual backgrounds and/or odd personalities and, naturally, the female owner of the mansion is the queen of all madness.

Her guests soon begin to physically experiment with themselves and each other and these sexual outbursts become gradually odder. Masturbation and ordinary hetero-sex at first, but before you properly realize it; you're up to your neck in gay sex, voyeurism, sex with peculiar attributes and even bestiality.

This movie is available in two versions, but I can safely say already that even the cut Theatrical Version (120 minutes instead of 150) is more than weird enough for every avid fan of offbeat cinema on this planet.

Versions

BBFC uncut
uncut
run: 159:27s
pal: 153:04s
18

MPAA Unrated

UK: Uncut and BBFC 18 rated for strong real sex, nudity:
  • 2024 BFI VoD (rated 05/02/2024) titled Thundercrack!

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

  • 2015 Synapse Films 40th Anniversary Edition R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
  • 2015 Synapse Films 40th Anniversary Edition R0 DVD at US Amazon
cut
cut
cut:  
run: 125:30s
pal: 120:29s
  Sweden: There is a cut version running about 120m

 

 

Shopping: Nightmares In A Damaged Brain...

1981 US/Italy video nasty by Romano Scavolini, once banned, just released on UK 4K Blu-ray


Link Here29th March 2024

Nightmares In A Damaged Brain is a 1981 US/Italy horror by Romano Scavolini
Starring Baird Stafford, Sharon Smith and C.J. Cooke BBFC link 2020 IMDb

Cut by the BBFC for X rated 1982 cinema release. Famously banned as a video nasty with the distributor being jailed. A cut US R rated version was released in the UK for an 18 rated 2002 DVD. In the US the Unrated 2011 Code Red version is slightly shortened in uncontroversial scenes but is the best available.

An uncut version, or as near as dammit, was released in the UK in November 2015 but was soon withdrawn presumably for a lack of BBFC paperwork. However the BBFC certificate was published shortly after and the DVD went back on sale.

The original UK cinema version was heavily cut by the BBFC with edits made to closeups of throat slitting and repeated stabs during the telephone murder, the pick axe killing, and axe blows (including blood frothing from a man's head) during the climactic flashback. The film was then listed and banned as an official video nasty, and a successful prosecution was brought against the distributing company World of Video 2000 in 1984 for releasing an unauthorized video version (which was 1 min longer than the cut cinema print). The film was finally granted a video certificate in 2002 though the print submitted was an edited U.S version, which restores the ice pick murder and around 1 minute of dialogue scenes but still has edits to the throat slashing/stabbing scene and some brief cuts to the climactic flashback nightmare murder.

Summary Notes

A mental patient embarks on a murder spree upon escaping from an institution.

UK: Uncut and BBFC 18 rated for strong bloody violence, horror, strong sex:

Promotional Material

It's been called "graphic and unapologetic" (SexGoreMutants), "brutally effective" (Screen Rant) and "a forgotten classic" (Horror News). It remains the most reviled, controversial, and misunderstood genre film of the '80s. Now "the most repulsive, degrading and horrifying movie ever made" (NY Daily News) can be experienced like never before: When a homicidal mental patient (an enduringly disturbing performance by Baird Stafford ) flees an experimental drug program, he'll leave a 5-day trail of psychosexual carnage from the peep shows of 42nd Street to the gore-soaked shores of Florida. Written and directed by Romano Scavolini , this "devastating masterpiece" (Cinefear) -- whose UK release as NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN led to the imprisonment of distributor David Hamilton-Grant -- has been scanned from the internegative and various foreign print sources to create the most complete version ever assembled.

Disc Specs:

  • Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
  • Audio: English 5.1 / English Stereo
  • 4K Video: HDR
  • Closed Captions
  • UHD: Region Free

Special Features:

Disc 1: UHD

  • Audio Commentary With Star Baird Stafford and Special Effects Assistant Cleve Hall Moderated By Lee Christian and David DeCoteau
  • Audio Commentary With Producer William Paul
  • Trailers

Disc 2: Blu-ray

  • Damaged: The Very British Obscenity of David Hamilton-Grant
  • Audio Commentary With Star Baird Stafford and Special Effects Assistant Cleve Hall Moderated By Lee Christian and David DeCoteau
  • Audio Commentary With Producer William Paul
  • Kill Thy Father And Thy Mother -- Interview With Director Romano Scavolini (71 mins)
  • Dreaming Up A Nightmare -- Featuring Former President Of 21st Century Distribution Arthur Schweitzer , Actor/Unit Production Manager Mik Cribben , Production Supervisor Simon Nuchtern , Florida Producer/Special Effects Artist William Milling , Uncredited Editor Jim Markovic and Archival Interviews With Actor Baird Stafford and Special Effects Artists Edward French and Cleve Hall
  • The Nightmare Of NIGHTMARE -- Interview With Erroneously Credited Special Effects Director Tom Savini
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Still Gallery
  • Trailers

This double disc also includes an 8-page booklet.

 

 

Robot Dreams...

Children's cartoon cut for a BBFC PG rated cinema release


Link Here28th March 2024
Robot Dreams is a 2023 Spain/France animation drama by Pablo Berger
Starring Ivan Labanda, Tito Trifol and Rafa Calvo BBFC link 2020 IMDb
BBFC category cuts were required for a BBFC PG rated cinema release in 2024.

Summary Notes

Based on the popular graphic novel by the North American writer Sara Varon, ROBOT DREAMS tells the adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in NYC during the '80s.

Versions

BBFC cut
cut:
run: 102:29s
pal: 98:23s
PGUK: BBFC PG rated for mild rude humour for mild rude humour after BBFC cuts:
  • 2024 Artificial Eye Film Co. cinema release (rated 30/01/2024)

The BBFC commented:

The company obscured rude gestures in order to achieve their preferred category of PG. An uncut 12A classification was available.

BBFC uncut
uncut
run: 102:46s
pal: 98:39s
IFCO cinema GIreland: Uncut and IFCO G rated for consumer advice: explores themes of friendship and loss with positive resolution:
  • 2024 Curzon cinema release (rated 16/01/2024)

 

 

The New Boy...

The BBFC caught hearing things with a mistaken 15 rating for strong language


Link Here20th March 2024

The New Boy is a 2023 Australia historical fantasy drama by Warwick Thornton
Starring Cate Blanchett, Aswan Reid and Deborah Mailman BBFC link 2020 IMDb

There are no censorship issues beyond noting that the BBFC made a mistake in noting the occurrence of the word 'cunt' requiring a 15 rating. When asked to listen again the BBFC changed its mind and noted just moderate language for a 12A rating.

Summary Notes

A nine-year-old Aboriginal Australian orphan boy arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun.

Versions

BBFC uncut
uncut
run: 96:03s
pal: 92:12s
12A

15

IFCO cinema 12A

UK: Uncut and BBFC 12A rated with a trigger warning for moderate violence, language, bloody images, discrimination:
  • 2024 Signature Entertainment cinema release (rated 23/02/2024)

UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for infrequent very strong language:

  • 2024 Signature Entertainment cinema release (rated 23/02/2024)

Thanks to Scott:

This Australian film originally appeared on the BBFC's website last month as a 15 for infrequent very strong language. I noticed that it was only a 12A in Ireland and an M (completely unrestricted) in Aus, with no mention of anything higher than moderate language from either, so emailed the BBFC to let them know they'd probably misheard a c-word. Sure enough, a week or two later, the cert was revised to 12A for moderate violence, language, bloody images, discrimination. They subsequently replied to my email: With regard to New Boy, we have already been in conversation with the producers and have since revised the age rating to 12A.

Ireland: Uncut and IFCO 12A rated for an aboriginal boy is taken to a christian monastery in 1940`s australia - contains moderate violence with brief injury detail, moderate language:
  • 2024 Signature cinema release (rated 14/02/2024)

 

 

The Jungle Bunch World Tour...

Censorship is an ass as the latest children's cartoon is cut for a lower rating


Link Here20th March 2024
The Jungle Bunch World Tour is a 2023 France animation comedy by Laurent Bru, Yannick Moulin, Benoît Somville
Starring Gauthier Battoue, Paul Borne and Wyatt Bowen BBFC link 2020 IMDb
BBFC category cuts were required for U rated cinema and VoD release in 2024.

Summary Notes

Sequel to the film The Jungle Bunch (2017).

Versions

BBFC cut
category cuts
cut:
run: 88:49s
pal: 85:16s
UUK: BBFC U rated for very mild threat, violence, rude humour:
  • 2024 Signature Entertainment cinema release (rated 25/01/2024)
UK: BBFC U rated for very mild threat, violence, rude humour after BBFC cuts:
  • 2024 Signature Entertainment VoD (rated 12/01/2024)

The BBFC commented:

The distributor chose to make cuts to bad language ('ass') in order to achieve a U rating. An uncut PG rating was available.

 

 

The Ice Pirates...

Old BBFC cuts list added for category cuts for the 1984 cinema release of a US action comedy by Stewart Raffill


Link Here19th March 2024

The Ice Pirates is a 1984 US action comedy by Stewart Raffill
Starring Robert Urich, Mary Crosby and Michael D. Roberts BBFC link 2020 IMDb

BBFC category cuts were required for a PG rated cinema release in 1984. UK home video releases are uncut and 15 rated. The film is uncut and MPAA PG rated in the US.

Summary Notes

In a distant future scarce of water, space pirates get caught after stealing ice from a spaceship. They are sold to a princess looking for her dad. He might have found a planet abundant with water.

Versions

BBFC uncut
uncut
run: 93:44s
pal: 89:59s
15

BBFC 15 1982

MPAA PG

UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for strong injury detail, sex:
  • 2024 Warner Bros Entertainment UK Blu-ray (rated 11/03/2024)
UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated:
  • 1987 MGM Home VHS (rated 12/01/1987)

US: Uncut and MPAA PG rated

BBFC cut
category
cuts
cut: 2:11s
run: 91:38s
pal: 87:58s
BBFC PG 1982UK: Cut and PG rated after 2:11s of BBFC category cuts:
  • 1984 U.I.P. cinema release (rated 02/07/1984)

Thanks to Scott. The BBFC cuts list reads:

  • Reel 2 a) During discussion in prison on space ship and in cage after landing remove references to men being castrated.
  • Reel 2 b) When heroes are on conveyor belt remove threats of castration and repeated sight of snapping jaws.
  • Reel 3 a) After Alien creature bites heroes, remove reference to it as Space Herpe - when Jason reads cargo manifest.
  • Reel 3 b) Remove sight of man's head falling off after woman slices sword across man's neck in fight in bar.
  • Reel 4 a) Remove reference to Space Herpe after it emerges from hunk of meat.
  • Reel 4 b) After talking head delivers up ring on tongue, remove head's dialogue want to make a deposit? .
  • Reel 5 Establish only lovemaking between Jason and Princess after they go to the passion chamber with back projection, removing all sex double entendres in their dialogue and implication of oral sex.
 

 

 

 

Monkey Man...

Cut in the US to remove MPA consumer advice noting rape


Link Here6th March 2024

Monkey Man is a 2023 US/Canada action thriller by Dev Patel
Starring Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley and Sobhita Dhulipala IMDb

MPA rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, language throughout, sexual content/nudity and drug use after cuts to remove 'rape' from the consumer advice.

Summary Notes

A recently released ex-felon living in India struggles to adjust to a world of corporate greed and eroding spiritual values.

Versions

mpaa cut
cut 
MPAA R
US: cut and MPA R rated for strong bloody violence throughout, language throughout, sexual content/nudity and drug use after cuts to remove 'rape' from the MPA consumer advice.
  • 2024 theatrical release
BBFC uncut
uncut
MPAA R  
US: Uncut and MPA R rated for strong bloody violence throughout, rape, language throughout, sexual content/nudity and drug use.
  • 2024 theatrical release unreleased in favour of a cut version

 

 

Poor Things...

The BBFC require cuts for UK cinema release


Link Here7th January 2024
Poor Things is a 2023 Ireland/UK/US comedy romance by Yorgos Lanthimos
Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe BBFC link 2020 IMDb

The BBFC required cuts under its interpretation of child protection law for a BBFC 18 rating and these cuts have been applied to all worldwide versions.

Summary Notes

The incredible tale about the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter; a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist, Dr. Godwin Baxter.

Versions

BBFC cut
cut:  
run: 141:38s
pal: 135:58s
18

IFCO cinema 18

UK: BBFC 18 rated for strong sex, nudity, very strong language for strong sex, nudity, very strong language after BBFC cuts:
  • 2024 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures UK cinema release (rated 01/01/2024)

The BBFC commented:

We originally saw this film for advice. We informed the distributor we would be likely to classify the film 18 on condition that changes be made to one short sequence depicting sexual activity in the presence of children. This is in accordance with the Protection of Children Act 1978. When the distributor submitted the film for formal classification, the scene had been re-edited, and we were able to classify the film 18.

Thanks to Scott:

An employee of Disney's UK arm confirmed that the cuts were made months ago to an unfinished version of the film, with Lanthimos' consent, and the cut version is the definitive, being released worldwide.

Ireland: IFCO 18 rated with a trigger warning for frequent strong scenes of a sexual nature including male and female nudity, very strong and sexually explicit language throughout, some gory scenes of dead and dismembered bodies, references to drug use and suicide:

  • 2024 Disney cinema release (rated 22/11/2023)
 

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