• Baba Yaga
• Baba Yaga, The Devil Witch
• Black Magic
• Kiss Me Kill Me
• The Devil Witch

The Reloaded version was passed uncut by the BBFC in 2008.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

See article from dvdtimes.co.uk:

For this 2009 release the film has been re-cut by Farina himself, returning the majority of the deleted materials to their rightful locations, most notably with a politically driven pre-credits graveyard sequence, of which the chances of being warmly received in the USA are about nil.

Most of the other material that was deleted either underscores the lesbian elements or can simply be seen as padding.

The two censor-mandated full frontal nudity cuts have also been restored. It would be unfair to claim that the reinstating of these scenes turns a flawed film into a masterpiece, but they do make the film slightly more cohesive as a whole, and lead to certain scene transitions seeming a little less jarring.

Review from IMDb: Surreal Tangents

This movie has just confused the hell out of everybody since it's based on a comic strip Valentina few outside of Italy have read and few in Italy probably understood. Valentina is a photographer who through the agency of a magic camera falls under the spell of a strange lesbian witch, Baba Yaga. That's the basic plot, but it goes off on so many bizarre and surreal tangents that the movie itself is almost impossible to describe.

At one point, for instance, Baba Yaga gives Valentina a doll which suddenly turns into a real-life dominatrix who strips her naked, ties her up, and whips her while the witch looks on approvingly. In another scene, Valentina's suddenly part of a firing squad shooting a naked woman on a Jean Rollinesque deserted beach.

Carol Baker is the witch and although she is woefully miscast (too young and voluptuous) she acquits herself well (and even did a full-frontal nude scene which was censored out). The actress that plays Valentina, Isabella de Funes couldn't act her way out of an 8mm porno loop, but she really doesn't have to in this very visual, non-linear movie.

This movie definitely isn't for everybody, but if you're on this site reading this review (and you've heard of any of these people) I expect you'll probably like it.

Two full frontal shot of Carroll Baker were deleted by the BBFC.

Disputes at the production company saw material deleted at odds with the wishes of the director.

Babes Illustrated 5: Special Edition

Released when R18 guidelines were a little more liberal

• Kozure Ôkami: Shinikazeni mukau ubaguruma
• Baby Cart
• Lend a Child
• Lend an Army
• Lightning Swords of Death
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
• Lupine Wolf
• Sword of Vengeance, Part III

The BBFC cut the 1999 Artsmagic video/DVD by 20s

• Cut to edit violence during the attempted rape of 2 women by a samurai gang and their subsequent killing by Kanbei

The Complete Lone Wolf & Cub Boxset released in 2009 by Eureka is uncut but there is no record of a resubmission to the BBFC.

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

Review from US Amazon: An astonishing, great film

An astonishing, great film. Wakayama Tomisaburo does not just act, he embodies. To me, this amazing actor is Lone Wolf of the Kazure Okami comic book series (itself a masterpiece). I can never get enough of looking at him.

There is a simple scene in this film, in which Lone Wolf and his son are sitting in an inn drinking tea. The silence, the graciousness and subtle charm of the gestures, the unhurried and measured quality of the shot, create a moving experience for the viewer.

Most people focus on the violence of these films -- which is done beautifully -- but for me, the most important thing is the simple, pure, and usually wordless characterization of the relationship between father and son.

• Mistaken Identity

The Canal Studio Version or Extended Edition or Raw & Uncut Version or Harder Cut was passed 15 for the 2008 DVD without BBFC cuts.

Babylon A.D. is an adaptation of Maurice G. Dantec's science fiction novel Babylon Babies. It is set in a post-apocalyptic society and tells the story of Toorop; a veteran soldier turned mercenary who is hired to transport a young girl from Russia to Canada.

This DVD version has been passed 15 because of at least eight uses of strong language and moderate violence. Guidelines for 15 allow frequent use of strong language (eg 'fuck'), unlike guidelines for 12 or 12A where the use of strong language must be infrequent.

The versions for the cinema and another DVD release were passed 12A and 12 , respectively, because they were identical in content, in containing only one use of strong language and moderate violence.

In all other respects, this version is the same as the other two. This work also contains frequent use of moderate language – including bitch, shit and arse. The moderate violence featured is of the standard action movie fare and includes explosions, impressionistic fight scenes and gun battles. There are occasional bloody moments including a brutal cage fight between the main character and a vicious gladiator and another scene which features a slow-motion bullet entering the body of woman. These moments in the work are infrequent and do not linger on bloody injuries. Their inclusion is largely mitigated by the fantastical science-fiction context and well-contained within 15 guidelines which say that violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury.

See also pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

• Twin Sitters

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 1995

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum:

• At 32 mins - The finding of two little boys in joke hanging was reduced by removing initial long shots and close ups of faces, resuming on long shots of twins in doorway with boys` feet dangling foreground.
• At 38 mins - In scene by swimming pool, all close ups of coiled orange cable, plug-in socket, cable uncurling, and plug pulled out of socket were removed.
• At 66 mins - Shot of black gloved hands twisting and banging man`s head against balustrade was removed.
• At 79 mins - After oriental twins kick man behind them, the attack with repeated kicks on two other men was removed, resuming on corridor shot.
• At 81 mins - When black twins take turns to punch man in face, blows were reduced to one punch only.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Coup de force

Previous BBFC cuts were waived when the Hollywood DVD was submitted in 2004. This is now the full uncut version as banned by the BBFC in 1994

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

See review from IMDb: A definite winner

Good chemistry between the two leads, Lots of action. A definite winner.

This is an excellent "B" movie. Blanks and Piper work really well together. The story is decent. But story doesn't count, action does. And there is more than enough action to keep people happy. Blanks and Piper are good in the numerous fight scenes.

Overall a really good movie that any action fan should check out.

The BBFC commented:

The distributors resubmitted the video shorn of 7.5 minutes of the most brutal violence, after which a further 1.5 minutes was cut by the Board, removing most of the remaining kicks to the head and face, the smashing of heads against walls, floors and pillars, the biting of ears and glamorising of weaponry.

Two of the rejected videos in 1994 (the other is Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor) featured karate but each went beyond acceptable standards in the quantity and intensity of potentially lethal kicks to the head and bone-crunching blows and twists to the limbs, back and neck. Since this form of macho heroics is likely to appeal to teenagers with a record of violent offending, cuts did not seem a practical proposition. The Board has always been concerned about films in which heroes meet viciousness with viciousness, inflicting pain and injury on others as if it were the only remedy for villainy.

The International Version was passed 15 uncut for

• 2010 Sony video

• 2010 Sony video
• 2010 cinema release

• Andy Warhol's Bad

The BBFC cut the 1977 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb

• Cut to remove all close up footage of pornographic magazine material
• Edits to the finger removal scene
• Edits to shots of a dead baby.

Cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2007

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

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

Cut by 3s for the cinema version and 20s for video. The BBFC site suggests that the cuts were the same for both versions so perhaps different implementations of the required cut.

From DVD Times:

The BBFC cut one shot, nine minutes in: Bubby is sitting in a chair, tugging at a string which is around his cat’s neck. The cat seems to be resisting, which is presumably why the BBFC considered that it was distressed, making the shot fall foul of the Animals Act.

This cut unfortunately removed the following dialogue:
Bubby: Where cat from?
Mother: Outside.

This blurred a plot point, as this was the first indication that there is an “outside”.

The US Theatrical Version was passed 18 uncut for the 2002 Universal DVD and 2007 Optimum DVD

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

The cuts were uncontentious and were for timing reasons.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The BBFC cut the 18 rated 1989 video from Film and Video by 22s.

From cuts details on IMDb:

• to remove closeup shots of self-mutilation with a knife and a scalpel
• to reduce a scene where a man is repeatedly hit by a car.

It has been shown on Zone Horror and others uncut uncut suggesting that the BBFC would now waive the cuts

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

Review from US Amazon: Underrated Entertainment

Bad Dreams came out around the same time as Nightmare on Elm Street and is very much a product of the 80s and horror filmmaking style at that time. The film tell the story of the sole survivor of an interesting hippielike commune/cult led by a David Koreshish type leader.

Yet Bad Dreams is a cut above for many reasons. The first being that the film is filled with surrealistic arresting images-in particular, the house where the mass suicide took place is an intriguing looking building, tragically beautiful.

Secondly, Bad Dreams encompasses a fascinating character in the African American female mental patient who frequently says mysterious and pseudo religious things and seems to be the only one who knows what's going on.

Thirdly, the acting by all involved is really superior to what you find in most horror films. Rubin is especially good at emoting and I am mystified why I never heard of her before I rented this film.

In short, Bad Dreams is a must see, with a great twist ending also. A must for any horror fan or suspense lover.

The 2003 DVD release was cut by 28s by the BBFC with the following comment: Compulsory cut to remove dangerous imitable technique.

The 1990 cinema release and 1991 video release from Entertainment in Video suffered similarly but implemented differently.

Thanks to Bleach, from cuts details on IMDb

• Removed "dangerous imitable technique" during the scene where Alex attempts to kill Michael by connecting the car lights to the petrol tank.

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

Review from US Amazon: Excellent

A movie that keeps you in suspense from it's very beginning deserves to be called "excellent".

Rob Lowe's magnificent performance as a charismatic player is so convincing you may notice at the end that you have not even moved while watching it...

James Spader's roll as a decent hard working professional who innocently finds himself, suddenly involved in a homicide case, is terrific as well. Love, sex, passion, hate...and even murder are perfectly combined in this movie...

Highly recommended...

The Pathe DVD was passed 18 uncut in 2003

Bad Lieutenant is banned completely in Ireland. If you are thinking of buying it in the US beware of a butchered R rated version prepared especially for our moral guardians at Blockbuster Video.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from UK Amazon: It doesn't come much better

Sometimes your need to explore the bad. Not sugar coat it, not make it all-right-in-the-end feelgood hollywood crowd-pleasing, but take a character and a situation and follow them both through to their rightful conclusion.

And make no mistake, this is totally about badness - Keitel's character is as corrupted to the core as a human being can be. And we witness it all close up.

But can someone like him be ultimately redeemed? I'll leave you to find out. Be prepared to be shocked, to witness total corruption and despair, and to witness one of the best performances an actor can give.

This film will take you way beyond your comfort zone - but is a tour de force of vital, raw cinema. I still shudder now when recalling it and how I felt at the ending. It doesn't come much better than this.

1. Rape of the nun: cut: scene where nun's pants are removed revealing pubic hair.
2. Injecting heroin: cut: close-up of Zoe Lund's arm as she injects herself.
3. Injecting heroin: cut: Keitel drinking as he watches Zoe.
4. Injecting heroin: cut: another shot of Zoe's arm with the needle in it.
5. Injecting heroin: cut: close up of Zoe's face.
6. Injecting heroin: cut: Zoe drawing liquid from spoon. (still present in the trailer!)
7. Injecting heroin: 31s replaced by crude dissolve: Zoe injects Keitel.

Led Zepplin threatened legal action against a track sounding slightly like "Kashmir". The offending song has been removed from 4 points in the video.

1. Street drug dealing just before Keitel arrives to buy crack: now no music at all.
2. Nun's rape originally to backing track "signifying rapper": now church organ music.
3. Long tracking shot following Keitel into the hospital: now no music at all.
4. End credits: now have Abel Ferrara himself singing.

• Badder Santa (unrated version)

No BBFC cuts to the Unrated Version (titled Badder Santa in the US) submitted  for a 2005 Columbia/TriStar DVD

See cuts details from dvdcompare.net

DVD Compare reports that the UK DVD release is basically the Unrated Version but is missing the mention of Willie's penis in the opening exchange with the security guard.

From cuts details on IMDb

The unrated cut includes these changes:

• There's an alternate take of Willie leaving the mall at the start of the movie with a more vulgar exchange with the security guard. Willie retorts that his penis as the only content of his pants and asks whether the guard wants to see it.
• There's a whole new subplot at the beginning of the movie with Willie stealing a car and robbing someone's house, and then going to a strip club and bringing a stripper home before hearing the phone message telling him it's that time of year again.
• There is more footage of Willie having sex in the dressing room.
• The pinball scene with the underage girl is extended with more thrusting.
• There's more swearing and berating in the food court scene.
• There's some more footage of Willie yelling at The Kid after losing a game of checkers.
• The jacuzzi sex scene is slightly longer.
• The scene with Willie confronting a security guard outside the mall is extended.
• A small extension of the Granny Death scene.
• An extended car death scene.
• A longer shoot out at the mall

Note that there is also a Director's Cut that is shorter than the unrated version and hasn't been issued in the UK

The Unrated region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The Unrated + Director's Cut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

The Unrated region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

• Fuck Me
• Rape Me

The BBFC cut 12s from the 2002 Universal DVD and 2002 Feature Film Company DVD: Cuts required to two sequences of sexual violence involving strong sexual imagery (explicit close up of sexual penetration of woman during rape scene; sight of gun being pressed into man's anus prior to being fired)

Contains hardcore segments even after being censored by the BBFC

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

Review from UK Amazon: Crude but exhilarating

This is an extreme film, and a glance at the many reviews on here will demonstrate that it provokes extreme reactions.

All these people comparing Baise-Moi to Thelma and Louise and finding it wanting by comparison are missing the point. Baise-Moi has much more in common with films like Natural Born Killers and Rafal Sielinski's Fun, and viewers who won't enjoy the nasty music, nasty violence and nasty sex should stick to safe, predictable Hollywood production-line films.

Baise-Moi is a crude but exhilarating walk on the wild side which definitely won't be to most people's taste, and that's fine. For those with stronger stomachs, this will be a cult film to watch repeatedly.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to remove sight of bloody injuries and weapons

• Nu ji zhong ying
• Bamboo House of Dolls
• Bamboo Women's Prison

The BBFC banned the 1975 cinema release

See American Pie Presents Band Camp

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004

• Banned from Television Uncensored!

Rejected by the BBFC in February 1999 with the following justification:

The main consideration for the Board was the question of harm referred to above. In short, does the work have the potential for anti- social influence?

In the Board's view it does. It is a compilation of scenes of extremely violent death, injury and mutilation, many of which are repeated in slow-motion. The commentary draws attention to the grislier aspects and in effect invites enjoyment at human suffering. The inclusion also of sex scenes reinforces the impression that the purpose of the video is to provide entertainment. There is no attempt to justify the images by placing the incidents in any other journalistic or educational context. Whatever current relevance the images might have had when they were originally photographed has been lost in the general compilation of horrors. The Board is conscious that a particular genre that has always been identified as entirely unacceptable is that of so-called 'snuff movies'. Their main identifying feature is that at least one of the participants is actually killed.  Banned from Television is only different in that, instead of a death being created for the work, actual death and injury is collated from a wide range of pre-existing sources to create the work.

The Board has concluded that the video is potentially harmful because of the influence it may have on the attitudes and behaviour of a significant proportion of likely viewers. The instinct of concern and compassion for the suffering of others is a basic social necessity. So is respect for the dignity of real human life. By presenting actual human death and mutilation as entertainment, the work, in the Board's view, has the potential to erode these instincts. There is a danger of it falling into the hands of young and impressionable persons (whatever its classification) and of some significant brutalising effect on their attitude to human life and pain.

The Board has considered the possibility of cuts as a remedy for these difficulties. It has concluded, however, that they would be unlikely to modify the tone and effect of the work acceptably.

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

Review from US Amazon: Gruesome Reality

This fifty-four minute DVD contains twenty-five chapters with situations ranging from an undercover police video at a strip club to a shark attack on a student, from a collapsing tower at a Deep Purple concert in Chile to several scenes of police brutality in South America. The most gruesome scene involves a woman who, in a hurry to get wherever she needed to go, accidentally jogs into a speeding train. You can see from the video clip of the accident why she failed to stop in time, but it is still brutal to watch and highlights the reason your parents always told you to look both ways before crossing the street. When I read about this scene before purchasing the DVD, I knew exactly the footage I would see because one of those cable channels that always show various documentaries covered this train accident in a program some time ago. Of course, on cable the scene cut away right before impact. Here you see it from start to finish, and it is a powerful statement on how carelessness has the potential for tragic consequences.

No cuts noted to the 2005 Universal DVD but the short running time suggests something is amiss.

Several minutes have been added during the opening scene, and show a partially topless Pamela Anderson being hosed down while dancing. It is reported that scenes from DVD extras have been spliced into the opening credits.

• Queen of the Naked Steel

The BBFC waived their 1985 cuts when the Prism DVD was submitted in 2002. However the short running time suggests that this was not a full version.

• Barbarian Queen 2:  The Empress Strikes Back

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

The censors cut Anchor Bay DVD by 41s when submitted in 2004 with the following statement: Cuts required to remove explicit sight of sexual activity (digital penetration) in order to achieve an 18 classification. An R18 uncut was not available for this non-sex work.

The explicit imagery was not deemed to have a sufficient narrative justification in the Jess Franco work Barbed Wire Dolls, which blurred the line between erotic drama and sex work.

The BBFC kindly provided a further clarification:

According to our Guidelines, you cannot show unsimulated sex at '18' if it is a 'sex work' (ie a work whose main purpose is to sexually arouse). Real sex in a 'sex work' makes it 'R18'. However, this Jess Franco film is not a 'sex work'.

According to our Guidelines, explicit real sex may only be shown at '18' if (i) it is not a sex work (see above) and (ii) the sex is exceptionally justified by context.

In this case the Board did not feel that the explicit sex was exceptionally justified by context so it was not judged acceptable at '18'. Of course, the explicit sex could have been permitted at 'R18' on its own. However, an 'R18' without cuts was not a realistic option in this case, not so much because it wasn't a sex work  but because the violence and sexual violence that we permitted at '18' would not be permissible at 'R18'. So, if we had permitted the explicit sex at 'R18' (which we could have) we would have had to make additional cuts for 'R18' (to violence and sexual violence) that would not have been required at '18'.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

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.

The 1999 Tartan video/DVD was passed uncut

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

Review from US Amazon: Cult horror trash classic

If you're looking for a bit of a change-up for your Friday Night Horror Movie Parties, try this one. It's gory. It's got really cheesy 80's special effects. The actors ALL have bad hair.

However, it is an interesting idea. The two brothers are clearly deeply connected to each other (or, at least they were...). The emotional conflict between the two (particularly the more able brother's desire to date) is intense and understandable.

There were moments in this movie that were so funny (that I don't think were meant to be) that my husband and I just laughed and laughed. Some of the characters are over the top. There were some scenes (particularly the really bad stop-animation scenes) that made me wince in their low quality. I'm sure it was superb film quality at the time; but, now it's really bad.

Overall, it's one of those films that you probably should watch. Get a friend who won't hate you when it's over, come to an agreement that this is intentionally quite trashy, and have fun watching a truly original, truly bizarre flick.

From cuts details on IMDb

• The scene where Duane watches a kung-fu film is missing shots of 'chain-sticks' from the kung-fu film itself.
• The second doctor's death scene is missing a shot of him spitting blood as well as the climatic shot of blood splashing on his face.
• The death of the female vet shortens shots of Belial clawing her face, the terminating shot of the scene showing the vet with scalpels sticking in her face is deleted.
• Shots of the noisy neighbour being clawed to death by Belial are cut; this sequence was originally intercut with two other scenes making the editing at this point awful due to these cuts.
• The infamous scene where Belial 'romances' Duane's girlfriend is the worst to suffer cuts- after she wakes up the entire scene has been removed bar a brief shot of her being strangled. In addition the shot of Belial on top her dead body and Duane's attempts to pull him off her is missing.

Passed uncut in 2000

47s cut by the distibuter.

Dream sequence where kids are shot in school was removed by the distributor in response to the Dunblane massacre.

Famous for being one of the slightly hardcore R18 videos that caught the attention of the press

Thanks to Frosby. There are no BBFC cuts so perhaps the cut was made by the distributor:

I have seen both Region's 1 and 2 of this film and found at cut of about 5 to 10 seconds where George Clooney and Arnie tug and tussle for Mr Freeze's ice weapon, Clooney says to Mr Freeze didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with guns and cuts straight to batman lifting freeze in the air with the barrel of the gun.

From SBBFC

The sound editing was altered following a BBFC 'advice viewing'. The sounds of crunchy implied headbutts were reduced to lessen the impact of the violence which enabled the work to be granted a 12A certificate.

Thanks to Gavin

My friends and I checked with the BBFC and the film is definitely NOT cut in any way. The info on SBBFC is incorrect. Just to be clear - the UK version is NOT edited, and all sound effects are loud and clear. I have also compared the waveforms of the R2 DVD to the R1 edition and they are identical.

The cuts were waived for the 12 rated 2005 Warner DVD/Blu-ray

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

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

Same cuts to cinema and video versions up to 1997

Thanks to Gavin & Rewind for the following cuts list. Voluntary cuts by the distributor to ensure a PG rather than a 12 rating.

• A shot of a cutting torch being picked up just after the main logo is missing.
• Two Face's reply after the guard says “You said you'd let me live” is missing Nothing better than live bait to trap a bat!
• After the “punctual funeral” line, Two Face shouting Kill the Bat! has been removed from the soundtrack and replaced with music and guards grunting
• When the elevator dings just before Batman exits, Two Face’ shout of “Blast him!” is not present in the UK version.
• The fight outside the elevator has lost a lot of sound effects, as well as a sequence where Batman drops his leg sharply onto a thug’s chest, complete with a loud thud
• Batman delivering a backward headbutt and breaking a thug’s nose in extreme close-up has been removed
• Close-ups of kicks to midriffs and faces are also missing
• Two Face’ lines in the helicopter about the acid have been removed
• In the sequence where the helicopter pilot is killed, Two Face emptying an entire clip into the helicopter pilot has been trimmed, along with shots showing the bullets riddling the pilot’s body from the front. The cut UK version has only three shots fired, and the pilot is shown slumping from behind
• The death of Nygma’s boss does not show him stopping on the window ledge, and hanging in terror, before Nygma runs over and says Fred, babe! You are fired! Or should I say...terminated? With this, he pulls the hat off him and he falls down, but this is all cut from the UK print
• Two Face’ line in the circus big top is cut from the UK version – Our new act for your personal amazement; we call it - Massacre Under The Big Top!
• A shot of Nygma laughing at the above line is also missing
• When the Mayor asks what Two Face wants at the circus, his reply is shortened from Batman. Bruised, broken, bleeding. In a word, dead! to simply Batman
• The UK version is missing the sequence where Bruce Wayne kills one guard on the right side of the big drum by coming up behind him, breaking his neck, and smacking him in the face as he falls
• When Two Face flips his coin before killing the Graysons, after his evil laugh he goes on to say Their kind of day, which is missing in the UK version
• As the bomb is raised through the roof of the circus, a quick sequence of Bruce flipping a guard over and kicking him hard in the gut is missing
• When Two Face accidentally kills two of his men in the car, their screams have been cut short in the UK version, and a shot of the driver’s terrified face has been removed
• The fight at Nygma’s party loses some impact sounds
• Shortly after this, Batman makes a guard do the splits and another crack accompanies this, but the sound has virtually been eliminated from the soundtrack
• A small crack has been greatly reduced in volume as Batman twists a thug’s arm backwards
• Robin throwing Two Face a vicious headbutts after the line, “This is for me!” has been replaced in the UK version, by removing the punch Robin throws after he says This is for my brother! and reinserting in place of the headbutt

All previous BBFC cuts were waived when the 15 rated Warner Blu-ray version was submitted in 2009

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

A 2005 Warner video version was downgraded to 12 with cuts justified as follows: Compulsory cut required to remove a potentially dangerous imitable technique

Presumably the chainsticks cut has been waived but the aerosol in the microwave cut remains

(Note that the DVD still carries a 15 rating due to DVD extras being 15 rated)

Thanks to Adam, Oct 2007: The version playing on FilmFour is uncut and shows Catwoman putting a couple of aerosols in a microwave.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The 1992-4 Warner video versions were the same cut version as the cinema release but were rated 15 for home viewing

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The BBFC cut the 1992 cinema release by 9s for a 12 certificate

• Catwoman places an aerosol in a microwave but not in the UK version as we may be stupid enough to copy this idea.
• A clown swinging on chainsticks during in attack on Batman has also suffered. The BBFC refuse to allow the sight of chainsticks regardless of their usage.

• The Big Brawl
• Battle Creek
• Sha shou hao

Cut in 2001 with the following BBFC statement: Cut required to sight of dangerous imitable technique (double ear clap)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Company chose to remove some uses of derogatory language referring to mental and physical disability for PG category

• Colonization of the Planet of the Apes

The UK cinema release, the 1988 video and the 2003 20th Century Fox DVD were all uncut by the BBFC but featured the US theatrical version cut to obtain a PG-13 rating

From cuts details on IMDb:

The 10 minutes longer unrated version is compared with the Theatrical Version

• 8'03: the score continues to its original ending for 25 seconds with extra footage of General Aldo approaching on a horse.
• 13'37:the chase of the teacher of the apes is longer by 20 seconds.
• 26'57: the mutant chief is walking around in his HQ and has more dialogue (30 sec)
• 29'38: the entry into the forbidden city of the ape scout party with Caesar is 40 sec longer with more dialogue.
• 34'32:the escape from the forbidden city shows more footage and dialogue of the apes.
• 42'06:the scene were Cornelius is "shot" by a human boy is beginning earlier, making it clear that the shooting is a game - which makes more sense since no mutant party had yet approached the ape city (15 sec).
• 46'47:Extra scene: the mutant chief tells his lieutenant to fire an atomic missile on Ape City when he give the signal. This adds to the tension, and it is odd that this element was left out. (1'16)
• 56'43:the assault by the mutants is shown 45 sec longer. (In this sequence there are three more smaller cuts that reduce the battle scene by 40 additional sec and there is no musical score.)
• 1'02'18: Extra scene where the mutant chief calls "Sergeant York". (1 min)
• 1'07'57: again, parts of the assault are cut by almost 40 sec.
• 1'08'50: there are additional shots and dialogue before the mutants lay the smoke screen.
• 1'09'29: 15 sec extra of the battle.
• 1'10'00: more battle footage cut. (20 sec)
• 1'16'00: the scene were Aldo kills the mutant chief and his followers in the school bus was cut in the Theatrical version.
• 1'22'10: the fight between Aldo and Caesar is longer.
• 1'24'00: Extra scene where the advisor talks the mutant lieutenant out of firing the atomic missile. (only with this sequence reinserted the odd cut from the Caesar conversation with the humans to the ending sequence makes a little more sense and looks better)

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

• Batoru rowaiaru

The 2002 Special Edition is an extended version. It was said to be a request by fans and is not the Director Approved version. The BBFC passed this version 18 without cuts.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The Theatrical Version region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka
• Batoru rowaiaru II: Rekuiemu
• Battle Royale II
• Battle Royale II: Requiem
• Battle Royale II: Revenge

The BBFC cut 8s from the Extended Version (Revenge Version) on the 2006 Tartan DVD: One cut was required to remove the Japanese text and English subtitle which state: "This film is restricted to aged 15 and over," in order to avoid confusion. I think these cuts can be discounted:

The Extended Version contains additional storylines but also includes some additional violence.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

The Revenge Version region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The Revenge Version region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Battlefield Earth: A saga of the year 3000

The Theatrical Version was passed 12 uncut for:

• 2008 Optimum DVD

• 2001 Warner DVD

• 2001 Warner DVD
• 2000 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• cut to remove the sight of a head butt during a fight in a jail

• Razor

Unrated

The Unrated Extended Version was passed 15 without cuts for the 2008 Universal DVD

From cuts details on IMDb:

The Unrated Extended Version has additional scenes, extended gore and violence, and "R-rated" language not shown in the TV  Version

The German Extended Version has an extra uncontroversial 10s scene. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

See Blood Bath

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory., The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cuts required to change incorrect classification ratings accompanying advertised features. Additionally the company has chosen to cut three trailers featuring horror and violence not appropriate for PG. These trailers could have been retained at a 12 classification

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

See La Bete

• SS Hell Camp
• La bestia in calore
• Horrifying Experiments of the S.S. Last Days
• SS Experiment Part 2

Released on video in June 1982 by JVI. Banned in October 1983 when it was added to the official video nasty list. It remained on the DPP list throughout the scare and so became one of the (rarest) collectable DPP39s

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

Amazon Review: The Good Old Days

Ahhh, the good old days when absolutely nothing was safe or sacred to the exploitation movie merchants.... Here we have, in my opinion, probably the most tasteless example of the Naziploitation picture, a genre that more or less died shortly after this "movie". Most would probably agree that that is a good thing.

Anyway, about the movie. For the uninitiated, start with Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS. If you can "enjoy" that bit of nastiness, then perhaps consider taking on this "unique" take on a forgotten film genre. Just don't watch it with your mom or girlfriend or aunt or grandma etc...

• La bestia nello spazio

The BBFC passed the Shameless Version 18 without cuts for the 2010 Argent DVD on the Shameless label.

From cuts details on IMDb:

The Shameless Version:

• The beast raping Sondra extended but still softcore
• extra shots of Onaf's prosthetic penis.

The Hardcode Version:

• contains alternative hardcore shots of the beast Onaf raping Sondra
• a hardcore sex scene between Madison and Sondra
• extra shots of Onaf's prosthetic penis.

The XXX Version region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The XXX Version region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Sexual Energy

Without stating the obvious, the film is a mess. But that's where the fun begins. There is no real telling of what is happening, but one might surmise some of the possibilities. Ultimately this film is riding the coattails of two other films: The Beast (La Bete) and Star Wars. How you might imagine to combine these two films into one heap of psuedo-science-fiction with a touch of pornography? Its not easy, and watching this is not very easy either.

The film is basically about Captain Larry (Vassili Karis) who, after beating up his enemy and having hot sex, discovers the mysterious energy force called Antalium, which is, evidently is a sexual energy. He sets up his team complete with Sirpa Lane (from the original La Bete) who all go to a planet to get more of this stuff.

There are hardcore scenes in this version, but its really not erotic or sexually interesting. While the film is already cut-up to an incomprehensible mess, the hardcore footage does not help matters much either.

But this film is not meant to be high art. The best way to enjoy such a film is with your friends laughing at it over some drinks and whatever else that may help. Cause you will need help after you see this.

Thanks to Sic

Cut in 2001 to obtain a PG

A headbutt was cut (13.45s in)from the start of a fight between cheetor & Black Arachnia because it's a dangerous technique of course I'm sure the subsequent series of punchs and kicks to the side of the head are perfectly safe.

• The opening & closing rape scenes are missing glimpses of the women's breasts and of bloodied bodies
• Michael's (Paul Clemens) attack on Edwin (Logan Ramsey) is missing the shot of the killer quivering as he gnaws into the victim's throat.
• A shot of Edwin's mangled body is missing when it is discovered by the Judge (Don Gordon).
• Michael snarls at the camera with a bloodied mouth during a flashback that is missing.
• Eventually the Judge gets his head ripped off but we don't get to see the blood pouring out nor the head rolling off the neck stump.

• Beastmaster - Der Befreier

The Director's Cut was passed 15 uncut for the 1998 Mainline video (and Five Star DVD).

There is also a heavily cut US Theatrical Version

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb

• Edits to shots of impaled bodies
• Edits to the puncturing of a ring containing an eyeball
• Removed all footage of topless nudity during Kiri's bathing scene.

The submitted running time was noted as 118:18s = 113:34s

• Uwakizuma: Chijokuzeme
• An Aria on Gaze
• Shisenjô no aria
• Shisenjiyou no Aria
• Unfaithful Wife: Shameful Torture
• Uwakiduma: chijokuzeme

The BBFC cut 13s from the 1996 Visionary video.

Thanks to Bleach:

• At 32.5 mins - After man grabs woman walking along street, remove all sight of him pulling her tights and underwear down to her ankles, resuming on medium close up of her facing wall.

Thanks to Haydn

The cinema release was cut in 2007 with the following BBFC comment: The distributor was required to make one cut, in a film aimed at younger viewers, of a potentially dangerous and easily imitated technique involving materials that are readily available in the average household (specifically, turning household items into a flame thrower). An uncut classification was not available to the distributor.

The film was released with the aerosol replaced by a harmless shower-head.

The 2006 video/DVD version was passed uncut with an 18 rating

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The cinema version was cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove scene of sexualised asphyxiation in order to achieve the requested '15'. An uncut '18' was available'.

The BBFC explained further in their 2006 Annual Report:

The film contained a brief, comic sex scene that included sight of a man being asphyxiated with a plastic bag. The clear detail, together with the potential for harm amongst teen viewers for whom the dangers of sexual asphyxiation might not be clear, seemed to warrant an ‘18’ certificate.

But as Kirei points out, the same scene would perversely be banned from an R18 film.

Cinema version 2001 and all video versions to 2001 have been cut with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cut required to sight of real animal cruelty (live bird caught in noose)

• Interieur d'un Couvent
• Interno di un convento
• Sex Life in a Convent
• Within a Cloister

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2003 Nouveaux Pictures DVD

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon for released on 30th March 2010

The submitted running time was noted as 95:45s = 91:55s

Released when the R18 guidelines were a little more liberal

• Ultra Vixen

The BBFC cuts were waived for:

• 2005 Freemantlemedia/Arrow 2005 R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2001 4 Front VHS
• 1999 Polygram/Universal VHS
• 1999 Troma VHS

Review from UK Amazon: Ultra-Fun

This is a Russ Meyers film, his final full length film as director and as usual his fascination for the female form is in abundance.

The movie is based in a small town USA and centers around the married couple of Lammar and Levonna and the sexual frustration of Levonna, here on in ensues a fantastic comedy soft porn romp in which the couple meet various colourful charactors along the journey to help cure Lammar's bedroom leanings, ending up in the fantastic Church of Rio Dio Radio where in lies Eufaula Roop, who has to be seen to be believed.

This movie was not the best received Meyers movie at the time of release however its safe to say that it has now gained cult status.

• 1979 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb:

• substantial edits to all of the sex scenes
• cut shot of Lamar's exposed genitals following a groin kick.

46:04s unofficial pre-cuts with a further 2s cut by the BBFC

BBFC cut 5s when submitted in 2008. Cut required to remove sight of the main character touching the bare ends of two live electrical cables together. A higher classification at which this could have been passed would be inappropriate for this work and was not made available.

Best of British Babefest 2

• Fei hu jing ying zhi ren jian you qing
• Fei foo jing ying ji yan gaan yau ching

Cuts of 16s were inflicted on the 1998 video from Missing in Action.

Thanks to Bleach:

• Sight of chainsticks were removed from two scenes.

The import Region 0 DVD from Megastar (English subtitles) is uncut

An 'unabridged version' was submitted in 2005 without BBFC cuts.

It has all the nunchakus restored but is missing some shots of James throwing up when he is fighting Tommy, and the shot of James finger being blown off. Also a bad guy getting shot is let off with less bullet wounds than in the uncut version. About 6 seconds cut. All appear in the UK video.

This seems to be the version shown on Sky

The Swedish DVD from Midget Entertainment is fully uncut

No BBFC cuts listed for the 1993 Entertainment in Video version so it appears that the video has suffered pre-cuts

The duel between Tommy (Philip Rhee) and the Asian, ponytailed gladiator has been severely shortened for the U.K prints.  A lengthy segment of the fight in which the gladiator uses two pairs of silver nunchakus is missing.

The scene lasts twice as long in the uncut version, which has been shown in the past on Sky. The version currently screening on Bravo, however, appears to be the same as the video except for an extra shot of James (Tommy's native brother) having his finger blown off - which isn't in Sky's print.

The BBFC cut the 1996 EIV video and 2007 ILC Prime DVD by 44s for a 15 rating.

From cuts details on IMDb

• cuts to the scene where Margo is assaulted and her clothes cut with a knife to reveal her bra.

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

See review from IMDb: Bad Film, Great Fun

I really enjoyed it, in a campy way. Tommy turns up in some rural town and steps right into a race war. Tommy is basically given reason after reason to take on guys of 4 or more and throw them through various fruit stalls, ticket offices, coffee tables, and french windows.

The gorgeous Gina Gershon does her best as a choir teacher helping Tommy out, but whenever she needs to be helpless it kinda doesn't work because she now plays such strong, female roles.

The acting and direction are seriously questionable but this film is obviously about fight scenes and they are entertaining enough, from the moment we see Gershon's house is full of glass tables, flimsy bookcases and china filled cabinets we know we are in for a treat.

Terrible, patronising attitude toward racial issues but, hey, its got a rocket launcher and plenty of flying kicks.

• The Best of the Martial Arts Movies
• Deadliest Art: The Best of the Martial Arts Movies

No cuts listed by the BBFC but at the very end the narrator says: we've saved the best for last, here is Bruce Lee fighting with the deadly nunchaku in Enter the Dragon. The clip begins with Lee beating up a few of the guards, then he knocks one over in to some water and it fades out and ends, surprise, surprise, no nunchaku!

The import Region 0 DVD from Universe Laser & Video Co is uncut and available at AsianDiscs

• The Best of the New York Film Festival

The Moira Maher video was cut when submitted in 1987

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

Thanks to Rustin Mann on The Melon Farmers' Forum

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

See La Bete

The BBFC Cut the 1997 Contended video by 1:12s for an old pre-hardcore R18

The video was pre-cut by 17:42s so the total cuts are at least 18:54s.

SO with 27:20s of unofficial pre-cuts he total cuts are at least 32:11s.

No BBFC cuts for the 1997  Screen Multimedia video but 13:54s were pre-cut prior to submission

32:44s were pre-cut so the total cuts are at least 35:39s.

• 37.2° le matin
• 37.2 Degrees in the Morning
• 37.2 le matin

The BBFC passed the Extended Director's Cut 18 without BBFC cuts for the 1992 cinema release, 1993 Fox video and 2004 Columbia/TriStar DVD

The extra material is uncontentious and edits were made for timing reasons. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

• The Classic Films of Irving Klaw

The BBFC passed the 2009 Digital Classics DVD 18 uncut

Review from US Amazon: Queen of Curves

The new DVD : Betty Page Bondage Queen will be a desirable addition to any Bettie Page fan but I suppose that I was expecting the whole disk to be unpublished shots of the Queen of Curves as the title suggests. The several short movies presented are black and white films taken of some of Irving Klaw's models in their undies, being bound and gagged by Klaw's sister.

Betty appears in a few and in many stills. The exclusive commentary by Bettie Page is a short written page or two, not the audio file I hoped for. I enjoyed the movies of the models in their bras and panties, dark nylons and ultra high heels as they tried to walk in them but a more truthful title for the DVD would have been Irving Klaw's Bondage and Fetish models, Featuring Bettie Page.

The BBFC stated that this video was rejected on the grounds that the Board's guidelines state that mild fetishism may be represented, but in Irving Klaw we have scenes of women trussed, bound, gagged, spanked, shackled, handcuffed, slapped, tethered and suspended. Such sequences of bondage, restraint and gagging (proffered as masturbation material) are very extensive and unacceptable. The distributor of this material has decided to re-edit two versions of Betty page's work by photographer Irving Klaw that will not breach our guidelines. We are awaiting their resubmission.

Cuts reduced to 3s when resubmitted in 2002. A double ear clap was removed so that the certificate would stay as a 12.

• L'Aldila
• Seven Doors of Death
• E tu Vivrai nel Terrore: L'Aldila
• And You Will Live in Terror: The Beyond

Finally passed uncut for the Protected DVD of January 2001

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon.
The uncut region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon

See review from IMDb: Fulci Lives

The Beyond is one of Fulci's best films. The film takes place in modern day Louisiana as a woman oversees the the renovation of an hotel that she inherits. Strange and gory things start to happen and poof the hotel just happens to be over one of the 7 doors to hell. Very bloody with a slightly incoherent plot the film is a lot of fun and I suspect that no Fulci fan should be without their copy. Visually I think this is Fulci's best film (that I've seen) and the acting is what you'd expect. 7/10

The cut cinema version was passed without further cuts for Elephant Video in 1987 and the same version was reissued by Vipco 1992

This was banned as a video nasty in November 1983 but was later dropped from the list in April 1985

9 cuts totalling 1:39s were imposed for an X rated cinema release in 1981.

• 18s have been cut from the prologue, ie the man being killed for witchcraft is missing several chain whippings, I have also heard that it is missing shots of his hands being nailed and his face melting after having acid thrown at it
• The eye gouging of a drainage mechanic has lost 6s of the gouging
• 4 cuts totalling 43s have been imposed on the attack of (very unconvincing) spiders on a librarian. These include shots of the spiders biting his lip, nose and tongue and also of them pulling his eye out.
• 5s has been cut from a cleaning lady being impaled on a nail through the eye.
• 26s are missing from the blind girl's throat being ripped out by a dog. this includes shots of blood gushing from the wounds and shots of her ear being bitten off.
• 1s is missing from a child's head exploding after a gunshot.

The BBFC cut 17s from the 1994 Columbia/TriStar video. 1995 Polygram video and 1999 VCI video/DVD

• A punch was removed from a fight scene
• Cut for drug abuse

Several shots of a twirling butterfly knife have been removed along with a few horse trips.

• The Final Darkness
• Buio Omega
• Buried Alive

The US Unrated Version is uncut for:

• 2002 Shriek Show R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Uncut US Unrated Version is available at:

Review from UK Amazon: Honest Horror

Buio Omega has been criticised for lacking poetry, for being cheaply shot, for smothering everything with vulgar blood and entrails, and it is a very vulgar film. But that is a function of its peasant honesty and its materialism - no gauze and dry ice in a d'Amato film to mask what lies underneath desires and dreams: we're made of flesh and bone, not poetry.

There is a lovely satirical scene at the engagement lunch - d'Amato is very fond of his grotesques. Is it well-acted or not? Is it well-paced and structured? It doesn't matter. Joe d'Amato is too honest to care much about such things, and besides he has a child-like love of the forbidden - like shooting a scene with the sun in front of the camera, he never tires of that. His films are not well-made or well-furnished; they are better than that. His Buio Omega and Emanuelle in America together say everything Eyes Wide Shut could not, for all Kubrick's formal ingenuity. The only subject that film has left is its own remoteness and the emptiness of its fantasies.

• 1989 VPD VHS

R Rated

The BBFC passed the US R Rated Version 15 without cuts for the 2000 cinema release and 2000 Universal DVD

There is also an Unrated Director's Cut that adds 4:51s of uncontentious material.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

• Hollywood Vixens

The cuts were waived when resubmitted by 20th Century Fox in 2003

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

Review from Amazon UK: Camp classic

What more could one ask for? Valley of the Dolls took itself seriously with hilarious effects. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (supposedly not related) was more of a spoof that played straight with seriously hilarious effects. Both are camp classics and at this price, this DVD is nearly impossible to pass up.

The CBS Fox Video was cut by 53s when submitted in 1989:

• New opening credits were required for this release, as the BBFC would not allow the shot of a gun being rubbed along breasts in the opening scene.
• Paul also suggests that a drug taking scene via a pipe may have been cut as it is about 50s

• Beyond Christmas

pre-cut

The 2009 E1 DVD was passed uut by the BBFC. It is a colorised and shorted version titled Beyond Christmas.

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

See review from IMDb: Colorized

Fox Home Entertainment has once again attempted to improve upon a classic. BEYOND TOMORROW gets the colorizing and retitling treatment, retitling the film (BEYOND Christmas).

The company has also chopped out about 5 minutes of material from the movie. Granted, they include the material in the Extras as deleted footage, but that only begs the question, What was the point of deleting it at this time, to begin with?

Some of the deletions, such as the sequence where Arlene Terry's ex-boyfriend clashes with her new leading man, destroy the emotional impact of the showdown between the two men and Arlene during the film's finale. To first-time viewers unfamiliar with the film, the jilted lover's appearance at the end comes almost out of the blue, causing confusion as to who he is.

In spite of these alterations/deletions, the box proudly announces the film is fully restored. Sorry, Fox, but the term restoration does NOT mean alteration or condensation. And with the various advances in such technology, it is amazing to see how artificial the colorization still looks, at least on this film.

The original running time was noted as 84:36s

Thanks to Mark:

The 2008  20th Century Fox extended 'Family Fun' edition of Big has come out on UK DVD and is a 2 disc set like the region 1. It has both cuts of the film.

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

The Theatrical Version was passed 12 uncut for the 2008 20th Century Fox DVD.

• A single 'fuck' has been cut from this otherwise family comedy to obtain a PG certificate.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

In fact a few of dialogue were deleted so as to avoid the word 'fuck'

Billy: Who the fuck do you think you are?
Josh: Hey!
Billy: Hey, you're Josh Baskin, remember? You broke your arm on my roof! I hid you when Dayson was about to rip your head off!
Josh: You don't get it, do you? This is important!

No BBFC cuts noted to the 2010 Nouveaux DVD

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

Review from UK Amazon: Roger Corman 70s b-movie

Big Bad Mama is the archetypal Roger Corman 70s b-movie, with the monsters and sci-fi of the 50s and 60s replaced by plentiful low-budget action, tongue-in-cheek humor and mandatory nudity from almost every actress in the cast in a fast-moving Depression-era backroads gangster flick.

Angie Dickinson is the Ma Barker figure tryin' to do right by her two gals, stumbling her way from bootlegging to armed robbery to kidnapping with the aid of Tom Skerritt's bank robber and William Shatner's Southern conman (unfortunately the mandatory nudity rule also applies to him, though we are spared the sight of the captain's log).

Mostly this has few aspirations beyond throwing in as many shootouts, car chases and nude scenes from Ms Dickinson as it can in its 83-minute running time.

The original running time was noted as 84:00s = 80:38s

Cut by 10 seconds to remove a sequence in which an animated version of God appeared to be having sex and then uttered an expletive.

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2002 Film 2000 DVD and 2010 Nouveaux DVD

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

Review from US Amazon: Worth seeing!

There are tons of women in prison films out there. There are so many that often times they seem almost repetitive. However, this film was very unique because it provided a great mix of comedy and action.

Pam Grier as a tough revolutionary provided all the action as she plotted to free the mistreated women from prison.

The comedy mostly came from the sexually deprived women, who were full of one-liners and crazy notions.

But of course the movie still contained all the things that make a good prison exploitation film....lots of nudity... violence... bad language and did I mention lots of nudity.

It's worth seeing!

From cuts details on IMDb:

• Lost footage from the rape
• Cuts to the beating of Terry
• Entire torture of Blossom was cut

• Le Grand Bleu

R Rated

The BBFC passed the Version Longue or Director's Cut 15 without cuts for the 1991 Fox video and 2009 Optimum DVD

From cuts details on IMDb:

The Director's Cut contains extended plot but also:

• Replaces the silly US happy ending
• Restores various 'dialogue 'fucks'
• Adds two sex scenes (featuring nudity by Jean Marc Barr and Roseanna Arquette).

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

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

PG-13

There is also a US Theatrical Version with an alternative ending and a different soundtrack.

• Tang shan da xiong
• China Mountain Big Brother
• Fists of Fury
• Fists of Glory
• Tong saan daai fong

The 2006 Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2006 Universal/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVDs

movie-censorship.com dubbed this version the Popular Version as it is widely distributed internationally. See pictorial version details:

There are reports of lost scenes, for example, the infamous saw in head part or Lee's second visit to the brothel.

dvdcompare.net described the version as the 1983 Golden Harvest Version. See cuts details

• 2000 Medusa/E1 R1 DVD.

The BBFC also noted that was an extended version with additional footage

• 1986 18 rated Rank VHS
• 1974 X rated cinema release.

From cuts details on IMDb:

• Heavy edits to the chain fight
• removed shots of ice picks and knives being thrown into chests
• kicks and blows during fight scenes.

The submitted running time was noted as 98:30s = 94:34s

Cinema release in 2000 and all video versions to 2001 similarly cut with the following BBFC comment: Cuts for category. Company chose to cut moments of detailed violence in martial arts sequences.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• Cuts to kicks to the head and a knee to the head of promoters of a cock fight
• A head butt on an escaping bank robber is missing

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

• Il Grande Racket
• Racket

Passed 18 after 14s cuts for DVD submitted by Michael Lee in 2002 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts were required to scenes of violent rape focusing on forcible breast exposure and female nudity

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

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.

The Reconstructed or Extended Version was passed 15 uncut for the 2005 Warner DVD

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

• John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China

The 2002 DVD release features the uncut version with all cuts waived by the BBFC.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon for release on 4th August 2009

From cuts details on IMDb:

• The 15-rated video version restored the profanity
• but was cut by 9 secs with edits made to the fight between the clans.

•  Kurt Russell's line of Fuck It! was removed

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts required to remove a sequence showing two horses falling into a river as a bridge collapses. No assurances were available explaining how the sequence was humanely achieved.

Cut by 3s when the video was submitted in 1998

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum

• When man embraces naked woman in corridor, remove close up of blood on her bare breasts, resuming on close up of her feet in pool of blood.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

All cuts waived when submitted in 2005

• A sequence implying anal rape was removed

No cuts noted to the 1998 Warner video

The original running time was noted as 114:03s = 109:29s

The cuts were waived the 12 rated Blu-ray submitted in 2008

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Cut when resubmitted in 2002 by UIP with the following BBFC statement: The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts required to remove strong language and images of blood spitting and man engulfed in fire for PG. According to BBFC policy, works of the same title passed after July 1994 should normally be given the same category.

Same cuts for the cinema and Universal Pictures video release of 1997:

1. Billy Madisan's dialogue: You get your ass out of there and find the fucking dog loses the fucking
2. A party clown injures himself after falling off his stilts but we don't get to see the blood running from his mouth
3. A schoolroom prank involving a card which says Yes I'm horny. The BBFC didn't see the funny side and removed the joke
4. There is a shot missing of a man in a kitchen in flames.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cut required to sight of a horse falling from a cliff edge into a river

• The Gallery Murders
• The Phantom of Terror
• L'Uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo
• Bird with the Glass Feathers
• Point of Terror

20s

The 1983 cut print was submitted for the 2005 Platinum DVD and was passed 15 without further cuts

The BBFC said: Sadly the version of Crystal Plumage we were given was the cut version. We doubt the cut material would be a problem now (although its reinstatement might have kept the film at '18') but we weren't given the opportunity to reconsider

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available via UK Amazon

20s

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

1. 24.5s removed of the killer cutting the slip and then ripping the panties off a victim.
2. 1.5s of cuts to an elevator scene showing a woman having her face slashed with a razor.

20s

R Rated

The cut US R Rated version was passed X without BBFC cuts for the 1970 cinema release and Videomedia pre-cert video titled The Gallery Murders

The film was cut in the US to achieve an R rating

• 8s removed of the killer ripping the panties off a victim.
• 12s of cuts to an elevator scene showing a woman having her face slashed with a razor.

cut

R Rated

The US R Rated Version was passed 18 without cuts for the 2010 Technicolor DVD.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com:

There is also a US Unrated Version featuring more 3minutes more plot and  extra (non-nude) sex content. No extra violence though.

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

The 1975 cinema release escaped cuts but the same cuts applied to the video submissions of 1986 & 2002. The BBFC commented: Compulsory cut required to sight of cruelty to horses (illegal horse falls)

• Dalkomhan insaeng

The BBFC passed the 2008 Tartan Director's Cut 18 uncut

The Director's Cut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Just Keeps Getting Better

In the same vein as Oldboy comes A Bittersweet Life, a movie so good it shocked me when watching it for the first time. It's a violent revenge movie with a gripping story with some fantastic actors such as Byung-hun Lee. He stars as Seon-woo, an enforcer for President Kang, a very dangerous man and if he wants to get rid of people, Seon-woo is the one taking care of it. The most interesting thing about this movie besides the story being so great is Seon-woo himself. The way Byung-hun Lee has captured the character sure tells that he's a great actor and what's keeping the movie alive from beginning to end. Seon-woo seem to know nothing about what it's like to have a "normal" life, as the world he lives in is only filled with evil and violence. He has a hard front, can be violent and nasty without remorse, but its fairly easy to see through all that and see that he has a gentle side as well, and that makes him interesting. Actually, the further the movie goes, the more likable he becomes and you can't help but feeling sorry for him which is a really effective part of the overall experience.

As reviewer K. Jones has put it, this movie does mixes violence and emotions in an excellent way, and even if the violence is a bit too brutal at times, you still have a lot of "nice" things to fall back on. There are a lot of action elements and the movie is quite stylish to say the least, but the most important thing is that it's not the least bit shallow and while its entertaining eye candy at times; you still really care about the characters and what's going on. This is easily one of the best Korean movies I've seen this year, and a movie that I will probably enjoy watching many times in the future. If you're a fan of Oldboy, you're most likely to find A Bittersweet Life to be pretty sweet, both dealing with the concept of revenge but very different from each other.

• A head butt has been deleted
• A skeleton's head being pierced by a metal bar has gone
• A blind folded topless woman with arms ripped open has been cut
• A man with a bullet wound in the head has gone along with a man shot in the chest and another who was shot and blown up
• A woman kicking a man in the crotch has been cut
• Close-ups of a sword impalement have gone
• A man falling through glass in slow motion has been excised

The 1984 cinema release was banned in 1984

No BBFC cuts required to the UK cinema and video releases of 2000.

Encountered problems with the US censors and had to be cut to achieve an R rating as described below. I am not sure which version was released in the UK but it seems to be a minute longer than the US R Rated version.

Black And White is a star-studded tale of rich white kids in New York City who become obsessed with uptown hip-hop culture and eventually find themselves entangled in a murder investigation.

The scene that aroused the MPAA's concern opens the film. Bijou Phillips, Kim Matalova, and rapper Power, from the Wu-Tang Clan are getting it on in a sexy three-way make-out scene in the woods in Central Park. Unbeknownst to them, a group of boys look on. There's something dark and brooding about the setting, but all three members of this menage are clearly willing participants.

The producer speaks of the MPAA: First they say 'The scene in the park with the guy and two girls is problematic.' While they won't say 'This is what we want you to do,' of course they mean that without that scene the movie would get its R-rating. The rating was unfair. They wanted us to cut the scene and the director wasn't willing to do that.

The uncut and cut versions end up being very similar: a little less kissing between the two girls, the camera doesn't linger on an exposed bottom for quite so long there, and instead of tweaking her partner's nipple, one of the women now cups the breast instead.

All are minor changes, and the gist of the scene is still there, but nonetheless, it's been changed. Moreover, the changes appear to be arbitrary: three seconds of girls kissing is OK, seven seconds is not. Handling a breast one way is fine, but touching it another way is taboo.

Same cuts for cinema and video versions

• Los Ritos sexuales del diablo
• Hot Fantasies
  Naked Dreams

Cut by 5s for the 1995 video.

From cuts details on IMDb

• Cut to remove a shot of a man being stabbed between the buttocks by a sword during a torture scene.

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

Review from US Amazon: Sexploitation

A poor horror film with even worse cliched ending, why the 3-star rating then? Simple. If you're looking for sexploitation in a satanic cult-themed horror film, you've hit the jackpot with BLACK CANDLES. It is surprisingly wall-to-wall sex-scenes (have your finger on the fast-forward button ready when the 'tender love scene' involving a goat appears).

Overall, 3-stars. But honestly, add 1-star on the strength of BLACK CANDLES alone if you enjoy softcore in your horror. Subtract 1-star from the 3-star rating if you actually want a good horror film with a decent ending that doesn't jerk you around.

The BBFC cut 12s from the 1998 Home Entertainment video.

Thanks to Bleach:

• Scene of man's arm being deliberately and repeatedly run over by car was reduced.

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

• Noël tragique
• Silent Night, Evil Night
• Stop Me
• Stranger in the House

The 2003 DVD from Tartan is uncut

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

Review from UK Amazon: Little Gore

Made in 1974, Black Christmas was one of the first "slasher" movies.

Set at Christmas time, the story has a group of university female students living together in a house on campus where they are subjected to obscene telephone calls. Mouthy, drink loving Babs (Margot Kidder) likes to answer the caller back, but sensible Jess (Olivia Hussey) feels he should not be encouraged.

Before long the girls and their house mother are being murdered one by one. The suspense which builds to the killings is truly chilling and, unlike modern films of the type, there is no reliance of blood and gore to create horror. As the police battle to trace the source of the calls the girls must stand together and face the terror which has come to their door.

I suspect the 18 rating is caused by the frequent use of the C word in the obscene phone calls. There is little gore or blood and without the language this could easily have been rated 15.

Well worth purchasing for fans of a well made, well paced horror drama which keeps the viewer engaged with lively characters and a suspense filled plot.....

The 1975 UK cinema version was cut by the BBFC

• Removed all instances of the word 'cunt' from the obscene phone calls
• Also cut some of the other crude sexual references during the same scene.

• Emanuelle nera
• Emanuelle negra
• Emmanuelle in Africa

The hardcore version was submitted by Optimum Releasing in 2008. It suffered 1:39s  of BBFC cuts. In order to obtain an '18' certificate six cuts for sexual detail were required. An 'R18' certificate was available without the cuts.

From cuts details on IMDb:

The "hard" print contained a brief sequence of shots of explicit penetration during the scene in which Emanuelle and Gianni first make love. These shots were performed by doubles, not by Angelo Infanti and Laura Gemser, neither of which were informed of this addition at the time.

One extra shot was also included during the tribal dance scene of many tribesmen running their hands over Emanuelle's body as she lies on the ground.

The hardcore version/Integrale is available on the Italian DVD

• IT Cine Storm R0 DVD at UK Amazon

• Emanuelle nera No. 2
• Black Emmanuelle No 2
• The New Black Black Emanuelle

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2009 Severin DVD

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon: Voluptuous

In her one and only screen appearance, the insanely voluptuous Sharon Lesley takes over the role of Emanuelle, who's now confined to a Manhattan psychiatric clinic with an acute case of amnesia, depraved fantasies and Daddy-delusions of the highest order. Her doctor attempts to unravel a Freudian check-list of incestuous hunger, lesbian-longings, misplaced aggressions and errant nymphomania before her traumas take permanent hold.

Sharon Lesley is a marvel to behold - a pretty face, gorgeous eyes, absolutely perfect natural breasts, a bubble-butt you could bounce a quarter off of, curvaceous to the Nth degree. AND she looks fantastic in the stylings of those wicked 70's when she's not naked.

To top things off, she's paired with EuroBeauties Danielle Elison and Dagmar Lassander, so things can't possibly get much better on an exploitation level.

• Black Emanuelle En Orient
• Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage
• Emanuelle in Bangkok
• Emanuelle nera 2
• Black Emanuelle 2
• The New Black Emanuelle

The BBFC cut 4:26s from the 2008 Optimum DVD titled Emanuelle in Bangkok. Compulsory cuts were required to remove a scene of rape that eroticises and endorses sexual violence and to remove two sequences of unsimulated animal cruelty (a cockfight and a fight between a mongoose and a snake). In addition, the company chose to remove explicit shots of unsimulated sexual activity (vaginal penetration with a ping pong ball) in order to obtain an '18' classification. An 'R18' without these cuts to sexual detail was available.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

The 1995 Lumiere Pictures, widescreen re-release was cut in 1995. Titled Black Emanuelle Goes East

• Emanuelle bianca e nera
• Black Emanuelle White Emanuelle
• Emmanuelee Black and White
• Passion Plantation

The BBFC cut the 1987 Xtasy DVD by 1:52s in addition to the cinema cuts.

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

• The Black Streetfighter
• Fist
• Homeboy

The 2007 Sony Blu-ray features an Extended Version without BBFC cuts.

The extra material is uncontentious

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

All cinema and video versions from 2001-2003 cut with the following BBFC comment: The distributor chose to cut sight of a potentially dangerous imitable technique (spray from an aerosol can ignited with a lighter) in order to achieve a PG classification. A 12 without cuts was available to the distributor

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Black Rider

The BBFC cuts were waived for a 15 rating for:

• 2009 Lions Gate DVD not yet released

• 1986 Thorn-EMI VHS
• 1986 cinema release

The cuts were:

• Cuts to the brutal beating of Tommy Lee Jones by a gang of thugs

• Slaves
• Black Snake: The Whip
• Duchess of Doom
• Sweet Suzy

The cinema cuts were waived by the BBFC when the DVD was submitted in 2005

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The cinema release of 1977, titled Slaves, was cut as follows:

• Reel 1 - Remove lashing by Susan of slave tied face down.
• Reel 3 - Remove close shots of nails being driven into palms of Joshua in crucifixion sequence.
• Reel 3 - Reduce lashing of dead body of Joshua on the cross.
• Reel4 - Reduce the repeated lashing of Joxer when he is tied to a gate.
• Reel4 - Reduce close up of Joxer's agonised face with blood dripping from mouth after machete has been stabbed into his stomach.

• Venere nera

Cut by 2m when submitted in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts were required to remove a sequence of eroticised sexual violence.

The BBFC explained further in their 2006 Annual Report: Limited cuts to reduce aggression in a gang rape
scene were required. The distributor chose
instead to remove the entire scene.

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

Also broadcast uncut on the Movies 4 Men channel

From cuts details on IMDb: Softcore

French director Claude Mulot helmed this retelling of a Balzac-inspired tale of a struggling sculptor obsessed with a beautiful Caribbean muse in late 19th century Paris.

Mulot must have had a real budget to work with because it's all up on the screen; sumptuous gowns, top hats and tuxedos with tails, manor houses, cobblestone streets, carriages, ballroom dancing, a classy sounding score, and a bevy of beautiful unclothed females. Jones shows off her achingly beautiful body several times, and virtually all of the women in the cast strip naked at one time or another. Look for 1963's British sex scandal icon Mandy Rice Davies as one of Venus's benefactors. Mulot uses the camera and the storyline to spice up the sex scenes much more than the expected contorted positions and exaggerated huffing-and-puffing. His choice of a character's voice-over works quite well to move Black Venus along for its 80-minute running time.

As an example of what softcore porn can aspire to and be in an age of Skinemax flicks, it's well worth checking out.

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2010 Nouveaux DVD

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The US DVD release was also heavily cut for an R rating with appreciably different cuts to the UK version which turns out to be the most complete.

• In the opening scene where Sweet (Matthias Hues) attacks a group of thugs the UK version is the most complete. In the UK version when Hues lifts up and headbutts a thug the camera pans down the thugs face revelaing blood pouring from his mouth. In the US DVD the scene cuts away before the camera reaches his mouth. The DVD is also missing several punches to the next thugs ribs. The thug lying on the bed who gets his arm broken is cut indentically in both versions.
• The scene where Dillon (Don Wilson) enters the dead prostitutes room is cut in the UK version. In the DVD we see a close up shot of the woman lying on the bed which is cut from the UK tape.
• The scene where the thugs attack Shanna's house is cut on the DVD. The knife wielding thug that attacks Dillon get his arm broken in the UK tape before he is thrown through the table. On the DVD the arm break is missing.
• The scene where Sweet attacks the two men on the street has been cut for the UK version. We should see Sweet lift up the first thug and headbutt him but this is missing from the UK tape (but surprisingly a photo of that exact scene is printed on the back of the tape).
• The scene where Sweet kills Dillons partner is cut on both versions. Close up punches to the face have been cut from the UK version. Sweet breaking the mans neck has been cut differently on both versions. In the UK version Sweet grabs the mans head and says 'Time to...' but the remaining dialogue (presumalby 'Time to die') is missing and the man is lying on the floor with his neck broken. The DVD is also missing the neck break but all of the 'Time to die' dialogue is also missing.
• The final martial arts scene in Dillon's apartment has been cut differently in both versions. All scenes showing Nunchaku sticks have been cut from the UK version. Various snippets of martial arts have been cut from both versions. The scene showing Sweet impaled on a sword has been cut from the DVD. In the UK version the camera pans down showing Sweet staggering about with the sword impaled through his chest and blood pouring from his mouth. The DVD cuts away before the camera reaches Sweet's chest.

31s cut by the BBFC for the 2008 DVD: Cuts were required to remove scenes of sexualised violence (including images of scalpel held near woman's breast, which is then used to cut around her nipple in a torture sequence) and sexual violence (during a torture sequence)

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

uncut

The BBFC passed the 1998 Cinram video and 2008 Optimum DVD 15 uncut.

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

Review from UK Amazon: An absolute hoot

An absolute hoot from start to finish, this Blaxploitation riff on Bram Stoker's seminal Gothic horror has William Marshall's African Prince unintentionally offending the original Count Dracula, consequently becoming the titular vampire and running amok in 1970s LA. The 1973 follow-up Scream Blacula Scream sees the Count resurrected through the power of voodoo; notable only for its casting of the classy Pam Grier, this is a lame and pointless sequel.

The of their times Not so special effects and hammy performances ensure these films' status as camp classics; this is somewhat ironic as the films were originally designed to be serious Blaxploitation horror flicks.

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 89:17s = 85:43s

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Company required to remove four shots animal cruelty, horse being forced to fall on its knees.

• La Casa con la scala nel buio
• House of the Dark Stairway

The 2001 release of Blade in the Dark is 13.5 mins longer than previous version. The BBFC site says that 2mins of cuts have been restored and the rest is additional material

• Yat do king sing
• One Dagger Collapsed City
• Yi dao qing cheng

• A scene where a blindfolded horse is seen careering through a brick wall has been deleted.

The Definitive Final Cut was passed 15 uncut 15 for

• 2007 Warner R0 Blu-ray
• 2007 Warner Ultimate Collectors Edition R2 DVD
• 2007 Warner Special Edition R2 DVD
• 2007 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

BLADE RUNNER is a well known science fiction film which was first released in 1982. This version was passed '15' for some strong violence, including bloody gun shot impacts. As in other versions of the work, this was thought to be containable at '15', as none of the violence contravenes the BBFC guidelines at '15' which state that violence 'may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury'.

BLADE RUNNER also includes one muffled use of strong language, brief nudity and mild sex references.

Thanks to Dave:

• The death of Priss is much more violent. Ford shoots
  her three times or so and the camera really lingers on
  her blood oozing body which is graphic to see.
• Roys killing of his genetic creator by pressing his
  fingers into the eye sockets shows graphically blood
  and brain matter squirting out for several seconds.
• Roys self mutilation shows the nails going into his
  hands in greater detail.

See also What's new in Blade Runner: The Final Cut? for a more complete update about the extensive rework to the film

The Definitive Final Cut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The Definitive Final Cut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

The Definitive Final Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The Definitive Final Cut R0 Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

• 2007 Warner Ultimate Collectors Edition R2 DVD

• 2007 Warner Ultimate Collectors Edition R2 DVD

The Director's Cut was passed 15 without cuts for:

• 2007 Warner Ultimate Collectors Edition R2 DVD
• 2006 Warner Remastered R2 DVD
• 1999 Warner R2 DVD
• 1993 Warner VHS
• 1992 cinema release

Violent material remained on the cutting room floor. Re-edited story telling but changes are not contentious in terms of censorship

The International Theatrical Version was passed AA/15 without cuts for;

• 2007 Warner Ultimate Collectors Edition R2 DVD
• 1986 Warner VHS
• 1982 cinema release
• Violent material was left on the cutting room floor

The BBFC passed the Extended Version (US Unrated) was passed 15 unuct for the 2005 EIV DVD

The uncontentious version details are described on IMDb

• The Unrated Edition reinserts 2 major scenes amounting of 10 minutes. The first one is an exchange between Drake and Danica where both shared their past including Drake being there during the crucification. He then seduces her. The other one is right after the final fight between Drake and Blade. The doctors were about to perform an autopsy on Blade when he just simply gets up as if resurrected and leaves the morgue. However, the fate of the doctors were not revealed.
• The unrated extended edition also has a very different and much more ambiguous ending than the theatrical release.

The consensus is that the extra material does not contribute to the film

Blockbuster in-store promotional trailer compilations

• Joel M. Reed's Blood Bath

Released on video in 1982 by Rank.

A tongue in cheek horror film that only made video nasty fame due to its shared name with Mario Bava's Blood Bath. The list didn't specify details beyond the title so this unlikely video was also removed from UK video shop shelves

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

See review from IMDb: B-movie horror

This nauseating tale of gore and torture wins my vote as the best b-movie horror for 1976. brilliant costume, intelligent plot, and terrific special effects make this a must see. n

This movie is wicked...if you like "blood sucking freaks" or the situational comedy series "the golden girls", you will love this obnoxious little piece!

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

The BBFC imposed 7 cuts  totalling 43s for the 1994 Redemption video and 2002 Film 2000 DVD.

1. The first murder of a teenage girl loses 2s in 2 cuts, the first of her throat being cut from behind and the other of a graphic hatchet blow to the head.
2. 21s (nearly the entire scene) is cut from a boy dying with a machete embedded in his face.
3. 3 cuts totally 9s diminish the death of couple impaled with a spear whilst making love. We love the blood welling from the wounds and their writhing whilst impaled.
4. 11s has been cut from the death of Simon being forced up a wall by a spear impaled in his stomach.

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

Review from US Amazon: Granddaddy of all slasher movies

Bay of Blood is often called the "Granddaddy of all slasher movies". Many reviews have made the reference to Friday the 13th and very similar killing styles. After watching Bay of Blood you can definitely see where Friday the 13th (made in 1980) got a lot of it's ideas.

With that being said Bay of Blood does not possess the single element that defined the slasher film, the indestructible, omnipresent killer.

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

All in all, worth an evening for the avid Italian horror fan.

• Turkey Shoot
• Escape 2000

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2003

See Turkey Shoot for detailed cuts

This  Vipco release restores most of Alph's death but deletes even more of the killing of the escapee. Beware of the US version; Escape 2000, it has suffered 13 minutes of cuts.

• Egyptian Blood Feast
• Feast of Flesh

uncut

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2005 Odeon DVD

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

Review from US Amazon: Pretty Damn Cool

This is one of those few movies where everything that everyone says about it is precisely true: Utterly barebones production, flatly pathetic acting, stilted and pointless dialogue, and lots and lots of ultra-phony gore. Of course, this is pretty undisputedly the first real gore film, so horror fans pretty much have to see this. And, even if it weren't so important historically it would be worth seeing anyway, cause it's pretty damn cool either way.

Fortunately, in making the first gore film they didn't go halfway. Sure, there are tons of films which are gorier then it now, it's still gory enough that if it were redone, shot for shot with realistic, modern effects, it wouldn't be allowed an R rating in a million years. You got flaying, leg severing, heart extracting, tongue ripping, brain, um, snatching etc. And, while the gore effects are incredibly dated, they aren't quite as cheap and old as I would have imagined. The blood itself actually holds up fairly well, and looks better than much of the stage blood you'd see over the next 20 years or so. It's actually red!

The film only gets 3 stars because much of the terrible acting and dialogue grows somewhat tiresome after a while. The directing is also amusingly flat. The camera hardly ever moves, nor do the actors. They just stand there, statue-stiff, delivering there lines. It's also got a fun soundtrack, with endless thumping tympani and cheesy organs and such.

Lotsa people are irritated by it, but I find it quite amusing.

The BBFC cut 23s from the 2001 Tartan DVD. The BBFC claim that this was due to a recent obscenity conviction in 1994.

• Cuts to the scene where a woman is tied up with chains/manacles and is whipped to death with a cat o'nine tails. A few seconds were substituted by shots of the statue's head and Ramses' face.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

It was an early casualty of the video nasty scare and was banned in July 1983. It stayed on the list throughout the panic and so is one of the collectable DPP39s

The 1971 cinema version was cut and this seems to have become the definitive version for all videos/DVDs since (including Region 1 releases)

• A shot of a hospital orderly striking an inmate was removed

• Bound by Honor
• Blood In, Blood Out... Bound by Honor

The R-Rated Theatrical Version was passed 18 after 21s of BBFC cuts for the 1994 Buena Vista video and 1999 Cinema Club DVD.

From cuts details on IMDb

The US Unrated version runs about 10 minutes longer:

• There is an added scene between the one where Paco argues with his stepfather and the one where they get hassled by the cop. In it we see the guys driving and recalling moments in their childhood, smoking what seems to be joint and they get Miklo to do a baby on acid face
• The scene where Cruz receives his scholarship is extended: He gives a speech and talks about his real mom who couldn't be there to see him receive his prize.
• The scene where Popeye shows Miklo around is longer and contains more dialogue.
• The art show scene is extended, Cruz and his buddies return high on drugs and his manager plays it off as part of the show.
• There is an added scene before the one where Popeye takes his parole picture. In it Miklo and Popeye strike a deal: Miklo will erase Popeye's debt to La Onda in return Popeye will cast a vote for him in the council.
• There is an added scene where Popeye stabs Smokey during a phony deal. It explains why Smokey is bleeding when he calls Paco and the blood on his shirt in the church.

• Edited to remove shots of a butterfly knife being twirled.

See Bloodmoon

• Against All Odds
• Fu Manchu and the Keys of Death
• Fu Manchu and the Kiss of Death
• Fu Manchu's Kiss of Death
• Fu-Manchu y el beso de la muerte
• Kiss and Kill
• Kiss of Death
• Der Todeskuss des Dr. Fu Manchu

The 2007 Optimum DVD was passed 15 uncut.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US: Fun

Any film with Christopher Lee is worth watching and this one also has naked girls, snakes, bandits, poison kisses and the lovely Brazilian countryside. Sure it is inferior to the first three Fu Manchu movies but it is a beautifully produced edition by Blue Underground of a less than good movie with excellent technical quality and a fun documentary.

From cuts details on IMDb:

• Cuts as per the 1994 Lumiere video but implemented differently

From cuts details on IMDb

• cuts to to the dungeon shots of naked chained women
• cuts to a scene where a woman is stripped topless and threatened with a snake
• shots of a snake being crushed by falling rubble.

From cuts details on IMDb

• edits to dungeon scenes showing bare breasted girls chained to the walls being tortured
• edits to the snake girl's dance
• edits to the attack on the village.

• The Devil's Skin

The cinema cuts were waived for the 2003 Anchor Bay DVD.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon for release on 29th October 2009

From cuts details on IMDb

• Edits to the rape scene
• Cuts to shots of a naked girl dancing in front of a knife-wielding boy

• Hyeol-ui nu
• Bloood Rain

The BBFC cut 7s from the 2010 Palisades DVD:  Cuts were made to remove sight of animal cruelty, in this instance a horse being tripped and injured.

Cut when submitted in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts required to a scene of sexualised violence in which a man traces a knife around a woman's breasts and gropes her breasts.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Review from imdb

Another in a long line of terrible straight-to-video movies. This is one of those that need to be not seen and never heard from. The only reason that I didn't give this movie a straight zero was that low budget movie queen Debbie Rochon was in the picture and she was hot to look at.

Other than that I wouldn't give it the time of day. Billy Drago looks like he drank all of his money. He could barely stand up and all he did was mumble his badly written dialog. He tries to come off like Udo Kier. But Udo's cool and he can still deliver a performance. Billy Drago was just too painful to watch. A bad movie all around that doesn't warrant a further look.

• The Ghastly Ones

Released on video by Scorpio in March 1983. Banned as a video nasty in August 1984. It stayed on the list throughout the panic and so became one of the collectable DPP39s

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

Review from US Amazon: Eating Live Rabbits

The Ghastly Ones (a.k.a. Blood Rites), Andy Milligan's first horror film, is a 1968 film shot in cranium-cleaving color at his Victorian mansion on Staten Island. After a prologue in which a couple with a really large umbrella are hacked up by some guy, this movie has three daughters and their husbands at a reading of their late father's will. It is his wish that the couples spend three days in the family mansion in sexual harmony, and then they will find out who gets what from the old man. But once there the handyman is eating live rabbits, the couples start fighting, and then people start dying and showing up as the main course at dinner.

It takes a long time to get to anything remotely close to the required sexual harmony and even longer for characters to start dropping, but once they do, they start dropping like flies. But by then you might be asleep. It has been a long time since I have seen a horror film where nothing happens for such a long time. But if you are loose for a high content of cheese with your blood and gore, you will not be disappointed.

The Restored Version or Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for the 2004 Universal DVD and 2006 Optimum DVD

For the 1998 restoration, the Coen brothers not only remixed and re-recorded new sound effects for the stereo soundtrack, but made some minor trims to various scenes and dialog:

• Maurice asking a bar patron at the jukebox what night it is and realizing it's "Yankee Night", he explains he's from Detroit, thus justifying his intervention of the patron's musical selection.
• Ray sticking his cigarette in the stuffed warthog's nose at Marty's house, and the following lines: RAY: You gonna leave all this stuff? ABBY: It's all Marty's.
• After Marty suggests to the P.I. the "incinerator" as a means of destroying the evidence of his proposed murder, the P.I.'s line: "Sweet Jesus, you're disgusting!" is deleted.
• A couple lines from the landlady showing Abby the studio apartment (mainly assuring her Abby won't be bothered at that location) before she starts yelling at her ex-brother-in-law, are deleted.
• As Marty opens his safe to retrieve the bounty money (and swap the photo) his line: "This is an illicit affair" has been removed, although he can still be seen mouthing it.
• When the P.I. shoots Marty, a couple shots are removed of Marty and the P.I. staring at each other after the gunshot.
• When Ray and Abby are discussing "what happened", in her studio apartment, and Ray feels cold enough to rise from his seat, the shot of him steadying the walrus piggy-bank is removed and his dialog is heard off-screen to cover this change.
• When Abby goes to see Maurice about her concerns, the scene cuts as soon as she enters. In the original version, the scene continues and she is seen inside his place and he pours a drink while assuring her that Marty is not dead, even though she is very worried that he is. Some of the dialog from inside the house is placed over the shot outside Maurice's door before Abby goes in, in the 1998 version.
• A new page of credits is added at the end, covering the restoration.

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

The International Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for the 2009 cinema release and 2010 Pathe DVD/Blu-ray.

There 2 alternative versions

• Korean version details
• Hong Kong/Japanese version details

movie-censorship.com recommends the Japanese/Hong Kong Version

• Heavy Metal

The BBFC cut 23s from the 1987 Avatar video

• Sydney Sheldon's Bloodline
• Blutspur

The BBFC cut the 1979 cinema release.

Not sure about the 1987 CIC video or 2007 EIV DVD.

• Blood Moon

The BBFC waived their cuts and reduced the certificate to 15 for the 2005 Momentum DVD

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

• Bloodsport 2
• Bloodsport II: The Next Kumite

The 1996 Columbia/TriStar video was cut by 1s

• Double ear clap removed

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

Review from Amazon UK: Well edited

When I got this out I wasn't expecting much at all. But I was pleasantly surprised at what I got. It is well structured film (like a real 80's style with a distinct beginning, middle and end not like crappy shallow 90's films which just meander along and feel really empty)

Daniel Bernhardt is really charming, a good fighter and looks strikingly similar to Van Damme in some shots. It has one of the best chessy training scenes like the one in kickboxer. The fight scenes are well edited and well shot, so they are easy to watch and not to close-up. For fans of 80's cheese (even if this is a 90's film) and lots of mano a mano fight scenes this should fit nicely in your collection.

The BBFC cut the 1998 Third Millennium video/DVD by 26s.

From cuts details on IMDb:

• 3 edits to shots of Lima Lama's arm, then hand and then neck being broken
• 2 edits to the fight between Alex and Beast. Beast kneeing Alex in the face and then Alex punching Beast in the throat

• Guta-yubalja-deul

The BBFC cut 3s when submitted in 2009: Company was obliged to remove sight of a bird being snared and then killed.

The BBFC explained their 18 rating:

A BLOODY ARIA is a subtitled Korean drama about a music professor and his female student, who encounter four men on a remote beach. This film was classified '18' in accordance with BBFC Guidelines, for strong bloody violence. There are various fights between the men, and also a schoolboy, which result in heavily bloodied faces and injuries. Towards the end, there is a scene in which one of the main villains is beaten up by a policeman, who becomes quite sadistic, using his helmet to hit the man in the face and on the head repeatedly.

The film also contains strong language and two scenes of attempted sexual assault. The first scene involves the lecherous professor trying to have sex with his student in the car and we see his hands groping at her under her clothes, and pulling her knickers off. There is no nudity detail, and the student manages to run away. In the second scene, the student is taken into the back of the car with two men. The intent is clearly to rape her, but nothing ever happens. There is some terrorisation of the characters by their attackers, but the darkly comic tone of the work helps in some way to alleviate this.

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

Cuts waived when resubmitted as Dragon Showdown in 2004

Cut when submitted on video as The Bloody Fist by Sheptonhurst in 1986

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

The BBFC banned the 1973 cinema release

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

The BBFC waived their cuts when the Optimum DVD was submitted in 2009

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

• Three shots are cut totalling 11s where Bruce Dern goes gator hunting, using a piglet as bait (he ties a rope around its neck and drops it into the water).

• Collegialas Violadas
• Profonde Tenebre
• Die Saege des Todes

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2008 Severin DVD

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from IMDb: Not the Worst

This movie is basically the infamous Jess Franco having a go at the American-style slasher films that were big in the early 80's, and what's most remarkable about it is how unremarkable it is. It's pretty violent, but except for one nasty knife exit wound there's nothing here that hasn't been done in hundreds of American slasher movies.

Why this movie got singled out for a banning in Britain is beyond me.

The most lurid thing about it is the original (very misleading) Spanish title Colegialas Violadas. (which literally translates to "Raped Schoolgirls")

It's set at an adult Spanish-language school which seems to cater exclusively to incredibly dumb and slutty German and Scandinavian women.

The girls are being stalked by two of the reddest herrings imaginable. One is a burnt youth in a Mickey Mouse mask. The other is a gardener who is always laughing maniacally and coincidentally wielding the exact same implement that has just been used to kill the latest victim.

The best thing I can say about this movie it is it is so over-the-top with its dumb victims, obvious red herrings, and ridiculously gory murders that it might have actually meant to be a parody of the slasher film. It also has some competent cinematography and is relatively zoom free. It's certainly not the WORST film Franco ever made.

The BBFC cut 1:20s from the 1993 Vipco video

From IMDb. The cuts included:

• edits to the opening scissor murder
• the decapitation of a woman with a circular saw
• shots of bloodstained breasts during the stabbing of Eva.

The video was banned as a video nasty in July 1983 and stayed on the list throughout the panic, so is one the the collectable DPP 39s

• The decapitation of a woman with a circular saw
• Shots of bloodstained breasts during the stabbing of Eva.

• The Great American Massacre

Video submissions of 1986 and 2005 suffered the same cuts

A shortened version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for the 1999 Columbia/TriStar DVD and 2006 Sony DVD/Blu-ray

From version details on IMDb:

The Theatrical Version has a scene where Kate drives to the the TV-station and involving a crazy stunt when she drives in to a narrow alley and meets a police car that comes the other way. To avoid a disaster, Kate flips her car on its side, hits its roof on a wall and flips back again.

In the shortened version, the stunt is gone. We only see the car when it enters the alley and then we see it driving on the freeway with strange damage on the roof.

See Das Boot

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2000 Columbia/TriStar DVD

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

Review from UK Amazon: Strange little film

This is quite a strange little film. Jake (Wasson) is a claustrophobic, B-Movie actor who has just been fired from his latest film when a friend invites him to look after an apartment for a few days. While there, Jake becomes a voyeur of a scantily - clad woman who performs some erotic dance routine nightly, on the dot. Jake unwittingly becomes a stalker, not just of the mystery woman, but of her other stalker! Inevitably, Jake witnesses her murder.

I say this is strange because I find DePalma confusing. He is such a skilled director, but at times it seems as if he is oblivious to his own cheesiness. The majority of this movie is fantastically directed, the scenes on set of the low budget vampire flick, the battle at the end (and the excellent cross-over to the said vampire film) and the surreal music video within a film featuring Frankie Goes to Hollywood on a porn set, this is quite an experience. Then there's the strange scenes like where Jake is kissing Gloria (the woman he's been stalking) and the camera pans around them in circles, in slo-mo, while soppy music plays, for what seems like an eternity. It really is embarrassing to watch. It's these occasional dips in quality, and some of the over-long scenes (especially with Melanie Griffith) that warrants this film only 3 stars.

It's worth mentioning that Craig Wasson is incredible in this film. He fits the role perfectly, an amazing, shamefully underused actor. Very convincing. It's definitely worth getting hold of this movie, just be wary of the cringe-worthy moments.

• Holly (Melanie Griffith) line of dialogue regarding what she wont do in porn films is cut. For the faint hearted cover your ears now: I will not shave my pussy. No fist-fucking. Absolutely no coming in my face
• The last shot of the video is reduced with a fade-out that appears 4s early. This masks out the BBFC no-no of blood on the breasts.

• Deadlu Evidence

The UK releases are uncut. There is a cut  R Rated Version sold in the US.

• Animal Instincts II
• Indecent Advances

The uncut version was submitted and passed  by the BBFC in 2008

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from IMDb: Worth Watching

As one starts watching this movie, one thinks at first that it is a routine TV quality movie. It appeared at first to be a rip off of the theme from Madonna's Body of Evidence. Both movies rely on the sexuality of the female stars. I for one am glad that I watched this movie.

Shannon Whirry's sexuality makes this mediocre movie worth watching. One scene in particular where she is recounting a tale to the psychiatrist while simultaneously teasing him by stripping and doing body gymnastics literally under his nose is unforgettable. She alone makes this worth watching.

The other characters in this movie are memorable only to the extent that they are reacting to the hot sexual aura put out by Shannon Whirry. At least for males this is a much better than average movie.

Video version cut in August 2000 with the following BBFC note: Cuts required to images of rape, sexual violence and humilation in accordance with BBFC policy on sexual violence

According to the Bullets 'n' Babes website the video has been improved by the cuts!

Anyway the cuts are as follows:

• The opening scene is missing the woman's strip and part of her pleasuring attempt on the killer. The subsequent longshot of her with a plastic bag on her head is also missing.
• The 2nd cut scene is the rape of Cheung. Her stripping to underwear is shortened and the scene cuts when the two assistants startt pushing her. The uncut feature shows them pushing her and hitting with a pillow for a further minute.
• The 2nd rape of Cheung is also shortened. A scene showing Slashface's buttocks against her leg has been removed.

There is an uncut version on HongKong VCD and on Hong Kong DVD from the Mei Ah Laser Disc Company Ltd

• Camping del terrore
• Body Count
• Camping della morte
• The Eleventh Commandment

 A pre-cut Hollywood DVD was passed 15 in 2003

The BBFC cut the 1992 cinema release and Warner videos of 1993 & 1995

• A double ear clap has been removed for fear of imitation.

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

• Ulli Lommel's Boogeyman
• The Boogey Man

An extended version was passed uncut for the 2004 Hollywood DVD

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

Review from imdb: One of the better horror films

I was surprised that this movie got such a low rating, to me it's one of the better horror films I've seen in some time. Ulli Lommel allows the horror in this story to gradually build until it erupts in very frightening and disturbing and occasionally blackly comic ways.

The boogeyman's appearances in the film are effectively kept very brief, he doesn't become a silly charactor of the Freddy/Jason mould. Ulli lommel keeps the location barren and banal and uses them in inventive ways. The scenes in which the disturbed deaf brother paints over every mirror in the house is brilliant and foreshadows a lot of scenes in clean-shaven.

Horror Video version passed uncut in 2000 as Ulli Lommel's Boogeyman

From Peter on the Anchor Bay Forum

Cuts, if my memory serves:

• A good portion of Lacy's nightmare, beginning with the shot of her being dragged over the floor only dressed in her underwear. She gets thrown on a bed and bound pretty much the same way as her brother Willie in the opening sequence. Somebody is sharpening a big butcher-knife, intercut with close ups of her scared face. The cut version starts off again with a shot of the shining knife being raised.
• When the girl in the bathroom gets forced by "the Bogeyman" to stab herself with a pair of scissors, some shots of blood running down her breasts got removed.
• A shot of the above mentioned girl's body (with bloodstained breasts) in the bathtub was significantly shortened.

The video was listed on the Video Nasties List in October 1983 but was dropped from the list in July 1985

• Boogeyman II
• The Boogey Man 2
• The Boogeyman 2

The Redux Version or Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for the 2003 Hollywood DVD.

There is also a very different Original Version.

The Director's Cut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The Director's Cut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• The Bold Cavalier

Colorised

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor was requested to remove a line passing off as BBFC consumer advice, which differed from the standard BBFC advice for 18 sex works

+ cinema cuts

• Mission des dieux

The BBFC passed the 2002 Cinema Club DVD as 18 without BBFC cuts.

The BBFC noted this as a Re-edited Version which is reported as the cut US R Rated Version at dvdcompare.net

From cuts details on IMDb

The MPAA offered an NC-17 certificate so the following cuts were made to achieve an R Rated version:

• the Hotel Shootout: This scene has a cut about 7 seconds, showing bloody bullet hits, when the two brothers are hanging on the rope.
• Rocco shoots the Mafia-Guys in the bar: The headshot and the shot in the chest are cut away on the DVD. You only see the blood coming out of the back of the bench.
• Shoot out in the pool-room: one scene is cut which shows several bullet hits in the body of the guy who opens the door.
• Poolroom shootout: The guy that's holding the phone, standing in the back left corner gets shot twice. The second bullet hit is cut out from the US DVD.

Cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2004

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

From cuts details on IMDb:

• reduced the torture of Dianne Cluny to a series of flash shots by removing facial closeups, a shot of her kicking, and detailed footage of her arms and legs being tied to the bed.

From cuts details on IMDb:

The original UK cinema version suffered heavy BBFC cuts with edits to:

• shots of a woman's dead body
• the murder scenes
• the removal of graphic descriptions of the murder victims.

• Mo

The BBFC cut the 1984 cinema release by 26s for an 18 rating.

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

Review from US Amazon: Exuberantly bizarre

The Boxer's Omen is a phantasmagoria of grossness, questionable special effects, gawdy visuals and Buddhism that is so exuberantly bizarre I couldn't wait to see what would happen next.

Part of the movie is a kickboxing revenge story, which is the only part of The Boxer's Omen that isn't insane, but the rest of it deals with the wildly hallucinatory conflict between Buddhists and practitioners of the dark arts.

The special effects are audaciously bad at times, particularly those involving animals. I swear that the bats and spiders in one part looked like plush toys, or something similar.

The black magic in this movie is the source for most of the grossness. Whenever one of the dark priests casts a spell, they usually chew up all sorts of nasty things and spit them out, sometimes repeatedly. There's also one part where they slice open an alligator, toss its guts out on the floor and then stuff a corpse inside in order to raise it from the dead. I just watched Jungle Holocaust where an alligator gets sliced open and has its innards strewn about, so I think I've had enough of that sort of thing for a while.

Because this movie exists almost entirely in the realm of the supernatural, it doesn't always make very much sense. The protagonists are Buddhists, so maybe possessing knowledge about the religion will put some of the occurrences in this film into perspective. Otherwise, the viewer can only go along for the ride and throw reason to the wind. I guess it is best classified as fantasy/horror with a small amount of martial arts thrown in. There's also a little T&A, for those so inclined.

If you have a difficult time suspending disbelief or like movies that make sense, you probably shouldn't watch this. I'd also recommend avoiding it if you find rampant, garish blood and gore disagreeable. Otherwise, it's worth experiencing at least once for the mindboggling weirdness alone.

The BBFC passed the 2001 Imaginary Films DVD 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 1995 Kino-Eye video because of its constant focus on the details of torture.

From Dark Star magazine:

Boy Meets Girl is a bold and important film. It is full of subtle and controversial arguments. To dismiss it because of its bondage/sadistic trappings (as some have already done) is to miss the point entirely. How else could the director have approached the subject matter? Possibly as a documentary, but then that would loose the frisson of making the viewer an active participant in the debate. It is a film of violent ideas but it is not a barrage of graphic images.

The BBFC has passed countless numbers of films more violent than Boy Meets Girl, yet refuses to give it a certificate. As the director of the BBFC, James Ferman must take the responsibility for denying you, the public, the chance to see a film which, for once, has a totally violent subject matter but does not glamorise it. Which is more than can be said of so many Hollywood studio pictures Mr Ferman has gladly issued certificates. Explicit violence has always been a contentious issue in cinema, but never, in a so-called democracy, should honesty about violence be treated like the glorification of violence. Shame on you Mr Ferman. For all its minor faults (most often due to the low budget) a film like Boy Meets Girl does not deserve to be treated in the manner it has been in Britain.

• Le collčge St. Vincent
• Les garçons de Saint-Vincent

The BBFC cut the 1997 Dangerous to Know video by 18s

Thanks to Bleach:

• At 1.5 mins - After corridor shot in which clerical brother walks forward past camera and music credit fades out, remove back view of four naked boys peeing, resuming on tight profile of boys under shower.
• At 22 mins - In shower scene focussing on two young boys, cut away as foreground boy bends over to pick up soap to remove sight of other boy's penis and subsequent image of both boys' nude buttocks, resuming on Brother Lavin watching.

• Les garçons de Saint-Vincent: Quinze ans plus tard

The BBFC cut the 1997 Dangerous to Know video by 8s

Thanks to Bleach:

• At 53 mins - In shower scene, after soap bubbles drip down boy's back masking buttock cleft as priest watches, remove shot of bubbles clearing cleft to reveal boy's wet buttocks, resuming on big close up of priest's face framed through grill in confessional.

The BBFC waived the cuts for 2007 DVD release from Second Sight Films

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

Review from US Amazon: Addicted

1988's BRAIN DAMAGE is the second film from low-budget Grand Guignol writer/director Frank Henenlotter, his first being the grisly over-the-top cult favorite BASKET CASE (1982), and both films established him as the master auteur of bad-taste horror cinema in the 1980s. But despite of the excessive gore and crude sexual elements, Henenlotter's films are a cut above the average trash pics because his well-written scripts are weaved around a daedal subtext that offers wry comments and observations on certain elements or aspects of modern society. With the visceral horror comedy BRAIN DAMAGE, Henenlotter is satirizing the Western propensity for addiction.

BRAIN DAMAGE relates the "mind-blowing" tale of the Faustian bargain made between a young man named Brian and an enigmatic, snake-like parasite named Aylmer (pronounced like the name ELMER). Aylmer dispenses an addictive pleasure-inducing drug directly into Brian's brain, but as payment for each "fix," Brian must transport Aylmer around the city so the parasitic pusher can obtain his favorite food--human brains. Though Brian is generally a nice young man who wouldn't hurt a flea, he finds it impossible to resist the demands of the deceptively cute parasite because of his need and desire for the psychedelic "juice," and he ultimately becomes Aylmer's accomplice in murder.

With a meagre budget of circa $600,000, Henenlotter and crew have nonetheless succeeded in crafting BRAIN DAMAGE as a polished, professional-looking film. Yes, the violence is graphic, sophomorically comic, and often over the top, and yes, the film has a crude, puerile sexual element (snake-like Aylmer is obviously a phallic symbol). But these elements actually enhance the film's earnest anti-addiction subtext, as they vociferously underscore the negative effect that addiction has on an addict's personality, his personal life, and the lives of others with whom he has contact.

Thanks to Andy

I've seen this version many times and can confirm that the ear pulling scene was not cut, the cuts were to the nightclub fellatio scene, were all shots of the groin area were removed.

• Brain eating thing, Elmer, is seen emerging from a guys fly at the nightclub as if for a blow job
• A girl is forced to take Elmer in her mouth again as if for a blow job
• Blood is seen coming from the girl mouth soon followed by her brain.
• Elmer with brain in tow then withdraws back to the guy's trousers

In the US the Paramount video release deleted the gory nightclub fellatio and ear-pulling scenes to avoid an 'X' rating.

• DeadAlive

The BBFC passed the 1992 cinema release and 1993 Polygram video as 18 uncut.

Note that both the US R Rated and Unrated versions are cut.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available via UK Amazon

DVD cut by the BBFC when submitted in 2008. The distributor was required to make compulsory cuts to sight and sound of a woman gagging during forced fellatio

cuts

R

The BBFC waived their cuts for the 2009 20th Century Fox Blu-ray noted as the Uncut Version.

Maybe the previous MPAA cuts still apply, but even so, this has become the definitive version.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at UK Amazon

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

cuts

Cut first to achieve a US R rating, plus an additional 2s BBFC cut for cinema/video/DVD/Blu-ray versions from 1995 to 2009

The BBFC cut:

• The front view of Wallace's (Mel Gibson) revenge cutting of the magistrate's throat, has been substituted for a less graphic side shot to obtain a 15' cert from the BBFC. The death of Wallace's wife has not been cut as widely mis-reported.

The MPAA inspired cuts:

• Mel Gibson implemented cuts to remove copious bleeding from sword and axe wounds in the battle scenes to achieve a US R rating. The UK cinema & video version was further cut by the replacement of the front-on view of Gibson's beloved having her throat slit by a less explicit rear view.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

A short version was passed 15 without cuts for the BFI 2010 DVD

• Entre chiens et loups

Cut in 2003 with the following BBFC statement: Compulsory
cuts required to a scene of organised dog fighting

Company chose to remove a sequence of clearly unsimulated sexual activity (vigorous and sustained masturbation) to gain an 18 classification.

Uncut when resubmitted in 2002.

• A Bout de Souffle Made in USA

Passed uncut with a 15 certificate in 2001

Uncut region 2 available on UK Amazon

Footage of Richard Gere breaking into a car by forcing the window and then hotwiring the ignition with the aid of a small piece of metal has been excised. Later on he breaks into Valerie Kaprisky's flat using the lock pick, but the details are again cut.

Cut when submitted in 1995 with the following statement: Cuts required to remove sight of man defecating down the neck of another; man being realistically "fellated"; and man penetrating the eye socket of a woman, having removed her eye. Cuts are made on grounds of potential harm and potential obscenity, for unjustified sexual detail, and sexual violence.

The BBFC seemed to have spoiled the joke of the films synopsis: All Franks wants is true love. But you better not mess with Frank, because if he tells you, I'll cut off your head and s*** down your neck, he ain't kidding.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US: Fake Blood

The plot is at the kindergarten level. It's just a crazy man killing people in gory methods, often doing obscene things with the corpses. His "friends" help him along the way and participating in one murder during his birthday party, of which some of his presents include an inflatable sheep!! The atmosphere is really bad.

The cinematography is terrible, like the rest of this masterpiece. It's obvious that it's shot with camcorders and edited with VCRs and other low-tech equipment. The picture is faded and the hues are awful.

The SFX, ugh!! Basically, it has a lot of fake blood, fake wounds, ripped out eyes, and several fake penises -- yes, penises!! The sound is like through a tunnel.

This is, without a doubt, THE WORST MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN!

See Re-Animator 2

The 2009 20th Century Fox DVD was passed uncut by the BBFC but the certificate was raised to a 12.

The BBFC explained their decision: BRIDE WARS is a comedy starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, who play two women who have been friends since childhood. They find their friendship tested to the limit when their weddings are booked on the same day due to a mix-up. The DVD release was classified '12' for moderate language and sex references.

BRIDE WARS contains two uses of moderate language - an aggressive use of 'bitch' to describe a female character and a character saying 'Mother F' when she hears her wedding date has been double booked. Though the latter is only an implied swear word, these moments of dialogue were too strong to be contained at 'PG'. At 'PG' the BBFC's Guideline state that there should be 'mild bad language only'. In addition mild language in the film includes the use of "ass", "God", "damn", "fricking" and "bitchy", the last used without aggression.

The mild sex references include an extended comedic sequence in which a woman visits a strip club for a hen party, and dances with male dancers on stage. They wear sparkly shorts and she joins them to dance in hotpants. There is no nudity during the sequence. Dialogue also includes references to a character being "too sexy" and brief verbal references to sleeping with people. These sex references could have been contained under the BBFC's Guidelines at 'PG' which state that 'sexual activity may be implied, but should be discreet and infrequent. (There should be) mild sex references and innuendo only'.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon for release on 18th May 2009
The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon or release on 28th April 2009

The 2008 cinema version has dialogue cuts to achieve a PG rating.

The BBFC explained their decision: BRIDE WARS is a comedy starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, who play two women who have been friends since childhood. They find their friendship tested to the limit when their weddings are booked on the same day due to a mix-up. The film was classified 'PG' for mild language and sex references.

Language in the film includes the use of "ass", "God", "damn", "fricking" and "bitchy", the last used without aggression. At 'PG' the BBFC's Guideline state that there should be 'mild bad language only', and the dialogue heard in BRIDE WARS does not go beyond the limit of that description.

The mild sex references include an extended comedic sequence in which a woman visits a strip club for a hen party, and dances with male dancers on stage. They wear sparkly shorts and she joins them to dance in hotpants. There is no nudity during the sequence. Dialogue also includes references to a character being "too sexy" and brief verbal references to sleeping with people. The BBFC's Guidelines at 'PG' state that 'sexual activity may be implied, but should be discreet and infrequent. (There should be) mild sex references and innuendo only'. The references in BRIDE WARS are mild and discreet enough to pass at PG, with no verbal discussion of sexual activity carried out with any clear or obvious detail.

The BBFC passed 1986,1993 1994 Warner videos and 2004 MGM DVD 15 uncut

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb

• edited out the word fucking in the scene where James Caan holds the doctor at gunpoint
• Scene where Elliott Gould yells Roll the fuckers is not present.
• close ups of men's bloody faces during the assault on Arnhem were cut

The BBFC cut the 2001 cinema release and 2001 Columbia/TriStar DVD were cut by 1s for a 15 rating

• The dialogue Careful, you ham fisted cunt! is overdubbed ham fisted cow!.

On the DVD, the offending dialogue was not cut from the commentary track. This was not spotted until after the release and the distributors have now re-released the commentary cut as per the main film.

Before you rush to buy the US DVD, there are subtle differences between the same scenes in the USA and UK versions of the movie. This includes not only different takes of the scene, but sometimes different dialogue. For example, one version of the first job interview has a question about "the El Nińo phenomenon", others have a question about Microsoft. In addition, during the credits, the USA version has a home movie of Mark Darcy's 8th birthday party with the young Bridget. The UK version has interviews with the various characters about the new relationship between Bridget and Mark.

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The International Version was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for the 2007 Tartan Video.

There is also a longer Japanese version

Cut in 2008: Company chose to remove shots focusing on sexualised posing of models and strong verbal references to sex in order to achieve a 15 classification. An uncut 18 was available.

Unrated

The BBFC passed the 2007 Revolver DVD 18 uncut. This is the same as the US Unrated Version.

There is also a cut US R Rated version shortened by about 2 minutes

• 1990: The Bronx Warriors
• 1990: I guerrieri del Bronx
• 1990: Bronx Warriors

The 2009 Argent Films DVD was passed 15 uncut

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

The BBFC cuts were waived for the 2003 DVD submitted by Michael Lee for Vipco.

It is also a longer version restoring uncontroversial scenes, see cuts details on IMDb:

• A longer scene of the Riders discovering the body of Chris by the pier.
• After Sandy and Speedy's cremation all the Riders take a handful of cremated ash and throw it into the river in a ritual.
• A conversation between Anne and Trash on the beach, just before she is kidnapped by the Zombies, where she says she wants to leave because she feels responsible for all the deaths that have happened and Trash makes a speech about how "death is part of life, we live with it and it's scent gets on our skin". (This also makes Anne's dying words to Trash make a lot more sense at the film's close).

Review from US Amazon: Cult classic

17-year-old Mark Gregory stars as Trash, leader of The Riders - a motorcycle gang that survive in the Bronx of the future. Crime has supposedly risen to such impossible heights that the police have abandoned the Bronx to its own devices - the gangs now rule the streets.

Originally made in Italian (although filmed in the Bronx) as I Guerrieri del Bronx, this cult classic was later dubbed into English. Only recently released in its uncut version, it was notorious for its violence and suffered extensive cuts in both its original UK and US releases. It also featured a lot of real Hell's Angels as the supporting bikers.

It has to be said that these days the violence in it looks quite restrained and won't shock as many as it once did. Suspension of disbelief is definitely required in order to deal with gangs who roller skate or tap dance, but the imagery of it all remains quite vivid.

See cuts details on IMDb:

• Cut to edit the killing of the tramp and a man's face being hit with a baseball bat.

• Escape from the Bronx
• Fuga dal Bronx
• Escape 2000

The BBFC passed the 2009 Argent Films DVD 15 Uncut.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available as part of a trilogy via UK Amazon

From cuts details on IMDb:

• The Vipco DVD release of Bronx Warriors 2 is the most complete British release yet including the previously snipped Shotgun Butt in Helmet Visor and Hostages Rigged with Bombs scenes, plus the slightly longer flame deaths. It is however marginally trimmed in the opening minute with the first victim (comes flying out of a second floor window during the opening credits). We do not see the Disinfestors then give him a good hiding unlike previous releases where they beat him unconscious.

From cuts details on IMDb:

• Cut to the "hostages rigged with bombs" sequence (originally a hostage deliberately ran at a Disinfestor so the bomb goes off in his face)
• Strike hitting a Disinfestor in the helmet visor with his shotgun butt causing his face to turn to red mush.

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

Unrated

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

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!

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R Rated

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

From version details on IMDb

28 seconds of footage deleted from:

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

• Le pacte des loups

The BBFC passed the Re-Editted Version 15 without BBFC cuts for the 2001 cinema release, 2002 Universal DVD and 2007 Optimum DVD/Blu-ray

There is also an International Version or Director's Cut but none of the editing for the 3 versions is for censorship reasons

See cuts details on IMDb

The BBFC cut 3:29s when the Guild video was submitted in 1989

Same cuts for cinema and video versions

See Army of Darkness

Passed with all cuts waived in December 2000

• Li Hsiao Lung chuan chi
• Lee siu lung chuen kei
• Bruce Lee Master of Jeet Kune Do
• Secret of Bruce Lee
• Behind Bruce Lee
• Bruce Lee: The Man, the Myth
• The Dragon Lives

The cinema release as Bruce Lee Master of Jeet Kune Do was cut in 1977. The video releases of 1994 (Secret of Bruce Lee) and 2004 (Bruce Lee True Story) are the same cut version.

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The cut Theatrical Version was passed 18 without further BBFC cuts for the 2009/10 Universal DVDs

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The distributors also issued a pre-cut 15 rated cinema version to extend their box office reach. This versions is identified as the Snipped version.

The BBFC commented:

This film was originally shown to the BBFC in an unfinished version. The BBFC advised the company that the film was likely to receive an '18' classification but that the requested '15' certificate could be achieved by making changes to three scenes. In particular the BBFC suggested that the company remove the majority of a montage of exaggerated sexual activity between Bruno and his boyfriend; Bruno comically miming fellatio and anilingus as he pretends to have oral sex with a deceased person with whom he is in contact through a medium; and sex between couples at a swingers' party and aggressive sexual dialogue at the same party. When this version of the feature was submitted these changes had been made and the film was classified '15'. A previous version of the feature was submitted without these changes and was classified at '18'.

The BBFC explained their 15 rating:

BRUNO is a satirical comedy in which Sacha Baron Cohen plays gay Austrian fashion show presenter Bruno, who falls into disgrace and travels to the States in an attempt to achieve fame. This film was classified '15' in accordance with BBFC Guidelines, for strong language and strong sex references.

At '15', the Guidelines state 'There may be frequent use of strong language (for example, 'fuck'). This film contains a number of examples of this language.

The BBFC's 15 Guidelines on sex note that 'sexual activity may be portrayed but without strong detail. There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour'. Amongst other references and scenes Bruno contains implied anal penetration with a champagne bottle; clothed acting out of various sexual positions; and Bruno being comically whipped by a dominatrix. In all cases strong detail is omitted.

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The BBFC Commented: Following the death of pop star Michael Jackson, the company chose to remove a sequence involving the star's sister, LaToya, which includes references to her late brother. Otherwise, the work remains identical to the previously classified '18' version.

The BBFC explained their 18 rating:

BRUNO is a satirical comedy in which Sacha Baron Cohen plays gay Austrian fashion show presenter Bruno, who falls into disgrace and travels to the States in an attempt to achieve fame. This film was classified '18' in accordance with BBFC Guidelines, for strong sex and strong sex references. At '15', the Guidelines state that 'sexual activity may be portrayed but without strong detail. There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour'. Both the scenes of strong sex and the sex references were considered by the Board to go beyond the '15' level, but acceptable at the adult '18' category. There are three strong sex scenes in the film. The first one features a montage of exaggerated sexual activity between Bruno and his boyfriend. The second shows Bruno comically miming fellatio and anilingus as he pretends to have oral sex with a deceased person with whom he is in contact through a medium, while the third scene features sex between couples at a swingers' party, with sexual detail obscured.

The film also contains some uses of strong language.

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Rated R

The BBFC cut the 1977 cinema release

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

Episode from season 3 suffered 2 cuts; one for violence, a neck break (to get a 12); the other for an imitable technique, hot wiring a car

Of course when it was screened on the TV it was uncut even though Channel 4 have been noted for appalling butchery when trying to show the series at a totally inappropriate time slot.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Thanks to Daniel

This episode was broadcast on TV uncut, but it was on BBC2, not Channel 4.

Channel 4 broadcast the spin off series Angel, and all but destroyed it with terrible maiming cuts. One particular episode concerning the possession of a child earned an "18" certificate from the BBFC (I think C4 showed it at 5:05 pm with cuts in excess of 6 minutes).

On the whole, the BBC were fairly restrained with the scissors screening Buffy until the seventh season, which they maimed because of the high level of violence involving knives which coincided with news reports of several high profile stabbings of teenagers. They did repeat all the episodes uncut in a late night slot a month or so later. The BBC only ever cut one episode of Buffy in a late night slot, and that was to delete a use of the word "Spaz" said in a comedic context. I'm guessing The Idiots would not be a big hit at the BBC.

• Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4
• Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation

Video cut by the BBFC in 1996.

Thanks to Bleach:

• Sight of man hanging by his nipples was removed.

medium core version

Abridged version

+ cinema cuts

The BBFC cut 1:02s from the First Independent video version submitted in 1997

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

See also USA R vs Unrated versions from movie-censorship.com

Almost legendary video where supposedly drunken bums are paid to fight and perform stunts.

The 2003 Fabulous DVD was rejected by the BBFC with the following statement:

PG

The BBFC cuts were waived for a 12 rated version for:

• UK 2009 Universal R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA :rated PG for:

• US 1999 Universal R1 DVD at US Amazon

• UK 1989 CIC VHS
• UK 1989 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• A little bit of secondary cutting going on here. Tom Hanks watches clips from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 on TV but we don't.

The 2009 Simply Home Entertainment DVD was passed 15 without BBFC cuts. The running time seems short though.

The original run time was 98:09s

From cuts details on IMDb

• Cut to remove a shot of Hare stabbing a man with a broken bottle during a fight
• Cuts to a scene where a prostitute 'corrects' her male client by beating him with a cane.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts required to remove sight of horse falls

• Cropsy

Cuts waived when Vipco DVD resubmitted August 2002

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

Review from US Amazon: Must Have

The Burning is hands down my favorite slasher film of all time,

I personally love the killer in the woods slashers the best and this is the perfect premise. This film starts as a flashback "of course"... The kids at a summer camp play a trick that goes terribly wrong on Cropsy the mean spirited grounds keeper and he is burned beyond recognition, Flash to hospital where the horribly burned and disfigured Cropsy is being treated and going through physical therapy then released with a warning that it will take him awhile to adjust to being in the outside in his disfigured state... Flash to the seedy part of Times square he picks up a prostitute and when she reacts in a horrified manner to his appearance he loses it and kills her, After seeing the first kill I knew it was going to be a great slasher film.

Flash back to the woods "summer camp " Cropsy returns to the scene of the crime to wreak havoc and spill PLENTY of blood. I personally don't see why they didn't make a sequel, Cropsy and his garden shears are scarier than Jason and his machete any day as far as I'm concerned.

This is a MUST HAVE for slasher fans.

10s were pre-cut and 9s were cut by the BBFC

• An attack on a prostitute loses shots of sheers stabbed into her stomach and of the girl in pain.
• The Death of Karen is missing reaction shots and teh after effects of her throat being cut.
• One kid, Eddie, gets killed with sheers in his neck
• Cuts to scene where a teenager gets his fingers removed with the assistance garden shears. (Vipco version only)
• There is a shot nissing of a girl with a gaping wound in her forehead.

The uncut version of the video was banned as a video nasty in October 1983. It remained on the list throughout the scare.

• Xin liu xing hu die jian
• Butterfly Sword
• Comet, Butterfly and Sword

Cut in 2002 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cut required to sight of real animal cruelty (deer shot with arrow).

MIA seem to have forgotten to implement this cut

The BBFC passed the Director's Cut 15 uncut for the 2004 Warner DVD

From version details on IMDb:

The director's cut contains a few new scenes:

• Evan discovering that his grandfather had the same gift, and also was considered crazy, like his father
• Evan and Andrea go to a palm reader that tells Evan he has no lifeline
• Andrea telling Evan she was pregnant twice before he was born.
• A scene in the prison where the prisoners publicly read Evan's journals.
• A scene in the prison where the other prisoners come to rape Evan one night.
• An extended hospital scene where Evan is visiting sick Andrea.
• An alternate ending.

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