TNT Jackson is a 1974 US/Philippines action film by Cirio H Santiago With Jeannie Bell, Chiquito and Stan Shaw.
Cut by the BBFC for VHS. Uncut on UK DVD and in the US
Summary Review: Topless kung-fu
Jeannie Bell is TNT Jackson! She's on the trail of the scum-suckin' pigs who killed her
brother! Watch out! TNT's not just beautiful, she's a martial arts master with vengeance on her mind!
Yes, this movie does contain our heroine's topless kung-fu battle! There is a nice butterfly-knife sequence that was
presumably cut by UK censor and enough nudity and charm to make things bearable. Not bad...
Versions
uncut
run:
71:21s
pal:
68:30s
UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong violence and
nudity after BBFC cuts were waived for:
To Kill a Priest is a 1988 France / USA historical thriller by Agnieszka Holland. Starring Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris and Joss Ackland.
Cut by the BBFC for both category and animal cruelty for a 15 rated cinema
release in 1988. The animal cruelty cuts were retained for 1987 18 rated VHS. Uncut elsewhere in the world and MPAA R rated in the US.
Summary Notes
A young priest speaks out against the Communist
regime in Poland and is killed for it.
UK: Passed 18 after 21s of BBFC compulsory cuts for:
1989 RCA/Columbia Pictures VHS
Thanks to Scott. The BBFC video cuts to animal cruelty were:
After man escapes with stolen dog in car, remove sight of dog's head trapped in window as it is wound up
3:41s
113:09s =108:37s
submitted 116:50s =112:10s
UK: Passed 15 after 3:41s of BBFC cuts for:
1988 cinema release
21s of cuts were compulsory on grounds of animal cruelty and the remainder were category cuts to obtain a 15 rating.
Thanks to Scott. The BBFC cinema cuts were:
Reel 4 After man escapes with stolen dog in car, remove sight of dog's head trapped in window as it is wound up (21s cut to conform with Cinematograph Films [Animals] Act 1937).
Reel 5 In
murder of priest in forest, reduce number of blows to his head.
Reel 6 Reduce to minimum necessary to establish plot the sequence in which priest's head is covered with plastic bag before he is thrown into river,
removing in particular all close shots of bloody face through plastic.
When captain returns home to wife after committing murder, remove sight of her legs over his shoulders during sex as well as his facial reaction
to orgasm (whole scene removed by distributor).
To Kill with Intrigue is a 1977 Hong Kong / South Korea action drama by Wei Lo. Starring Jackie Chan, Hui Lou Chen and Ching Hsia Chiang.
The Original Version is uncut and BBFC 18 rated. There also exists a
shortened version with the same rating.
Summary Notes
Young master Cao Le chases his pregnant girlfriend away from the family castle. He does it in order to save her from vicious bandits who are going
to murder his family.
To Make a Killing is a 1988 Australia thriller by Karl Zwicky. Starring Tamblyn Lord, Craig Pearce and John Godden.
Cut by the BBFC for 1991 VHS. Uncut and R18+ rated in Australia. There seem
be 2 versions of the film titled Vicious and To Make a Killing
Promotional Material
Four years before Romper Stomper seized the attention of Australian audiences in a flurry of controversy, Karl
Zwicky and P.J. Hogan executed an intense thriller that according to David Stratton is a terrifyingly nasty film... the more terrifying because it is so believable.
To Make a Killing (aka Vicious) is a harrowing
exploration of inner suburban crime, a dark world where it is difficult to tell your friends from your enemies. What starts as a burglary soon turns into a killing spree. ...
UK: Passed 18 after 9s (some substitution) of BBFC compulsory cuts for:
1991 Oasis Pictures VHS
Thanks to Gary for his comments and the BBFC cuts:
[ Spoilers! hover or click text ]
At 47˝ mins When gangleader Terry is given drink by woman, restore the overcut exchange of looks between them by inserting two extra close-ups from the earlier version (i.e 'VICIOUS') so that she smiles first and he responds
instinctively before retreating into impassivity to protect his vulnerability; then return to her again in TO MAKE A KILLING as she is still trying to smile before he shoots her.
At 52 mins When Terry tells hero
that they are all going to have sex with Sondra, reduce shot of her legs kicking in protest as she is held by other boy, removing first part of shot as it pans down from her thighs and resuming on her feet kicking.
At 52˝ mins Shortly after, reduce shot of Terry pulling down top of her T-shirt by removing first part, resuming to see him clutching top of dress between her breasts.
The second two cuts are definitely intact in the Australian DVD, so I've no reason to doubt that it's uncut.
I've reason to believe that the earlier version called Vicious may have been differently edited, as
per the comment on the first cut. It is not the last time the BBFC have actually reedited part of a film instead of simply cutting it.
It is an interesting film, though rather milder now than its reputation was at the time. I
don't doubt it would get through the BBFC uncut nowadays.
To the Limit is a 1995 USA action crime thriller by Raymond Martino. Starring Anna Nicole Smith, Joey Travolta and John Aprea.
Cut by the BBFC for VHS and DVD (although the DVD cuts seem to have not
been implemented). Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.
Summary Notes
Colette is an attractive ex-CIA agent seeking revenge against a ruthless villain and his organization of trained assassins for the
murder of her husband while the man is also after mobster Frank Di Vinci for his own personal reasons. It isn't long before the paths of both Colette and Frank meet whom they share the same vendetta against the same man and they reluctantly try to
co-operate with each other to bring him down.
Versions
uncut
MPAA
~98:00s =~94:00s
UK: Released without required cuts being implemented for:
UK: Passed 18 for strong violence, sex and language after 24s of BBFC compulsory cuts for:
2003 ILC Prime video
1996 Columbia/Tri-Star Home VHS
The BBFC commented:
Cuts required to remove sexualised violence in scene where man fondles and exposes woman's breasts prior to strangulation and subsequent sight of her lying dead with breast exposed.
To the Wonder is a 2012 USA romance by Terrence Malick. With Ben
Affleck, Olga Kurylenko and Javier Bardem.
In the US two version were submitted to the MPAA. Both were passed R for some sexuality/nudity. Only the latter version was distributed
Summary Notes
After falling in love in Paris,
Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
Versions
uncut
R rated
107:51s
UK: Passed 12 uncut for moderate sex and nudity for:
2013 Magnolia Home Entertainment RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
2013 Magnolia Home
Entertainment R1 DVD at US Amazon
uncut
R rated
US: An unknown unreleased version was passed R for some sexuality/nudity but was superseded some months later by the released version with the same rating and comment
Tobruk is a 1967 USA war drama by Arthur Hiller. Starring Rock Hudson, George Peppard and Nigel Green.
Category cuts were required for an A rated cinema release in 1967. Passed
PG uncut for 1988 VHS and later the BBFC rating was increased to 12 for 2017 home video. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.
Summary Notes
September 1942 - With Erwin Rommel's
Afrika Korps on the march through Egypt, a British special forces unit, composed of German Jews who serve with the British despite the mutual resentment between both, kidnap a Canadian officer who is an expert topographer and who is held prisoner by the
Vichy French in Algeria. The officer, Donald Craig, must negotiate a company of British and German-Jewish commandos through 800 miles of the Sahara to aide a pending amphibious landing against Tobruk's massive fuel storage base - a mission that sees one
impediment after another, and which discovers an undetected German armored force ready to win the battle of Egypt.
Tokyo Decadence is a 1992 Japan drama by Ryű Murakami Starring Miho Nikaido, Yayoi Kusama and Sayoko Amano
Cut in the US for an MPAA R rating. This cut version was BBFC 18 rated for 2001 cinema release and 2002 DVD. The film was released uncut and was BBFC 18 rated in 2007. The uncut version is MPAA Unrated in the US.
Summary
Review: Perverse Sex and Cocaine
Very erotic and sick at the same time. This movie leads you down the dark allies of human sexuality. But it touches more than the loins. This is mostly because of the innocence
of the Ai, the main character. Her quest for true love and happiness stands in a deep contrast with the dark nighttime of Tokyo, ridden with perverse sex and cocaine.
This movie is a must for people interested in culture, sexuality and gender
roles. It gives perfect examples of how power play somehow gets us excited, but mainly rests upon images of gender and sex we have invented inside our culture. It's a little Foucault, it's a little de Sade, it's just very interesting.
Versions
Hong Kong Version
run:
135m
pal:
130m
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: There is talk of a longer Hong Kong VCD that runs at about
135 minutes. However this version seems elusive.
The scene with Mr. Satoh before he talks to his girlfriend is longer, including the scene showing him actually inserting the vibrator into Ai after she came out of the shower.
Ai licking both Mr. Satoh and
his girlfriend as they are having sex.
Before Ai arrives to Mr. Satoh's room, they are slow-motion scenes showing Yakuza storming into Mr. Satoh's room, yelling at him for being a failure and restrains him. Despite his pleas, the Yakuza tie his
girlfriend up and hooks her up with drugs, with him watching and being helpless to help her. The Yakuza then take turns sadistically raping and beating her.
Shortly after the guy says 'Let her go' referring to Ai, the scene returns to Satoh's
bedroom where the Yakuza slashes the right side of her face with a tanto knife to show who's the boss, explaining why later her face is bandaged when she returns the ring to Ai. The scene then goes back to the lobby showing Ai running into the elevator
scared. Miyuki, who was waiting for her, meets up with her after she gets out of the elevator. Seeing her terrified, Miyuki asks her what was wrong. Ai shakes her head saying everything was all right, it's just he wasn't home that's all. They then go to
the young client's room.
The scene where the young client asks to be strangled is longer, showing Ai and Miyuki walking into his room being addressed as Mistress and Mistress Ai.
The masochism scene with Saki is longer.
v Tom Horn
- 1980 USA crime western romance by William Wiard.
Tom Horn is a 1980 USA crime western romance by William Wiard. Starring Steve McQueen,
Linda Evans and Richard Farnsworth.
Originally cut by the BBFC for an 'AA' rated cinema release in 1980. This same cut version was then 15 rated for VHS in 1986. Some cuts were waived for 15 rated DVD in
2006 but animall cruelty cuts continue. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.
Summary Notes
A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on
trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old west.
UK: Passed 15 for moderate violence after 6s of compulsory BBFC cuts:
2006 Warner Home video
The BBFC commented:
Cut was required to remove instance of animal cruelty (in this case a horse falling forward over its head in a shoot-out scene), in accordance with BBFC policy on animal cruelty.
The previous BBFC cut to the blasted head had been waived.
cut
cut:
39s
run:
96:57s
pal:
93:04s
UK: Passed 15 after 39s of BBFC cuts:
1986 Warner VHS
UK: Passed AA (14) after BBFC cuts:
1980 cinema release
From IMDb. The cinema and VHS cuts were:
Cut to remove a horse-fall
Cut to edit a scene of a man's head being blasted during a gunfight.
v Tom Jones
- 1963 UK comedy adventure by Tony Richardson.
Tom Jones is a 1963 UK comedy adventure by Tony Richardson. Starring Albert Finney, Susannah York and George Devine.
Passed X uncut by the BBFC for 1963 cinema release. BBFC have required
animal cruelty cuts for all releases since 1971. The animal cruelty cuts were waived by the BBFC for 12 rated home video in 2018. The film exists in a longer original version and a shortened Director's Cut. Both versions are uncut and MPAA Unrated in the
US.
Summary Notes
In eighteenth century England, "first cousins" Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together in privilege in the western countryside, but could not be more different in nature. Tom, the
bastard son of one of Squire Allworthy's servants Jenny Jones and the local barber Partridge, was raised by virtuous Allworthy as his own after he sent Jenny away. Tom is randy, chasing anything in a skirt, he having a sexual relationship on the sly with
Molly Seagrim, the peasant daughter of Allworthy's gamekeeper. Tom is nonetheless kind-hearted and good-natured, he who is willing to defend that and those in which he believes. Blifil, on the other hand, is dour, and although outwardly pious, is
cold-hearted and vengeful.
Versions
Original Version
128:21s =123:13s
UK: The Theatrical Version was passed 12 uncut for moderate sex references, violence, language with previous cuts waived for:
2018 Bfi [Director's Cut + Theatrical Version] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
2018 Bfi Woodfall [Theatrical Version + Director's Cut] RB Blu-ray at
UK Amazon
There does not seem to be a record of this in the BBFC database.
From IMDb. When the film was first submitted to the BBFC, director John Trevelyan suggested to Tony Richardson that the film would pass as an A if he removed a shot of
Mrs Waters cradling an oyster on her tongue before swallowing it during the famous eating sequence. Richardson refused and the film was passed as an X.
US: The Original Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:
2018 Criterion Collection [Original Version + Director's Cut] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
2018 Criterion Collection [Original Version + Director's Cut] R1 DVD at US Amazon
Tombs of the Blind Dead is a 1971 Spanish/Portugese horror by Amando de Ossorio. With César Burner, Lone Fleming and María Elena Arpón.
Cut in the US for a PG rating. Cut by the BBFC for all home video releases. The US Unrated version is uncut
Summary Review: Wicked Ending
In the 13th century there existed a legion of
evil knights known as the Templars, who quested for eternal life by drinking human blood and committing sacrifices.
Tombs Of The Blind Dead is the first, the originator, and it RULES. Church bells become dinner bells, as
the ominous tolling of the chimes signals the rising of the dead Templar Knights, an undead sect of religious warriors who weren't that nice when they were alive. A few centuries in the grave hasn't tempered their humors much, and now they're blind to
boot, hunting by sound (and they hear REAL good), seeking fresh human blood to sustain their lumbering, unholy existences.
The Templars are horror icons, and deservedly so. And the wicked ending is the perfect finish to a movie like
this.
UK: The Spanish Version was passed 18 after 16s of BBFC cuts with the remainder of previous cuts waived for:
2005 Anchor Bay R2 DVD
The BBFC cuts were:
Cuts required to eroticised sexual assault
The victim suffers hard blows to the face to stop her struggling
her breasts are forcibly exposed and groped
the camera particularly focuses on her
breasts during the assault
cut
cut:
1:51s
run:
95:22s
pal:
91:33s
UK: The Spanish Version was passed 18 after 1:51s of BBFC cuts for:
1994 Redemption VHS
The BBFC hacked a rape scene:
The major cut is to a rape scene which occurs before the attack of the Templars in the cemetery. The BBFC have removed well over a minute of the detail of the rape scene. In the cut version all you see of the rape is the heroine being pulled to the
floor.
run:
89:47s
pal:
86:12s
UK: An unknown short version was passed X (18) without BBFC cuts for:
1973 cinema release
cut
cut:
1:57s
run:
83:01s
pal:
79:42s
cut
UK: The cut US Version
was passed 18 after 1:57s of further BBFC cuts for:
The BBFC passed the Director's Cut 15 uncut for the 2009 Buena Vista DVD.
From version details
on IMDb : The Director's Cut restores about nine minutes of uncontentious footage. The most noticeable are:
a scene showing the depths of Mattie's addiction to laudanum and her jealousy over Josephine
a sombre soliloquy by Doc quoting Kublai Khan;
a scene explaining Kate's sudden disappearance from the film, with Doc stressing the
importance of friendship;
a scene with McMasters and the Cowboys meeting one last time. A small scene showing the graphic result of that meeting has been re-inserted with the line "They got McMasters!" being moved into this small
insert.
The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon The uncut region 1 DVD is available
at US Amazon
124:15s
The BBFC
passed the Theatrical Version 15 without cuts for the 1993 cinema release, 1994 EIV video and 2010 Buena Vista DVD.
Tomorrow Never Dies is a 1997 UK/US James Bond action film by Roger
Spottiswoode. With Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh.
Some cuts were made by the MPAA for theatrical release. More cut by the BBFC for a 12 rated cinema release. The BBFC made further cuts for 12 rated VHS and 2001. The BBFC cuts were dropped for the 15 rated 2002 DVD but original US cuts
still apply. This is the International Version and is the best available. The Inernational Version was rated 12 by the BBFC in 2012.
The International Version includes some cuts made at the rough cut stage to secure an MPAA PG-13 rating. It was substantially less cut than the UK cinema release and has now become the definitive version.
6s
cut
114:02s
UK: The International Version was passed 12 after a further 6s of BBFC video cuts
2001 MGM R2 DVD
1998 MGM VHS
1998 Warner VHS
The BBFC commented on their video cuts:
Tomorrow Never Dies followed the pattern of the recent Bonds of being slightly too violent for its intended audience. When it opened in the cinema, the Board considered that, on
grounds of violence, the film had just scraped through as a 12, yet to our surprise, the British public, for all their reported concern about screen violence, lapped it up, content to treat James Bond as fantasy violence. The producers were alerted to
the probability that, if 12 were to remain the target category on video, the film might need further cuts in violence, since the Video Recordings Act laid down the need to assess the likelihood of underage viewing, which in this case was a virtual
certainty.
The additional BBFC video cuts were:
Cuts to scene where Michelle Yeoh dispatches one of the bad guys by means of a throwing star.
Removed scene of Michelle Yeoh taking throwing star from a hidden compartment in her shoe
Cuts to scene where Bond stamps on a man's face
cut
119:08s =114:22s
UK: Passed 12 after BBFC suggested cuts at the rough cut stage were implemented for:
1997 cinema release
There have been sound cuts throughout the video.
Reduced impact sounds in fight at Carver's (Jonathon Price's) studio party
Bond gets hit by a baseball bat twice instead of four times
Reduced impact sounds in Chakra torture scene
Reduced impact sounds in fight in bike
shop
Reduced impact sounds of Wai Lin's (Michelle Yeoh's) kung-fu kicks
Reduced sound of man being scalded by steam
Reduced sound of Carver being hit by an engine and then his death scream
Reduced impact sounds of
Bond's (Pierce Brosnan's) climatic fight scene
The BBFC cut 2:15s from the 2007 Scanbox DVD:
Compulsory cuts were required to remove sight of animated child characters lighting and throwing fireworks at other people.
Too Beautiful To Die is a 1988 Italy film by Dario Piana Starring François-Eric Gendron, Florence Guérin and Randi Ingerman
Cut by the BBFC for 18 rated 1990 VHS. Uncut for 18 rated Blu-ray in 2022.
Summary Notes
The models of an agency are invited to a party by the owner of the agency. During
the party, one of the models gets raped by a powerful guest, with help from the other models. Soon, the models start to get killed one by one.
Versions
uncut
run:
99m
pal:
95m
UK: Passed 18 uncut for sexual violence, strong violence, threat, injury detail:
Too Hot to Handle is a 1977 US/Philippines action drama by Don Schain with Cheri Caffaro, Aharon Ipalé and Vic Diaz.
Cut by the BBFC for an X rated cinema release in 1977. Uncut and MPAA R
rated in the US.
Summary Review: Sexy Adventure
Sexy adventure film has international hit lady Cheri Caffaro involved in James Bondish escapades in Manila. She accepts a mission to
kill a group of gangsters in the Philippines, but problems arise when she falls for the detective investigating the murders.
Caffaro is very sexy in an aggressive sort of way, and the director eroticizes the violence (Caffaro is
virtually turned on by pain and death). That is quite a daring thing for a movie to do, and the people here deserve some credit for even attempting it. The climax of the film is surprisingly suspenseful.
The Toolbox Murders is a 1978 US horror by Dennis Donnelly. With Cameron Mitchell and Pamelyn Ferdin.
Cut by the BBFC for 1979 X rated cinema release. Banned as a video nasty on
VHS in 1983. Cut by the BBFC for VHS and DVD from 2000 until the BBFC cuts were waived for 2017 18 rated DVD and Blu-ray. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.
Summary Review: Grisly
The Toolbox Murders
starts out with 20 minutes or so of grisly and very well done kill scenes, all of which involve tools. If you like violence, then you'll love the introduction of this film. If you're a sucker for nudity in horror films, then you'll appreciate the
introduction to this film for that as well.
After the kills are complete, the middle portion of this movie is a lot of talk with little or no gore. However the dialog between the killer and the kidnapped girl is very
interesting.
If you have the attention span to sit through 'slower' moments of this film, then you'll find something to enjoy in it.
Versions
uncut
run:
93:51s
pal:
90:06s
UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong bloody
violence, sexualised nudity with all previous BBFC cuts waived for:
A scene was cut showing a naked woman fleeing from the masked attacker with a nail gun. as he pursues her around a bedroom. He shoots her in the back. She slumps to the ground and he shoots her in the head.
The film has been playing uncut on Zone Horror channel so presumably the BBFC would not cut the film if it were to be resubmitted.
cut
cut:
run:
87:26s
pal:
83:56s
UK: Released on pre-cert video for:
1981 Hokushn VHS
Released on Pre-VRA video by Hokushn in November 1981 and made it onto the video nasties list in November 1983. It was removed from the list in May 1985 as it was a BBFC approved version.
There are conflicting reports about versions released by Hokushin. The best theory seems to be that there were two versions released:
A cut version missing around 6 minutes of footage. This seems to be in excess of the often quoted cinema version which was missing around 2 minutes. This seems to the most common version with a runtime noted as 83:56s. Maybe there is a possibility
that it was doubly speeded up during NTSC to PAL conversion
UK: Passed X (18) after about 2 minutes of BBFC cuts for:
1980 cinema release
Thanks to Scott who obtained the BBFC cuts list:
Reel 1
Remove close-shots of bloody drill as killer advances on his wounded victim and all shots of her being chased around flat with blood oozing from her arm.
Reels 1 and 2
Remove two shots of Debbie lying bloody on floor when police photographer is filming at end of Reel 1 and beginning of Reel 2.
Reel 2
Eliminate all shots of girl victim masturbating in bath before murderer enters.
Considerably reduce nail-gun murder by deleting most shots of nude victim being chased around flat and the
complete section in which she is cornered naked on her bed.
Implication of girl's death from nail-gun in head may remain, but remove all sight of blood running down her face.
After girl's death, remove flashback cross-cut shot of her nude and bloody.
Remove further shot of girl's nude dead body at the end of crosscut sequence.
Remove sight of bloody girl as police investigate her murder.
Toolbox Murders is a 2004 USA horror mystery thriller by Tobe Hooper.
Starring Angela Bettis and Brent Roam and Marco Rodríguez.
The film was cut in the US for an MPAA R rating. This cut version was then passed 15 by the BBFC. The uncut version is avaalable on German Blu-ray.
Summary Notes
In
Hollywood, the young teacher Nell and her husband, the resident Steven Barrows, move to an old building called Lusman Arms. Some sixty years ago, the place was glamorous, but presently is completely decadent. Many dwellers have disappeared along the
years. While her husband is working in the hospital, the lonely Nell hears some weird noises and becomes afraid of the place. While jogging, she is introduced to (and becomes close to) her neighbor Julia Cunningham, and they schedule a hike together on
the next day. Julia never shows up, and Nell looks for her in the building, finding a hiding block behind the wall, where an evil being, which was born from death, lives with many dead bodies.
Versions
uncut
Germany
Germany: The cut scenes previously available on DVD extras have been spliced back into the film on '84 Entertainment Blu-ray
cut
cut:
run:
94:52s
pal:
91:04s
UK: The cut R Rated version was passed 15
for strong violence and language without BBFC cuts for:
From IMDb. The US R Rated version was heavily cut to avoid an NC-17:
The "drill kill" of the girl in the apartment was about 20-30 seconds longer, showing much more blood fly out of the back of her head, and the drill going all the way through her mouth. After the killer retracts the drill, he then begins
drilling again into her head. Also, this scene is well-lit as opposed to the darkened version in the "R" rated cut.
The man getting his head sawed in half; this scene was much longer. More blood and grue flies out as the killer saws,
and the aftermath of the top half of the man's head being ripped off was shown, and the camera lingers longer on it when it hits the ground.
The man being strapped to the table and killed was a bit longer. There were more hits with the hammer,
more screams from the man, and a better view of the powder being poured on his head. A more grisly after-view of the man's lye-laden head was present afterward.
Tooned 50 is a animation video by Henry Trotter and Chris Waitt. With Jenson Button,
Sergio Perez and Alexander Armstrong.
Cut for category by the BBFC for 2013 DVD
Versions
category cuts 1s
18:48s
UK: Passed PG for mild bad language after 1s of BBFC category cuts for:
2013 Abbey Home Media Group plc video
The BBFC commented:
Company chose to remove an inadequately obscured use of strong language in order to obtain a PG classification. Cut made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy. An uncut 12 classification was available.
v Tootsie
- 1982 USA comedy romance by Sydney Pollack.
Tootsie is a 1982 USA comedy romance by Sydney Pollack. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica
Lange and Teri Garr.
BBFC category cuts for a PG rated 1983 cinema release, then uncut and 15 rated for home video. Uncut and MPAA PG rated in the US.
Promotional Material
Michael Dorsey (Dustin
Hoffman) is an unemployed actor with a reputation for being 'difficult'. Desperate for work, Michael dresses up in drag in an attempt to land a part in a daytime soap as a mature woman. He succeeds, and achieves instant fame as Dorothea Michaels.
However, complications develop when he falls in love with Julie, a female cast member (Jessica Lange), while simultaneously having to fend off the amorous advances of both Julie's father (Charles Durning) and male actors on the set.
Versions
uncut
run:
116:05s
pal:
111:26s
UK: Passed 15 uncut for:
2016 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
Top Gear is a 2002 - present, UK TV motoring show Starring Richard Hammond, Jeremy
Clarkson and James May.
Long running TV series has many controversial moments for to non-political correct jokes. These haven't troubled the BBFC though.
Summary Notes
Jeremy, Richard and James talk about everything car-related. From new cars to how they're fueled, this show has it all.
Season 2, Episode 2
pre-cut
cut:
run:
61:21s
pal:
58:54s
Top Gear: Season 2, Episode 2 is a comedy documentary adventure by Phil Churchward, Brian Klein and Kit Lynch-Robinson. Starring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.
Season 22, Episode 2- Edited Version was passed 15 for strong language for:
2016 BBC DVD
Summary Notes
The boys embark on a trip across Australia's Northern Territory in a BMW M6 Gran Coupe, a Bentley Continental GT v8 and a Nissan GT-R. Kiefer Sutherland is the star in the Reasonably Priced Car.
Season 24
cut
Top Gear Season 24 is a UK 2017 TV series Starring Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid.
It appears that there are two versions of each episode, both censored. One has strong language bleeped out, in the other it is blanked or edited out entirely.
Top Gear Greatest Movie Chases Ever
30s
51:45s
UK: Top Gear Greatest Movie Chases Ever passed 12 after BBFC category cuts for:
2007 BBC Worldwide R2 DVD
The BBFC commented:
Cuts required to remove BBFC classification symbols and accompanying text which does not accurately reflect the terms of the Video Recordings Act 1984.
Top Gun is a 1986 US film by Tony Scott Starring Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins and Kelly McGillis
The film was cut in the US for an MPAA PG rating but was originally released uncut
worldwide with a BBFC 15 rating in the UK. The BBFC reduced this rating to 12 from 2004. The cut US Version seems to have been used for worldwide 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases.
Summary Notes
As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
Versions
cut
run:
109m
pal:
105m
UK: The cut US Version has been used for:
2020 Paramount R0 4K Blu-ray/ R0 Blu-ray Combo
The 12 rated packaging still notes a single use of strong language that is not actually present
UK: Presumably it was the cut US Version that was passed 12 for:
1989 cinema release
US: The film was cut in the US for an MPAA PG rating
Thanks to Jon. The US cuts were:
The cut scene occurs in the 4K UHD Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray versions during the second dogfight with Jester, at 59m 20s to 59m 22s, when
Jester says:
Bingo! Maverick's dead! You're out of there kid!
To which Maverick responds:
Fuck (Shit, in the edited version)
uncut
run:
109m
pal:
105m
UK: Passed 12 uncut for one use of strong language and moderate sex and sex references:
2013 Paramount video
2013 cinema release
UK: Passed 12 uncut for strong language, and moderate sex and sex references:
Top Sensation is a 1969 Italy drama by Ottavio Alessi. Starring Rosalba Neri, Edwige Fenech and Eva Thulin.
Banned by the BBFC for 1970 cinema release. passed 18 uncut for 2016 DVD.
Uncut and X rated in the US but later cut for an MPAA R rating. There is also a German version and mentions of additional footage shot in 1970.
Summary Notes
Attempting to cure her mentally handicapped
son's virginity, his mother and several friends embark on a cruise which strands them on nearly deserted island where lust and murder are on the menu!
Tora! Tora! Tora! is a Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 US/Japan war film by
Richard Fleischer & Kinji Fukasaku With Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura and Jason Robards.
Exists in 2 verions, US and the longer Japanese Extended Version
Versions
Extended Version
148:53s
UK: The Japanese Extended Version was passed PG uncut for:
The BBFC suggested cuts for the 2009 cinema release and 2009 Pathe DVD.
This film was originally shown to the BBFC in an unfinished version. The BBFC advised the company that the film was likely to receive a 18 classification but that the requested 15 certificate could be achieved by
making reductions to a number of scenes. In particular the BBFC suggested that the number of blows in a fight scene should be reduced; an aggressive use of very strong language should be removed; sexual bullying of a naked young male in showers should be
significantly reduced; sexualised killing of a partially naked young male should be significantly reduced; visual element of a severed penis in condom in comic context should be reduced; focus on a screwdriver embedded in hand should be reduced; focus on
screwdriver in neck should be reduced, along with subsequent closer focus on neck wound as blood flows. When the finished version of the film was submitted, all the reductions had been made satisfactorily and the film was classified 15 .
v Tormentor
- 1973 Italy/Spain horror mystery thriller by Maurizio Pradeaux.
Tormentor is a 1973 Italy/Spain horror mystery thriller by Maurizio Pradeaux. With Robert Hoffmann, Nieves Navarro and George Martin.
Cut by the BBFC for 1974 X rated cinema release. Uncut and MPAA R rated in
the US
Promotional Material
Ketty, a photographer living in Rome, accidentally witnesses the murder of a young woman at the hands of a razor-wielding maniac. Ketty and her fiance, Alberto, go to the
police--only to learn that two other witnesses to the crime have been slashed to death. Ketty fears that she will be the next victim when her ballerina friend Magda is brutally killed by the same elusive culprit. The police are baffled, unable to find a
motive. It is Alberto who discovers the connection: all the murdered girls were dancers. Investigating further, Ketty finds a photo identifying the killer. But before she can warn Alberto, Ketty is trapped in a lonely greenhouse, stalked by the homicidal
madman!
Torso is a 1973 Italy horror mystery thriller by Sergio Martino. Starring Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont and Luc Merenda.
The Italian Version was shortened for an English language version. This
English version was MPAA R rated in the US but was cut by the BBFC for an X rated cinema release in 1975 and 18 rated VHS in 1990. The BBFC cuts were waived when the Italian Version was released on 18 rated DVD in 2007.
Summary Review:
Worth the wait
Someone is strangling coeds in Perugia. The only clue is that the killer owns a red and black scarf, and police are stumped. American exchange student Jane and her friends decide to take a break from
classes by going up to Danielle's uncle's villa in the country. Unfortunately the killer decides to follow, and the women begin suffering a rapid attrition problem.
This is one of those Italian horror classics that's actually
worth the wait. Not as well put together as Argento or Fulci, but packed with really great jazz tinged music and some totally unforgetable scenes, mainly the beautifully shot murder in the woods and the final showdown in the house with Suzy Kendall and
the masked killer. Almost a classic.
Italian Version
uncut
run:
93:05s
pal:
89:22s
UK: The Italian Version was passed 18
uncut after previous cuts waived for:
2011 Blue Underground (English + Italian Version) R0 Blu-ray
at US Amazon
2011 Blue Underground (English Version) R0 DVD
at US Amazon
Note that the Italian Version has missing subtitles for the scenes that were dropped from the English Version.
The 2018 also includes a choice of titles, Italian, and English.
The Joseph Brenner Cut/US Theatrical Version
shortened
cut:
2:54s
run:
89:32s
pal:
85:57s
US: The Joseph Brenner Cut is MPAA Unrated for:
2011 Blue Underground (English + Italian Version) R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
2011 Blue Underground (English Version) R0 DVD at US Amazon
The US distributor/producer Joseph Brenner brought the film into the US movie theaters. He created his own edited version of the film with different titles, but this had to be cut further for an R rated US Theatrical Version
Torture Garden is a 1967 UK horror fantasy by Freddie Francis. Starring Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith and Beverly Adams.
Not cut by the BBFC or MPAA but an Extended TV Version has been released on
DVD.
Summary Notes
A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr. Diablo, to warn people of evil in their futures. One by one, skeptical customers stand before the Fate
Atropos to be shown the greed and violence they're hiding behind their respectable facades.
Extended Version
uncut
run:
100:07s
pal:
96:07s
UK: An Extended TV Version was passed 12 uncut for moderate
horror and violence for:
2017 Powerhouse Films [Theatrical + Extended TV Version] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
2005 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment video
UK: An Extended TV Version was passed 15 uncut for:
1989 RCA/Columbia Pictures VHS
From IMDb. The Extended Version has 7 minutes of additional material. The additional footage consists of more scenes of Dr. Diablo introducing devices of torture, a longer electric chair scene, and more footage in the Terror Over Hollywood sequence.
Theatrical Version
uncut
run:
93:04s
pal:
89:21s
UK: BBFC details not yet published for:
2017 Powerhouse Films [Theatrical + Extended TV Version] R0 Blu-ray at UK
Amazon
Publicity material states that the film has been re-mastered and the running time suggests the Theatrical Version, but this is not yet confirmed.
UK: The Theatrical Version was passed X (18) uncut for:
Tortured For Christ is a 2018 USA biography by John Grooters. Starring Emil Mandanac, Raluca Botez and Eduard Adam.
Rated PG-13 by the MPAA for disturbing thematic content including depictions of torture.
Note that this is the second submission, and the MPAA notes that the content is different to the original submission. Both submissions were made prior
to theatrical released and both were rated PG-13 for disturbing thematic content including depictions of torture.
Summary Notes
A cinematic retelling of the testimony of 'Voice of the
Martyrs' founder, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand , as written in his international bestseller "Tortured for Christ".
Total Recall is a 1990 US action film by Paul Verhoeven With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone and Michael Ironside.
Cut for an MPAA R rated theatrical release, and this cut version has persisted ever since. The film was further cut in Australia for an M rated theatrical release.
Summary Notes
Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory
implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it's a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie
Cutting Edge
Season 5 Cutting Edge Episode 61:
Total Recall Australian cuts examined
Versions
best available
run:
113:04s
pal:
108:33s
cut
Australia
Australia
UK: The R Rated Version was passed
15 without BBFC cuts for:
2012 cinema release
UK: The R Rated Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:
2020 Studiocanal 30th Anniversary Steelbook (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon #ad
2020
Studiocanal 30th Anniversary (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon
The distributor had requested a 15 rating for the 1990 cinema release but the examiners' reports show that BBFC examiners had concerns about scenes of violence at this category. They also recommended against cuts to a
film expertly and technically executed . Examiners considered the impact on the audience of the combination of action and violence as well as the likely appeal of the film to teenagers. But ultimately the examiners concluded that the levels of punchy and upfront
violence would best be represented by an 18 certificate.
From IMDb. The film was initially given an X-rating by the MPAA. The following are the scenes that were trimmed to receive a R-rating:
Benny's death is optically cropped to remove the exiting drill erupting from his stomach.
The innocent bystander used as a shield was bloodier before trimming.
The stabbing of Helm in the bar had the bowie knife slicing up his
stomach. Stills of this were actually featured in Fangoria magazine at the time of the film's release.
Several shots of the scientists being killed by Quaid after he breaks free from the implant-machine were shortened.
The scene of
Richter's arms being severed was shortened.
This R Rated Version seems to have become the definitive version
cut
Australia
Australia: The film was extensively cut in Australia for Theatrical Release and VHS. The uncut
was version was also available on VHS with an R 18+ rating.
See the detailed cuts in Cutting Edge Episode 61: Total Recall
v Total Recall
- 2012 USA/Canada action adventure sci-fi thriller by Len Wiseman.
Total Recall is a 2012 USA/Canada action adventure sci-fi
thriller by Len Wiseman. With Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine and Bryan Cranston.
There is a Theatrical Version and an Extended Director's Cut. Nothing controversial about the differences.
There was a rumour that there is also a version that clothes the topless 3 breasted woman. However this seems to be more to
do with a censored publicity photo shoot rather than the film itself.
Versions
Director's Cut
124:51s
UK: The Extended Director's Cut was passed 12 for moderate violence, brief nudity and infrequent strong language for:
2012 Sony [Theatrical + Extended] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . The additional
material is uncontentious and is limited to Blu-ray releases. The Director's Cut adds some depth which makes for a significantly better film.
uncut
113:32s
UK: The Theatrical Version was passed 12A without BBFC cuts for
moderate violence, brief nudity and one use of strong language for:
2012 Sony [Theatrical + Extended] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
2012 Sony R2 DVD
2012 cinema release
Touch Me Not - 2018 Romania / Germany / Czech Republic / Bulgaria / France drama by Adina Pintilie. See
Hardcore 18s List: Touch Me Not
Touch of Evil is a 1958 USA crime thriller by Orson Welles. Starring
Charlton Heston, Orson Welles and Janet Leigh.
The BBFC cut the Theatrical Version for an A rated 1958 cinema release. Home video releases are uncut. In addition there is also a preview version and a reconstructed version.
Orson Welles created the first cut known as the Preview
Version. It did not impress the studio and they gave the editors job to somebody else to produce the Theatrical Version. Orson Welles sent the studio a 58 page letter describing his visions for the film. This letter was used to create the Reconstructed
Version which is felt to be the version closest to Director's wishes for the film.
Summary Notes
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Versions
uncut Reconstructed Version
106:05s
UK: The Reconstructed Version/Re-edited Version was passed 12 uncut for:
2011 Eureka Limited Edition [Reconstructed+Preview+Theatrical] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
Touche pas a la femme blanche is a 1974 France/Italy biography comedy western by Marco Ferreri. With Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli.
Versions
uncut
105:02s
UK: Passed 18 uncut for:
2006 Nucleus [with Tales of Ordinary Madness] R2 DVD via UK
Amazon
Tough and Deadly is a 1995 USA action thriller by Steve Cohen. Starring Billy Blanks, Roddy Piper and Richard Norton.
Uncut for 2003 Hollywood DVD but an unknown pre-cut version was used for
other VHS and DVD releases
Summary Notes
Elmo Freech is a private investigator and was contracted by John Portland, a CIA agent who suffers amnesia, in oder to reveale a dubious case of drug smuggling
in which are involved big fishes of the CIA and from Washington.
The Tough Ones is a 1976 Italy action crime thriller by umberto lenzi Starring Maurizio Merli, Arthur Kennedy and Giampiero Albertini
The original Version/Director's Cut was significantly shortened and reworked for the US Version.
Summary Notes
A tough, rule-bending cop pursues a maniacal, trigger-happy
hunchback, a one-handed bank robber and their cronies in an effort to bring Rome's most powerful crime lord to justice.
Versions
uncut
run:
93:53s
pal:
90:08s
UK: The Original Version/Director's
Cut was passed 18 uncut for sexual violence:
2021 88 Films [Director's Cut + US Version] (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon #ad
88 Films comments: US Version of the Film, Brutal Justice (Presented in a Grindhouse Presentation from a Film Print supplied by AGFA)
US: The Original Version/Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:
The American release by Aquarius Distribution entitled "Assault with a Deadly Weapon" is missing the first 10 minutes, the
beginning credits, and the ending credits. The American version also has several of the scenes reshot so that the originally Italian words on buildings and on people's notes appear in English. Also, the beginning credits list a variety of made-up
Americanized names.
v Tourist Trap
- 1979 USA horror mystery thriller by David Schmoeller.
Tourist Trap is a 1979 USA horror mystery thriller by David Schmoeller. With Chuck Connors, Jocelyn Jones and Jon Van Ness.
Not cut by censors but US and UK Blu-ray releases from 2014 have been shortened by about 4 minutes. 2020 US Blu-ray releases are also uncut. DVD releases are all uncut.
Promotional Material
An eerie and deserted wax museum, SLAUSEN S LOST OASIS, is the site for spine-tingling terror where four unsuspecting young travelers (Including TANYA ROBERTS from Charlie s Angels & A View to a Kill ) are lured into a very deadly
TOURIST TRAP. Slausen (CHUCK CONNERS, Soylent Green ) is the reclusive and bizarre owner of this attraction, which is actually more like a macabre chamber of horrors. The grotesque and frightening mannequins in this sordid side-show are only the
beginning of the murderous mayhem and nightmarish madness to come..
There's no sign of this shortened version in the BBFC database. 88 Films say that they used the Full Moon print and that there is no other uncut high definition version source available
US: A shortened version was released for:
2014 Full Moon RA Blu-ray
Edits have been made to delete and relocate 5 scenes adding up to about 4 minutes.
Tower of death - 1980 Hong Kong/South Korea action mystery by See-Yuen Ng, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Corey Yuen See
Game of Death II
Tower of Evil is a 1972 UK/USA horror by Jim O'Connolly. With Bryant Haliday, Jill Haworth, Anna Palk.
Cut by the BBFC for cinema release, Uncut for home video. The 2006 UK release noted as re-edited which is a restoration and deletion of print damage
Summary Notes:
A group of
experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...
A trash classic from the heyday of British exploitation. if you're an admirer of raw,
vicious and undiscovered horror. This film is so much fun
Tower of London is a 1962 USA historical horror thriller by Roger Corman. Starring Vincent Price, Michael Pate and Joan Freeman.
Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1962 cinema release. Uncut and 12 rated for
2017 Blu-ray. Uncut in the US.
Summary Notes
On the death of his brother King Edward IV, Richard of Gloucester conspires to get the throne for himself. The late King had two young sons, his heir, Edward
V and the younger Prince Richard, but they are not of age and so names his other brother, Clarence as Lord Protector of the Realm. Gloucester soon kills his younger brother but is haunted by his ghost and what he has done. As he continues to kill those
around him, Gloucester is haunted by those he has betrayed hearing voices and slowly descending into madness. He spreads rumors that the late King's two sons are illegitimate and therefore not eligible to ascend to the throne. He assassinates the young
princes and is crowned King Richard III. The ghosts from his past have the final say however.
Versions
uncut
Unrated
79:38s =76:27s
UK: The UK Version was passed 12 uncut for moderate violence,
scenes of torture for:
The Town is a 2010 USA crime thriller by Ben Affleck. Starring Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall and
Jon Hamm.
Exists as a Theatrical Version, an Extended Version, and the Extended Version with an alternative ending
Summary Notes
As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his
feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as the FBI agent looking to bring him and his crew down.
Versions
uncut alternative
Unrated
US: Extended Cut with Alternative Ending is MPAA Unrated for:
2012 Warner Ultimate Collector's Edition [theatrical + extended + alternative versions] R0 Blu-ray/R1 DVD
via UK Amazon and
at US Amazon
The Toxic Avenger is a 1984 USA action comedy horror sci-fi by Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman. With Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen and Jennifer Prichard.
Heavily cut in the US for an MPAA R rating. This R rated version was released without BBFC cuts for cinema release, VHS and DVD. A pre-cut version based on the Director's Cut was also passed without BBFC cuts for 20013 DVD. The
Director's Cut and an extended Japanese Version were released uncut in 2014 but no BBFC details yet. The Director's Cut and an extended Japanese Version are available in the US and are MPAA Unrated.
Promotional Material
Welcome to Tromaville, New Jersey -- a small American town, terrorized by criminals. The town's corrupt mayor sits idly by while muggers, robbers and teenage punks victimize helpless citizens. Among the residents of Tromaville is
Melvin, a nerdy, emaciated janitor at the local health club. That is, until he becomes The Toxic Avenger! A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin is cast through a third story window and into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.
However, an unexpected metamorphosis takes place. As the chemicals take hold of his body, Melvin turns into the Toxic Avenger, doer of good and brutal mauler of evil! The rest, as they say, is history. The excitement is non-stop as the hero sets out to
single handedly wipe out the forces of evil that torment the people of Tromaville. THE TOXIC AVENGER is non-stop entertainment that will leave the viewer s glowing from the fun.
Director's Cut
Director's Cut
run:
82:31s
pal:
79:13s
UK: Uncut but no BBFC details yet
for:
2016 88 Films The Complete Toxic Avenger R2 DVD at UK Amazon
2014 88 Films [Director's Cut + Japanese Version] Limited Edition Steelbook R0 Blu-ray
at UK Amazon
2014 88 Films [Director's Cut + Japanese Version] R0
Blu-ray at UK Amazon
Thanks to Andrew and Chris, April 2008: Zone Horror
The Toxic Avenger is being shown on Zone Horror in the uncut version. All the gore and nunchaku scenes are included-even the famous head squash in the gym!
Graphic yes, but its so badly done that to me it just becomes a moment of black comedy genius, a la Bad taste , Braindead etc.
pre-cut
cut:
run:
87:32s
pal:
84:02s
UK: A pre-cut version of the Director's Cut was passed 18 without further BBFC cuts for:
2003 Prism R2 DVD
Reported as missing gore ie the killing of the boy on the bike, heavy cuts to the restaurant robbery including the use of nunchakus
Japanese Version
Japanese Cut
run:
95:14s
pal:
91:25s
UK: Uncut but no BBFC details yet
for:
2014 88 Films [Director's Cut + Japanese Version] Limited Edition Steelbook R0 Blu-ray
at UK Amazon
2014 88 Films [Director's Cut + Japanese Version] R0
Blu-ray at UK Amazon
The Japanese cut is longer and it has some alternate plot development and character development footage but don't go in expecting much more in the way of sex or gore when compared to the director's cut
version.
If you don't already have the director's cut DVD, this is probably the one you want to go for as it is the longest, but it doesn't necessarily flow better.
Theatrical Version
cut Theatrical Version
cut:
run:
78:51s
pal:
75:42s
UK: A Pre-cut Version, presumably the R rated
version, was passed 18 without further BBFC cuts for:
2005 Prism R2 DVD
1996 Allied Troma VHS
1986 Palan VHS
1986 cinema release
In response to a query to the BBFC:
Toxic Avenger was never actually cut by the BBFC. However, the version submitted to us was heavily pre-cut by the distributors before it was sent in. The version classified (without
cuts) by the Board runs at about 75 minutes, whereas the full version runs about 90 minutes. From what we understand a number of sequences of gore and violence were toned down throughout and a scene involving the use of chainsticks was also removed
because, at the time, it was well known that the Board did not allow the use of these weapons in films). It is entirely possible that it might be possible to classify a stronger version of the film now - perhaps even the full version, but we cannot say
for sure without a formal resubmission.
Cuts for an R rating were as follows:
Dialogue cut heavily from the scene in the locker room, where Slug, and Wanda talk about hit-and-run pedestrians.
Slug, and Wanda screwing, is briefly shortened.
Heavily cut; the famous head-crushing. The hit-and-run kid moving, and
the crew backing up with the car, and crushing his head, and Wanda and Julie going out to take pictures of the corpse, and then the crew driving away, are all cut out in a row.
Shinbone alley; Cigarface kicking O'Clancy, who's on the ground.
Shinbone alley; Toxie bashing Knuckles' nose off, is cut out.
Shinbone alley; Toxie gouging the transvestite thug's eyes, is completely cut out.
Shinbone alley; Knucles passing out.
Shinbone alley; Toxie punching Cigarface into the barrel, is shortened.
Shinbone alley; Toxie bashing Knuckles, and the transvestite thug's heads together, is no more.
Taco-bar; Leroy shotgunning a guy, is reduced.
Taco-bar; the shot man squirming on the floor.
Taco-bar; Frank ripping Sarah's panties off, and some dialogue, like I did always wanted to poke me a blind bitch.
Taco-bar; Frank's hand-stump splattering blood.
Taco-bar; Frank trying to get up from the floor, with his one
hand only.
Taco-bar; Toxie stuffing Frank to the oven, is shortened.
Taco-bar; a brief body shot of Leroy's mangled face, is gone.
Taco-bar; a shot of a dead dog is deleted. And a bunch of dialogue has also gone for continuity.
A brief close-up of Rico's boiled hands, is deleted.
The drug-dealer's body squirming around in the weight machine, along with a juicy close-up of the mangled head, is no more.
Wanda's ass boiling, is shortened.
Toxie
ducking down, and making a thug slash his friend, and Toxie pushing a thug's knife to its owner, have been completely deleted.
Cigarface squirming after he's shot, is no more.
Slug beating the old granny with her cane has been cut from
four hits to just one.
When Toxie nears the mayor, flashbacks of a close-up of Frank's arm being pulled off, and the weight machine murder (now shown from a more grisly angle), have been cut out.
The Toxic Avenger Part II is a Toxic Avenger Part II is 1989 US comedy
horror by Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman. With Ron Fazio, John Altamura and Phoebe Legere.
Cut in the US for an MPAA R rating. This cut version was further cut by the BBFC for VHS. The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for DVD and Blu-ray since 2003.
Promotional Material
Toxie's mean, green, and back on the screen! Melvin Junko was a nerdy 98lb weakling until he fell into a vat of toxic waste, turning him into the first ever superhuman superhero from New Jersey. This time the hideously deformed creature of superhuman
size and strength takes on Tokyo.
Versions
uncut
run:
102:53s
pal:
98:46s
UK: The Director's Cut was passed 18 with
previous BBFC cuts waived for:
2016 88 Films [The Complete Toxic Avenger] R2 DVD at UK Amazon
2014 88 Films R0
Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 17th November 2014
2014 88 Films R2 DVD
at UK Amazon released on 17th November 2014
2003 Hollywood DVD
US: The Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:
2015 Troma Toxic Avenger Collection R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
2015 Troma
Entertainment R0 Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon
From IMDB. The Unrated Director's Cut is 7:27s longer than the cut US R Rated Version:
The wheelchair death is gorier and quite longer. He squeezes his body till his intestines burst out of his stomach (along with buckets of blood). Then Toxie takes the wheelchair, picks it up and throws it aside.
The villain who gets choked
with the vine and has roses shoved into his eye sockets is gorier and longer. It shows Toxie choking him more and also blood squirting out his neck (he also spits out blood) and it also shows Toxie shoving the roses in his eyes.
A gorier version
of the scene when Toxie punches the Black villain's face in showing blood run down his face and also his body dropping to the ground, showing what's left of his head.
When Toxie bashes the two villains; heads off, it usually cuts to them
dancing; in the uncut print their bodies first drop to the ground, causing blood to splash out of their necks (and it also shows toxie tearing hair from their scalps!)
The Indian villain's death shows Toxie tearing his ears off his head
Toxie chases down 3 rapists and kills 2; in the R-rated version the 3rd one (a woman) is never shown. In the uncut print he chases her to a radio station where he shoves cords, microphones in her body
A scene showing Toxie and the Japenese chick
playing a game.
A new scene of Toxie complaining that everyone in Japan is staring at him.
Two fights scenes are added. One between two warriors (one gets crushed by Toxie's foot and the other gets thrown on some stand) and a Japanese
drag queen who keeps trying to rape Roxie
total
cut:
8:34s
run:
94:06s
pal:
90:20s
1:07s
7:27s
UK: The cut US R Rated Version was passed 18 after a further 1:07s of BBFC cuts for:
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of
Toxie is a 1989 USA action comedy horror by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman. Starring Ron Fazio, Phoebe Legere and John Altamura.
The Theatrical Version was cut for an MPAA R rating but the Director's Cut
is unrated and uncut. The director later said that he prefers the Theatrical Version and recent releases since Blu-ray have been reflected his preferences. Both versions have been passed 18 uncut in the UK.
Summary Review: Untempting
Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. So he decides to go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries.
Toxie is told that his blind girlfriend Claire, has a chance to see again, but it costs a lot of money. Then Toxie gets the opportunity to work as a spokesman for his enemy Apocolypse Inc. He says "yes" so he can get money for Claire. Not
knowing what he was doing, Apocolypse Inc. takes over Tromaville and makes everyone slaves to work for them. After Claire's surgery, she opens up Toxie's eyes and he has too battle with The Devil himself.
Generally found
disappointing but a few reviewers found the funny side somewhere.
2015 Troma Toxic Avenger Collection (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
Approximately 1:08s of violent footage is missing from the opening sequence. And not everyone is quite convinced that the director really prefers this version.
Thanks to Jon Dracup
88 Films have said that they got
the HD print from Troma in the USA, and that the version they and 88 Films released on Blu-Ray, is Lloyd Kaufman's preferred Director's Cut of the film, and it is alleged, Kaufman says that the missing gore was never meant to be included !
(Hmmmmm! Really?)
Sadly, it's missing a fair bit of violence, mostly from the opening, 10 minute sequence set inside a Tromaville Video Rental store. The cuts noted are:
someone having a broom handle, shoved through their head, and once through the head, the head is then forcibly separated from the body
someone having their intestines removed, and being
strangled with them
a scene featuring someone having their hand and fingers squashed in a videocassette-deck
All these scenes appear in previous (non-UK) DVD versions. A shame, as the cuts are really noticeable in the UK Blu-Ray! And according to someone else, the UK audio commentary goes off-kilter and out-of-sync with what's
on-screen, for about 20 seconds too.
Toy Story 2 is a 1999 USA family animation comedy by John Lasseter, Ash Brannon (co-director)... Starring Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack.
There are minor variant versions for regionalisation. A fake outtake in the
credits was dropped after the #MeToo campaign rendered it to be of bad taste.
Summary Notes
While Andy is away at summer camp Woody has been toynapped by Al McWiggin, a greedy
collector and proprietor of "Al's Toy Barn"! In this all-out rescue mission, Buzz and his friends Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Rex and Hamm springs into action to rescue Woody from winding up as a museum piece. They must find a way to save him
before he gets sold in Japan forever and they'll never see him again!
Versions
cut
UK: Passed U for very mild violence, threat:
2020 Buena Vista Home Entertainment video
Presumably as a result of the #MeToo campaign in 2017 a barbed reference to such bad behaviour was dropped from the fake outtakes that play out in the end credits.
One of the Toy Story 2 blooper reel's jokes is difficult
to laugh at in light of today's #MeToo-inflected political climate. In the scene, Stinky Pete the Prospector, the movie's villain, is seen flirting with a pair of identical twin Barbie dolls.
Y'know, I'm sure I could get you a
part in Toy Story 3, he says, stroking one of the dolls' hands. Woody catches him in action, and Stinky Pete becomes noticeably flustered, quickly dismissing the women by ushering them out of his packaging.
uncut
run:
92:16s
pal:
88:35s
UK: Passed U uncut for very mild violence and threat:
2011 Buena Vista Home Entertainment video
2010 Buena Vista Home Entertainment video
2005 Buena Vista Home Entertainment video
2009 cinema release
UK: Passed U uncut:
2000 Buena Vista Home Entertainment [Closed Captioned] video
2000 Buena Vista Home Entertainment video
There are regional variations, eg a US version with a world picture replaced by a US flag for the backdrop to a motivational speech
uncut
run:
94:05s
pal:
90:19s
UK: Passed U uncut:
2001 Buena Vista Home Entertainment [Audio Descriptive] video
uncut
run:
94:45s
pal:
90:58s
UK: Passed U uncut for:
2000 cinema release
v Toys
- 1992 USA family comedy fantasy by Barry Levinson.
Toys is a 1992 USA family comedy fantasy by Barry Levinson. Starring Robin Williams, Michael Gambon and Joan Cusack.
BBFC category cuts were required for a PG Rated video release in 1993.
Uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated in the US.
Summary Notes
An eccentric toymaker's last wish is that his brother takes over the running of the business. The brother is a military General,
and is out of touch with toymaking, and out of touch with reality too. The business should really have been given to Leslie, who was much more like his toymaking father. When the General starts making weapons instead of toys, Leslie decides to take
action.
Versions
uncut
run:
121:30s
pal:
116:38s
UK: Passed PG uncut:
1992 cinema release
US: Uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated
category cuts
cut:
5s
run:
121:23s
pal:
116:32s
sub:
sub:
116:37s
UK: Passed PG after 5s of BBFC category cuts:
1994 Fox VHS
1993 Fox VHS
From IMDb. A sexual reference was cut for PG rated UK video releases.
v
Tracers - 2014 USA action film by Daniel Benmayor.
Tracers is a 2014 USA action film by Daniel Benmayor. Starring Taylor Lautner, Marie
Avgeropoulos and Rafi Gavron.
Rated R for some violence by the MPAA in May 2014. The producers wanted a PG-13 and appealed the MPAA decision. The appeal was successful and the CARA appeals board re-rated the film PG-13 for some intense violence, perilous action,
sexual content and language.
Summary Notes
Wanted by the mafia, a new York City bike messenger escapes into the world of parkour after meeting a beautiful stranger.
Traces of Death is a 1993 USA horror documentary by John Alan
Schwartz. Starring Damon Fox, Maritza Martin Munoz and Emilio Nunez.
Banned by the BBFC for 2005 DVD. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.
Summary Notes
Traces of Death is a collection of archive film and borrowed stock footage. In its opening you see the death of a woman named Maritza Martin, who was gunned down by her ex-husband on
Spanish language television. We then witness British SAS troopers storming the Iranian Embassy in 1980, this is followed by a police chase of a criminal in a pick up truck and the deadly finale. It then goes to footage of animal experiments with a
grizzly scene of a live pig being burned alive with a torch. Autopsy footage is then shown of an Asian individual. We are then shown a very graphic presentation on a male to female sex change operation. One interesting scene has a man who had his nasal
cavity removed and replaced with a prosthetic, the footage is most interesting and worth the price of admission. The producers then suddenly return to the death theme with the well known footage of R Budd Dwyer and his on air suicide with a .357 Magnum,
followed by a look at one of the most notorious Nazi villains...
Versions
uncut
run:
75m
pal:
72m
US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:
2003 Brain Damage 9th Anniversary Collector's Edition R1 DVD
banned
run:
75:18s
pal:
72:17s
UK: Banned by the BBFC for:
2005 Crypt Keeper DVD
The BBFC explained their ban:
Traces of Death comprises a compilation of uncontextualised clips showing real killings, suicides, medical operations, fatal accidents, autopsies and other distressing images
. The work presents no journalistic, educational or other justifying context for the images shown. Rather, the work presents a barrage of sensationalist clips, for what appears to be the underlying purpose of providing prurient entertainment. That this
is the essential purpose of the work is reinforced by the addition of a sparse but sensationalist voice-over, which deliberately makes light of human death, pain and suffering. Some of the most graphic clips are needlessly repeated in slow motion,
further underlining the prurient and exploitative nature of the work.
The Board carefully considered the work in the light of our Guidelines and the tests set down by the Video Recordings Act. A key consideration is the question of any harm that
might be caused to potential viewers or, through their behaviour, to society because of the manner in which the work deals with violence and "horrific behaviour or incidents". The Board has concluded that the video is potentially harmful because of the
influence it may have on the attitudes and behaviour of at least some intended or potential viewers. By presenting actual human death, mutilation and suffering as entertainment, the work has the potential to desensitise viewers, and perhaps even to
incite some to harm others. The work invites the viewer to take sadistic pleasure in death, injury, mutilation and pain and encourages callousness towards victims. Given the flippant and sensationalist nature of the occasional voice over, the work is
perhaps especially likely to appeal to the juvenile humour of young and impressionable persons (whatever its classification). The Board considers that the work may have a significant brutalising effect on their attitude to human life and pain.
Given the potential for the work to deaden the sensitivity of viewers to pain and suffering and to impair the moral development of younger viewers in particular, the Board also considers that the work raises serious concerns about possible breach of the Obscene Publications Act. This Act makes it an offence to distribute any work that, taken as a whole, has a tendency to deprave and corrupt (i.e. make morally bad) a significant proportion of those likely to see it.
A further consideration for the Board is that of public acceptability. (This is the ground on which, for instance, the Board has regard to issues of bad language.) In this case the combination of the shocking and distressing images in the work,
the lack of any justifying context, the editorial treatment, and the and the possible appeal to a young audience, all appear to the Board to raise serious concerns about the acceptability of the work to public opinion. Taken together with the harm
issues, and potential breach of the law, these concerns about acceptability strengthen the basis for refusal of classification.
The Board considered whether cutting the work would be a viable alternative to refusing a classification certificate.
However, the essential difficultly with Traces of Death lies not so much with any particular images (most of which would have been acceptable in a different, more serious, context) but with the manner in which the images are presented, and with the
underlying, exploitative purpose of the work. Cuts would therefore be unlikely to modify the tone and overall effect of the work acceptably.
Track of the Vampire - 1966 USA / Yugoslavia horror by Jack Hill and Stephanie Rothman. See
Blood Bath
This
John Wayne film suddenly started getting cut from the Cinema Club version of 2003 (29s). Similar cuts for the Classic Entertainment release and slightly less for the Latest WHE International version (21s).
The BBFC statement reads:
Compulsory cuts required to real animal cruelty, sight of horses being ridden off cliff into water and to horse falls.
uncut
54:42s
The 1934 cinema release and all video versions from 1987 to the Delta Music version of 2004 were all uncut
Based on the Imperium Comics series. Six troubled high school students and their chaperon, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor get stranded in the middle of the Trucker's Triangle, a forgotten
locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere. The hapless group seeks shelter for the night in a seemingly abandoned trailer park they find down the road. However, when the sun sets, it's not refuge they find. Instead, terror finds them in the form
of Norma, a damned redneck reaper with a killer body who dispenses vengeance and death aided by her cursed companions, a bloodthirsty brood of Undead trailer trash.
The acting is good. Some of the deaths are very brutal and gory
but if you can stomach stuff out of say the Saw films then you will be alright with this. The deaths are actually very good and it is a very gory, sexy film with a great soundtrack.
~40s
R rated
93:12s
UK: The Theatrical Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:
2009 Kaleidoscope R2 DVD
2008 cinema release
See pictorial cuts from movie-censorship.com . The Unrated Version is
about 40s longer than the Theatrical Version. The main difference is that the skinning of the boy is loess detailed in the Theatrical Version. Other deaths are also less detailed, but this does not diminish the cruelty of the torture scenes.
v Train
- 2008 USA horror thriller by Gideon Raff.
Train is a 2008 USA horror thriller by Gideon Raff. Starring Thora Birch, Gideon Emery and Kavan Reece.
Cut in the US for an MPAA R rated release. The uncut version has been
released in France and Austria.
Summary Notes
In Europe, a group of American college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride.
Versions
uncut
France
94:56s =91:08s
France: Released uncut on the Europa label Austria: Released uncut on the Illusions label
There is also a longer French Version
presumably the Unrated Version as it contains extended violent scenes toned down for a US R Rating. See pictorial cuts details from
movie-censorship.com
23s
90:29s
UK: The cut US Version was passed 18 for strong bloody violence, torture and strong sex without
further BBFC cuts for:
2009 Lions Gate Home Entertainment UK [Part Subtitled] R2 DVD
Trainspotting is a 1996 UK drama by Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan
McGregor, Ewen Bremner and Jonny Lee Miller.
The 1996 UK release was uncut and BBFC 18 rated. However the BBFC asked for
cuts for the follow up VHS. The film was also cut in the US for an R rating and this version was released on UK 18 rated DVD without further BBFC cuts. The film was released uncut on 18 rated DVD and Blu-ray in 2009. The uncut version was later released
in the US also with an MPAA R rating.
Summary Notes
A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin
habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious
about them...
Versions
uncut
run:
93:38s
pal:
89:53s
UK: Passed 18 uncut for very strong language,
strong sex and violence and hard drug use for:
2s missing from the sex scene with Renton and Diane.
1s missing of needle injection substituted by a view of Renton's face
cut
cut:
14s
run:
93:09s
pal:
89:25s
UK : Passed 18 after 14s of BBFC cuts for:
1996 Polygram VHS
The cut was:
a 14s cut to Renton's (Ewan McGregor's) shooting-up scene. The BBFC video policy at the time was to cut step-by-step process of drug taking where they thought it was likely to prove both fascinating and instructive.
Trainwreck is a 2015 USA comedy by Judd Apatow. Starring Amy Schumer, Bill Hader
and Brie Larson.
Exists as an Extended Version and an Theatrical Version.
Summary Notes
Producer Director Judd Apatow from Knocked Up, Bridesmaids, and This is 40, directs breakout comedienne Amy
Schumer from Comedy Centrals Inside Amy Schumer in a new comedy about a young woman with a cool job and a busy social schedule, whose personal life is somewhat of a trainwreck
Versions
Extended Version
129:19s 123:38s
UK: The Extended Version was passed 15 uncut for strong language, sex, sex references for:
Trans-Europ-Express is a 1967 France/Belgium thriller by Alain
Robbe-Grillet. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier and Nadine Verdier.
Informally banned by the BBFC in 1967. X rated in in 1977 for cinema release. 15 rated in 2013 on DVD
Summary Review
This stylish, cult 1966 erotic thriller stars French new
wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant. He plays a drug courier smuggling a stash of cocaine from Paris to Antwerp on the Trans-Europ-Express. Matters are complicated by surreal encounters with police, three filmmakers who are also on the train making a film
about drug-traffickers and erotic-fantasy sequences featuring Pisier being bound and subjected to Trintignant's will.
One of the most entertaining and involving films I've ever seen, managing to be cerebral and clever as can be
while never giving into being impenetrable for the sake of being impenetrable.
Versions
uncut
93:45s
UK: Passed 15 uncut for strong violence and sexual fetish images for:
The film was eventually granted an X certificate in 1977, having already been granted a certificate by the Bristol authority and screened successfully at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
The film was first screened privately for Trevelyan by the distributor, Connoisseur, to gauge his personal opinion. He indicated that all references to and depictions of sexual sadism would have to be removed: This kind
of sexual perversion is a dangerous one and I am sure we would not pass anything that might stimulate a pervert of that kind. When officially submitted to the BBFC the film was rejected, a ruling which this time was backed by the GLC and other
councils.
Transatlantic: Live at Morsefest 2022: The
Absolute Whirlwind is a 2024 Music Film by Scott Henry Starring Transatlantic
There are no censorship issues with this film. There are two entries in the BBFC database, it is not yet clear what the differences are.
BBFC Notes
TRANSATLANTIC - LIVE AT MORSEFEST 2022: THE ABSOLUTE WHIRLWIND is a recording of a live music show in which the prog rock band play their album 'The Whirlwind' to a festival audience.
Versions
uncut
run:
135:33s
pal:
130:08s
UK: Uncut and BBFC 12 rated with a trigger warning for discriminatory language, drug references, suicide
references:
2024 Sony Music Entertainment Blu-ray (rated 08/03/2024) titled Transatlantic\t- Live At Morsefest 2022: The Absolute Whirlwind
uncut
run:
145:02s
pal:
139:14s
UK: Uncut and BBFC U rated for no issues likely to offend or harm:
2024 Sony Music Entertainment Blu-ray (rated 08/03/2024) titled Transatlantic\t- Live At Morsefest 2022: The Absolute Whirlwind
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 USA action Sci-Fi adventure by Michael Bay.
With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel.
Exists as a Theatrical Version and a Big Screen Edition with extra material used to show off IMAX
Summary Notes
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his
mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Deceptions target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Versions
IMAX Big Screen Edition
151:16s =145:13s
UK: The IMAX Version was passed 12 uncut for:
2009 cinema release
US: The uncut Big Screen Edition is MPAA PG-13 Rated for:
Transgression is probably the most recognisable underground film to appear on the Screen Edge label to date, and has also been the most problematic , with the original release being delayed after the BBFC demanded that ten minutes of footage be removed. After much negotiation and discussion, a revised print that DiPaolo himself oversaw - lacking about 8 minutes, and with some scenes replaced with previously unseen footage - was approved.
Having seen the full version, I can understand the BBFC's attitude (though hardly to condone it). In fact, Screen Edge were probably lucky that the film wasn't rejected outright as it deals with the censor's main bone of contention - sexual violence -
in a forthright and uncompromising way.
In many ways, the film is the latest in a stream of low budget movies which look into the mind of the serial killer, eg Henry: Portrait of a serial Killer & Schramm. Transgression differs from these movies
in its stylised treatment of the killers fantasies. We see women tied up and tortured (including in the original, some severe knife/nipple interaction)... and we see it from the point of view of the killer. The images are eroticised, because that's how
the killer sees his acts. Hardly surprising then, that the censors were appalled.
Taken from an article by David Flint in Flesh & Blood issue.
Transmutations - 1985 UK action horror by George Pavlou See Underworld
v The Transporter
- 2002 France / USA action crime thriller by Louis Leterrier and Corey Yuen (as Cory Yuen).
The Transporter is a 2002 France / USA action crime thriller by Louis Leterrier and
Corey Yuen (as Cory Yuen). Starring Jason Statham, Qi Shu and Matt Schulze.
The film was cut in the US for a PG-13 rating. This cut version was passed
15 without further cuts by the BBFC for 2002 film and 2003 DVD. There is also an uncut International Version.
Summary Notes
Ex-Special Forces operator Frank Martin lives what seems to be a quiet life
along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods--human or otherwise--from one place to another. No questions asked. Carrying out mysterious and sometimes dangerous tasks in his tricked-out BMW,
Frank adheres to a strict set of rules, which he never breaks. Rule One: Never change the deal. Rule Two: No names--Frank doesn't want to know whom he's working for, or what he's transporting. Rule Three: never look in the package.
Transsiberian is a 2008 Spain / Germany / UK / Lithuania crime mystery thriller by Brad Anderson. Starring Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer and Ben Kingsley.
BBFC category cuts were required for 2009 DVD. Uncut and MPAA R rated in
the US
Summary Notes
A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
UK: Passed 15 for strong violence and threat after 9s of BBFC category cuts for:
2009 Icon video
The BBFC commented:
Company have chosen to remove shots of strong bloody violence within a torture scene, in order to achieve a 15 classification. Cuts were made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy. An uncut 18 was available.
v The Trap - 1966 UK / Canada western
romance by Sidney Hayers.
The Trap is a 1966 UK / Canada western romance by Sidney Hayers. Starring Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed and Rex Sevenoaks.
BBFC cuts were required for 1966 'A' rated cinema release. The BBFC noted
that the cinema cuts persisted to the VHS releases to 1996. The 2018 DVD seems likely to be the same cut version but this is unconfirmed.
Summary Notes
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling
wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
Versions
category cuts
101:51s '101:44s 101:29s
submitted 109:52s =105:28s
UK:
Passed 15 for strong threat, sexual threat, injury detail without further BBFC cuts for:
BBFC cuts were required for 1966 'A' rated cinema release. The BBFC noted that the cinema cuts persisted to the VHS releases to 1996. The 2018 DVD seems likely to be the same cut version but this is unconfirmed.
Trash is a 1970 USA drama by Paul Morrissey. Starring Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn and Geri Miller.
Banned by the BBFC for 1971 cinema release but after extensive cuts it was
passed X for 1972 cinema release. Further heavy cuts were demand for 1991 VHS. It was less cut for 1996 VHS and the cuts were waived for 2005. DVD. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.
Summary Review: Trash is a classic
The story of Joe [Dallesandro] and his lover-protector, Holly [Woodlawn], who is something to behold, a comic book Mother Courage who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but sounds more like Phil Silvers. Joe and Holly try to make a
go of things in their Lower East Side basement, from which Holly goes forth from time to time to cruise the Fillmore East and to scavenge garbage cans, while Joe's journeys are in search of real junk... Trash is true-blue movie-making, funny and
vivid.--Vincent Canby, The New York Times. Written and directed by Paul Morrissey, "presented" by Andy Warhol.
It is a film that could only have been made in the early '70's. It captures people, locations and
scenarios that existed then. This type of guerilla filmmaking is less about a script and more about capturing a moment. I can't imagine these actors sitting around rehearsing scripted lines.
We will never see the likes of
this type of filmmaking again. It is an era unto itself. See this film. At times it can be banal and boring and insane but so is life.
Versions
uncut
MPAA
109:33s =105:10s
UK: The full version was passed 18 uncut with previous cuts
waived for:
The BBFC commented about the waived cuts in article from sbbfc.co.uk : Not Instructional
The only consideration this time was whether or not the two famous injection scenes could be released intact.
Since James Ferman's departure from the Board in 1998 fresh advice had
been taken from experts working in the field of drugs. Having viewed other films previously cut by Ferman they concluded that the type of material shown in Trash was not in fact likely to be instructional. The fact that heroin is injected is widely known
and no genuinely useful information (eg how to dissolve the heroin, what quantities to use, etc) could be gained from the film.
2:20s
103:16s
UK:
The complete film was submitted and passed 18 after 2:20s of BBFC cuts for:
1996 First Independent VHS
The BBFC cuts info:
The BBFC waived their previous cuts to fellatio and masturbation with a beer bottle
The original cinema cuts for drug taking were retained
The original cinema distributor cuts to drug taking scenes were retained
The 1991
video cuts to drug taking were also retained
~12:36s
93:39s
UK: The extensively cut cinema version was passed 18 after a further 1:48s of BBFC cuts for:
1991 Virgin VHS
The BBFC explained the additional cuts that were specified by James Ferman himself, overruling the advice of his examiners and senior staff who argued that these additional cuts were not required. The unilateral intervention of Ferman was not well
appreciated by the rest of the board and resulted in a formal internal committee investigation. The committee concluded that Ferman's intervention was 'improper'. Ferman's cuts were:
Two scenes in this film are
problematic. the scenes at 19 minutes and 55 minutes contain so much detail that they are both instructive and also seductive in immersing the viewer in the ritualistic process of fixing heroin, mixing it in a spoon, using a tourniquet, finding a vein
and actually puncturing it and injecting it .
At 19mins: Reduce detailed use of tourniquet to establish only, removing latter part of shot when it is tightened
At 20mins: Reduce details of puncturing vein with needle by removing close
shot altogether as well as the front medium shot which follows, resuming to hear woman's line: My girlfriend's married...
At 21mins: Reduce later close shot with needle inserted and remove bad cut from
censored film, resuming on panning shot of addict's arm in close up.
At 55mins: After pan away from syringe in glass of water, cut away before woman's offscreen line Oh, can I do anything to help? so as to
remove shot of spoon containing heroin with needle approaching it.
At 56mins: Remove sight of arm clenching to find the vein, replacing it with the following two visuals while couple argue: tight panning shot from
shoulder to face and close shot of addict with woman's arm draped over his shoulder to, resuming on the tight shot of tourniquet on upper arm.
At 57mins: Reduce sustained shot of needle puncturing vein and drawing
blood as syringe is emptied, as follows:
a) shorten dialogue by cuttings (sounds only) from man's voice saying Will you look at what's happening to woman's voice saying ooh to before man says Look at that, Jane.
b) then remove (vision only) emphasis on needle puncturing vein after man's voice says every fucking one of them by replacing shot with close reverse angle of syringe in arm which pans up to tight profile of addict and then
down again to syringe, resuming on wider shot of needle pressing vein to hear woman's offscreen line in re-edited track You hate my in-laws.
c) finally, remove last half of shot altogether, cutting away after
man in re-edited dialogue says Jane, I hate the sound of your voice , resuming on tight profile of addict's face
total ~10:48s
2:48s
distributor ~8:00s
94:50s
submitted 109:41s =105:18s
UK: Passed X (18) after 2:48s of
BBFC cuts for:
1972 cinema release
The BBFC required 2:48s cuts to:
the opening fellatio scene [in fact masked fellatio] (23s)
the first heroin injection scene (43s)
Holly's masturbation with a beer bottle. (1:42s)
The distributor then cut an additional 8 minutes without BBFC permission. The additional cuts were to remove material the distributor thought was boring or offensive
UK: The same cut version was released on pre-cert video for:
Denied a London release, the next opportunity to gauge public and critical opinion would be at the London Film Festival, where the film was shown to critics first and then to a public audience on 19th November 1971 at the National Film Theatre. Questionnaires were issued to the audience by the film's distributor asking whether or not they thought the film should be classified and the critics were also encouraged to review the film. Of those members of the public who filled in the questionnaire, only seven were opposed to the classification of the film.
Although the reaction to the Festival screening had gone some way towards reassuring the Board that the film was not regarded as a glamorisation of drugs, there was still a serious concern over its potential offensiveness
and therefore its unacceptability to local authorities.
BBFC Director Stephen Murphy felt that the self selecting nature of the NFT Festival audience ruled it out as an indicator of general public opinion and therefore
decided to commission some research of his own from the University of Leicester's Centre for Mass Communication. This research, undertaken at the end of 1971, involved showing the film to a group of 86 individuals and asking for their reactions. In
addition to a number of university students, the researchers also bussed in a group of middle aged housewives to seek their views. The results, presented to the Board in February 1972, showed that the majority (58%) were in favour of passing the
film as it was and did not think that it promoted drugs (only six people expressed concerns in this regard). However, there were substantial reservations about the offensiveness of certain scenes (which perhaps not coincidentally included two of the
sequences that would later be cut when the film was finally classified).
In June 1972 the distributor again asked the BBFC to reconsider the ban. Unsurprisingly, the BBFC simply restated its view that, in its full version,
the film was not acceptable. However, Murphy conceded that it might now be possible to pass the film if its most offensive moments (as singled out in the Board's own research) were toned down.
Sensing that there was little
alternative but to go along with the Board the distributor accepted cuts as an option but stated that he could not make changes without the permission of the director. Accordingly Paul Morrissey flew to London on 15th July and cuts were discussed. An
edited version was prepared and presented to the BBFC with 1:08s cut from three scenes. However, the cuts were still considered insufficient by Murphy and the board upped the cuts to 2:48s
In a further twist, it was
brought to Murphy's attention in 1973 that the version of Trash playing in cinemas might not be the same as the version he had passed. Murphy received a highly defensive letter admitting that the film had in fact been subject to further cuts after it had
been passed by the BBFC. Distributor Jimmy Vaughan explained that During the re-editing of Trash to meet the requirements of your Board, I felt I might as well make certain cuts of my own [...] I would also like to mention that I myself removed two
scenes of blood going into the syringe and several other cuts which I felt myself were either boring or possibly distasteful .
The drugs theme was nominally
the justification for the ban, but in fact timing was also an issue. Stephen Murphy was coming in for nutter pressure at the time. A series of controversial films such as The Devils put the BBFC under nutter scrutiny from the likes of Mary Whitehouse's
Festival of Light.
According to the only surviving examiner report, the BBFC was concerned by its effect upon those young people who are not intimately involved in the hard stuff. We think that any cautionary message it might
have is outweighed by the undoubted degradation and its destructive effect upon those who are not intimately involved in the drug scene, or even upon the fringes of it . In considering whether cuts, as Stephen Murphy had initially suggested, might
provide a remedy, the examiners concluded that We do not think that cutting would be a good solution as we would still incur the rage of many ordinary cinema goers without satisfying the progressives .
UK: Banned by
the Greater London Council (GLC) for:
1971 London cinema release
Possibly the GLC were also coming under nutter pressure for passing controversial films for exhibition in London.
UK: The film was also banned by Essex and Sussex council, although it was approved for local exhibition
by Berkshire council after 2 cuts.
Trauma - 1978 Italy/West Germany/Spain mystery thriller by Alberto Negrin. See
Rings of Fear
v Trauma - 1993 Italy/USA horror mystery thriller by Dario Argento.
Trauma is a 1993 Italy/USA horror mystery thriller by Dario Argento. Starring Christopher Rydell and Asia Argento and Piper Laurie. T=
The International Version was cut by the BBFC for 18 rated VHS. Later uncut and 18
rated from DVD. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US. There also exists a longer Italian Version.
Summary Notes
An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a
young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when it rains. The orphaned young woman and her new lover launch their own
investigation and are endangered when a link is discovered with the victims and a particular operation performed years before.
Dario Argento has been making stylish, intelligent thrillers for four decades now. As is to be expected
with a director who has close to twenty films in the can, his output has been a little inconsistent over the years. Trauma is on the up side of things, but it's not one of his best efforts.
Italian Version
Italian Version
run:
114m
pal:
109m
Italy
Italy: An Italian version runs for 109m but this was trimmed of uncontentious
material by the distributor by 7m for overseas distribution. The additional material in thsi version doesn't add much to the film:
a new introduction of the Aura and David characters: David (Chris Rydell) drives Grace (Laura Johnson) at the airport and sees Aura (Asia Argento) being beaten by a man whose plane ticket she tried to steal;
a new scene features Grace
visiting David at the TV station and asking him about Aura; David invites Grace to his house and then calls Aura at home to ask her if she needs any food; Aura lies to him and tells she's already eaten;
Aura visits a market and is spotted by Dr.
Jarvis (Frederic Forrest), who tries to catch her;
After David and Aura escape from the Marigold, she tells him she's taken a little souvenir from Nurse Volkmann's purse; another new shot shows the Marigold's owner talking to the police;
David checks into a hotel after following Linda Quirk's car and asks for a room overlooking the parking lot;
David asks for information about Dr. Lloyd in a saloon;
After David calls Grace and asks her for prescription forms, she
meets and confronts him, trying to make him face the fact that he's become a junkie;
International Version
International Version
run:
106m
pal:
102m
UK: The International Version was passed 18 with
previous BBFC cuts waived for:
76 1/2 mins After long shot sight of man in red trousers clapping boards, remove both close shots of woman's forehead branded with steaming knife.
79 mins Later in same sequence remove three
close ups of woman's screaming face.
88 3/4 mins After initial close shot of bearded man's face being burnt with laser, remove all subsequent close ups of his face disintegrating.
89 mins Immediately following, reduce sight of guards on fire staggering towards door.
Thanks to Vince. The BBFC cuts list read:
Reel 4 - Remove Liz's hysteria as force sweeps through briefing room.
Reel 5 - Remove girl's screaming and being burned on forehead with knife in ceremony conducted by Jonas.
Reel 6 - Reduce sight of Socrates dying from heart attack as he hangs upside down, plus Liz's distress.
Reel 6 - Reduce sight of Jonas's face disintegrating after it is riddled with lazer beams,
in particular removing sight of side of face distended.
Reel 6 - Reduce sight of Striker's disfigured face as he holds stones, and greatly reduce sight of men being hosed with jets of flame and staggering on fire.
Also reduce sight of corpse burning on fire.
The Tree of Life is a 2011 USA fantasy drama by Terrence Malick. Starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain.
The Theatrical Version is uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated in the US, and BBFC 12
rated in the UK. There also exists an Extended Version.
Summary Notes
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the
innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father.
Versions
Extended Version
run:
188:40s
pal:
181:07s
UK: The Extended Version was passed 12
uncut for scenes of potentially dangerous behaviour:
2018 Sony/Criterion Collection [Theatrical + Extended Version] RB Blu-ray at
UK Amazon
US: The Extended Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:
2018 Sony/Criterion [Theatrical + Extended Versions] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
2018
Sony/Criterion [Theatrical + Extended Versions] R1 DVD at US Amazon
The additional footage will reveal more from the backstory of Pitt's family and will add further background to Sean Penn's character too. Malick considers the Theatrical Version still his 'Director's Cut' but he says this new Extended Cut will shed
some light on a few things. See version details from movie-censorship.com
Theatrical Version
run:
138:42s
pal:
133:09s
UK: The Theatrical Version was passed 12A uncut for potentially dangerous behaviour for:
2011 Twentieth Century Fox Home Ent. video
2011 cinema release
US: The Theatrical Version was rated PG-13 for some thematic material
v Triangle
- 2007 China/Hong Kong action film by Ringo Lam, Johnnie To...
The Trip is a 1967 USA drama by Roger Corman. With Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg and Bruce
Dern.
Banned 4 times by the BBFC in 1967, 1971, 1980 and 1988. Passed uncut for TV in 2002 and DVD in 2004. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.
Summary Review: Far out man!
Paul Groves (Peter
Fonda), a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John (Bruce Dern), a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the
guide on his first "trip". John takes Paul to a "freak-out" at his friend Max's (Dennis Hopper) pad.
The superb title music by Electric Flag sets the scene for one of the most adventurous of cinematic
offerings.
Just why it was banned is unknown and seemingly absurd, of course it portrays drug taking with little emphasis on the dangers surrounding such indulgence, but to argue depiction of such behaviour promotes others
to follow suit would suggest that all films with any violence or portrayal of war should also be banned.
Besides the beauty of the film renders all objections irrelevant. It offers stunning visuals and great actors. A real
slice of psychedelic culture and despite seeming slightly dated, has it's heart in the right place. Far out man!
Peter Fonda recalls that when attending a film exhibition convention in Canada in
1967 to promote his new LSD-fueled Roger Corman-Jack Nicholson film The Trip . Jack Valenti , the head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) who was quickly developing a reputation as morals watchdog as the content of films was
becoming edgier in the late-'60s, issued a plea to those in attendance.
And he got up there, and he said, My friends, and you are my friends, and I thought, That's so far out. And he said it twice, as if we didn't hear it the first time,
Fonda. And like a TV evangelist he says, It's time we stopped making movies about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll and more movies like Doctor Dolittle, but he's looking right at me.
Later that day, when Fonda was at an autograph booth, he was
handed a photograph from The Trip to sign. The image depicted him and co-star Bruce Dern riding a Harley in pure silhouette on the Venice Beach bike path. We were so small and fully backlit and looked like we were riding in the sand, said Fonda. And I
looked at the photograph, and I thought, That's it! It's not about 100 Hells Angels going to a Hells Angels funeral, it's two guys riding across John Ford's West. No! They're going east. Oh, that's perfect. A journey to the east. An homage to Hermann
Hesse. Fantastic. I love that story. And I began, and within four hours, I had the whole story, basically.
Versions
uncut
run:
79:02s
pal:
75:52s
UK: Passed 18 uncut for drugs theme and
moderate sex for:
2016 Signal One Entertainment RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
From the opening quote by Ronald Reagan to the intensely sadistic violence in the first few minutes of the film, you know
The Tripper will be loaded with sex, drugs, and rock n roll - as well as extreme political jabs and hippie killing.
The Tripper's strongest point of originality lies within its psychopathic murderer who dons a suit, a tie, and a
President Reagan mask as he metes out his vicious carnage.
Worth checking out for slasher/horror afficiondos.
R Rated
93:12s
The R rated Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:
The Triumph of the Ten Gladiators is a 1964 Spain / Italy / France action drama by Nick Nostro. Starring Dan Vadis, Helga Liné and Stelio Candelli.
Cut by the BBFC for a U rated 1965 cinema release. Uncut in the US.
Summary Notes
The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman
Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to kidnap the beautiful Parthian queen and spirit her to Syria to serve as a hostage.
Trolls is a 2016 USA musical animation comedy by Mike Mitchell and Walt Dohrn. Starring
Anna Kendrick, Zooey Deschanel and Justin Timberlake.
Not cut by censors but exists in UK and US versions (maybe more) presumably to allow localisation of dialogue. Both version was passed U uncut by the BBFC.
Summary Notes
From the
creators of Shrek comes the most smart, funny, irreverent animated comedy of the year, DreamWorks' Trolls. This holiday season, enter a colorful, wondrous world populated by hilariously unforgettable characters and discover the story of the overly
optimistic Trolls, with a constant song on their lips, and the comically pessimistic Bergens, who are only happy when they have trolls in their stomach. Featuring original music from Justin Timberlake, and soon-to-be classic mash-ups of songs from other
popular artists, the film stars the voice talents of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Russell Brand, James Corden, Kunal Nayyar, Ron Funches, Icona Pop, Gwen Stefani, and many more. DreamWorks' TROLLS is a fresh, broad comedy filled with music, heart
and hair-raising adventures. In November of 2016, nothing can prepare you for our new Troll world.
v Troma's War
- 1998 US action adventure by Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman.
Troma's War is a 1998 US action adventure by Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman. With Carolyn Beauchamp, Sean Bowen and Rick Washburn.
Massively cut in the US to achieve an R rated theatrical release. This
version was released on VHS in the UK without further cuts. However the BBFC cut the Director's Cut for 1992 cinema release. The Director's Cut is available on US DVD.
Summary Review: Truly demented
A
small group of typical Tromaville citizens find themselves in the path of a terrorist army controlled by the power elite. The freedom of Tromaville and the world is at stake! Troma's War creates a new kind of hero to become saviours and soldiers.
This is a truly demented military-action epic. The film goes off in a direction best described as G.I. Joe on amphetamines, with bloodier-than-Rambo battles, a pig-nosed villain, martial arts, human-ear necklaces,
facially-conjoined twins, tongue-removal-torture and an ASTONISHINGLY offensive henchman named Senor Sida, who's special power is something I probably can't discuss on a family webpage.
ANY sensibilities you may have, this
movie will offend... and it's probably the most constantly violent movie in even the Troma library, so it makes one GREAT party tape. Stick around after the credits.
Troma's War is a very underrated movie, and it got totally fucked by the MPAA . Richard Heffner , who just made a noise like a frog and was president of the MPAA, told Michael Herz
over the phone that our movie stunk. The MPAA is not supposed to do that, and they disemboweled our movie. They took out punches and jokes and things that were perfectly acceptable in movies like Die Hard . I think Heffner's words were "No fuckin
good, or something. It was very unpleasant.
Our violence is, as you know, cartoon violence. That movie followed The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke 'Em High , so we had built up some steam. But the only way we could get into movie
theaters in 1986 was with an R rating. And the film was cut down to something like a G-rated movie. I'm very bitter about it; I hope Dr. Heffner burns in hell, quite frankly. And I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but the nerve, the arrogance, the
hubris of his comments!
1:33s
102:35s
UK: The Directors Cut was passed 18 after 1:33s of BBFC cuts for:
Tropic of Cancer is a 1970 USA biography by Joseph Strick. With Rip Torn, James T Callahan and David Baur.
Banned by the BBFC for 1970 cinema release. Later the film was granted a London X certificate but hasn't been released since. Uncut on 2010 DVD is the US.
Summary Review: Fairly Explicit
Henry is an ex-pat in Paris, cadging drinks and meals and places to sleep, giving advice about women to clueless men, flirting with the wives of acquaintances, burning bridges, and making philosophical observations. In vignettes we
see his wife Mona come to Paris and leave immediately when she tastes Henry's vagabond life; he tries teaching English at a school in Dijon, takes the son of a wealthy Indian to a bordello, gets a job as a proofreader at the Herald Tribune, and helps out
a pal who's in and out of an asylum and deeply in love with a whore. Can Henry make his own discovery of ecstasy?
The movie had difficulty synthesizing Henry Miller's sense of sacred and profane in harmony. It tried now with
a Rip Torn voiceover reading from Miller's work, then with some poetic shots of the beauty of Paris. It never really seemed to succeed.
The movie could never find anything to focus on. It represents a string of vignettes,
and they don't seem to lead to any common goal. Many scenes seem to concentrate on the minor characters for much too long, and without apparent purpose. Such picaresque efforts rely on the charm of characterization for impact, and this film has some of
that, but not enough. It's structured as if somebody said let's make a film of Tropic of Cancer without actually feeling any passion for why they wanted to do that.
It was certainly interesting to see Rip Torn so
young and so good-looking, and to see Ellen Burstyn in such a flagrant display of nudity. Some of the locales are accurately evocative, and Torn is reasonably credible in the lead. It is fairly explicit in the sexual scenes, and extremely explicit in its
use of language.
After the BBFC ban, the film was given a GLC X certificate. It was shown on Sky in the early 1990s. Its most recent UK showing was in November 2009, as part of the Barbican's directorspective of
the work of Joseph Strick.
Trivia point: It's almost certainly the first US major-studio film to feature the word 'cunt' in its dialogue - earlier than the usual film so credited, Carnal Knowledge .
banned
UK:
Banned by the BBFC for:
1970 cinema release
After the BBFC banned the film the distributors tried their luck with local authorities. In March 1971 the film was viewed by Glasgow licensing magistrates who decided to ban the film. It was reported that one magistrate referred to the film as filthy, disgusting, depraved..
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 USA / UK / Germany action war comedy by Ben Stiller
Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.
Exists as an MPAA R rated Theatrical Version and a Director's Cut. This Director's Cut was initially MPAA Unrated but seems to have been MPA R rated in 2021. Both versions were 15 rated by the BBFC.
Summary Notes
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
Versions
uncut
run:
120:55s
pal:
116:05s
UK: The Unrated Director's Cut was passed 15 uncut for strong language, sex references and comic bloody violence for:
US: IN 2021 an edited version, presumably the Director's Cut, was MPA R rated for pervasive language, crude sexual references, violent content, drug material and brief nudity.
2022 KL Studio Classics [Theatrical Version + Director's Cut] R0 4K Blu-ray/(RA) Blu-ray at US
Amazon #ad
UK: The Theatrical Version was passed
15 without BBFC cuts for strong language, sex references and comic bloody violence for:
2008 Paramount R2 DVD
2008 cinema release
US: The Theatrical Version was MPA R rated for pervasive language, crude sexual references, violent content, drug material and brief nudity.
2022 KL Studio Classics [Theatrical Version + Director's Cut] R0 4K Blu-ray/(RA) Blu-ray at US
Amazon #ad
See detailed cuts from movie-censorship.com . The significantly edited
version has lost a fair amount of scenes for timing an pacing reasons but also for cuts to violence especially in the opening war sequence.
Trouble With Eve is a 1960 UK comedy by Francis Searle. Starring Hy Hazell, Robert Urquhart and Sally Smith.
BBFC category cuts were required for a 1960 U rated cinema release. The
running times suggest that these cuts persist for PG rated DVD release in 2018.
Summary Notes
Comedy set in the quiet English village of Warlock. Louise Kington has turned her quaint
cottage into the Willow Tree Tearooms. The villagers can foresee nothing but scandal however, as Louise is soon found in an innocent though compromising situation with the local inspector, Roland Axebridge. The arrival of her daughter Eve provides
further opportunities for innocuous sexual jokes and double entendres.
Versions
BBFC category cuts
best available
62:23s
submitted
66:13s =63:34s
UK: Passed PG for mild sex references, innuendo:
2018 Screenbound Pictures video
The running time suggest that the original cinema cuts persist.
See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com : The
Director's Cut of Troy completes many parts of the story line. The characters are much more interesting and many subplots are more suspense-packed, even though the Director's Cut is longer.
R Rated
156:04s
The Theatrical Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:
There is nothing on the sleeve of the DVD
to suggest this was other than standard soft porn fare. Whilst it's hardly great, the ingenuity with which the makers translate the Greek classic Odyssey deserves some praise.
Ulysse is a truck driver who gets lost in the desert after his
middle-aged co-driver is lured away by a mirage of beautiful women (The Sirens). They are rescued by a beautiful woman who lives by an oasis (Calypso) who falls in lust with Ulysse and keeps him with her for weeks. Meanwhile Ullyss' wife Pamela
(Penelope) finds her restaurant gradually filling up with bachelor truckers who think Ulysse is dead and fancy claiming his wife and his business. The plot alternates between Ulysse trying to make the difficult journey home, encountering a one-eyed
ogreish woman (the Cyclops), whilst back at the café the suitors and local whores stage drunken sex games and circle around the resourceful Pamela.
All the women, Cyclops excepted, are beautiful and sexy, whilst the men are generally hairy
and rather gnomic looking.
The dubbing is haphazard on the English version but even with that obstacle, Elizabeth Turner gives an elegant, sensuous performance as Pamela, making her a woman well worth crossing a desert
for.
cut
72:11s
The BBFC cut the X rated 1980 cinema release. Issues with titles Truck Stop and also Erotic Encounters
Truck Turner is a 1974 USA action crime thriller by Jonathan Kaplan. Starring Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto and Alan Weeks.
Cut by the BBFC for 1974 cinema release. Later uncut on 18 rated home
video. uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.
Summary Notes
Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This
makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry and she puts a hit on Truck. The man who agrees to kill Truck is named Blue. The question is whether Truck can survive with Blue and his gang on his trail.
The True Adventures
of Wolfboy is a 2018 USA drama by Martin Krejcí. Starring Chloë Sevigny, Jaeden Lieberher and Chris Messina.
The film was originally rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, teen
drinking, language, and some violence. Prior to release the film was edited and resubmitted, this time PG-13 for mature thematic content, drinking, some strong language, sexual references and violence - all involving teens.
Summary Notes
Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.
True Lies is a 1994 USA action thriller by James Cameron. Starring Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold.
Cut by the BBFC for 1994 cinema release. Further cut for VHS and DVD. Uncut since 2010. Uncut in the US
Summary Notes
Harry Tasker is a secret agent for the United States Government.
For years, he has kept his job from his wife, but is forced to reveal his identity and try to stop nuclear terrorists when he and his wife are kidnapped by the terrorists.
Cutting Edge
Gavin Salkeld separates the fact from the fiction about the BBFC cuts Cutting Edge Episode 12: True Lies
2008 Greatest Ever Action Heroes R2 DVD at UK Amazon
2001 Universal R2 DVD
When re-released on Universal DVD in 2001 the cuts somehow had been forgotten about and this release is uncut. This version can also be identified by the old style 15 certificate image. It was not taken off the market despite both the BBFC and Trading
Standards knowing about it. This version was an Australian dual region 2/4 version repackaged
The True Lies DVD with copyright notice 2003 and new style certificate image is cut. The same cuts were specified as for the VHS video but were implemented differently ending up with 20s of cuts and substitutions
Cuts compiled and compared to VHS
cuts by Gavin Salkeld
In the bathroom fight, the headbutt delivered by Schwarzenegger right after he pulls the terrorist's coat down has been disguised by cutting away to a shot of the old man in the toilet cubicle. Unlike the video version, we hear the sound effect
When Arnie and the bad guy pair fall onto the floor, the shots of Schwarzenegger clapping the bad guy's ear, just before kicking him back, have been disguised by once again cutting to a shot of the old man in the cubicle
Just after
Schwarzenegger pulls the hand dryer off the wall, he should hit the terrorist three times hard in the face. However, all the hits have been terribly disguised by cutting away to a shot of Schwarzenegger hitting the terrorist in the neck with his arm from
earlier in the fight; the terrorist flinging his coat on the floor from earlier in the fight, and a slowed-down shot of the old man wincing. This looks very bad indeed, with four frames of the terrorist's bloody face inserted into a mass of edited
footage that looks positively awful
Just after this, Schwarzenegger pulls the bad guy's head into a urinal, and his head clangs into the porcelain. He should then force his head back into the bowl with another loud clang just before flushing it,
but we fail to see both hits as we, again, cut away to a slowed-down shot of the old man that was used earlier in the fight
During the sequence where Schwarzenegger is test-driving Bill Paxton's car, he has a vision of smacking him in the face
as he makes comments about Arnie's wife (Jamie Lee Curtis). When Paxton's bloodied face falls backwards into shot, the shot should hold for about three seconds but we only get a quick glimpse lasting a few frames before cutting away to the zoom-in on
Arnie from right before the punch. This looks totally awful, as the camera cuts back to the same shot from the footage after the punch, and is noticeable by the change of background and Arnie's head jumping position and sudden change of expression. This
looks very, very amateurish and isn't doing poor James Cameron any favours at all
During the scene where Schwarzenegger is held captive by the torturer and guard, his escape from their company has been cut. When Schwarzenegger throws the trocar
at the guard, we don't see the implement make contact at all, and the camera cuts away during the whip pan. The resulting sound effect has also being entirely cut
Immediately afterwards, the neck break of the torturer has been removed in its
entirety, and we now cut from the aforementioned whip pan to a shot of the man's neck already broken. However, the snap of the neck still plays over this static shot which looks atrocious
When Arnie rams the tyre iron in the next bad guy's
chest, the second shot of him yanking the iron upwards and cracking his ribs has been removed as per the UK video. This is the only cut that doesn't look obvious in the whole DVD
Shortly after, Schwarzenegger begins to take out numerous random
terrorists. At one point, he slides down a rope to break one terrorist's neck. In the DVD, the sequence does not cut away as per the video, but the profile shot of the bad guy's head being twisted with a loud crack has been removed. The remaining footage
has been slowed down to fill up the gap left by the now-cut profile shot, and looks dreadful. Just as Arnie makes contact with the bad guy's head, we hear the sound effect of the neck snapping and cut to a profile shot of the guard falling forwards in
slow motion with the sound playing, which looks laughably appalling.
9s
134:50s
UK: Passed 15 after 9s (1s cinema cut + an addition 8s for video) of BBFC cuts for:
1995 CIC VHS
True Lies, one of the more popular action movies of the 1990s, had some trouble at the BBFC (like a lot of the more popular action movies of the 1990s!). The cinema version escaped with only a single one second cut to remove a double-ear clap. However
on video, due to the possibility of underage viewers in the home, more violence was removed.
Director James Cameron was open about his dislike for the BBFC's intervention, and took it upon himself to implement the cuts personally.
In the bathroom fight, the headbutt delivered by Schwarzenegger right after he pulls the terrorist's coat down has been removed
When the pair fall onto the floor, the shots of Schwarzenegger clapping the bad guy's ear, just before kicking
him back, have been sliced
Just after Schwarzenegger pulls the hand dryer off the wall, he should hit the terrorist three times hard in the face. However, this has been reduced to just one hit in this version
Just after this,
Schwarzenegger pulls the bad guy's head into a urinal, and his head clangs into the porcelain. He should then force his head back into the bowl with another loud clang just before flushing it, but the second hit has been removed entirely
During
the sequence where Schwarzenegger is test-driving Bill Paxton's car, he has a vision of smacking him in the face as he makes comments about Arnie's wife (Jamie Lee Curtis). When Paxton's bloodied face falls backwards into shot, the shot should hold for
about three seconds but we only get a quick glimpse lasting a few frames before cutting away to Arnie. This looks very awkward and unusual and spoils the rhythm, and joke, of the scene
During the scene where Schwarzenegger is held captive by the
torturer and guard, his escape from their company has been cut. When Schwarzenegger throws the trocar at the guard, we don't see the implement lodge itself in the guard's eye, his head snap back, or his fall off-screen
Immediately afterwards, a
few frames have been removed from the start of Schwarzenegger breaking the torturer's neck, in order to lessen the impact of the snap
When Arnie rams the tyre iron in the next bad guy's chest, the second shot of him yanking the iron upwards and
cracking his ribs has been removed
Shortly after, Schwarzenegger begins to take out numerous random terrorists. At one point, he slides down a rope to break one terrorist's neck. This sequence has been cut in half and footage rearranged to
lessen the tension and relish for violence. Also, the profile shot of the bad guy's head being twisted with a loud crack has been removed, and instead we hear the sound effect from a high shot as the guard falls forward onto a crate
True Romance is a 1993 USA/France crime thriller by Tony Scott. With
Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette and Dennis Hopper.
Cut by the MPAA for an R rating and further cut by the BBFC for 18 rated cinema and VHS releases. The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for 1997 VHS and DVD and is Unrated in the US.
Summary Review :
A great movie
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
This is a
great movie, a cool movie, a funny movie and an action movie. The path to true love never runs smooth and a battle of wits ensues between Clarence, the police and the mob leading to a classic finale in this action packed film.
There are classic scenes that unmistakeably bare Tarantino's hallmark. The opening scene where the heterosexual Clarence (Slater) states that he'd sleep with Elvis if he were still alive, or the showdown between Clarence and
dreadlocked gangster (Oldman). Or the showdown between the mob boss (Walken) and Clarence's Dad (Hopper).
Director's Cut
uncut
run:
120:51s
pal:
116:01s
UK: The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut
for strong bloody violence:
2019 Arrow video
UK: The Director's Cut/Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut for:
2012 Lions Gate Tarentino XX (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon
Drug deal in motel room: cut: several violent shots missing and dialogue about "eating pussy". Also cut Samuel Jackson telling Floyd that if he smokes enough sherm he'll be up there suckin' niggers dicks.
Clearance's murder of
Drexl: cut: some preamble and several shots including the bullet hitting Drexl in the groin.
Hit man Virgil beating up Alabama in hotel room: major cuts: After 1st blow, 47secs cut Alabama gestures to Virgil that she will tell him where the coke
is, Virgil approaches and Alabama spits at him. In response Virgil punches her in the stomach. Shots of Alabama observing her bruised body whilst lying on the floor are deleted. The scene ends on video when Alabama kills Virgil with her 1st shot. The
original has her shooting 4 more times and then beating his dead body with the gun.
Shootout at the hotel: heavily cut: numerous shots of bodies riddled with bullets along with the dialogue "Take your fucking SA card and burn it you little
cocksucker". Most notably the shot of Alabama killing the cop has been replaced by a Mafioso doing the dirty deed. Clearly it was felt that the heroine should not kill anyone and get away with it.
3s
2:03s
cut:
2:96s
run:
118:28s
pal:
113:44s
UK: The cut R Rated Version was passed 18 after a further BBFC cut of 3s for:
1995 Warner VHS
1994 Warner VHS
1993 cinema release
The original rental version carried a sticker claiming incorrectly that the video was uncut. This was replaced for sell-thru by the more accurate sticker "Original Cinema Version". (This was from an era when cinema versions were being
routinely further cut for home video).
The BBFC cut was:
to remove a very brief shot of Alabama being thrown through a glass shower curtain in the hotel room assault by Virgil.
Truth Or Dare is a 2018 USA horror thriller by Jeff Wadlow. Starring Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey and Violett Beane.
Exists as a cut Theatrical Version and a Director's Cut. It seems that the
UK cinema release was the cut version and home video releases are the uncut version.
Summary Notes
A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone -- or something -- begins to
punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare.
Versions
Director's Cut
96:22s
UK: Passed 15 uncut for strong threat, violence for:
The film was cut by 32s for an MPAA PG-13 rating. Basically all aspects that the MPAA
doesn't like too much in PG-13 films was toned down or replaced: violence, language, sex and drinking.
