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Night School (aka Terror Eyes) is a 1981 US slasher by Ken Hughes.
With Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward and Drew Snyder.  

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1981 cinema release. Released uncut on pre-cert VHS only to be banned as a video nasty. Cut by the BBFC for an 18 rated 1987 VHS. The BBFC finally passed the film uncut with an 18 rating for 2025 Blu-ray. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.

Versions

uncut run: 88:35s pal: 85:02s		UK: Uncut and BBFC 18 rated for strong bloody violence, injury detail: 2025 Warner Bros (RB) Blu-ray (rated 06/03/2025) at UK Amazon #ad titled Night School US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for: 2017 Warner R0 Blu-ray titled Night School at US Amazon 2011 Warner R1 DVD-R titled Night School via UK Amazon and at US Amazon US Amazon Video (US only) titled Night School at US Amazon
cut cut: 1:16s run: 87:03s pal: 83:34s		UK: Passed 18 after 1:16s of BBFC cuts for: 1993 Vipco VHS 1987 Guild VHS The BBFC cuts were: stabbings and girls being threatened with knives during the changing room and cafe murders
uncut run: 88:28s pal: 84:56s		UK: Released uncut on pre-cert video for: UK Guild VHS The uncut Guild VHS was released in February 1983. It was banned as a video nasty in March 1984. It was dropped from the list in June 1985
cut cut: run: 88:24s pal: 84:52s		UK: Passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for: 1981 cinema release

Promotional Material

They work by day, take a full schedule of classes all night and somehow find time for study and an occasional date. Women in the evening curriculum at Bostons distinguished Wendell College do a lot to get ahead in life. But theres someone who will go to even greater lengths. Someone who will do anything to get a head.

A killer whose m.o. is the ritualistic decapitation of victims makes terror a required course at Night School, directed by Kenneth Hughes (Casino Royale 1967) and starring Rachel Ward (The Thorn Birds; After Dark, My Sweet) in her screen debut. Leonard Mann plays the homicide lieutenant assigned to the puzzling case. He has hunches, not clues. Suspects, not evidence. And a rising body count. Finals are coming early this year at Wendell. And for those who dont make the grade, heads will roll.

The Cannibal Man is a 1972 Spanish thriller by Eloy de la Iglesia.
With Vicente Parra, Emma Cohen and Eusebio Poncela.

Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Cut by the BBFC for 18 rated VHS in 1993. Later passed 15 uncut for 2025 Blu-ray. There is also an extended integral version assembled from unique footage from several other versions, such as the German Cinema Version.

Summary Review: Pseudo-sleazy

Real slaughterhouse footage and scenes of dirty urban slums set the tone for this stark and obsessive Spanish thriller.

A slaughterhouse employee named Marcos gets attacked by a cabdriver who takes objection when he and his girlfriend are making out in the back seat, and Marcos kills him. This sets in motion a week of killing, first to cover up the cabdriver's death, and afterward to keep the bodies piling up in his bedroom a s ecret.

Weird, pseudo-sleazy film that works even though it doesn't even attempt to live up to its title - there's *no cannibalism*.

The dubbing is pretty bad and there's not much gore (most of the nastiness happens off-screen), but there's plenty of atmosphere and a sense of desperation builds in Marco's apartment.

International Version

International Version run: 98:33s pal: 94:36s		UK: The International Version is uncut and BBFC 15 rated for strong violence, bloody images, threat, sex: 2025 88 Films Blu-ray (rated 06/01/2025) titled La Semana Del Asesino US: The International Version is uncut and MPAA R rated for: 2021 Severin [International + Extended Integral Version] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon #ad 2021 Severin [International + Extended Integral Version] R0 DVD at US Amazon #ad 2012 Blue Underground Midnight Movies [Cannibal Man + Cannibals] R1 DVD at US Amazon 2012 Real 3D DVD-R at US Amazon [check compatibility details] 2007 Blue Underground R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
cut cut: 3s run: 98:02s pal: 94:07s		UK: The International Version was passed 18 after 3s of BBFC cuts for: 1993 Redemption VHS See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The BBFC cuts were: 3s removed from a shot where Marcos cuts Carmen's throat
uncut run: 98:09s pal: 94:13s		UK: The International Version was released uncut on pre-cert video for: 1981 Intervision VHS It was released in November 1981 and banned as a video nasty in July 1983. It stayed on the list throughout the panic and became one of the collectable DPP39s. The cover was a flimsy slip case that didn't last long so adding to the rarity of a mint condition cover.

Cannibal Holocaust is a 1979 Italian adventure by Ruggero Deodato.
With Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi and Perry Pirkanen.

Famously banned in the UK as a Video Nasty in 1983. Unbanned for the heavily cut 2001 DVD. The cuts were reduced to animal violence only for 2011 DVD. Deodato produced a new edit in 2011 to more tidily remove the animal violence. Uncut in the US and Italy

The BBFC have reconfirmed its animal cruelty cuts to Cannibal Holocaust commenting:

This work required a compulsory cut to a scene of animal cruelty.

The film had been submitted by 88 Films.

Presumably these are the same cuts as the previous submission in 2011 when the BBFC cut a 15s scene of a coatimundi being killed.

Note that all the old cuts for violence were waived for that 2011 submission.