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2005 Italy horror by Alessandro Capone, Pablo Dammicco, Volfango De Biasi, recently banned by the BBFC, set for US Blu-ray release on 10th June 2025
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Reality Killers is a 2005 Italy horror by Alessandro Capone, Pablo Dammicco, Volfango De Biasi
Starring Valter D'Errico and Cristina Puccinelli
Banned by the BBFC for 2024 video. The US release is uncut and MPA Unrated. Summary Notes We follow perverse serial killer 'The Sculptor' as he parades the viewer through
his extensive collection of snuff videotapes. What follows is a series of candid vignettes of horrific intensity which will test the nerves of even the most hardened of horror fans.
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- 2024 Treasured Films Limited Edition R0 Blu-ray
The BBFC commented: Reality Killers is a horror film in which a man obsessed with violent snuff videos, featuring people being abused, tortured and killed, goes on to commit his own similar crimes.
Reality Killers consists of a series of short vignettes in which people, including women and children, are killed. In some cases, acts of sadistic violence follow or involve sexual behaviour and nudity. The protagonist acts as a
narrator, relishing in the violence and endorsing the actions of the killers. Women, in particular, are portrayed as either sexual objects to be abused or as predatory killers themselves. Potentially harmful attitudes, such as the suggestion that victims
and perpetrators enjoy violence, and that women are presented primarily as sex objects or predatory killers, are not clearly challenged, nor is there a narrative counterbalance to the sustained focus on sadism. As a last resort,
the BBFC may find content unsuitable for classification, in line with the objective of preventing non-trivial harm risks to potential viewers and, through their behaviour, to society. In our Classification Guidelines we state that this may occur where a
central concept is unacceptable, such as a sustained focus on rape, other non-consensual sexually violent behaviour or sadistic violence. The guidelines also state that we consider whether the availability of the material to the age group concerned would
run contrary to broad public opinion. The BBFC considered whether the film's issues could be adequately addressed through intervention such as cuts. As Reality Killers consists almost entirely of scenes of sadistic violence and
abuse, we determined that cuts would not effectively address these issues. The film, when taken as a whole, transgresses BBFC Classification Guidelines and policy, and we believe that its classification even at 18 would run contrary to broad public
opinion. The BBFC therefore found Reality Killers to be unsuitable for classification. :
Mike Comments Reality Killers has been made available in the UK via import from the US. I got mine
today and watched it, so here are a few comments: Most importantly, this is the tamest film the BBFC have rejected in a very long time. I'm struggling to remember a single shot which, on the face of it, would breach BBFC
guidelines. Quite a lot of characters get killed but none of them in an especially gruesome way, and the special effects aren't up to much so it's hard to take seriously. The BBFC rejection statement mentions child killings, but there's only one and it's
totally non-sexualised and non-sadistic. The killings of women have less effect than they might in that they're often shot in low light or with shaky camerawork, and usually we see the aftermath rather than the act itself. One
puzzling aspect is that several of the sexually-motivated killings are committed by women against men. The BBFC line on this has long been that such scenes don't pose a meaningful harm risk because there is no research evidence that such scenes are
harmful to viewers, even if sexualised. The last time such a scene was cut was in Neighbour (2009). So we might have expected the BBFC to go easy on those scenes at least. Not so - the rejection statement says that women are presented primarily as sex
objects or predatory killers. So even when women are committing murders the BBFC still condemns the filmmakers. Very strange. The BBFC have often had problems in the past with films which fail to include enough narrative to tie
together their scenes of sexual and non-sexual violence. Films in which we just see the killer murdering people with no wider narrative, explanation of why they kill, whether they get punished for their crimes, etc. are often viewed with suspicion. (Hate
Crime and Grotesque are good examples of that). The problem that Reality Killers has is that it's a film almost without narrative. We assumed initially that it was directed by Alessandro Capone, but it turns out that although he
did shoot one section, his role was basically as chaperone to some inexperienced young directors who were being given their first chance in the industry. So several people shot different parts of this film, and the only connection between them was that
they featured snuff killers. Hence there is no single killer who commits all the murders. In many scenes it's not even clear which of the murderers we've met so far is doing the killing. The film's producer tried to introduce an element of continuity by
filming some scenes with a fat man in a mask and interspersing them with the rest of the footage to make it look like he is the killer. But it doesn't really work, and there are just several killers none of whom we get to know. I think it's the lack of
context and narrative that was the BBFC's main problem. If you go in to this film having read that you're about to see a depraved snuff killer's home video collection and assume it must be like the August Underground Trilogy or
Murder Set Pieces, you're going to be extremely disappointed.
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The latest film to be cut by the BBFC
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Marching Powder is a 2025 comedy thriller by Nick Love
Starring Stephanie Leonidas, Danny Dyer and Philippe Brenninkmeyer
BBFC cuts were required for 2025 cinema and video release.
Summary Notes Middle-aged Jack, arrested for drugs, strives in 6 weeks to repair marriage, curb bullying in-law, and guide stepbrother Kenny Boy, but his efforts fail as life spirals out of
control.
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- 2025 True Brit Entertainment video (rated 28/02/2025)
- 2025 True Brit Entertainment cinema release (rated 21/02/2025)
The BBFC commented: Company was required to make a compulsory change to one scene to remove a potentially indecent image involving a child. The original version of the scene showed a child in the same shot as some
explicit material playing on a laptop behind him. Company addressed this issue by substituting the images on the laptop screen with non explicit images. Cut made in accordance with the Protection of Children Act 1978. No footage was removed as the cuts
were made by digital substitution.
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violence and sexual content:
- 2025 True Brit cinema release (2025 rated 04/02/2025)
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1991 Hong Kong comedy mystery fantasy by Michael Mak, once cut by the BBFC, just released on UK Blu-ray and DVD
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Sex and Zen is a 1991 Hong Kong comedy mystery fantasy by Michael Mak.
Starring Amy Yip, Lawrence Ng and Kent Cheng.
 
Heavily cut by the BBFC for 18 rated 1997 VHS. Less cuts were required for 2007 DVD and in 2024 the film was uncut and BBFC 18 rated for Blu-ray. Summary Notes A man marries a beautiful wife, but decides to go out and experience as many sexual conquests as possible, with unusual and often hilarious results. Meanwhile, his wife is forced to enter a brothel and work as a prostitute.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 18 rated for strong sex, sexual violence, nudity:
- 2024 88 Films Collector's Edition (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon #ad released
on 24th February 2025
- 2024 88 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon #ad released on 24th February 2025
Promotional Material "Banned for 400 years!" screamed the original poster and you can see why as this erotic comedy is brilliantly bizarre, pretty sleazy and downright weird. Also known as The
Carnal Prayer Mat's Stash of Illicit Love and slightly based on the seventeenth century novel The Carnel Prayer Mat, we follow a desperate man who is convinced by his mentor that he needs to be "well equipped" to pleasure his wife, so he has a
horses appendage transplanted onto him! From here on in it gets really strange! A box-office hit in Hong Kong, this Category III movie is an erotic experience like no other and presented here UNCUT and remastered for the very first time.
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1979 Hong Kong/Taiwan action kung fu drama by Wei Lo just released on UK 4K Blu-ray
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Dragon Fist is a 1979 Hong Kong/Taiwan action kung fu drama by Wei Lo
Starring Jackie Chan, Nora Miao and James Tien
Passed 18 uncut by the BBFC for cinema and video. There is also a shortened version released in the US. Summary Notes Tong Huo-wan seeks redress from the man responsible
for his master's death, but becomes entangled in a feud between a local clan and gangsters.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 18 rated for strong violence:
Promotional Material Director Wei Lo and martial arts legend Jackie Chan are back together in a kung-fu saturated story of revenge and justice. Tong Huo-wan (Chan) is on the hunt for retribution for the
death of his mentor whilst also balancing out the power between locals and violent gangsters as well as dealing with the devastating news that his masters family are joining a rival school! Chan is on red-hot form here, as a seemingly indestructible man
determined to right all wrongs, even if that means going against his teachings.
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The Punch And Judy Man
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Before Sunrise Before Sunrise is a 1995 US/Austria romance by Richard Linklater
Starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Andrea Eckert
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night
together.
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- 2025 Park Circus cinema release (rated 03/01/2025)
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Starring Tianxiang Yang, Zhenhe Ling and Junquan Wu
There are no censorship issues with this
film. BBFC Notes This action-packed Mandarin-language animated historical drama documents the friendship between two men over several years during which rival armies battle for supremacy.
It contains intense battlefield scenes.
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- 2025 Spirit Entertainment cinema release (rated 02/01/2025)
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Day of the Fight Day of the Fight is a 2023 US sport drama by Jack Huston
Starring John Magaro, Steve Buscemi and Joe Pesci
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes Follows a once renowned boxer as he takes a redemptive journey through his past and present, on the day of his first fight since he left prison.
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| | UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated with a trigger warning for strong language, suicide references:
- 2025 Icon Film cinema release (rated 03/01/2025)
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throughout, mature themes including depictions of domestic abuse and suicide:
- 2025 Icon cinema release (2025 rated 13/02/2025)
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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is a 2004 US Sci-Fi romance by Michel Gondry
Starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet and Tom Wilkinson
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.
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- 2025 Park Circus cinema release (rated 03/01/2025) titled Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Starring Tovino Thomas, Trisha Krishnan and Mandira Bedi
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes A sketch artist and a cop work together to unravel the identity of an elusive killer using the descriptions of his face, etched into the memory of an eye-witness to the
brutal crime.
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- 2025 TTT Entertainment cinema release (rated 03/01/2025)
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Starring Yang Xiao, Liya Tong and Yihong Duan
There are no censorship
issues with this film. BBFC Notes In this intense and unsettling Mandarin-language crime drama, the kidnapping of a billionaire businessman's young daughter leads to the revelation of
horrifying secrets from the past.
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- 2024 CMC Pictures cinema release (rated 03/01/2025)
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Panda Plan Panda Plan is a 2024 China comedy film by Luan Zhang
Starring Jackie Chan, Xiang Wei and Ce Shi
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes International action superstar Jackie Chan is involved in a rescue operation of a beloved zoo panda named Hu Hu.
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- 2025 Trinity Filmed Entertainment cinema release (rated 03/01/2025)
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Eric Clapton - Cross Roads 2023 Eric Clapton - Cross Roads 2023 is a 2024 Music Film by Various
Starring Eric Clapton
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censorship issues with this film. BBFC Notes ERIC CLAPTON - CROSSROADS 2023 is a live recording of a festival concert featuring well-known rock stars from around the world.
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- 2025 Warner Music UK Blu-ray (rated 01/01/2025) titled Eric Clapton - Crossroads 2023
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Starring Mimi Rogers, Bryan Brown and Christopher Burgard
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes A successful but world-weary art dealer finds out that her usual masseur has sent a substitute for her regular weekly massage at her home. They find that they are both
mutually attracted, and annoy one another a great deal.
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- 2025 88 Films Blu-ray (rated 01/01/2025)
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No Way Up No Way Up is a 2024 US action adventure drama by Claudio Fäh
Starring Phyllis Logan, Colm Meaney and Will Attenborough
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for survival ensues with the
air supply running out and dangers creeping in from all sides.
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The Punch And Judy Man The Punch And Judy Man is a 1962 Drama Film by Jeremy Summers
Starring John Le Mesurier, Sylvia Syms and Hugh Lloyd
Cut by the BBFC for a U rated
cinema release in 1962. a shortened version was released on VHS and DVD. Uncut and 12 rated for 2025 Blu-ray but the BBFC notes that it required the removal of an old BBFC U rating card. BBFC Notes
THE PUNCH AND JUDY MAN is a British comedy drama, from 1963, in which a seaside Punch and Judy man is driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his dislike of the local dignitaries. Versions
| | TV BBFC decisions from 01 January 2025 to 04 January 2025 | | Cheaters Cheaters is a 2022 Canada film by Louis Godbout
Starring
Christine Beaulieu, Sébastien René and Alexandre Goyette
There are no censorship issues with this release
- Season 02 Episode 01: 12 rated for moderate sex references, infrequent strong language
- Season 02 Episode 02: 12 rated for infrequent strong language, moderate sex references
| | City Sessions - Season 1 City Sessions - Season 1 is a 2024 Documentary, Music TV Show by NA
Starring Nelly Furtado
There are no censorship
issues with this film. BBFC Notes CITY SESSIONS is a music documentary series; in this episode, singer Nelly Furtado performs a musical showcase in Toronto.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for strong language:
- Season 01 Episode 10: Nelly Furtado
| | Deathwish - Season 2 Deathwish - Season 2 is a 2023 Action, Reality, Sport TV Show by Josh Mazerolle
There are no censorship issues
with this film. BBFC Notes DEATHWISH is a US sporting reality series; in this episode, 4x4 car builders assemble to take part in an off road contest, the Deathwish Mud Buggy Adventure.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 12 rated for moderate bad language, sex references:
- Season 02 Episode 01: Introducing the Deathwish Mud Buggy Adventure
| | Descending - Season 1 Descending - Season 1 is a 2024 Adventure, Documentary TV Show by Andre Dupuis
Starring Stars Scott WilsonEllis Emmett
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with this film. BBFC Notes DESCENDING is a Canadian documentary series; in this episode, Scott Wilson embarks on his underwater adventures in New Zealand.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 12 rated for infrequent moderate bad language:
| | Love Is Blind: Germany Love Is Blind: Germany is a 2025 Reality Programming TV Show
Starring Steffi Brungs and Chris Wackert-Brungs
There are no censorship issues
with this film. BBFC Notes The experiment comes to Germany as local singles seek true love and a commitment that lasts a lifetime, all before meeting each other face-to-face.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for sex references, language:
- Season 01 Episode 01: The Pods Are Open
- Season 01 Episode 02: Three Is One Too Many
- Season 01 Episode 03: All On One Card
- Season 01 Episode 04: Trouble in Paradise
| | Pokémon the Series: Ruby & Sapphire - Season 903 Pokémon the Series: Ruby & Sapphire - Season 903 is a 2024 Animation, Children TV Show by Kunihiko Yuyama
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are no censorship issues with this film. BBFC Notes POKÉMON THE SERIES: RUBY & SAPPHIRE is a Japanese anime series; in this episode, Ash does some training with the help of Anabel.
- Season 903 Episode 01: Second Time's the Charm: PG rated for mild fantasy violence
- Season 903 Episode 02: Pokémon Tanger - Deoxys' Crisis (1): PG rated for mild threat
| | Selling The City Selling The City is a 2025 Reality Programming TV Show
There are no censorship issues with this film. BBFC Notes A team of stylishly savvy New
York real estate agents hustle to seal multimillion-dollar deals while stirring up drama in this soapy reality series.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for language:
- Season 01 Episode 01: Workin' for a Birkin
- Season 01 Episode 02: Trouble in Tribeca
- Season 01 Episode 03: Not the City of Angels...
- Season 01 Episode 04: Coming for the House
- Season 01 Episode 05: A DUMBO Dilemma
- Season 01 Episode 06: A Marriage of Convenience
- Season 01 Episode 07: New York or Nowhere
- Season 01 Episode 08: Best and Final
| | The Collector The Collector is a 2024 Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction TV Show by J.B Sugar
Starring Chris Kramer, Carly Pope and Kevin Durand
There are no censorship issues with
this film. BBFC Notes THE COLLECTOR is a Canadian supernatural drama series; in this episode, Morgan travels to the Old West to find a man on the run from the law.
UK:
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- Season 02 Episode 01: The Cowboy
| | When the Stars Gossip When the Stars Gossip is a 2025 South Korea comedy romance
Starring Lee Min-ho, Kong Hyo-jin and Oh Jung-se
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes A space station romantic comedy between space tourists and astronauts.
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NYE 2025 is a 2025 Music Film
Starring Uncle Waffles and Skepta
There are no censorship issues with this film. UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated:
- 2025 Apple VoD (rated 01/01/2025)
| | Cold Wallet Cold Wallet is a 2024 Drama, Thriller Film by Cutter Hodierne
Starring Otoja Abit, Genevieve Adams and Elizabeth Aspenlieder
There are no censorship issues with this
film. BBFC Notes COLD WALLET is a US drama thriller in which three Redditors seek revenge on the crypto baron whose scam robbed them of their earnings.
UK: Uncut
and BBFC 15 rated for strong language, violence, bloody images:
- 2025 Blue Finch Film Releasing VoD (rated 02/01/2025)
| | Kromoleo Kromoleo is a 2024 Indonesia horror by Anggy Umbara
Starring Safira Ratu Sofya, Tio Pakusadewo and Abun Sungkar
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes Zia returns from the city to attend her mother's funeral, even though her grandfather, Danang, forbids her. He wants to know the mystery of his father's disappearance and
uncover the dark history of his family.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for injury detail, violence:
- 2025 Netflix VoD (rated 01/01/2025)
| | Love Child Love Child is a 2024 Philippines drama by Jonathan Jurilla
Starring Jane Oineza, RK Bagatsing and John Tyrron Ramos
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes A young couple navigates the challenges of raising their autistic son in an increasingly unforgiving world, testing their love and resilience.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 12 rated for sex references, language:
- 2025 Netflix VoD (rated 01/01/2025)
| | Orlando: My political biography Orlando: My political biography is a 2023 France documentary by Paul B. Preciado
Starring Arthur, Emma Avena and Amir Baylly
There are no censorship issues with this release
Summary Notes Academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado's Berlin Film Festival award-winning doc tells his and others' stories of transition through unique reenactments and
visual interpretations of Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 12 rated with a trigger warning for discrimination, sexual violence references, sex references, strong language:
- 2025 Picturehouse Entertainment VoD (rated 02/01/2025)
| | Squid Game: Making Season 2 Squid Game: Making Season 2 is a 2025 Documentaries Film
Starring Lee Byung-hun, Chae Kyoung-sun and Kim Ji-yong
There are no censorship
issues with this film. BBFC Notes From set designs to character arcs, get exclusive cast and director interviews on how Season 2 of the globally most-watched series was brought to life.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for violence:
- 2025 Netflix VoD (rated 02/01/2025)
| | Umjolo: My Beginning, My End!\t Umjolo: My Beginning, My End!\t is a 2025 Romance, Comedies, Dramas Film by Zuko Nodada
Starring Themba Ndaba, Baby Cele and Nirvana Nokwe-Mseleku
There are no censorship
issues with this film. BBFC Notes Caught between her family and her free spirit, Mayi begins to question her upcoming nuptials when she meets a charming and passionate saxophonist.
UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for nudity, sex:
- 2025 Netflix VoD (rated 02/01/2025)
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