Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior) is a 1981 Australia/USA/New Zealand Sci-Fi horror mystery by Michael Laughlin. With Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher and Dan Shor.
Released uncut on pre-cert VHS and was seized by the police during the Video Nasties Panic but did not make the Video Nasties list. Then released uncut on 1986 VHS. Cut by the BBFC for DVD. Uncut in the US
Powerhouse have lined up a release of Michael Laughlin's Strange Behaviour for March. It hasn't gone through the BBFC just yet. They cut it for vertical wrist slicing in 1993, 2004 and 2008 after having passed
it intact on video in 1986. The BBFC seem to have had a rethink on that policy since the controversy when they cut Soulmate (2013) for similar reasons, and they passed a similar but much stronger scene in Lords of Chaos
in 2019. So should be uncut this time. I just mention it because it would be quite notable and worth keeping an eye on. Not many films go from being passed intact to cut to uncut again. |