BBFC Cuts M: Ma

See Banned International: Maalik

MacGruber

A US comedy with the almost inevitable Theatrical and Unrated versions

Unrated

• 2010 Universal (Theatrical + Unrated) R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2010 Universal (Theatrical + Unrated) R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2010 Universal (Theatrical + Unrated) R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The Extra 5:49s of material consists of dialogue and jokes. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

R Rated

• 2010 Universal (Theatrical + Unrated) R0 Blu-ray
• 2010 Universal R2 DVD

MacGyver: Thief of Budapest

Cut when submitted in 2005 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts required to remove a verbal reference to a potentially dangerous and imitable bomb-making technique 

The Machine

Machismo: 40 Graves For 40 Guns

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1975 cinema release.

Summary Notes

A jailed Mexican bandit is offered a pardon if he will cross the border into Mexico and bring back a gang of murderous gold thieves.

• 1975 cinema release

Mad Bull 34: Part I: Scandal

• Maddo buru sâti-fô

The BBFC cut 43s from the 1996 Manga VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• Cut scene of the cop, Mad Bull, rescuing naked girl being assaulted by 2 thugs. Mad Bull shoots one of the thugs in the neck blowing his head clean off
• Cut shot of a robbery victim peeing her pants.
• Cut shot of masked thug getting his head blown off with several gun shots
• Cuts to a gangster ripping of a girls dress and subsequent blood spattering on her naked breasts
• Cuts to a showering woman being assaulted with scalding water
• Cuts to the nasty demise of Curtis who first gets glass in his eyes after a headbut on his glasses. Then his head gets ripped off by a passing train.
• Cuts to the demise of Curtis's accomplice ho is another to lose his head to bloody gun shots

Mad Bull 34: Part II: Manhattan Connection

• Maddo buru sâti-fô

The BBFC cut 1:19s from the 1996 Manga VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• Cuts to policewoman being assaulted by 4 4 thugs who rip off her top and then rape her. The scene is mostly deleted but the rape is established with a long shot version
• Cuts to a bloody beating of the cop Diazaburo who tries to rescue the raped woman

Mad Doctor of Blood Island

• Blood Doctor
• Grave Desires
• Tomb of the Living Dead

The 2003 DVD submission was cut by the BBFC by 42s. Cut required to sight of animal cruelty (goats and pigs tied up and stabbed)

Mad Dog Morgan

• Mad Dog

Variations but no reported censorship.

R Rated

• 2011 4Digital Fully Restored R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1976 cinema release

US: The Director's Cut is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2009 Troma 2 Disc Limited Edition R0 DVD at US Amazon

• 2003 Waterfall R2 DVD
• 1990 Troma VHS

Maybe just a double PAL speed up

Mad Foxes

• Los violadores
• The Mad Foxes
• The Bikers and the Disco Kid

Extensively cut by the BBFC for 1982 cinema release. This cut version was later released on pre-cert VHS, but the BBFC approval sis not protect the film from being seized by the police during the video nasty panic. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.

Summary Review: So bad, it's funny

On their way to a disco, Hal and his 'girlfriend' are accosted by a band of Hell's Angels. As they drive away, Hal accidentally runs over one, killing him. The Angels pursue the couple and catch up with them as they are leaving the disco. They savagely beat up Hal and brutally rape his girlfriend. Hal swears revenge.

This is one of the most disturbing (and not to mention unintentionally funny) films I've ever seen. The dubbing is atrocious, the violence over-the-top, and the full frontal nudity extreme, there is a LOT of male frontal nudity in this film; so much so that I suspect that either the writer or director was...well, INTO male full frontal nudity.

It's so bad, it's funny.

• 2003 Jet/MVD R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

cut

• 1982 VCL VHS

The video was seized subject to an Obscene Publications Act Section 3 Seizure Order. This is a legal gambit whereby victims admitted that the videos were 'obscene', and therefore subject to seizure, in return for that being the end of the matter and so avoiding an obscenity trial with the possibility of jail time.

• 1982 cinema release

From IMDb:

• Suffered extensive edits to scenes of rape, castration, graphic stabbings and footage of nunchakus.

Mad Max

Cut and 18 rated by the BBFC for 1979 cinema release and early VHS. Later releases are uncut. The film was downrated to 15 for 2015 cinema release. There are alternative soundtracks, the original Australian, and a dubbed American version.

• 2015 cinema release

UK: Passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2015 Warner Home Video R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2013 Warner Mad Max Trilogy Petrol Can Edition R0 Blu-ray   at UK Amazon
• 2013 Warner Mad Max Trilogy R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 Warner Online
• 2007 Warner Mad Max Trilogy R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2006 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1995 Warner VHS
• 1992 Warner VHS

UK: Pre-cert video with a notional X rating on the cover was uncut for:

• 1982 Warner VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2015 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2013 MGM Mad Max Trilogy Limited Edition RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2010 MGM RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2002 MGM R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1986 Warner VHS

• 1979 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• Trimmed in the scene where the bikers hack up the young couples car. In these versions we see them start to hack it up but it then cuts to a close-up of a crow. In the full version the hacking takes much longer with a depiction of the panic of the couple, who are then dragged out of the car, then it cuts to the crow.

The official BBFC cuts list read:

• Reel 2. Reduce to absolute minimum smashing up of car and terrorising of young couple who are trapped in it. (Delete all violence which occurs after the gang break window, resuming on the bird hovering overhead).

Mad Max 2

• Mad Max 2: The Rod Warrior
• The Road Warrior

Cut for an MPAA R Rating. Uncut for European cinema release and VHS. Blu-ray releases are the uncut in terms of violence but a rousing speech has been shortened. The film was downrated to 15 for 2015 cinema release.

• 1994 Warner VHS
• 1986 Warner VHS
• 1982 cinema release

best
available

Unrated

• 2015 cinema release

UK: Presumably the US release is being repeated in the UK so this should be the shortened Unrated Version for:

• 2013 Warner Mad Max Trilogy Petrol Can Edition R0 Blu-ray   at UK Amazon
• 2013 Warner Mad Max Trilogy R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: Shortened and MPAA Unrated (although packaged as R Rated) for:

• 2013 Warner Mad Max Trilogy Limited Edition RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2007 Warner R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2007 Warner R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon

This version has also been shortened by 11s of cuts in a rousing speech by Papagallo . See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com .

There are also reports of UK TV showing being based on the Unrated version albeit suffering cuts to Toadie's fingers being sliced off by a boomerang.

cut

shortened
11s

• 2006 Warner R2 DVD

The US cuts to the  R Rated Theatrical Version are:

• Very early on in the film there is a missing shot of Vernon Wells graphically pulling an arrow out of his arm.
• The other cut occurs after Wells' "boyfriend" has been partially lobotomised by the boomerang. A close-up shot of Wells trying to dislodge the boomerang from the skull has been removed.

This version has also been shortened by 11s of cuts in a rousing speech by Papagallo See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com .

Always uncut in the UK and US

Mad Mission

• Zuijia Paidang
• Aces Go Places
• Mad Mission: Diamondfinger

The International Version was passed PG without BBFC cuts for the 1986 Missing in Action VHS.

There is also a Hong Kong Version running 10 minutes longer in terms of plot

Mad Monkey Kung Fu

Madagascar

The 2005 cinema release, 2005 Universal DVD and 2009 Paramount Blu-ray were cut

From sBBFC: The distributors sent this film to the BBFC with a request that they receive a U. The problem for the BBFC was that the film included the word motherf***** . Although the word was not used in full, it was clear to the audience what was meant. The BBFC felt that the word was inappropriate in a film aimed at the very youngest viewers and offered a higher category with no cuts. But the distributor wanted a U and so chose to make a cut to remove the offending word to secure this category.

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

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

Upgraded to 12 uncut in 2014. The BBFC previously passed the 1987 cinema release and subsequent VHS at PG uncut.

Madhouse

• There Was a Little Girl
• And When She Was Bad
• Flesh and the Beast
• Scared to Death

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

Passed 18 uncut for:

• 20 04 Film 2000 R0 DVD via UK Amazon but with reported poor sound quality

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2008 Dark Sky R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Summary Review: One of the Better Nasties

"Madhouse" is one of the better films that was previously on the "banned" list of so-called video nasties in the UK. It didn't really deserve it's place on the list, but it's easy to spot the scene that probably put it there. This slasher stands above it's rivals due to some really good cinematography.

The story tells of a young teacher named Julia (Trish Everly) who has lived under the shadow of her abusive sister Mary since childhood. News reaches her that Mary is in hospital suffering from a disfiguring disease and wants to see her. Julia's visit to the hospital is one among several scenes that stayed in my mind. Julia's life is turned upside down by this encounter with her cruel sibling, and in the days following the visit, people around her start dying.

Although some of the time the action can get rather slow, the film features two pretty over-the top gore scenes that seem almost out of place in a movie that exercises restraint in most aspects. The most infamous sequence is the one that shows just how you can put down a dangerous attacking rottweiler with a handy power drill. The other is an axe attack that is so drawn out it becomes almost surreal.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The cut version lost 75s:

• 18s from first dog attack losing a man's hand being bitten off followed by his throat being bitten
• 14s from subsequent dog attack with Helen being severely wounded
• 32s from the scene with the use of a power drill to fend off an attacking dog
• 11s from the climatic axe attack. Julia's repeated axe attack on her father loses several blows.

Summary Notes

Kaali (Karthi) is the local Chennai guy, the darling of his mom and the most literate person in his gang, he has a happy go lucky life with his best friend Kalairasanand (Kalaiyarasan). Things go wrong when there arises an issue of a WALL that stands tall amidst a chilling superstitious rumor and finally two groups fight around it.

• 2014 cinema release

• Company chose to make cuts to moments of strong violence and bloody injury detail in order to obtain a 12A classification. An uncut 15 classification was available.

The BBFC further commented in the Annual Report covering 2014:

Madras, a Tamil political romantic drama, contained some moments of strong violence, including a bloody machete attack and several repeated, personalised fighting blows.

Madras Cafe

Passed by the BBFC but banned by UK cinema chains. Similarly banned by cinemas in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

banned

banned

• 2013 cinema release

The BBFC passed the film 15 uncut for strong violence and injury detail. The BBFC InSight alluded to the emotional impact of the film:

This is a sombre drama and the violence is depicted realistically, with a strong emotional impact. In the opening scene people are forced off a bus and made to kneel in a field as they are massacred. Blood spurts are seen as several of them are shot in the back, and in a more distant image a little girl is shot too as she tries to run away. Several executions are shown, including a man tied to a post, his body juddering under fire with lots of blood as he is killed.

The movie is proving controversial in India as it is based on the Sri Lankan civil war and speculates about the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. Tamil activist groups are calling for the film to be banned. The film was passed by the Indian censors and escaped court bans but was banned by cinema exhibitors in the state of Tamil nadu.

Now the film has been banned by British cinemas in August 2013. UK cinema chains, Cineworld, Odeon and Vue, have banned the film saying in a statement:

Our policy is to show a wide range of films for different audiences ...HOWEVER... following customer feedback and working with the film distributors, we have decided to not show Madras Cafe. We apologise for any inconvenience.

The film was originally given an R rating for language and some sexuality. It was presumably then cut or edited as it was resubmitted and given an R rating for language and brief sexuality.

Magic

R Rated

The complete version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2007 Anchor Bay R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1986 Video Gems VHS

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2010 Dark Sky RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2006 Dark Sky R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1991 Castle Vision VHS
• 1990 Castle Pictures VHS

Maybe this abridged version is a cut TV version. See article from secure.wikimedia.org

R Rated

• 1978 cinema release

Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart

The BBFC cut the 1970 cinema release for an X certificate.

The US R Rated release was also cut to avoid an X rating.

Magic Kid 2

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 2004 with the following statement: Cuts to remove sight of double ear clap and headbutt for a 12 classification. An uncut 15 was available.

See Banned International: Magic Mike XXL

The Magnificent

• Long xing dao shou jin zhong jun
• Lung ying dou sau kam chung kwan

The cinema cuts were waived when the DVD was submitted in 2004

The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Magnificent Bodyguards

• Fei du juan yun shan
• Fei do guen wan saan

UK: Passed 15 uncut for strong violence for:

• 2007 Contender/Hong Kong Legends Ultra-bit Edition R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut for:

• US Ultra-bit Edition R1 DVD at US Amazon

pre-cut
7s

• 2002 Eastern heroes R2 DVD

See cuts details from dvdcompare.net :

• 7 seconds are missing from the scene in which Telltale dies.

• 1986 Squarecape VHS

The Magnificent Seven Ride!

• The Magnificent 7 Ride!

The film was passed PG uncut for: (confirmation required)

• 2001 MGM R2 DVD
• 1995 Warner VHS

The submitted running time was noted as 99:49s = 95:49s

See Circus World

Magnum Force

Cut by the BBFC for 1973 cinema release but the cuts were waived for home video

Summary Notes

San Francisco Police Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. Meanwhile, those of the city's criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callahan begins to investigate the murders despite the orders of his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations...

• 2013 Warner [Clint Eastwood 20 Film Collection] R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 Warner R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2008 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1999 Warner R2 DVD
• 1986 Warner VHS

• 2013 Warner Home Video R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 2nd December 2013

• 2013 Warner [Clint Eastwood 20 Film Collection] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2008 Warner R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2008 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1973 cinema release

Thanks to Vincenzo. The BBFC cuts were:

• Reel 1 - Sight of Ricca and attorney twitching in rear seat of car after they have been shot was reduced to a flash shot.
• Reel 3 - The struggle in a taxi when pimp kills prostitute was reduced. Sight of pimp's hand hanging over car door and twitching after he has been shot was reduced to a flash shot.
• Reel 7 - The killing of a policeman by Harry where he punches and then chops him in the throat was reduced. Blows to the throat were reduced.

Summary Notes

Young boy's dream to become Shahid Afridi.

• 2013 cinema release

• Cuts were required to remove detail of animal cruelty (in this instance shots of two quails fighting).

Maîtresse

Banned by the BBFC and GLC for a 1976 cinema release but was shown on the private cinema club circuit in 1977. Unbanned and passed X after cuts for 1981 cinema release. Passed 18 uncut for DVD since 2003.

See case history from bbfc.co.uk

Summary Review: Bound to Intrigue

Gérard Depardieu as Olivier enters an apartment in order to rob the place, but unknowingly breaks into a haven for sadomasochistic fantasies. During the burglary he encounters Ariane (Bulle Ogier) who he had met earlier, but this time she is a dominatrix who controls situations as she dives into other people's madness.

Olivier is spellbound by Ariane as he falls in love with her, and it leads him into a scorching affair where he is bound to be burnt as he is mystified by Ariane's dark trade.

Maitresse is an avant-garde film as it explores in-depth the theme of sadomasochistic fantasies and its sub-culture as set in a love story.

• 2012 BFI RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon
• 2003 BFI R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The BBFC explained:

On this occasion, it was decided that the 1981 cuts to sight of genital detail were no longer required under the terms of BBFC Guidelines or policy, and that the scenes of sadomasochism were permissible, in this specific context, at 18 . It was recognised that the film was a serious exploration of a difficult subject rather than a prurient or exploitative work. It was also agreed that the scenes in question were unlikely to lead to a risk of harm to adult audiences in the 21st century, given the relative restraint in their presentation, certainly by contemporary standards.

• 1981 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb :

• Heavy edits made to remove the sights of genitals as a woman is being bound and whipped
• Edits to shots of abrasions after a man is whipped and subsequently probed with a needle between his buttocks
• Edits to a scene where a male client has his genitals nailed to a plank of wood and his nipples pierced. This was particularly graphic. The scene showed a few pins going through the skin around the penis rather than through it. No blood either.

The BBFC explained:  The BBFC have changed:

Encouraged by a change in the law enabling us to consider the film as a whole instead of throwing our pinnies over our heads over the decency of its component parts, enabled by the same legislation to consider the audience the film is likely to reach, encouraged by the gradual spread of cinemas catering to an intelligent audience [...] we have changed more than we, or certainly I, would have realised without this confrontation with ourselves of four years ago . In the end, the Board agreed to classify the film 'X' subject to cuts in three scenes

• 1977 local cinema release

The cuts were:

• remove the scene where a client is nailed by his genitalia to a piece of wood and nails are stuck through his nipples;
• remove the scene depicting the humane slaughter of a horse
• remove the parts of a scene where a girl is being punished at the country house where Olivier draws a belt across her vagina;
• remove the scene where Olivier urinates in the face of a client .

• 1977 cinema club release

• 1976 cinema release.

The BBFC explained:  James Ferman explained the ban:

After a second viewing with Lord Harlech and other Examiners, we now agree that this is really a picture which cannot be granted a national certificate at this time. We all feel it is a film of some merit which deserves a showing in Britain, but its subject matter and very frank treatment would, we believe, make it unacceptable to the majority of licensing authorities in the country without very heavy cuts, and these might change the nature of the film.

UK: Banned by the Greater London Council for:

• 1976 London cinema release

Major Dundee

Shortened by the studio on original release. The restored version was released in 2005.

• 2008 Sony R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2005 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD

US: The Restored Version/Extended Version is MPAA PG-13 rated for:

• 2005 Sony RA [Theatrical + Extended] Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2005 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon

From IMDb. The 2005 restored version contains 12 additional minutes of footage originally edited by the studio without the director's consent. Three major scenes (and some minor ones) were added to the restored version, along with a new score by Christopher Caliendo:

• Captain Tyreen and his men are captured by Dundee in a mountain stream as they attempt to escape the prison;
• Dundee spends more time recovering in Durango, falling in love with Melinche (Aurora Clavell), a Mexican girl who nurses his wounds;
• A scene where Dundee, Tyreen, a several of their officers find a marker left for them by Charriba (Michael Pate) and discuss strategy on how to fight him. At the end of the scene, we learn the fate of the Indian scout Riago (Jose Carlos Ruiz), who has been crucified in a tree by Charriba's men. In the original version, his character simply disappears without a trace.

shortened

• 1986 RCA/Columbia VHS
• 1965 cinema release

The Majorettes

• One by One

Germany: Uncut for Best Entertainment/Screen Power DVD

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . All of the gory killings have been substituted with less gory versions

cut

• 1987 Braveworld VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The BBFC cuts were:

• Reductions in time voyeur watches girls changing via mirrors
• Removed killer slitting woman's throat in swimming pool
• Judy removing her bra when changing. Then removed the killer cutting her arm with a knife. Also removed, Judy escaping for a short while before being pursued and then killed with another throat slashing. Finally the killer cleaning Judy's bloody body in the shower has been deleted.

Making Contact

• Joey

The US Theatrical Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for the 1986 cinema release and 1987 MGM DVD.

This version was shortened by 18:12s from the Original German Version.

The changes are uncontentious though as described by pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

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

Makyu Senjo Vol 1

Makyu Senjo Vol 2

Malediction

Malena

• Malèna

Uncut Italian Version but butchered by Hollywood for International Version released in US and UK

• IT R2 DVD via UK Amazon

17:45s

R Rated

• 2002 Buena Vista R2 DVD
• 2001 cinema release

The International Version was butchered by the Philistines and prudes of Miramax. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

From IMDb:

Miramax cut the film down to a running time of around 92 minutes, in order to obtain a R rating. Especially to remove nudity.

Among the scenes cut from the American version of the film include several of Renato's sexual fantasies, including:

• a scene where he undresses Malena, and
• another in which Malena strips naked in front of him in a fantasy and
• then in reality a lookalike prostitute climbs sensuously on top of him in bed.

Mallrats

US: The Extended Version is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2005 Universal [10th Anniversary Edition Theatrical + Extended] R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

There is 26:52s of additional uncontentious material for the extended version which is worth having. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• 2000 Universal R1 DVD
• 2000 Universal VHS

Malone

The BBFC state that these cuts are the same for both cinema and video version yet the cinema cuts ar listed at 3s

Man Behind the Sun

• Men Behind the Sun
• Squadron 731
• Hei tai yang 731

The cut scene was an unsimulated scene of a cat being thrown into a room full of rats, the rats killing the cat.

The video was given a limited release to UK ethenic Chinese video stores only (which probably goes some way to explain why the BBFC treated it so leniently, its' re-enactments of WWII atrocities make Saving Private Ryan look like an episode of The A Team).

The film has been shown uncut at London's Imperial War Museum, as part of an exhibition of war atrocities. It is also available uncut on video in Australia (World Supply and Video), with an 'M' certificate (their '15'). It has also been released in Hong Kong on video and laserdisc.

A Man Called Blade

• Mannaja

US: A long version is uncut and MPAA unrated for:

• 2004 Blue Underground R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2002 Michael Lee/Vipco R2 DVD
• 1987 Xtasy VHS

The BBFC commented:

• Three compulsory cuts required to remove sight of horses being forced to fall in a manner which is both illegal and potentially harmful.

The Man Called Noon

• A Man Called Noon
• Un hombre llamado Noon

BBFC category cuts were required for an AA rated cinema release. Uncut and 15 rated on 2010 DVD. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Review: Well Above Average

Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered.

It is far from perfect but is certainly lifted well above the average Spaghetti nonsense by a director with flair and imagination. The film boasts a good clear picture quality reflecting well on the restoration work.

• 2010 Odeon Entertainment video

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2016 Kino Lorber RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2016 Kino Lorber R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2004 Vintage Double Feature R0 DVD at US Amazon

• 1973 cinema release titled A Man Called Noon

A Man For Emmanuelle

• Io, Emmanuelle

UK: Passed 15 uncut for strong sex, sexualised nudity and soft drug use for:

• 2012 Media Sales R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1970 cinema release

See Deep River Savages

The Man from Hong Kong

• Dragon Flies

The film was cut by the BBFC for 1975 cinema release and has not been released since

Summary Notes

Hong Kong Inspector Fang Sing Leng travels to Australia to extradite a drug dealer. When the hood is assassinated on his way to court, everyone suspects Jack Wilton, a crime lord who the local police haven't been able to pick up.

• 2008 Retrofilm R2 DVD via UK Amazon

• 1975 cinema release

• to edit assorted fatal blows including groin kicks.

Banned in Pakistan. See Banned Films International

Man of the East

• E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico

BBFC category cuts were required for an 'A' rated 1973 cinema release. A shortened version was released on 1986 VHS. The full length version was passed PG uncut for DVD.

Summary Notes

By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights, likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers, footpads all of them, shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work, until Joe has to defend himself against gunman Morton, who's jealous of Joe's love to rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter.

• 2015 101 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2008 Optimum R2 DVD

• 1986 Warner Home VHS

• 1973 cinema release

Man of Violence

• Moon
• The Sex Racketeers

Cut by the BBFC for a 1971 AA rated cinema release. Cuts waived for 15 rated 2009 DVD/Blu-ray

Summary Notes

A mercenary joins forces with 2 crooked cops in an attempt to steal a fortune in gold bullion from a corrupt Arab country.

• 2011 BFI Flipside RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 BFI Flipside R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2015 Redemption [Pete Walker Collection II] (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 21st April 2015

• 1971 cinema release

Man on Fire

• Absinthe
• L'homme de feu
• Un uomo sotto tiro

The BBFC cut the 18 rated 1989 Locus video and 1994 MIA video by 31s. Presumably similar cuts to the cinema version

• This was the era when various weapons were being cut and in this case it was a butterfly knife that offended the censors

The Man Who Could Cheat Death

Cut by the BBFC for its original cinema release and the cuts have persisted into all subsequent releases.

Summary review: Melodrama

A remake of The Man in Half Moon Street.

A mad doctor plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims.

Jimmy Sangster's screenplay based on the Barre Lyndon play tends to be heavy on the melodrama and short on the thrills.

Some stylish direction from Fisher and Christopher Lee in a supporting role and good acting on hand from Hazel Court and others.

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available

Unrated

submitted
82:59s

• 2015 Eureka Entertainment Ltd (RB) Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

UK: Passed X (16) after BBFC cuts for:

• 2015 Eureka Entertainment Ltd (RB) Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon
• 1959 cinema release

Italy: The cut UK cinema version was released for:

• It cecchi gori R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The cut UK cinema version was MPAA Unrated for:

• 2017 Kl Studio Classics (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2017 Kl Studio Classics (R1) DVD at US Amazon
• 2011 Legend Double Bill (+The Skull) R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2008 Legend R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The cuts were:

• a famous shot of Hazel Court's breast as she briefly unfurls a wrap during a modelling session. Apparently shot for a continental version which may have been located in France but it hasn't made it to any DVD releases yet. It is also reported that Hammer Films retains a copy with the nude scene.
• cuts to the climatic disintegration of Anton Diffring

The Man Who Finally Died

Cut by the BBFC for the 1963 UK cinema release. It is unknown if cuts persisted into home video but it seems likely.

• 2013 Network R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 1st July 2013

• 1963 ciinema release

Available as the Theatrical Version and the Director's Cut. Both are rated 18 without cuts for UK home video.

Summary Notes

On the hunt for a fabled treasure of gold, a band of warriors, assassins, and a rogue British soldier descend upon a village in feudal China, where a humble blacksmith looks to defend himself and his fellow villagers.

Unrated

• 2013 Universal [Theatrical + Director's Cut] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: The Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2013 Universal [Theatrical + Director's Cut] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2013 Universal [Theatrical + Director's Cut] R1 DVD at US Amazo n

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The additional 12:14s of extra material for the Director's Cut includes some extra nudity and violence. It is worth having but doesn't make a lot of difference to the film

• 2013 Universal [Theatrical + Director's Cut] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2013 Universal [Theatrical] R1 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Theatrical Version is MPAA R rated

The  Man with the Iron Fists 2

Available as the R rated Theatrical Version and Unrated/Uncut Version

Promotional Material

Thaddeus (RZA) is back in this explosive action adventure inspired by Kung Fu classics. A reluctant villager joins forces with a mysterious outsider to fight off powerful evil forces, both earthly and otherworldly, in a 19th Century Chinese mining town.

When a stranger, Thaddeus, is found badly wounded near the village, miner Li Kung (Dustin Nguyen) and his wife Ah Ni (Eugenia Kang) offer him refuge. With Thaddeus at his side, the mild-mannered Kung transforms into a deadly warrior in this martial arts epic

Unrated

• 2015 Universal Iron Fists Collection [I + II uncut version] R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2015 Universal RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2015 Universal R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Universal [Unrated + R rated Versions] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 14th April 2015
• 2015 Universal [Unrated + R rated Versions] R1 DVD at US Amazon released on 14th April 2015

• 2015 Universal [Unrated + R rated Versions] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 14th April 2015
• 2015 Universal [Unrated + R rated Versions] R1 DVD at US Amazon released on 14th April 2015

The Man with One Red Shoe

Cuts waived for a 15 certificate when submitted in 2004

The Man with the Deadly Lens

• Wrong is Right

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004 as Wrong is Right

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The Man with the Iron Fists

Exists as a Theatrical Version and a Director's Cut with more violence

Unrated

• 2013 Universal [Theatrical + Director's Cut] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon 2013

US: The Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2013 Universal [Theatrical + Director's Cut] R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2013 Universal [Theatrical + Director's Cut] R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

See article from movie-censorship.com . The Dirctor's Cut features 12 minutes extra material including more nudity and violence. This does not make much difference to the narrative.

~12;00s

• 2013 Universal [Theatrical only] R2 DVD
• 2012 cinema release

• The Man with the Iron Fists: Sting of the Scorpion

Made in 2 versions, an R rated Theatrical Version and an Unrated Version.

The Man with the Severed Head

• Crimson
• Crimson, the Color of Blood
• Las ratas no duermen de noche

Cut by the BBFC for 18 rated a985 VHS. Later uncut for 2011 DVD. There also exists a cut US dubbed version.

Promotional: Material: Fleapits of Europe

Spain's greatest horror icon Paul Naschy is transformed into a raging psychopath in this sleazy ride to murder and depravity from a time when exploitation cinema ruled the fleapits of Europe.

When a jewellery heist goes awry, Jack Surnett (Naschy) finds himself with a bullet in his head and few options. Luckily, his gang have the novel idea to transplant his brain into the corpse of their arch nemesis, a gangster called The Sadist . But as he settles into his new body, Jack feels sinister urges welling up inside, urges that will lead him down a path to madness, torture and crimson murder!

Unrated

• 2011 ArrowDrome R2 DVD titled The Man with the Severed Head at UK Amazon
• 2004 Freemantlemedia/Arrow R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA NR rated for:

• 2016 Redemption [European + US versions] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2016 Redemption [European + US versions] R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2016 Redemption [European + US versions] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2016 Redemption [European + US versions] R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1985 Careyvision VHS titled Crimson

Mancation

• American hangover

Restricted to VOD for UK release. The US Unrated version is the standard release, there is a cut R rated version for censorial retailers

• 2012 Lions Gate R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Manchester By the Sea

• Manchester by the Sea
• Manchester frente al mar

Uncut and 15 rated in the UK. Uncut and R rated in the US. But cut for an M rating in Australia.

Summary Notes

An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.

Australia

• 2016 cinema release

The BBFC further commented about the strong language in its insight advice:

There is a single use of very strong language ('cunt'), employed in a sexual sense. There is also frequent strong language ('fuck' and 'motherfucker'), some of it used in an aggressive manner.

US: Rated R for language throughout and some sexual content.

Australia: Originally passed MA 15+ (like a 15A in UK terms) for strong coarse language. However the distributors preferred an M (like a PG-15) rating and so the film was cut

Presumably the distributors removed the use of the word 'cunt'.

The Manchurian Candidate

• Botschafter der Angst

The BBFC required category cuts for an A rated 1962 cinema release. A cut West German version has been adopted for worldwide home video releases. This was passed 15 by the BBFC from 1988 to 2000 and 12 from 2010.

Summary Notes

A former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former prisoner may know how to save him.

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• 2015 Arrow RB Blu-ray/R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

UK: The West German Version was passed 12A uncut for moderate violence for:

• 2010 cinema release

• 2000 Twentieth Century Fox Home Ent. video
• 1993 Warner Home VHS
• 1988 cinema release

US: The West German Version is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2016 Criterion Collection (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon

The West German version was edited by about 4 minutes to remove every scene with the ladies in the greenhouse. This seems to have become the standard version for worldwide releases.

• 1962 cinema release

Mandingo

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1975 cinema release and agin for an 18 rated 1987 VHS. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Review: Amazing

Mandingo is truly an amazing movie. One would think that this is as close you can get to actually seeing the slave-owning south on film.

Mandingo is probably lumped into the "cult/camp classic" category because this is a film no one would dare make today, unless the slaves got a major comeuppance at the end. They do not here.

This film is a brutal look at slave owners and their slaves which will leave the audience gasping. Some of the lines are so daring by today's politically-correct standards, there's no doubt they'd get a lot of laughs.

• 2015 Olive Films (RA) Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2015 Olive Films (R1) DVD at US Amazon
• 2008 Legend R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2009 CIC Online

• 1987 CIC VHS

The BBFC cuts were

• Edits to the beating of a slave girl
• Edits to shots of a male slave being hung upside down and bloodily whipped across his bare buttocks

• 1975 cinema release

From IMDb. The BBFC cuts were:

• Edits to the fight between Mede and Topaz
• Edits to the beatings of the slave girl
• Edits to the beating of the suspended male slave
• Edits to Mede being prodded with a pitchfork by Hammond Maxwell.

Originally rated R for some sexual material. The studio appealed to the CARA appeals board, and without cuts being required, the rating was reduced to PG-13 for some sexual content and language, and for accident and surgery images.

Summary Notes

A strange and lonely man tries to come to terms with a past crime that cost him the love of his life.

Manhunt in Milan

• The Italian Connections
• Manhunt
• La mala ordina
• Black Kingpin

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Raro Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2011 Raro Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2007 Synergy R0 DVD

Summary Review: Breathtaking

The second film in Fernando Di Leo's Milieu trilogy of Milano Calibro 9, La Mala Ordina aka. Manhunt and Il Boss .

An excellent and breathtaking crime epic that no lover of Italian genre-cinema could possibly afford to miss.

The tough-minded and violent film is breathtaking from the beginning to the end and profits from a brilliant cast.

Fernando Di Leo's films are said to be the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's early films

• 1973 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 95:29s

Manhunter

• Red Dragon: The Curse of Hannibal Lecter

Exists as a Theatrical Version, a workprint and a Director's Cut. All are BBFC 18 rated.

• 2011 Optimum (Anchor Bay Theatrical Version + Director's Cut) RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2003 Momentum Special Edition (Anchor Bay Theatrical Version + Director's Cut) R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2016 Shout! Factory [Theatrical Version + Director's Cut] (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2003 Starz/Anchor Bar R1 DVD via US Amazon

From dvdcompare.net :

• Missing some footage from the Theatrical version , including a piece of dialogue about the killer's childhood.
• It extends the Atlanta briefing room scene.
• Adds a scene with Dr. Chilton, right before Will sees Lector for the first time,
• an extra scene in Lector's cell,
• a scene with Jack and Will in which Jack informs Will that they are bringing Molly to town to be with Will (for the hotel room scene).
• However, it also trimmed parts from Will & Jack's argument right near the end.
• The credits at the start of the movie now overlap the beach scene in order to reduce the overall running time.

• 2011 Optimum (Anchor Bay Theatrical Version + Director's Cut) RB Blu-ray
• 2008 Optimum R2 DVD
• 2003 Momentum Special Edition (Anchor Bay Theatrical Version + Director's Cut) R2 DVD
• 2001 Momentum R2 DVD

From dvdcompare.net :

• This is a workprint variant that is missing several small but important pieces of dialogue and had an altered pre-credits sequence. It incorporates some brief shots from the 1987 director's cut (which runs four minutes longer than the true theatrical cut), while dropping a few shots from the true theatrical cut.

• 2001 Universal/4 Front VHS
• 1999 BMG R2 DVD
• 1998 BMG VHS
• 1989 Film & Video VHS
• 1986 cinema release

Maniac (2012)

Uncut and 18 rated in the UK. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US. Banned in New Zealand.

Promotional Material

Elijah Wood stars in this remake of director William Lustig's 1980 horror classic of the same name. To say that Frank (Wood) is a troubled young man would be an understatement - as the ever-growing number of young women he has murdered since the death of his mother (America Olivo), with whom he enjoyed an unhealthily close relationship, demonstrates only too well. Frank runs a mannequin store and likes to apply the scalps of his victims to the models in his spare time. However, when beautiful young artist Anna (Nora Arnezeder) wanders into the store and talks about making use of its resources for an exhibition she is planning, she presents Frank with a troubling quandary. Anna appears to offer the possibility of a human relationship that will fill the void created by his mother's death, but she also excites his desire to kill and possess. Will Frank be able to overcome his homicidal urges?

Unrated

• 2007 Drakes Avenue R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2007 Koch Lorber Films R1 DVD at US Amazon

Banned in New Zealand See List of International Banned Films

Maniac (1980)

The Uncut Unrated Theatrical Version is preferred over the shortened Director's Cut. Once Banned by the BBFC, then cut. The film was also cut in the US for an R Rating.

Summary review: Shocking

This is definitely a film that will leave you thinking. The main reason being the main character Frank Zito aka Joe Spinell plays the most realistic psycho/deranged person I've ever seen on film. The whole time I was thinking is this guy really insane? Either this guy is a genius actor or he's really nuts. That's how real he is in this role. His presence will creep you out. He's the biggest weirdo I've ever seen on film.

The story focuses on frank the serial killer and his killings and insanity. Some of the scenes are gruesome, but they will keep you on the edge of your seat. You will be able to put yourself in both franks shoes and feel the victims terror as she is stalked and hides from Frank... Especially the subway bathroom scene. That's an intense scene. Frank keeps on killing till the end when his own demons finally come back to haunt him.

Any horror fan should have this in their collection.

• 2012 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2010 Blue Underground 30th Anniversary Edition R0 Blu-ray
• 2010 Blue Underground 30th Anniversary Edition R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• a scene depicting Joe Spinell in a hotel room with a prostitute has been shortened.
• Another scene showing Joe and the photographer in a restaurant has been completely removed,

• 2006 Anchor Bay R0 DVD
• 2002 Anchor Bay R0 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts required to reduce length of sexualised strangulation sequence by half
• and to remove shots of a knife played over and stabbing into female flesh with sexual connotations.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• 1998 Exploited VHS
• 1981 cinema release

The BBFC explained their 1998 ban:

Two (of the videos rejected so far in 1998) were serial killer films in which sex is linked with the pleasure of killing. In one of those films, Maniac, a series of defenceless women are stalked, terrorised, attacked and murdered, while being photographed in a deliberately sexualised way. The film is one of a genre known as 'stalk and slash', and here each stalking and killing is protracted, sometimes ending with the scalping of the victim. When the police eventually catch up with the killer, he survives, leaving us to anticipate that the stalking and mutilation will begin again. The pleasures on offer here seem to the Board to be unhealthy and dangerous because of the way that the killing of women is linked with the sexual arousal of men.

Gossip has it that Maniac was initially viewed by four censors; three men and one woman. The three men said the film should be rejected because of its anti-women depictions. The woman thought the film was cut-able.

Maniac (1963)

• The Maniac

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1963 cinema release. Presumably the same version was released elsewhere

Summary Review: Forgotten

An American painter has an affair with a bar owner is a French village and agrees to help her murderer husband escape from a prison for the criminally insane.

Let down by some poor acting. Script, direction and photography are said to be good though.

submitted
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• 2016 Mill Creek Hammer Film Collection Vol 2 R1 DVD DVD at US Amazon

UK: Passed X (18) after compulsory cuts for:

• 1963 cinema release

See Tormentor

Maniac Cop

Summary comments: Worth a watch

When reports come in of a man in a police uniform committing gore drenched bloody murder on New York streets, officer Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell) stands accused. Now, with few friends, powerful enemies and a psychopathic slayer still at large, it's up to Jack to prove he's not guilty and bring down the killer.

This film has a good B-movie cast with Tom Atkins, Richard Roundtree and Bruce Campbell.

Some good tension is built up in the various chases around the city and overall this is definitely worth a watch.

R Rated

• 2012 Arrow/ArrowDrome X-Rental Box Set R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2012 Arrow/ArrowDrome R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2011 Arrow R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: The Theatrical Version is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2011 Synapse R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2006 Synapse R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2004 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The Japanese TV Version runs 5:36s longer and includes additional dialogue and an alternative ending. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com .

• 2000 Synergy R2 DVD
• 1991 Channel 5 VHS
• 1989 Lazer VHS
• 1988 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were:

• The cut is to the shower scene and involves Robert Z'Dar getting stabbed in the back with a knife. It's a shot of the knife going in and out again
• Also cuts to the torture of Z'Dar as his face gets carved with a knife.

Maniac Cop 2

Cut in the US for an R rated theatrical release. Presumably it was this Theatrical Version that was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for cinema release, but further cut by the BBFC for home video.

Summary Notes

Officer Matt Cordell, the undead cop, returns from the grave. Again. This time he is after the criminals who murdered him in the prison, and he is not doing that because he wants to forgive them.

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• 1990 cinema release

• 2013 Blue Underground RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Note that the film was cut in the US to avoid an NC-17 rating. This R rated version is missing the following scene

• In the police shoot out you see two police men getting shot including blood spurting out of the wounds, then you see the bodies slump to the ground covered in blood...

Thanks to Steve who reports that distributors Blue Underground have disagreed that MPAA cuts were required, and say that the R rated version is in fact uncut.

• 2003 Prism R2 DVD
• 1990 Medusa Communications Video

The 1990 Medusa VHS suffered 4s of cuts removing the following:

• A reprise from the shower murder of Maniac Cop 1 is similarly cut to the original.
• Although t he face slashing has 0.5s restored

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence

• Maniac Cop 3

Cut for violence for an R rated Theatrical Version which was distributed in UK. The uncut version is Unrated

Summary Notes

A female cop is gunned down and wrongly accused of using excessive force in a hostage rescue attempt. Maniac cop returns from the dead once more to seek revenge, destroying everthing and anyone that stands in his way.

• 2013 Blue Underground RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

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R Rated

• 2009 Boulevard R2 DVD
• 1993 Medusa VHS

The film was cut for violence in the US to avoid an NC-17 rating

Maniacal

The BBFC cut 10s when the video was submitted in 2003. Cut required to remove sight of a blade being played over a woman's naked breast [during a bathroom murder]

BBFC category cust were required for a 12A rated 2016 cinema release

• 2016 cinema release

• Company chose to remove images of bloodied bodies in order to obtain a 12A classification. An uncut 15 classification was available.

Manji

• All Mixed Up

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

Passed 18 uncut for:

• 2007 Yume R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2004 Fantoma R1 DVD at US Amazon

Review from UK Amazon : Scandalous in the 60's

Don't enter the tent if you're expecting a steamy lesbian brief encounter.

What unfolds here is the depiction of need, fantasy, wish fulfillment and the use of allure to entice weakness and then to smash those lives upon the sharpened stakes of feminine guile.

The bored middle class housewife finds fantasy and reality in her art class friend, her saviour and her mortal danger. Her muse senses the need and draws her into her web. Initially entailing the victim to make small sacrifices until they become larger and larger to prove her love. Ending with the demand to enter oblivion at the behest of the siren.

It is slow placed, shot using various focal settings, capturing the essence of the claustrophobic worlds of need, desire and the avenging angel.

The naked bodies, scandalous in the 60's, now in an age of image bombardment, have a diminished potency.  The beauty of the protagonist still projects as does her guile.

• 1967 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 89:45s

Mankillers

• 12 Wild Women

Cut by the BBFC for 1987 18 rated VHS.

Summary Notes

A female CIA agent is assigned to train and lead an all-female squad to Colombia to stop a renegade agent who has hired himself out to a drug cartel.

• 2016 Olive Films (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon released on 13th September 2016
• 2016 Olive Films R1 DVD at US Amazon

Olive Films gives the disclaimer:

Mankillers is presented using the best available elements provided by Slasher // Video. Not sourced from an HD Master; remastered from PAL Beta SP and upconverted to BluRay and DVD specifications.

In fact the film is about 4 minutes shorter than would be expected for an uncut version. However that could be explained by PAL to NTSC conversions.

• 1987 Avatar Film Corporation VHS

Mantis in Lace

• Lila

Uncut at:

Unrated

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong sex, sexualised nudity, hard drug use and bloody violence for:

• 2012 Freemantle/Revelation Harry Novak Collection R2 DVD at UK Amazon for release on 23rd April 2012

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2001 Image/Something Weird R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Trippy

A topless dancer attracts, seduces, then murders the men she sleeps with using household tools.

This little gem is one of the first key films to combine gore with sleaze. Groovy 60s psychedelia, go-go dancers, sexploitation and horror, all beautifully photographed by Laszlo Kovacs, collide in a kaleidoscope of color and LSD laden sensibilities.

Not to everyone's tastes though, but Susan Stewart will win a few converts.

• 1972 cinema release

Mardi Gras Massacre

Banned as a video nasty in 1983. Not released since in the UK. Uncut in the US

Summary Review: Cheese and sleaze!

Not exactly a straight slasher as many believe but it's surely as cheesy, and unintentionally funny as any slasher from the 80's.

Mardi Gras Massacre could be considered as a toned down exploitation low budget. The plot asks for brutality, violence, sleaze but the truth is that the execution of the idea isn't as half as good as it should.

The ritual method is repeated in all the death scenes. So we don't get originality or probably there wasn't enough budget to at least create three different gore scenes. It's okay but even ultra low budget slashers have at least two different killing methods! Anyways, Mardi Gras Massacre has generated some kind of cult over the years but sincerely, this isn't a must see. The movie should only be watched by b-movie lovers or morbid fans of low budget cheese and sleaze!

• 2016 Code Red Limited Edition R0 Blu-ray
• 2011 Code Red R0 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon
• 2005 Jef/Mvd R1 DVD

• 1982 Goldstar VHS

Released on VHS in 1982 on the Goldstar label and later on the Market label. Banned as a video nasty in November 1983 and stayed on the list throughout the panic so became one of the collectable DPP39s.

Mardi Gras: Spring Break

Unrated

UK: The Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for strong language and crude sex references for:

• 2012 Sony R2 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Sony R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Mardock Scramble: The First Compression

• Marudukku sukuranburu: Asshuku

Exists as an 18 rated Director's Cut and a 15 rated Theatrical Version

Unrated

• 2012 Kase SAS/Manga Entertainment video [Theatrical + Directors] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Kase SAS/Manga Entertainment video [Theatrical + Directors] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: The Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2011 Section 23 RA Blu-ray at US Amazon

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• 2012 Kase SAS/Manga Entertainment video [Theatrical + Directors] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Kase SAS/Manga Entertainment video [Theatrical + Directors] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The original Japanese Theatrical Version is closer to the original Ubukata's novel which doesn't contain THAT much sex and violence, while his Director's Cut focuses much more on Rune's occupation as a prostitute and the abuse by her father in her childhood.

Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion

• Marudukku sukuranburu: Nenshou

Exists as a Director's Cut and Theatrical Version

• 2012 Kase SAS/Manga Entertainment video [Theatrical + Directors] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Kase SAS/Manga Entertainment video [Theatrical + Directors] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . The 2:47s of additional material is uncontentious and adds little.

• 2012 Kase SAS/Manga Entertainment video [Theatrical + Directors] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2012 Kase SAS/Manga Entertainment video [Theatrical + Directors] R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Margaret

UK : The Extended Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2012 20th Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2012 20th Century Fox Online

US: The Extended Version is uncut for:

• 2012 Fox Searchlght [Theatrical + Extended] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

The director was timed out by his producers and a Theatrical version was produced without further input from the Director.  However Lonergan seems to have approved the end result.

After a very good critical reception. the distributors resurrected the longer original for home video release.

R Rated

• 2012 20th Century Fox video
• 2012 20th Century Fox Online
• 2012 cinema release

US: The Theatrical Version is uncut for:

• 2012 Fox Searchlght [Theatrical + Extended] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

Marillion's Brave

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum

Cut when submitted in 1995:

• At 14.5 mins - After shots of bare branches blowing outside window, all imitable instructive techniques of how to fix heroin, including shots of spoon being heated over flame, tourniquet applied to arm and tightened with teeth, arm being tapped for vein, needle pushed
  into skin, and arm clenched as tourniquet is loosened was removed. Drug abuse may be suggested by stylised montage of images, eg. syringe or pills being poured, but not by realistic details. (Shots of woman losing consciousness, etc remained.)
• At 38 mins -In bathroom suicide attempt, all sight of razor blade, wrists being slit, nude woman`s entire torso lying back in bath covered with blood and later full-length shots of policemen trying to grasp her nude body were removed. (Shot of her sitting up in bath with zoom in to face and later CUs of half-submerged and struggling face remained, but emphasis on combination of blood and female nudity was removed.)
• At 41 mins - In hospital sequence which follows, sight of slashed wrists indicating vertical slashes was removed.
• At 51.5 mins - When young woman attacks her former lover, big close up of razor blade slashing neck was removed.

The Mark

UK: A Restored Version was passed 15 without BBFC cuts for paedophilia theme for:

• 2012 Odeon R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2012 Odeon Online

It is not yet confirmed if this is an uncut version

• 1961 cinema release

Mark of the Devil

• Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält
• Austria 1700
• Brenn, Hexe, brenn
• Burn, Witch, Burn
• Hexen
• Satan

Cut by the BBFC for 1971 cinema release and 1993 VHS which was withdrawn following police seizures. Less cut for 2003 DVD and finally uncut for 2013 Blu-ray/DVD.

Summary Review: Atmospheric Euro Horror

Udo Kier is a witch hunter apprentice to Herbert Lom. He believes strongly in his mentor and the ways of the church but loses faith when he catches Lom strangling Reggie Nalder to death for calling him impotent. Kier begins to see for himself that the witch trials are nothing but a scam of the church to rob people of their land, money, and other personal belongings of value and seduce beautiful big breasted women.

This film contains very strong graphic torture including a women's tongue being ripped out of her head, nuns being raped (in the opening credits), and lots of beatings.

Back in its day, this film was probably the most controversial movie ever made as it depicted the witch trials going on Europe during the darkest page of human existence.

The entire cast gives it their all and makes this film believable. The only hindrance is the dubbing, but for foreign horror film fans like me, dubbing just adds to the charm.

I was pleasantly surprised and got a much better film than I was expecting. If you're a fan of atmospheric Euro horror, don't believe all the bad hype as this film is a true gem.

Unrated

• 2014 Arrow (RB) Blu-ray/ (R2) DVD Combo at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2015 Arrow Video (RA) Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Cheezy R0 DVD
• 2004 Blue Underground R1 DVD at US Amazon

This Cheezy release has been widely criticised for poor sound quality and a washed out picture. It does however boast of including a vomit bag.

• 2003 Anchor Bay R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Cut required to scene of sexualised torture

The BBFC cuts were:

• Nudity has been removed from the scene showing a partially naked girl (Gaby Fuchs) on the rack suffering also from her feet being branded

• 1993 Redemption VHS

Thanks to Vincenzo and Daniel Stillings. The BBFC cuts were:

• At 37 mins - In scene where blonde is stretched on rack, remove all close shots of hands and fingers being tortured. [12s. Thumb screw torture suffered by Gaby Fuchs].
• At 41 mins - Remove entire scene of blonde being tortured on rack, including shots of branding and all sight of breast nudity. [1:59s. Gaby Fuchs being stretched half naked on the rack and having her feet branded with hot
  irons].
• At 48 mins - After man's pants are pulled down, remove scene of him forced on to bed of spikes, including screams, sight of blood from buttocks and blood on feet. [12s removed details of the Baron sitting on nails and having his feet whipped].
• At 50 mins - After first appearance of complicated device, remove remaining sequence of removal of blonde woman's tongue, starting with sight of fitting contraption round her head, and including close shot of blood dripping from mouth. [55s]
• At 64 mins - Remove all close shots of stiletto pushed into man's stomach as he is held against painting. [6s removed from torture of the puppeteer].
• At 73 mins - After shot of man whipping body below screen, remove sight of shackled feet and striated back. [4s removed from the Baron being whipped on his back].
• At 76 mins - Severely reduce sequence where bearded man attempts to rape woman thrown on bed, cutting just after first close shot of hand clutching sheet and before sight of bodice pulled down to give prominence to heaving breast. Resume on extreme close up of man's eyes. [59s removing most of Cumberland's (Herbert Lom) rape of the puppeteer's wife].

uncut

• 1981 Intervision VHS

• 1971 cinema release

Thanks to Vincenzo. The BBFC cuts were:

• Reel 1 - Drastically shorten the scene of women being burnt at the stake, removing all shots in which they appear to be in contact with the flames.
• Reel 1 - Remove all shots of Albino piercing Vanessa's back with a sharp instrument, together with the sound of her cries.
• Reel 2 - Remove all shots and sounds of Albino lashing Vanessa and sounds of her cries.
• Reel 2 - Remove the shot of Deidre's bruised and bleeding hands when she is brought in by Albino.
• Reel 3 - Remove the entire scene in which Deidre is seen and heard on the rack, and all shots of her hands being placed in the thumbscrews.
• Reel 3 - Remove the whole of the second scene in which Deidre is seen and heard on the rack, with all shots and sounds of her feet being burned and shots of her feet afterwards.
• Reel 3 - Remove the entire episode in which a young couple are seen making love in a bedroom and afterwards Albino and his henchmen break down the door, try to rape the girl, and stab the man.
• Reel 3 - Remove all shots and sounds of the Baron being set upon a bed of spikes and flogged.
• Reel 3 - Remove entire scene in which Deidre is tortured and her tongue is torn out, and all shots of her bleeding face and mouth afterwards.
• Reel 4 - Drastically reduce the shots of the burning of Deidre. The scene should start after she has been hauled up when the man sets the torch to the faggots, and there should be no shots of her apparently in contact with the flames.
• Reel 4 - Remove all shots and sounds of the Baron being tortured by thumbscrews or by having a fire lit under him.
• Reel 4 - Remove all shots of the puppetmaster being stabbed in the stomach with a stiletto.
• Reel 4 - Remove the incident in which a man is stabbed in the eye and shots of him holding his bleeding eye afterwards.
• Reel 4 - Remove all shots and sounds of the rape of the puppetmaster's wife by Cumberland, stopping the scene as he chases her into the bedroom.
• Reel 4 - Reel 5 - Remove all shots of the Baron when he is bound and screaming. Remove the flash shot of the Baron's head being severed and the shot of his body twitching afterwards.
• Reel 4 - Remove the shot showing a dead man with a severed arm and bleeding stump.
• Reel 4 - Remove all shots showing the spiked belt which is placed around Christian's waist, leaving only the suggestion that he is hung up and brutally killed in an unknown way.

Marked for Death

18 rated and cut by the BBFC for all versions until the 2013 Blu-ray which was passed 15 uncut

Summary Review:  Favourite

Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher has just returned from Colombia, where his partner was killed in the line of duty by a drug dealer who has since been taken down. As a result of his partner's death, John has decided to retire, but his retirement may not be permanent.

The film has some terrific action sequences and set pieces, example being the shopping centre fight which really showcases Seagal's talents. This has excellent pacing as well as good location shoots. The score for Marked for Death is amazing, suiting the film so well, giving it the right sinister kind of atmosphere. The voodoo elements were cool, Screwface has to be one of the best villains and the twist at the end is unexpected.

Cutting Edge: Steven Seagal Special

Steven Seagal: The Complete Cuts
 

• 2013 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 1998 20th Century Fox R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2010 20th Century Fox R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2003 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2001 20th Century Fox DVD

The  cuts for this version are:

• The night-time raid on Screwface's house in Jamaica has lost a neck break and then an arm-break (6 secs).
• The end battle between Seagal and Screwface has been cut in two places - firstly a close-up of Seagal gouging out Screwface's eyes is missing (3 secs) and then a few seconds later a vicious back-break (9 secs) after the two have crashed through the stone wall.

The version showing on Sky TV is also cut (though slightly differently). The recent Channel 5 screening contains all of the above footage - on network television! - in exchange for a brief snip to the opening scene - a hand severing - which is present in the video version.

• 1999 20th Century Fox VHS
• 1991 CBS/Fox VHS

The cuts for this version are:

• The cinema cuts were replicated but implemented slightly differently.
• The night-time raid on Screwface's house in Jamaica, which had already lost an arm break in the cinema cuts, loses an additional neck break

• 1990 cinema release

The cuts for this version are:

• The fight in the department store between Seagal and the Jamaicans is missing an arm-break (3 secs).
• The night-time raid on Screwface's house in Jamaica, has lost another arm-break (6 secs)- this occurs just before Seagal faces Screwface's twin brother.
• The end battle between Seagal and Screwface has been cut in two places - firstly a close-up of Seagal gouging out Screwface's eyes is missing (3 secs) and then a few seconds later a vicious back-break (9 secs) after the two have crashed through the stone wall.

Marketa Lazarova

The BBFC cut 3s from the 2008 Second Run DVD: A cut was required to remove sight of a snake being stabbed and rearing up in pain

Marmaduke

Passed U after BBFC advised category cuts were implemented for:

• 2010 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2010 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

• Company chose to remove a use of discriminatory language ('spaz') in order to achieve a U classification. An uncut 12A classification was available.

The Cuts were:

• What a gargantuan spaz  was replaced with : What a gargantuan klutz

Gavin Salkeld Adds:

The BBFC list this dialogue substitution in a red box on their website, which generally (I believe) means the cuts were made after formal submission.

The BBFC annual report wrongly claims the film was passed PG, and that the cuts were made following an advice screening (which would usually place the cuts in a yellow box on the film's database listing).

Either way, the UK edition is cut

Marquis de Sade's Justine

• Marquis de Sade: Justine
• Marquise de Sade's Justine
• Justine and Juliet
• Deadly Sanctuary
• Justine
• Justine ovvero le disavventure della virtù

A short version was cut by the BBFC for an X rated cinema release. It is uncut on home vide and is uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US

Summary Review : Pretty Tame

Justine tells the tale of two beautiful sisters, Juliette, an amoral nymphomaniac, and Justine, who seeks a life of chastity and virtue. Unfortunately for Justine, while her depraved sister finds nothing but success and happiness, she suffers constant despair and abuse, being raped, tortured, whipped, and accused of theft amongst umpteen other disasters during her turbulent young life.

This tale isn't bad, and fairly explicit, for the late 60's, but is still pretty tame, by today's standards. It has a weird appearance by Jack Palance, as a mad monk. Also, a limited appearance by the late Klaus Kinski.

Unrated

• 2014 Salvation Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2003 Anchor Bay R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• 2002 Blue Underground R0 DVD

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray/R0 DVD Combo at US Amazon
• 2013 Blue Underground [Fifty Shades of De Sade 4 film Collection] R0 DVD at US Amazon
• 2004 Blue Underground R0 DVD at US Amazon

• 1971 cinema release titled Justine and Juliet

See Cruel Passion

Marriage 2.0

Billed as a crossover movie between hardcore and mainstream the film exists in 2 versions, a cut NC-17 rated version and an uncut Unrated version.

Summary Notes

Wander the Internet or your neighborhood and it's clear: throughout our culture, much of what was true 20 years ago is not necessarily the case now. Our relationships, romantic and otherwise, are in many ways beginning to reflect these new realities. Set against the vivid, natural beauty of Northern California and San Francisco, Marriage 2.0 follows a couple (India Summer and Ryan Driller) on their search for personal freedom, emotional and sexual bliss within the context of an honest and committed modern relationship. What makes Marriage 2.0 a different kind of relationship movie is its frankness; for all the pleasures of open relationships, jealousy and vulnerability do not magically disappear. This love letter to San Francisco - the cultural epicenter of the alternative relationship movement - suggests that the ideas of growth, novelty, and sexual adventure can exist within a millennial marriage. Marriage 2.0 tells a story both timely and universal.

Mars

A throwing star has been cut from the attack on the hero accompanying a female doctor.

The Martian

Exists as a Theatrical Version and an Extended version, both 12 rated by the BBFC.

• 2016 20th Century Fox Home Ent. RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon released on 3rd October 2016
• 2016 20th Century Fox Home Ent. R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2016 20th Century Fox video
• 2015 cinema release

Martin

• George A. Romero's Martin

Always uncut but exists in 2 versions, the Original Version and Italian Version. The film was caught up in the video nasties panic and was seized by the authorities, without ever being listed on the official list.

Summary Notes

George Romero does for vampires what he has already done to zombies - an intense and realistic treatment that follows the exploits of Martin, who claims to be 84 years old, and who certainly drinks human blood. The boy arrives in Pittsburg to stay with his uncle, who promises to save Martin's soul and destroy him once he is finished, but Martin's loneliness finds other means of release.

• 2010 Arrow (Italian + Original Versions) R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2006 Fremantlemedia/Arrow video

• 2010 Arrow (Italian + Original Versions) R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2003 Arrow R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1994 Redemption VHS

• 1979 cinema release

• 2004 Lions Gate R1 DVD at US Amazon

banned

• 1982 Hello VHS

The video got caught up in the video nasties panic and was seized subject to an Obscene Publications Act Section 3 Seizure Order. However no prosecutions resulted and the video never made the official video nasties list.

Martyrs

Unrated

The BBFC passed the US Unrated Version 18 uncut for the 2009 Optimum DVD.

Note that there is an edited US R Rated version to avoid.

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

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

See Avengers Assemble

Masked Raider: Arcade Ace

The Masque of the Red Death

Cut by the BBFC for UK cinema release. Separately cut for US release too.

cut

best
available

Unrated

• 2007 Optimum R2 DVD
• 2005 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1989 Warner VHS

US: Cut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2014 TGG Direct Vincent Price Ultimate Collection R1 DVD at US Amazon
• 2013 Shout! Factory Vincent Price Collection RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• US Image [Masque of Red Death + Madhouse] R1 DVD via US Amazon

Cuts from IMDb:

• The BBFC cuts have been restored but the print used is an edited US version which a shot of Francesca being slapped across the face by one of Prospero's soldiers
• Also cut, Hop Toad telling the female dwarf that no one will ever hit her again.

• 1964 UK cinema release

From cultmovieforums.com :

• Reel 1 - Reduce shots of person on fire
• Reel 1 - Reduce shots and dialogue showing Alfredo's interest in the female dwarf
• Reel 2 - Remove all shots and dialogue in which Scarletti offers his wife to Prospero in return for admittance to the castle, and Prospero's reply "I have already had that doubtful pleasure"
• Reel 2 - The whole scene in which Giuliana offers herself to the Devil should be removed
• Reel 3 - Remove Giuliana's references to her conversion to Satanism, her forthcoming wedding to Satan and her loss of innocence
• Reel 4 - Remove the whole scene in which Giuliana intones prayers to Satan and drinks from a chalice
• Reel 4 - Remove the entire dream sequence
• Reel 4 - Reduce to a flash the birds' attack on Guiliana, removing in particular all shots of her bloodstained throat, shoulders and chest
• Reel 4 - Remove all shots of the "ape" struggling with a girl on the ground
• Reel 9 - Reduce to a minimum shots of Alfredo (in the ape costume) catching fire and burning

Massacre at Central High

Passed 18 without cuts for:

• 2004 Cornerstone R0 DVD
• 1998 Sovereign VHS
• 1987 Apex VHS
• 1977 X rated cinema release

There is also an Italian Version with inserted softcore using different actors. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

See Cannibal Ferox II

Massage Parlour

• Massagesalon Der Jungen Madchen
• Massage Parlor '73
• Salon Massage

Uncut version is available at:

The US release is uncut for:

• 2011 Koch International/Mya R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

From IMDb:

France, a reporter working from an international news agency, manages to be paid to visit all of Munich's massage parlors. He wants to find the whereabouts of Sonia, a personal masseuse with whom he experienced perfect bliss.

• 1973 cinema release

BBFC category cuts were required for a 12A rated 2015 cinema release.

• 2015 cinema release

• Cuts were made to remove and reduce moments of strong violence, including stabbings and a woman and a child being set on fire, in order to achieve a 12A classification. Cuts made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy. A 15 uncut was available.

The Master

• Huang Fei Hong jiu er zhi long xing tian xia
• Long xing tian xia
• Jet Li: Dragon Fighter II

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut at:

Passed 18 uncut for strong violence after pervious BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2012 Cine-Asia R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2005 Contender/ UK Hong Kong Legends Collectors Edition R2 DVD

Summary Review: Jet Li comes to America

Uncle Tak, the old martial-arts master has problems with his former student Jonny who wants to kill his old master to show everyone who the real master is. Uncle Tak wants Jet Li, his best student, to come over from China to help. Jet is not familiar with the American way of life, but knows how to fight.

The film is played out mainly as comedy but is a bit slow and only really gets serious in the final 20 minutes. Jet Li is as good as he always is in the fight sequences.

• 1998 MIA VHS

The cuts were:

• Knuckledusters, chainsticks & butterfly knives just cannot be seen by those sensitive Brits. It doesn't really matter whether they are being used or not

The Master of Disguise

The 2002 cinema version and 2003 DVD were similarly cut by the BBFC. Company chose to remove dangerous imitable technique, a series of head butts, to gain a PG category. A "12A" uncut was available to the distributor.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Master with Cracked Fingers

• The Cub Tiger from Kwangtung
• Snake Fist Fighter
• Guang dong xiao lao hu

The International Version was passed 15 without cuts for:

• 2007 Film 2000 R2 DVD titled Snake fist Fighter
• 2001 Film 2000 R2 DVD titled Master with Cracked Fingers
• 1987 VPD VHS titled Master with Cracked Fingers

The International Version is a variant of the English Version of the 1979 re-cut but was shortened via deleted plot scenes. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• 2007 DVD.Com/Showbox R2 titled The Cub Tiger from Kwangtung via UK Amazon

Two different versions were submitted to the MPAA prior to release.

Both were rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, some language and violence.

Summary Notes

A night guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history.

See Banned International: Mastizaade

The Matriarch

The Matrix

Cut by the BBFC for a 15 rated cinema and home video release. Uncut since 2006. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of the humans' body heat and electrochemical energy and who imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.

Cutting Edge: Quick Trims

BBFC cuts to  the 1999 cinema release, VHS and DVD.

See video on YouTube
See more from Cutting Edge
 

R rated

• 2013 Warner R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2007 Warner Trilogy R2 DVD at UK Amazon

As with channel 5 the Sky movies version of The Matrix not only featured all the removed head butts, but the much talked about "mouse cyber sex scene".

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2013 Warner R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2007 Warner R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1999 Warner R2 DVD
• 1999 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were to remove 8 headbutts to tone the film down from 18 to a requested 15. Thanks to Draven for the suggested layout: the cut shots are shown in bold:

1. Fight sequence where the rebel leader, Morpheus (Larry Fishborne), is captured. The scene starts with Morpheus landing on top of Agent Smith in the bathroom.  after which they introduce themselves to one another.  Smith then squeezes Morpheus's knuckles as he moves Morpheus's hands away from his neck.  Morpheus then headbutts him as this is all he can do. After this, Smith grabs him by the collar and simultaneously headbutts him three times in a row after which he punches him in the chest.  This throws Morpheus back against the wall behind as per the shitty British version. 
2. Fight scene with Neo in the train station.  Towards the beginning of the fight, there is a shot where Agent Smith kicks Neo which makes him float sideways in the air and then punches him into the wall.  Neo gets up after kicking away Smith.  He then attacks Smith via punching him in a cool martial arts manner .  As this is happening, agent smith locks Neo by both his arms and headbutts him twice. 
3. Later in the same fight scene.  After Neo is hurled away into the air after one of Agent Smith's punches at which point he spits out blood (both in the scene and in his chair), he gets up and entices Smith towards him via hand gestures. after this he trades punches with Smith and then reverses the arm block back to Smith and headbutts him twice in much the same way that had been done to him a little earlier.  Neo then punches Smith in the chin and does the four cool kicks in the air and chokes Smith when he sticks his fingers out into his throat when his punch is blocked. 

Cinema version should theoretically be the same as the video version but as Dave points out:

I can confirm that The Matrix played uncut in several regions of the North West in England and in some cases with different scenes. In the Furness region in Cumbria North of England there was an additional scene when Neo stumbles upon Mouse doing some inventive programming on 'The Woman in Red' by making her breasts bigger in his software program on screen for better 'Cyber sex' manipulation.

This scene was deleted in all international versions (including the R rated print) and runs about 15 seconds with dialogue, but for some strange reason was included in our region's showing along with the 10 seconds of headbutts and violence. This had been confirmed by several friends who saw the film at that time. I also viewed The matrix in Manchester and it played the uncut R print minus the Cyber sex scene.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The showing on Channel 5 (May 2003) had these fight scenes restored.

See Banned International: Mawlana

Max Payne

Exists as a Theatrical PG-13 rated version and an MPAA Unrated Harder Cut. Both versions were passed 15 uncut by the BBFC.

Summary Notes

Three years ago, NYPD detective Max Payne's wife and baby were murdered. Max gets himself transferred to the cold case office where he can continue searching for the killer who got away. He's a loner, but two people reach out to him during a fateful week: Alex, his ex-partner who may have found a clue, and BB, the security chief at the pharmaceutical company where Max's wife worked. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up, some as a result of a drug on the street that is highly addictive and, for many who take it, brings hideous hallucinations. When one of the bodies is a woman Payne was the last to see alive, her sister comes looking for him armed to the teeth; Max must move fast.

Unrated

• 2009 Twentieth Century Fox RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2009 Twentieth Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2009 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2009 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

cut Theatrical Version

• 2009 Twentieth Century Fox video
• 2008 cinema release

US: The Theatrical Version was cut for an MPAA PG-13 rating

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The film was rated MPAA PG-13 for some sci-fi action violence but the MPAA notes that the producers will appeal the rating, presumably seeking a PG.

In fact the appeal was turned down and the movie stays PG-13 rated...

Maximum Overdrive

12s

R

No BBFC cuts to the 1987 cinema release nor videos/DVDs from 1987 to 2008. The cut US R Rated Theatrical Version was submitted in all cases

From cuts details on IMDb : There are three moments adding up to twelve seconds of footage missing from the final version of Maximum Overdrive. The footage was removed to avoid an X rating (due to the available rating system and standards of 1986). The removed shots were:

• Six Seconds of the Dixie Boy shoot out.
• Three seconds of the steam roller running over the boy.
• Three seconds of the salesman's face falling into his lap.

Maximum Risk

• Bloodstone
• The Exchange

Uncut by the BBFC for cinema release but cut for VHS and DVD. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

A policeman takes his twin brother's place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a badge, the policeman must find the answers to some tough questions, none harder than what the heck is an accordion player doing in a sauna.

Cutting Edge: Quick Trims

See Quick Trims on YouTube
See more from Cutting Edge

R rated

• 2008 Sony R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

The UK Blu-ray is reported by www.dvdcompare.net as uncut despite not being resubmitted to the BBFC.

UK: Passed 18 uncut for:

• 1996 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2008 Sony R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 1998 Sony R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

VOD:

• 2013 online video at YouTube

• 1998 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD
• 1997 Columbia/TriStar VHS
• 1996 cinema release

The 9s of BBFC cuts were:

• The street fight in the alley between Mikhail (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and some Russian thugs loses a close-up shot of a flick knife being opened, as well as an arm break by knee, and a Russian thug's head been smashed through a car window.
• A chop to the throat trimmed as car door is opened
• A wrist-snapping removed from fight in house with thug. 
• 2 close-ups of knife stabbing missing from fight in the Bank's elevator.

Maximum Security

The Maze Runner

BBFC category cuts were implemented for a 12A rated 2014 cinema release and for the DVD/Blu-ray. Uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated in the US.

Summary Notes

A group of boys, with no memories of their past lives, must escape a massive maze infested with deadly creatures.

• 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Steelbook RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

Thanks to Braintree. It seems that the uncut version is just being given a restricted release on Steelbook Blu-ray at HMV.

US: Uncut and MPAA PG-13 rated for thematic elements and intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, including some disturbing images for:

• 2014 20th Century Fox (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2014 20th Century Fox (R1) DVD at US Amazon

• 2015 Twentieth Century Fox RB Blu-ray
• 2015 Twentieth Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2014 cinema release

• Distributor chose to remove or reduce moments of threat, violence and injury detail in order to achieve a 12A classification. An uncut 15 was available.

See article from movie-censorship.com . There were 16 BBFC cuts totalling 43s:

• Several cuts to the sight of an unpleasant infection
• Several cuts to tone attacks by the scary Griever creatures.
• Several cuts to dead bodies and an autopsy

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

BBFC advised category cuts were made for a 12A rated 2015 cinema release and 2015 12 rated home video labelled as the UK Version. Also passed 15 uncut for home video as the International version.

Summary Notes

In this next chapter of the epic "Maze Runner" saga, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

The 15 rated uncut version has a restricted release on s steelbook Blu-ray at HMV.

• 2016 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2016 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment R2 DVD at UK Amazon

UK: [2D + 3D formats] passed 12A for frequent moderate threat, violence after BBFC advised category cuts were made for:

• 2015 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

This work was originally seen for advice. The company was advised that the film was likely to receive a 15 certificate but that their preferred 12A classification could be achieved by making some changes. The company was advised:

• to reduce moments of threat and horror involving zombie-like characters [Cranks], and

• to reduce the focus on injury in a scene in which a man [Marcus] is beaten for information.

When the film was formally submitted, changes had been made and, consequently, the film was passed 12A.

The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials received 21 complaints in 2015. The BBFC commented in its 2015 Annual Report:

There were 21 complaints about violence and threat in The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Scenes include gangs of people operating in a lawless environment, and infected zombie-like people attacking other characters.

The distributor sought advice on how to secure the classification it was aiming to achieve. The BBFC advised that the film was likely to receive a 15 certificate but a 12A classification could be achieved by making some changes, including reducing moments of threat and horror involving zombie-like characters, and reducing the focus on injury in a scene in which a man is beaten for information. When the film was formally submitted for classification, these changes had been made and, consequently, the film is within the Guidelines at 12A where moderate physical and psychological threat is permitted, as long as horror sequences are not too frequent or sustained and the overall tone is not disturbing.

See article from movie-censorship.com . 17 cuts were made via cuts, replacement or reframing, adding up to 41s of missing material