[Pete]

From the BBFC's annual report:

A campaign run by a couple of online forums led to the BBFC receiving 12 pleas for the film Inferno, by cult director Dario Argento, not to be cut on the grounds of illegal animal cruelty. When the BBFC determined that the scene in question did not breach the legal tests for animal cruelty and passed it uncut, we received 11 emails thanking us for our decision

The Dario Argento film, Inferno, was passed uncut with previous animal cruelty cuts waived. In this case, the DVD submission revealed more clearly that previously cut material had been filmed, for example, using a model rather than a real animal. In another scene we concluded that, while the editing implied animal cruelty, the individual shots revealed no clear cruelty that could justify upholding the previous cuts. An ‘18’ was nevertheless still required

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/download/annua...eport_2010.pdf