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Originally Posted by keirarts  The unrated version of Videodrome should have no problems. James Ferman when he was in charge said he would have never cut it and any edits made to any version seen in the UK (both r-rated and the even shorter version) were made pre-submission. Ferman may have been an autocratic nightmare in many respects but even he defended Cronenberg's work. I somehow doubt that a director that can garner favourable reviews from both cult genre fans and the sight and sound crowd would have any worries about support if the BBFC did try to censor his work. |
CIC panic-cut the film pre-submission for rental - this was not uncommon post nasties and VRA, Thorn/EMI did the same with several titles including Halloween III.
The uncut R-rated version was issued on sell-thru. The unrated version has only been released here once, to my knowledge, and that was the Pioneer LaserDisc which came out the mid 1990s. I had the surprise of my life when I got that home and stuck it on
