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Originally Posted by Calum

The problem is that 88 Films announced NIGHTMARE as uncut and uncensored and the same flipping question keeps being asked. So how many times do you want them to say "YES IT IS UNCUT?"

There are some fans who will respond and go, "oh but it isn't through the BBFC yet". You know, for someone (me) who takes stick from troll after troll for apparently not being "a true fan" (i.e. I'm not from the hallowed wonderful video nasty era) it is incredible that I am tuned-in enough to BBFC practice to have known NEKROMANTIK and ISLAND OF DEATH - both titles I recommended, supplied Arrow with contacts for and repeatedly and frustratingly assured them would be fine at the board - were going to pass uncut. It is strange I knew ANTHRO, LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN and NAIL GUN MASSACRE were going to be fine (all titles I read, in various forums, might be censored). And whilst I might be wrong - hey, you never ever know - I'm pretty damn certain NIGHTMARE and EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS are going to be okay with the BBFC too.

Simply put: there is nothing in these movies that I can see troubling the lads down at Soho Square. The BBFC is not the draconian organisation some fans apparently still think it is.

Anything 88 announces - perhaps because their titles tend to be a bit edgier than Arrow - gets "is it uncut?" It happened with SS EXPERIMENT CAMP (passed uncut years ago), then with SLEEPAWAY CAMP 2 (passed uncut years ago) and then with BLOODSUCKING PHARAOHS (which is, for all intents and purposes, the uncut release version - because the 'full' version has never, ever existed outwith the dodgy p1sspoor quality Japanese VHS tape Stephen refers to). The PHARAOHS situation is mind-boggling because it is like asking for a copy of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 7 uncut, knowing full well the excised material only exists in workprint form. The same is true of PHARAOHS - and yesterday I found one fan saying the entire film should just be binned if that removed footage cannot be found and put back into the movie. How is that not censorship?

I also understand the fan desire to have everything in its uncut release version - even if (and this is my own opinion) I prefer titles like Man from Deep River to be without the animal material, which I never want to see again - but 88 Films cannot possibly reply to every single question of "is it uncut?' Especially when, as with ANTHRO, they posted on Facebook a title card for THE SAVAGE ISLAND (which it was submitted as) and actually got questions such as "is this an uncut version of a different print that doesn't have all the gore?"

It makes you want to slam your head against the wall!

It is hypervigilant and yes the questions about whether or not 88 releases are uncut are self-perpetuating now but like Boo Radley said people have been burned in the past and now rely on bbfc, melonfarmers, dvdcompare, dvdbeaver and other reliable sources for further confirmation.