SHAM031/SHAM201 - Cannibal Holocaust: The BBFC Advice & Decision

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by Bringer Of Funerals

Ferman was probably thinking I remember back in the day when people saw Gone With The Wind, Ben Hur and Dracula (1931) at the cinema. Those were the days - none of this hardcore violence, i'm going to see if we can get back to them days by me cutting everything violent

Actually, in an old interview, Ferman said he joined the BBFC so that he'd never have to watch a censored film ever again, after suffering censorship of his own films. Then became the most notorious censor in British film history. Go figure.

[platostotal]

remember when ferman thought he would make 'henry' a better movie by re-editing it himself, ha ha ha, alright it was just the one scene, but still, ha ha ha, what a twonk.

[mr 420]

Originally Posted by Sarah@Cult Labs

Shameless have heard from the BBFC this very day and the long edition of Cannibal Holocaust (i.e. not the new edit from Deodato) has been passed with just 15 seconds of cuts* from the BBFC to the aforementioned muskrat scene!

Rather than just cutting the scene, Shameless have kept the audio and simply replaced the visual footage with alternative shots so the running time is as originally submitted. This will make the cut "seamless" as opposed to jarring jump-cut.

Although expected after the BBFC's earlier advice to Shameless, this is a real milestone for UK film classification and Cannibal Holocaust and is being celebrated up in Shameless Towers!

Watch this space for more Cannibal Holocaust news in the coming weeks, including what the BBFC has to say on Deodato's new edit!

*While the original BBFC advice stated 14 seconds of cuts, this was only a rough estimate and was not calculated frame-to-frame. 15 seconds is the correct timeframe.

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That noise you can hear is Mary Whitehouse boring her way to the centre of the earth at 75,000 rpm!

[hallo37]

Just my personal view but I think Cannibal Holocaust has had a bit of a reputation make-over in recent years - critics no longer regard it as a trashy video nasty as it was in the 1980's...just my own opinion! I personally think apart from the animal killings it's a very good film, brutal but good.

I can't believe James Ferman was opposed to censorship...the man who treated the BBFC as his own personal editing suite, the man who would only pass 'Ai No Corrida' because the 'right' sort of people would only see it. What hypocrisy.

[Mojo]

Originally Posted by Daemonia

Actually, in an old interview, Ferman said he joined the BBFC so that he'd never have to watch a censored film ever again, after suffering censorship of his own films. Then became the most notorious censor in British film history. Go figure.

Just goes to show what a hypocrite he was.

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by Mojo

Just goes to show what a hypocrite he was.

And so was his predecessor, John Trevelyan, who had stakes in private film clubs across London. He'd deliberately reject films that were too 'racey' and would then pass them over to his own film clubs, which didn't require these films to be certificated to show them.

Trevelyan also famously once said 'If it turns me on, it goes', or words to that effect. The BBFC should have been disbanded at the same time as the Lord Chamberlain's Office that oversaw decency in the theatre.

[Sarah@Cult Labs]

The full details are now up on the BBFC website for you to enjoy!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Sarah@Cult Labs

The full details are now up on the BBFC website for you to enjoy!

I love the line where it says GENRE(S): DRAMA -- drama?

[dream demon]

Originally Posted by hallo37

Just my personal view but I think Cannibal Holocaust has had a bit of a reputation make-over in recent years - critics no longer regard it as a trashy video nasty as it was in the 1980's...just my own opinion! I personally think apart from the animal killings it's a very good film, brutal but good.

I can't believe James Ferman was opposed to censorship...the man who treated the BBFC as his own personal editing suite, the man who would only pass 'Ai No Corrida' because the 'right' sort of people would only see it. What hypocrisy.

I seem to remember a quote from back in the time TCM was banned; basically it went something along the lines of 'it's okay for educated cinephiles in London to see it, but what if a plumber in Leeds was to see it' . Quite obviously us proles were just too stupid to 'understand' such things and needed to be protected from ourselves.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

This is indeed a landmark decision.Cut or not.
When you compare it to the Vipco release,it is truly gobsmacking.
The BBFC I have to say have come a long way recently....

Wonder if Deodato's HOUSE will fare as well.......