SHAM034 - House on the Edge of the Park: The Archive Conversation - Page 17

Gold6082 · #**161** 7th July 2011, 10:20 AM

Firstly I appologise if this has been covered (I haven't read all the posts in the thread).

How much of this are we expecting to have been cut by BBFC? I wonder if we can improve on the previous massive 11 + minutes missing from the vipco DVD?

I have this uncut from EC Entertainment,However I will still be opurchasing the Shameless version as part of my collection & look forward to it.

Sarah@Cult Labs · #**162** 7th July 2011, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Gold6082

How much of this are we expecting to have been cut by BBFC? I wonder if we can improve on the previous massive 11 + minutes missing from the vipco DVD?

At the moment we're unsure. Shameless plan to submit this to an advisory board first as they did with Cannibal Holocaust so if all goes well it could be trimmed by surprisingly little (as was CH). However, with the BBFC, who knows?!

Gold6082 · #**163** 7th July 2011, 10:28 AM

Ok thanks Sarah,

I sure hope you are right *fingers crossed*

but as you say who Knows with the BBFC

Angel · #**164** 1st August 2011, 06:01 AM

There’s no chance whatsoever of the BBFC passing this uncut. The films unrelenting scenes of exploitative sexual violence and its prurient focus on female nudity means the BBFC are going to be reaching for their scissors once again.

Uncut? Give it another 10 years.

platostotal · #**165** 1st August 2011, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Angel

There’s no chance whatsoever of the BBFC passing this uncut. The films unrelenting scenes of exploitative sexual violence and its prurient focus on female nudity means the BBFC are going to be reaching for their scissors once again.

Uncut? Give it another 10 years.

Ha ha, maybe even need another 0 on the end.

Prince_Vajda · #**166** 1st August 2011, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Angel

There’s no chance whatsoever of the BBFC passing this uncut. The films unrelenting scenes of exploitative sexual violence and its prurient focus on female nudity means the BBFC are going to be reaching for their scissors once again.

Uncut? Give it another 10 years.

Well, the UK release of Irréversible is uncut, innit?

Greetings!

Mojo · #**167** 1st August 2011, 12:57 PM

What I can't understand is why we have to wait another ten years to be treated like adults.

Daemonia · #**168** 1st August 2011, 03:39 PM

To be fair, Angel is simply pointing out the reality of how things are at the BBFC at this moment in time. To be honest, things have progressed by an incredible amount over the last ten years and, for the most part, I'm happy with how the BBFC conduct their business. I still think that censoring films or banning them is a fruitless exercise, considering what can be accessed at the click of a mouse on the internet.

But, overall, I think they do a good job. I still get niggled by silly decisions though, like the idiotic cuts to Tombs of the Blind Dead. Okay, so it was sexual violence (well, it's not very sexy nor violent

), but it was still a stupid bit of censorship IMO.

I'm never going to get behind the idea that censoring fictional works is a good idea. Admittedly, a lot of what we watch is in very bad taste - but since when did bad taste ever harm anyone? I find most exploitation films rather amusing purely for their crassness and the fact that they made films as if censorship didn't exist. It's jaw-dropping political incorrectness, which makes me laugh. Or maybe I'm just not right in the head.