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Galaxy Quest (2000)
Director	Dean Parisot
Cut Formats	VHS, Film, DVD
Classifications	M
Cut Footage	Racy dialogue when Sigorney Weaver says "Screw this!" Her lips say "Fuck this!" [Source: IMDB]
Reason	Cut before release to obtain a US PG rating.
Uncut Releases	Not yet available.

 

Galaxy of Terror (1981)
Director	Bruce D. Clark
Cut Formats	VHS
Classifications	M
Cut Footage	"The evisceration and a protracted shot of a scalped corpse with part of its skull missing were trimmed to secure an R rating." [confirm - source: Splatter Movie Guide Vol II]    According to termy-2 on IMDB, the "maggot scene" was cut in the UK. This person is probably referring to the scene where the alien monster inserts a fleshy probe between Erin Moran's character, then her head explodes from the pressure applied by tentacles. Her character is clothed throughout this death scene, unlike the earlier alien ravishment suffered by another female team member, who ends up naked and covered in slime. Note that writhing maggots do appear on some rotten flesh a different scene.
Reason	Cut to obtain a US R rating.
Uncut Releases	US DVD [Source: MHVF], US VHS running to 81:24 NTSC, UK DVD [confirm]. A US laserdisc was released but is now out of print - uncut status unknown.

 

Gangs of New York (2002)
Director	Martin Scorcese
Cut Formats	Film, DVD, VHS
Classifications	MA (8/1/2003 - 166 mins film)
Cut Footage	Various bloody moments during the opening gang fight where bladed weapons strike human flesh, as well as other gory effects such as someone's cheek flesh being ripped by an opponent's fingers. [speculation]    Martin Scorcese insists that this theatrical version is his cut, implying the violence rather than showing it explicitly, but it is quite obvious that compromises were made in the editing room for gore. The original cut was 220 minutes according to The Daily Telegraph, UK. I am still gathering evidence about possible cuts made specifically for the US MPAA and will post anything relevant here. I doubt though, that Scorcese has admitted to them. The violence is reminicent of Gladiator. The MA rating is the original classification.
Reason	Cut to obtain a US R rating. [confirm]
Uncut Releases	None.

 

Gangster No. 1 / Gangster Number One (2000)
Director	Paul McGuigan
Cut Formats	DVD, VHS [speculation]
Classifications	MA (9/2/2001 - 96 mins PAL)
Cut Footage	"The movie Gangster Number One with Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany, and David Thewlis, released in Australia, is cut. It runs to 96 mins PAL while the UK version runs at 99 mins PAL. I have seen both versions and there is substantial cutting of a graphic murder scene." [PJ]
Reason	Unknown. We may have received a cut German or US version.
Uncut Releases	UK theatrical release running to 102:35 film, and the UK DVD (Video Collection International) running to 98:18 PAL. [Thanks to PJ]

 

Gator Bait II - Cajun Justice (1988)
Directors	Beverly, Ferd Sebastian
Classifications	Banned (1989)
Uncut Releases	Unknown.
Original Entry	Refused-Classification.

 

Gia (1998)
Director	Michael Cristofer
Cut Formats	VHS
Classifications	MA (29/4/1998 - 118 mins PAL)
Cut Footage	Extended sexual liasons and nudity featuring Angelina Jolie and other players. The Australian release was classified with a running time of 118 minutes. The uncut version should run for 126 minutes NTSC.
Reason	Cut to obtain a US R rating.
Uncut Releases	Unrated US VHS, Japanese DVD. [Thanks to Anthony T. for this entry]

 

Ghost Festival (1985)
Director	Gei Sek
Cut Formats	Film
Classifications	R (1987), Banned [assumption]
Cut Footage	Unknown.
Reason	Cut to avoid being banned.
Uncut Releases	Unknown.
Original Entry	Refused-Classification.

 

Ghosthouse / Casa 3 (1987)
Director	Humphery Humbert aka Umberto Lenzi
Cut Formats	VHS
Classifications	R (18/2/1988 - 90 mins VHS)
Cut Footage	Various gore effects including a throatslice, a woman chopped in half, and garden shears mayhem.
Reason	Unknown.
Uncut Releases	Unrated US VHS (Imperial - 94 mins), UK DVD (Vipco).

 

Ginger (1971)
Director	Don Schain
Classifications	Banned (1985)
Uncut Releases	US DVD.
Original Entry	Refused-Classification. [Thanks to RC]

 

The Girl with Hungry Eyes (1995)
Director	Jon Jabcobs
Cut Formats	VHS
Classifications	MA (10/8/1994 - 85 mins PAL)
Cut Footage	Nudity and more sex scenes. [speculation] A DVD featuring the director's cut as a supplement was posted for auction on E-Bay Dec 2002.
Reason	Cut to obtain a US R rating. [assumption]
Uncut Releases	US special edition DVD. [confirm]

 

The Girl Next Door (2004)
Director	Luke Greenfield
Cut Formats	Film
Classifications	MA (19/8/2004 - DVD, 6/2/2004 - 109 mins film)
Cut Footage	Basically, less nudity was shown in the cut version:    (a) Bikinis had been added digitally in the stripclub scene.    (b) When characters watch a porn video, the footage is slightly more graphic in the extended DVD.    The longer "uncovered" Australian DVD (Fox) also contains additional narrative scenes included for home video. The BBFC lists the DVD running time at 105:26 PAL, and the theatrical version at 109:16 film, which equates to 104:54 PAL or a difference of 30 seconds shortern than the DVD. The US unrated DVD is listed as being 110 mins. I will grab the Australian DVD again to see what it's running time is. The trimmed theatrical version was also released in the US on DVD for conservative markets.
Reason	Cut to obtain a US R rating.
Uncut Releases	Local DVD (Fox), Unrated US DVD (Fox), UK DVD (Fox).

 

Gladiator (1992)
Director	Rowdy Herrington
Cut Formats	Film, VHS
Classifications	R (4/3/1992 - 101 mins film and rental), M (9/4/1992 101 mins film, 29/10/1992 rental)
Cut Footage	Some of the bloodier moments in the boxing matches. The rounded OFLC running times indicate that less than a minute was removed. [assumption]
Reason	Cut to obtain the lower M rating. Video Box Office released both versions on tape. Going by the OFLC information, the film was classified for theatrical and VHS release in both versions, hence there are four classifications.
Uncut Releases	Local VHS rated R running to 97:38 PAL.

 

Gladiator (1999)
Director	Ridley Scott
Cut Formats	Film, VHS, DVD
Classifications	M (13/4/2000 - 155 mins film)
Cut Footage	Impactful violence during fight scenes, for example when a gladiator is impaled on a wall spike, the shot is more graphic. On the other hand, M. C. Thomason offers these comments:    "Believe it or not, the release print is Scott's final cut of the picture. All of the footage deleted was done so at editing stage as Scott felt much of it did not work within context of his intended vision." [M.C. Thomason]
Reason	Cut before release. Scott approved the current version. It is not clear whether he was forced to make these cuts for the US R rating. This title will remain in the list for now.
Uncut Releases	The snippets are on the local DVD as supplements. Full version is not yet available.

 

The Glimmer Man (1996)
Director	John Gray
Cut Formats	DVD
Classifications	MA (18/10/1996 - 91 mins film)
Cut Footage	(a) In the BBFC-approved UK version, 8 seconds are cut. In the scene where Seagal confronts two Russians in the car, 4 seconds of Seagal beating a Russian over the head 9 times with his gun butt have been cut, and in the final scene, 4 seconds of Seagal repeatedly punching the villain bloodily in the face after he kicks him onto the table are cut. [Source: IMDB] (b) At 18:42 Steven Segal breaks a thug's right arm. The break, like the one shown in Nico: Above the Law is not shown. (c) At 18:57 in the same fight sequence, another thug is impaled on rusty machine blades. The close-up is zoomed in to hide the chest wounds.
Reason	Sourced from a cut UK master.
Uncut Releases	Local VHS and film, US DVD (Warner) [assumptions].

 

GoldenEye (1996)
Director	Martin Campbell
Cut Formats	DVD, Film, VHS
Classifications	PG (26/5/2006 - DVD, 26/2/2001 - DVD, 24/9/1998 - DVD, 7/11/1995 - 130 mins film)
Cut Footage	The original Aussie DVD release (Warner Home Video) from suffered cuts imposed on the UK edition. Other BBFC cuts may have been inherited as well, besides the following two cuts I confirmed by comparing the original 1999 release with the VHS rental. I'll need to confirm that, since I don't quite remember. But I suspect the local SE had not been released when I did the comparison for my article in DVD Now magazine.    (a) At 1:54:47 a jump cut indicates that a second or so is missing from the fight between Bond and 006 in the antenna room.    (b) At 1:57:09, during their scuffle on the lower prong of the antenna, a shot of Bond head-butting 006 was cut.    There is also mention of cuts being made prior to the film's original US PG-13 theatrical release, according to IMDB and DVD Compare. IMDB lists these MPAA cuts as:    (a) In the scene when 006 is shot, one originally clearly saw the impact of the bullet to the head.    (b) When Xenia shoots the workers at the Severnya station, there were originally several more shots of the people being killed.    (c) Xenia's death was trimmed. The shot of her choking was longer.
Reason	The UK version was released by MGM on DVD, cut for the UK 12 rating. This is probably the same version originally released on Australian DVD in 1999. The MPAA also made cuts prior to release to get a US PG-13 rating.
Uncut Releases	None yet. The Australian special edition and ultimate edition DVDs contain the standard, censored US theatrical version.
More Details	Visit MichaelDVD and here. Also visit DVD Compare, although it does not list our original DVD, which I found to have UK cuts.

 

The Gore Gore Girls (1972)
Director	Herschell Gordon Lewis
Classifications	Banned (23/2/2005 - DVD, Customs confiscation - date unknown)
Uncut Releases	US DVD (Image Entertainment/Something Weird Video).
Comments	Siren Entertainment tried to have it classified for DVD but failed. Considering the other films receiving R ratings lately, for example Ichi the Killer uncut, one has to wonder why this curio from the salad days of splatter cinema was knocked back. It does reportedly contain an extended rape scene, but so does I Spit on Your Grave, which has several, in fact.

 

Les Grandes Jouisseuses / The Grand Sensualist (1977)
Director	Claude Bernard-Aubert
Cut Formats	Film, VHS
Classifications	R (1978), Banned
Cut Footage	Unknown.
Reason	Cut to avoid being banned.
Uncut Releases	Unknown.
Original Entry	Refused-Classification.

 

The Green Berets (1996)
Directors	John Wayne, Ray Kellogg
Cut Formats	DVD
Classifications	PG
Cut Footage	(a) Captain Nim being drowned in a barrel.
Reason	Unknown.
Uncut Releases	TV and film versions [assumption].
More Details	Visit MichaelDVD.

 

The Grudge (2004)
Director	Takashi Shimizu
Cut Formats	DVD, Film, VHS [assumption]
Classifications	M (8/2/2005 - DVD, 25/10/2004 - 91 mins film)
Comments	This is the Follywood remake of Ju-on starring Sarah Michelle Geller. The following cuts are missing from the first DVD (Roadshow) release and also the theatrical print. The local DVD runs to 98:09 PAL or 102 minutes film, which matches the theatrical running time. The US unrated DVD goes for 107 minutes.
Cut Footage	Note that some of these differences may not have been to get the PG-13 rating before release. Other narrative differences also exist but these have not been listed.    (a) After Bill Pullman's Death we focus on his dead face and the eyeball on the pavement has slightly popped out looking like a white gum drop.    (b) The Old senile lady when she meets Yoko (caretaker) is messing with tape and her fingers are covered in blood.    (c) Ted Raimi meeting Yoko jawless in the hallway is extended and she even stretches back quite a bit to show down her throat quite a lot.    (d) The Bill Pullman scene where he shows up at the house and finds Ayako's body is longer. She falls out of the closet and we stay on her for quite a while. She seems to follow him throughout the room. Her neck is making crunching noises.    (e) Here is what makes the uncut uncut. The father killing his family scene. He grabs Ayako and semi strips her and grabs her by the throat and in his rage twists her head to an almost 360 and it splinters and cracks as she spits blood. The 'aaaaaaaacckkkk' sound is from her dying as her throat is distended. Toshio views the entire thing! This reveals why he is always bug eyed when on the stairwell looking down because this is where he was sitting.    (f) After Bill Pullman's Death we Focus on his dead face and the eyeball on the pavement has slightly popped out looking like a white gum drop.    (g) As SMG is saving her comatose hubby we see more of the family death. It looks as if he cuts the cats throat in the tub and then he slams its carcass against the tub walls. We then actually see Toshio being drowned. He even has a moment where he looks at his father before he dunks him in. Then there are jump cuts of where the father placed their corpses. These spots end up being where they congregate. Toshio is dead in his closet along with his mother in the attic.    [Source: Bloody Disgusting]
Reason	Cut to obtain a US PG-13 rating.
Uncut Releases	Japanese film print, unrated US DVD.
More Details	View screen captures on Movie-Censorship.
Entry Last Updated	30/6/2008

 

The Grudge II (2006)
Director	Takashi Shimizu
Cut Formats	Film, DVD
Classifications	M (19/1/2007 - DVD, 17/10/2006 - 102 mins film)
Comment	The Australian theatrical and DVD releases are of the shorter version, not the extended version released in the US on DVD (Sony). The BBFC clocks the cinema print at 102:17, while the Aussie DVD (Roadshow) has a counter time of 98:09 PAL. Note that the BBFC also examined a version for home video that runs to 103:36 PAL, or fairly close to the equivalent US disc running time of 107:44 NTSC. DVD Compare does not list this release. The Grudge II was also released in the US on DVD (Sony) in its shorter PG-13 version. Ditto Holland (Dutch FilmWorks).    Watching the cinema version, I didn't think it had been censored. Then, when I saw the uncut version on US DVD, I didn't think it had restored censorship cuts, but the details posted below convinced me otherwise.
Cut Footage	The following shots were identified in an entry on Movie-Censorship. After examining the shots, I have determined that the trims were more than likely made to reduce the impact of the film, even though they are mild, as mentioned by the German website. The so-called directors cut, which I've seen, is in my opinion the version of choice for The Grudge II.    (a) When Bill is hit over the head by Jennifer Beals, the longer version show smoke rising from his head.    (b) After Bill collapses to the floor, there's another shot of him lying under the table, and yet another shot showing his blood seeping across the floorboards.    (c) When Karen takes an unscheduled swandive from the hospital roof, two additional shots in the extended version show blood spashing and blood oozing across the pavement from her head more noticably.    (d) During the flashback climax, the killing of Aubrey is slightly more violent.
Reason	Probably cut before release to obtain a US PG-13 rating.
Uncut Releases	US unrated DVD (Sony).
Entry Last Updated	30/6/2008

 

Gwendoline / The Perils of Gwendoline (1984)
Director	Just Jaeckin
Cut Formats	VHS
Classifications	R [assumption]
Cut Footage	Softcore erotica including possible S&M elements.
Reason	May have been cut for PAL markets. The UK version runs at 87 mins. The NTSC and film version is 105 mins.
Uncut Releases	Japanese DVD (French language only, no English subtitles).

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