| Cut Footage |
The original Australian release on VHS
rental was missing a lot more footage: some gore, some S&M between
Nicki and Max (including the cigarette 'brand'), and more shots of the
Videodrome torture pirate tapes. This DVD is better, but it appears to
be the US R-rated version, and hence is still missing:
(a) The complete reveal of the Oriental dildo, which lasts 4 seconds
longer.
(b) When Max and Nicki first get together, Max picks up a needle from
the floor and traces it along Nicki's legs and torso.
(c) When Max pulls the needle from Nicki's left ear, four seconds showing
the needle sliding out of the lobe and being held clear are cut.
(d) Max pushing the needle into Nicki's right ear amounts to about
2 seconds of delete video.
(e) The view of Max and Nicki making love on the floor of the torture chamber
is longer by about 5 seconds.
(f) The shot of Max's second executive murder runs for 23 frames in
the PAL version and 48 frames in the NTSC version, amounting to 1 second
of missing film.
(g) The shot of Barry Convex's face splitting open is more lingering,
as are some of the other points of view.
(h) An additional close up of Barry's open chest, with the jagged ends
of ribs clearly visible, amounts to 3 seconds.
According to one source, back in the 1980s Universal originally
submitted the US R-rated version to the Australian censors, who granted
it an R classification. But an even shorter cut, taken from the UK PAL
master, was released on rental video. This is the only version I had ever
seen until I saw the US R-rated release on the UK VHS sell-thru tape (Universal). |