Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
The Scene: A 𒈔zombie smashes through a splintering wooden door to grab Paola (Olga Karlatos) and pulls her towards it.
Look Away When: Paola's eye is gouged out by a wood splinter.
BBFC Reaction: Nearly💧 2 minutes cut - including the eye gouge - in 1979, but ended up on the Video Nasties list anyway. Finally released uncut in 2005.
Misery (1990)
The Scene: Crazed fan Anꦺnie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) ties novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) to a bed and pulls out a sledgehammer.
Look Away When: She 'hobbles' him by smashing his kneecaps.
BBFC Reaction: Not only uncut, but Bates won an Oscar. Still🔯 disturbing, though.
American History X (1998)
The Scene: Neo-Nazi Derek (Edward Norton) punishes a black manꦺ who tried to steal his truck, and makes him put his mouth on the curb.
Look Away When: Derek stamps on the man's head.
BBFC Reaction: Uncut...although given the 🔥film's notorious editing history, with director Tony Kaye bundled out of the editing suite by Norton, who knows how far the scene might have gon🔴e?
Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
The Scene: Serial killer 'The Photogꦰrapher' rapes and murders yet another ꦫvictim.
Look Away When: The victim's hysterical, bloods💜tained child cradles her dead mother's body.
BBFC Reaction: Banned outright, both for its sustained link between seওx and violence and for the youth of several victims.
Videodrome (1982)
The Scene: TV station owner Max Renn (Jam🌼es Woods) begins hallucinating after being exposed to signals 🍒from hardcore show Videodrome.
Look Away When: He inserts his hand into a vagina-like wound ꦇthat appears in his stomach.
BBFC Reaction: No cuts from the censor, although invariably the version that's submitted is the U.S. R-rated, rather than the uncut/unrated versio📖n available on R1.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
The Scene: Pam attempts to escape a remote farmhouse from 🐭psycho Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), but he catches her.
Look Away When: He impales her on a meathook.
BBFC Reaction: Officially banned between 1975 and 1999, although various city councils - notably Camden in 1998 - all🦄owed it to be played anyway.
Switchblade Romance (2003)
The Scene: Alex (Maiwenn Le Besco), fleeing from a psycꦺho killer, fla💖gs down a car.
Look Away When: The killer disembowels the driver with a concrete 𝔍saw.
BBFC Reaction: The Board kept its switchblade away from this ꦦone.
Scarface (1982)
The Scene: When a drug deal goe🎀s wrong, Tony Montana ꦑ(Al Pacino) has to watch his Colombian enemies take a chainsaw to his friend Angel.
Cover Your Ears When: The Colombian boss orders, "Now the leg."
BBFC Reaction: De Palma famously won a battle to get a R rating, and then smuggled in his unappro♍ved cut anyway. No such luck in the UK; until 1994 the chainsaw sequence was slightly cut despite being largely implied.
Man Bites Dog (1992)
The Scene: While being filmed for a docum▨entary, serial killer Benoit breaks into a house and rapes a woman.
Look Away When: He invites the ♚documentary film crew to join in... ไand they do so.
BBFC Reaction: Passed uncut. It's a reflection of our own ta✨ste for voyeurism, so we had to 🎶see it.
I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
The Scene: After surviving a gang rape, J🐓ennifer (Camille Keaton) comes face-to-face with l꧟eader Johnny.
Look Away When: She severs his penis with a knife.
BBFC Reaction: Banned under t🗹he Video Nasties list, and heavily cut when finally released in 2001. Several minutes have since been reinstated or, in places, reframed, although the 2010 release is still short by 2:54.
Incidentally, the imminent remake has also fallen foul of the censor, with 43 seconds of cuts. So it isn't only A Serbian Film that continues cinema's tradition of distꦦurbance.
