Was wondering if someone has or has access to this print. It has more gore cut in. The bbfc passed the film uncut but its one of thses cases where the studio was forced to censor by those mpaa pricks, so now all dvds are the R-Rated prints.
Anyway, there's some slightly longer uncut prints, which has some more gore in. Channel 4 and the uk pre-cert VHS are longer than the DVDs with some more gore in them, the workprint has some extra gore that was cut too.
I'd love to have the uncut prints of this movie. I'm not sure if the workprint has all the content from the uncut print in though, but i think it has by the sounds of the following:
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1992 US horror by Bernard Rose (Universal Pictures)
All versions suffer the same cuts including the 'Collectors Edition' DVD release of 2006
Uncut by the BBFC but pre-cut in all DVD regions by the distributors due to MPAA interference to achieve an R rating
* Gory death of the psychiatrist about 1 hour 7 minutes: A few frames are cut to the initial tearing and blood spurting as well as a frontal sitting scene of a shocked Virginia Madsen when blood spurts onto her face. The present cut shows merely a quick reaction shot.
* Also cut is a more graphic rocking of the doctor as he violently headbutts the table when Tony Todd's character Candyman is tearing away at his flesh. The screams of the doctor are reduced for sound impact too. C4 have always shown this film uncut and the distributor Columbia Tristar can be blamed for these cuts due to MPAA interference of which Tristar are a member of. The R1 version is cut the same, but the sound impact is not as severely reduced probably due to the prologic soundtrack
* Unrated workprints (bootlegs) of Candyman also contain a more graphic beating of Virginia Madsen's character 'Helen' in the toilets by the black youths who enter into the toilet and who kick her several times on the floor while she bleeds profusely from the head wound inflicted from the blow by the hook of the main youth. This is cut in all regular prints
* In the uncut print you can see Candyman's hook emerging from the doctor's stomach as he tears away ferociously and the blood spurts towards Virginia Madsen. This is not in R print, but is in the earlier VHS!
There are rumours that the Scandinavian DVD is uncut but this has not been confirmed |
So if anyone has the workprint
