Jess Franco - Page 2

vincenzo · #11 7th April 2008, 09:38 PM

Ilsa: The Wicked Warden was cut by 2 mins 31 secs but I don't have the exact cuts details other than 'sadistic & sexualised violence'.

Marc M would know more about the details to this.

vipco · #12 7th April 2008, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Peter Neal

They're both cut in their ABUK releases, but unless you're a die-hard fan and Franco completist there's no reason not to go with the UK DVDs if you can get them at a reasonable prize.

I got both for £10 each which was good.
Any other ones you can recomend as HMV seam to be selling some Franco films from the box sets individually around the £10 mark .

Philleh · #13 8th April 2008, 07:23 AM

Reaper: The producer's cut contains the explicit stuff, bud.

Peter Neal · #14 8th April 2008, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by vincenzo

Ilsa: The Wicked Warden was cut by 2 mins 31 secs but I don't have the exact cuts details other than 'sadistic & sexualised violence'.

Marc M would know more about the details to this.

As I've seen the uncut version I might also shed some light on this:

A lengthy and fairly unpleasant scene is completely gone, in which the male prisoners violently rape some of the inmates of Ilsa's/Greta's "clinic".
I honestly can't see anything remotely "eroticised" or "stimulating" about this scene, but that's the BBFC going by the book.

That scene alone should cover the running time of cuts...and the movie still works fine without it IMO.

Angel · #15 8th April 2008, 06:57 PM

Interesting cuts there, Peter. A reviewer on the IMDB states also states this:

"Unfortunately, this edition was cut by more than 2 minutes by the BBFC: the death-by-asphyxiation of Rosa Philips was evidently trimmed as it now occurs in a split-second;"

Peter Neal · #16 8th April 2008, 07:15 PM

Well, unless Marc corrects me here I'd say that assumption is actually wrong, which also astonished me, because after seeing the ABUK disc first, this was one scene I DID indeed suspect of being cut, BUT it looks exactely as tacky on the confirmed as uncut German DVD release

As I wrote earlier: When you watch the Francos in the ABUK set, you can blame most of the jumpy cuts on uncle Jess himself as the censorship edits have been done skillfully, particularly "Barbed Wire Dolls" is bound to confuse many viewers as to what was exactely censored, so I might tell you that it's a lengthy "pussy shot" in a torture scene close towards the end, which had to go.