The burbs box office ratings

I've read that "The Burbs" was banned for some period in the UK as well. Is that correct?

This is from the imdb page:

<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center># The UK cinema and video versions were cut by 26 secs to remove some of the images that Ray sees when he's watching the TV (eg: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) etc), as the film was banned in the UK at the time. The cuts were restored in 2004 and the certificate upgraded to a '12'.<center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>
 
<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>RayPeterson wrote:

I've read that "The Burbs" was banned for some period in the UK as well. Is that correct?

This is from the imdb page:

<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center># The UK cinema and video versions were cut by 26 secs to remove some of the images that Ray sees when he's watching the TV (eg: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) etc), as the film was banned in the UK at the time. The cuts were restored in 2004 and the certificate upgraded to a '12'.<center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span><center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>

I wonder why they we're cut? Any of our Brit friends out there able to answer this?
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was banned for many years, and I recall quite a lot of advertising for it once it got given its rating and was shown for the very first time on Channel 4. Before then, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 scenes were cut from The 'Burbs but since then they've been put back in.

However, the BBC for as long as I can remember had rights to show The 'Burbs until ITV got it 2 or 3 years ago. The BBC would show it every couple of years late at night (un-edited) whereas ITV tend to show it in an afternoon slot, edited for language.
 
A few scenes were cut from the UK version purely because of knee-jerk legislation: 1984 Video Recordings Act.

Moral panics yet again.

Many movies were cut to ribbons. Not just video nasties either. Only recently have the nunchaka scenes in Bruce Lee films been added as platinum editions. I bought Game Of Death in 1984 and it was about an hour long. Now released with full uncensored scenes the movies a marathon. Amazing...all that time the footage was lying in a Golden Harvest/Raymond Chow vault...

I wonder what happened to the extra/cut Burbs footage. We know it exists...we've seen evidence in the trailer...
 
<span class="postlistquotedtext"><blockquote>quote:<center><hr width="100%"/></center>Art Weingartner wrote:

I wonder what happened to the extra/cut Burbs footage. We know it exists...we've seen evidence in the trailer...<center><hr width="100%"/></center></blockquote></span>

I guess I know where it is.

WHAT HAVE YOU GOT IN THE CELLAR HERR DANTE?
 
LOL

But getting back to the question. Because of the 1984 Act, certain scenes (e.g. The Exorcist) were not allowed to be shown on TV.

(civil liberties rant)

Bloody nanny state yet again.

Oh, so caring about us...yet watching us constantly...and stripping us of our fundamental rights by the minute. Yet they allow known terrorists to stay here at our expense. It's unreal.

I'm not a smoker and I hate smoke, especially in restaurants, but I'm getting very concerned about civil liberties here. We have more cameras than ANY other European country. Now it's alcohol that's being controlled by government. They want our DNA/ID cards and to curtail drinking, smoking, there's talk even of identifying POSSIBLE criminals - BEFORE THEYRE BORN. We can all see the implications...

Something's gone drastically wrong.

Has anyone seen how much money Blair is raking in by the way? I think he should do the decent thing and give every penny he's made to soldiers and their families as a small recompense for him sending them to Afghanistan and Iraq all against the public's wishes.
 
I have to ask, what on earth is a DNA card?
 
They want our DNA on a National Database (even though they can't even retain a lap top without losing it on a train, in a cafe etc...with sensitive terrorism info within... and they want to issue us all with ID cards...Churchill did it in WW2 ONLY because he had to. As soon as the war ended he abolished them.
 
Man, it seems the UK is something like a huge test center for the New World Order and their plans.
 
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