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Here 4 help	Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	Lead	[-]
Apr 26 07 9:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	How many "continental" versions of UK horror films were released and still exist? Does anyone know? By "Continental" I mean alternate footage (usually nude scenes) shot specifically for another market and not simply uncut versions that surfaced abroad (eg: Blood of the Vampire). The following are definites: * Flesh and the Fiends * Jack the Ripper * The Devil Doll * Corruption Witchfinder General Satan's Slave But are there any others confirmed with prints in existence? Man Who Could Cheat Death ?? The Mummy ?? (both are rumoured but no-one seems to have seen the prints)
Plastic Sam	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#1	[-]
Apr 26 07 10:10 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There is a version of THE PROJECTED MAN that has a topless scene in it.
killer meteor	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#2	[-]
Apr 26 07 10:47 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Hands Of Orlac (1960) had a simultaneous French version produced, with additional nudity and violence apparently
Plastic Sam	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#3	[-]
Apr 26 07 1:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN and ATOM AGE VAMPIRE
LesDaniels	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#4	[-]
Apr 27 07 1:46 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Topless photos of Hazel Court from THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH appeared in an issue of LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS, which seems to prove that the foootage was shot.
Plastic Sam	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#5	[-]
Apr 27 07 8:07 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think THE DEVIL'S COMMANDMENT/I VAMPIRI belongs on the list also.
Tim Lucas VW	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#6	[-]
Apr 28 07 4:04 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	THE HELLFIRE CLUB THE AWFUL DR. ORLOF DR. ORLOFF'S MONSTER aka THE BRIDES OF DR. JEKYLL THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU (supposedly) HOUSE OF 1000 DOLLS (supposedly) KISS AND KILL I VAMPIRI would not technically be a continental version. With that, the Italian version we've seen here is complete and features no nudity. However, the US version THE DEVIL'S COMMANDMENT was issued by a distributor that dealt in nudie-cuties and they circulated a slightly spicier version called LUST OF THE VAMPIRE. I've never seen it, but it was shown at the British Film Institute about 10 years ago. Supposedly in the opening scene, there were fleeting glimpses of nudity -- but this was only seen in English speaking territories.
P0TRZEBIE	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#7	[-]
Apr 28 07 7:47 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A few Santo films made in Mexico had specially shot nude scenes added to them for European release Potrzebie
todmichel	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#8	[-]
Apr 28 07 10:49 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Hands of Orlac / Les mains d'Orlac" is a totally different thing, the entire movie was filmed twice, in two different languages, like the two Universal's Draculas. All of the shots are totally different in each version. "The Stranglers of Bombay" and "The Hellfire Club" also had some shots specifically made for Continental market. And "Twins of Evil" too. And a lot of Spanish movies, including some Paul Naschy titles, and "La llamada del vampiro" by José Maria Elorrieta, etc.
Here 4 help	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#9	[-]
Apr 29 07 6:09 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hadn't heard any rumours about Stranglers of Bombay and Twins of Evil before - is this correct? What was changed in these?
todmichel	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#10	[-]
Apr 29 07 9:44 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Twins of Evil" had some sequences involving the Collinson twins in more or less "revealing" déshabillés. Both played in Paris in different theaters. When "The Stranglers of Bombay" was recently shown on French TV (a satellite channel owned by Canal +), French movie critic Jean-Pierre Bouyxou presented the movie and spoke about the "missing segments" in the British print. Some involved shots of the beautiful Marie Devereux. "Emanuelle and the Last cannibals" was also shown in France in two distinct versions, one with more eroticism and less gory sequences, and the other... well, you guess it. I saw both versions the same day in two theaters ! "Corruption" was also shown in two versions. Later, the French VHS, called "Laser Killer", was the bloodiest version. And recently the British version was shown on TV, the flat murder sequence was played by different actresses.
todmichel	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#11	[-]
Aug 5 07 1:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A British forum recently put the Continental version of the murder of the girl in flat by Peter Cushing ("Corruption", directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, 1967). I don't know which version was released in the USA, but in any case here is the link : zddtube.ning.com/
TimCMurphy	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#12	[-]
Aug 5 07 5:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In a recent video interview, Bert Gordon states he shot a nude scene of Juli Reding for a European cut of TORMENTED
skelton knaggs	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#13	[-]
Aug 5 07 5:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* There is a version of THE PROJECTED MAN that has a topless scene in it. Is that a topless PROJECTED MAN, you say ?
TimCMurphy	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#14	[-]
Aug 5 07 7:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	God's teeth, I hope not!
skelton knaggs	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#15	[-]
Aug 5 07 7:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* There is a version of THE PROJECTED MAN that has a topless scene in it. Well if it was someone like Tracey Crisp, that would raise my eyebrow and tighten the belt !
TServo4	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#16	[-]
Aug 6 07 3:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah, the "continental" version of PROJECTED MAN is a new one to me! For those who care, the "continental version" of DEVIL DOLL is actually a replacement reel known as an "action reel," which is Reel #3. All of the nudity takes place within that 20 minute segment, and because of the clustering of these scenes together, the reel is a very full one. J. Theakston The Central Theater, Passaic, NJ
R T C Tim	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#17	[-]
Aug 6 07 3:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm interested in the continental version of 'THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU' (1966) that Tim mentions - I've seen both the English and German version of this, and certainly no 'spicy' scenes there. Is there anything known about this, or is it just a cinematic myth? --- Mondo-Esoterica.net - Cult DVD reviews from Hammer to Spaghetti Westerns.
Tim Lucas VW	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#18	[-]
Aug 6 07 7:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	BRIDES OF FU MANCHU led to what many young men of my generation remember as a godsend when some topless production shots appeared in an issue of CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN. I believe Bhob Stewart once posted here that these shots came from a French magazine. I don't think these shots were merely promotional shots because they involved action scenes still in the picture (albeit clothed), but for some reason, the nude footage never surfaced. The same thing happened with another Fu Manchu picture produced by Harry Alan Towers, KISS AND KILL -- a photo of a topless, shackled Maria Rohm was pictured on the back of a VHS release under the title AGAINST ALL ODDS, but she remains clothed in the film. (It's uncommon when you can say that about a Maria Rohm performance.) There was a competing video release, under the title FU MANCHU AND THE KISS OF DEATH, that included some alternate shots of women wearing sheer gowns that left little to the imagination, but the Rohm shot was still missing.
todmichel	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#19	[-]
Aug 7 07 3:57 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It would be interesting to list all these movies made with "alternate nude sequences". It was the case for instance with "La llamada del vampiro" (litt: "The Curse of the Vampire" - but I don't remember if it was the American release title), the 1972 Spanish movie directed by "Joseph Lacy" [José Maria Elorrieta]. The Parisian movie theater showed stills of these nude sequences, but the version I saw was the full-clothed version.
Unregistered(d)	Re: Continental Versions of Horror Films - how many?	#20	[-]
Aug 7 07 11:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In a Filmfax interview, producer Herbert Strock says that the European release of THE CRAWLING HAND has a topless scene of Icelandic actress Sirry Steffen. The sexier version of SANTO AND THE TREASURE OF DRACULA hasn't surfaced yet, as far as I know. A still from this version (which shows a line of buxom, topless vampire women standing in Dracula's lair) appears in David Pirie's book, "The Vampire Cinema." The longer, Euro version of THE WARRIOR EMPRESS, w/Tina Louise and Kerwin Mathews, includes some topless nudity during a scene where soldiers rape some village women. The Euro cut of ESTHER AND THE KING has footage of a topless Daniella Roca. The Euro cut of MACUMBA LOVE has June Wilkinson frolicking topless in the ocean. This version does circulate on the grey market.

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