what a great film

Great news but sadly a little late for me - I imported the US DVD back in 2002 ;-)

One of the things that I thought was strange was that a couple of years before that I bought the book about the making of the film by David A. Szulkin from a shop in Meadowhall in Sheffield and it featured a detailed rundown of every scene and many full colour pictures (including of the notorious disembowling scene).

I suppose that more than anything points out the absurdity of censorship when the exact same material is legally available in printed and photographic form!

Considering not even Craven himself knows what exactly constitutes an 'uncut' version of this film, it will be interesting to see which version we end up with.

I am betting on a version identical to the long-available US title, which although not suffering the cuts imposed by our censorship board, the last time the film was put forward, still differs from the original version screened theatrically.

This is one film where the term 'uncut' is too simplistic - perhaps the phrase 'more complete than before, but still missing key scenes' would be more apt, but perhaps wouldn't sell the product quite so well.

Personally, I'd pay top dollar for a version without the 'hilarious' bumbling cops, but maybe that's just me...

Has the report you sent to the bbfc been post anywhere on the internet? I am interested to see how you managed to confince them to release it uncut.

I didn't make much of this but its difficult to get a true feel of a film after years of horror hype.

Don't get me wrong though, its at least 103846 times better than most horror released now.