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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

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• The UK cinema version was cut by just under a minute, mainly to the killing of the family. A further minute of cuts were required for a video release, with some slight re-editing of the video watching scene by the BBFC causing most controversy.
  
  
• The 2005 Australian DVD release is uncut and has all previous OFLC cuts waived. It's still rated R18+.
  
  
• The film has had a very checkered censorship history in the UK with the then-censor James Ferman originally wishing to ban the film outright until being overruled by members of his own examining team. The initial cinema release was cut by 1 minute 2 secs with the rape scene edited and the removal of the infamous opening shot of a naked woman with a broken bottle embedded in her neck. Despite vowing never to release the film on video the movie was submitted in 1993 and Ferman removed a further 51 secs of cuts. The killing of the TV store owner was toned down but Ferman controversially re-edited the home attack scene by splicing the final shot of Henry & Otis viewing the footage on their TV into the middle of the attack itself, thus 'subverting this moment of subversion'. The 2001 Universal release saw all of the video cuts waived and some cinema cuts reinserted, though the distributors themselves cut a further 21 secs on top of the 27 secs of BBFC edits. The film was finally passed uncut for cinema in 2003 and released fully uncut on UK DVD by Optimum shortly after.
  
  
• In UK video version one of the flash-backs from the begining of the film is missing. In that flash-back we can see the Dead Prostitute as listed in the end credits. The prostitute is naked, and has a piece of glass in her face. The actress is Mary Demas and she portrays another two victims in the movie: first flash-back victim from the very beginning (Dead Woman) and one of the two hookers killed in the car (Hooker #1) later in the movie.
  
  
• This film suffered cuts by Australian censors. A scene in the opening sequence, depicting a close up a dead prostitute's face smashed with a glass bottle, with her screams in the background, and Henry shouting "Die bitch, die", was removed. However, she is briefly seen at a distance, prior to the camera spanning close-up. Very minor cuts to the video scene, depicting the family being murdered, were also demanded by Australian censors. A scene depicting the background noises associated with the father's murder were removed. The rest of the murder scene, including the boy's graphic neck-breaking, remained strangely intact.
  
  
• The UK 2003 cinema re-release has all previous cuts waived. It is still rated '18'.
  
  

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