The British Board of Film Classification has recently participated in a season of formerly banned films, as part of their centenary celebrations, showing how much more liberal they now are compared to the bad old days. But not that liberal it seems, as old-school exploitation movie throwback Dear God No! has, somewhat predictably, been cut by 94 seconds for its UK release. The cuts are designed to ‘reduce the focus on a scene of sexual violence’.

As usual, this is justified by reference to the Video Recordings Act (which, if strictly followed, would require many more films to be banned outright, and which is conveniently ignored or referenced depending on the whims of the censors), their own guidelines and entirely unproven potential ‘harm’.

Monster Pictures, who are distributing the film, previously made the uncut Human Centipede 2 available online. Let’s hope they do likewise with this film.