My Bloody Valentine - Uncut Version (1981)

My Bloody Valentine had severe problems with the MPAA before the films release, they requested cuts to every death in the movie in order to attain an R rating and even then the movie was given an X.

Paramount refused to release an uncut version to which Lionsgate acquired the rights for an Uncut DVD release in 2009. George Mihalka stated that 9 minutes of cuts were made before release which causes concern as when the film was finally released being so called, uncut only 2 and a half minutes were restored contradicting his earlier statement. He later explained that the other 6 minutes was just expository footage that didn't impact the rest of the film and gave his seal of approval and said this was how the film was meant to be seen, one scene in particular and possibly the most violent is where a couple gets impaled with a mining drill as even in the new uncut version only the discovery of the corpses is seen. It is likely this scene and the remainder of footage unrestored will ever be found.

Reasons have varied over the severe cutting of the violence the major one being the backlash of the violence in Friday the 13th the year prior, another reason is the murder of John Lennon which caused major negative reaction to violence in the wake of his death.