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Hole (The) (2001)
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.Director: Nick Hamm
OVERALL: Draw-
OVERALL: Draw
German release for the best selection of extras, or Hong Kong release for the DTS audio.
The film was pre-cut in the hope of achieving a '15' rating for the theatrical release. Ironically, the UK DVD release is rated '18' due to the deleted scene content! The same version of the film was released worldwide, hence none of the regions are cut - they are the same as the original pre-cut theatrical release.
Visitor Daliah has kindly provided the details of the cuts...
- The group seduction was toned down somewhat.
- Hands across the crotch & hands inside the jeans were removed.
- The head smashing was cut the heaviest, all sights of splashing blood, continuous bashing & brain falling out of the wound were removed, sound effects were completely changed & toned down including a reduction in the volume.
- The use of the c**t word was changed in several scenes & in one instance changed to cum-bag (IRRC).
- An inpalment was toned down removing most of the blood flow.
- An uncut 18 cert was available but Pathe chose not to reinstate the cut scenes for home video, despite the director's wishes for the harder version's release.
- The DVD is rated 18 due to the c**t word in one deleted scene! -
CUTS:
- R1 America- Buena Vista Home Entertainment - No cuts - see notes above
- R1 Special Edition Canada- Seville Pictures - No cuts - see notes above. Run time 102:17 NTSC. The deleted scenes include the c*** word (at timecode 3:52), although the DVD is only rated Can 14A.
- R2 France- Fox Pathe Europa - No cuts - See notes above
- R2 Germany- BMG Video - No cuts - See notes above (98:09 PAL).
- R2 Poland- SPI International - No cuts - see notes above (98:09 PAL).
- R2 Scandinavia- Sandrew Metronome - No cuts - See notes above
- R2 Switzerland- Medaria Home Entertainment - No cuts - see notes above
- R2 United Kingdom- Pathe! Distribution - No cuts - see notes above
- R3 DTS Hong Kong- Edko Films - None.
- R5 Russia- CP Digital - No cuts - see notes above (98:04 PAL).
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Comparison added by Adrian_Busby on 16/04/02
Comparison last updated by Samuel_Scott on 27/01/16UPDATE LOG:
10/01/14: Added German and Russian releases.
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27/01/16: Updated Polish release.
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