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so...basically nobody has the x-rated version?


some have seen the hardcore version (in theatres or in colleges...damn, i should've enlisted there!), but nobody has a copy of it? i can't believe it. with so many die-hard collectors, traders, bootleg video operations, and cult-movie fanatics, there must be someone who's got an uncut copy?





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My dad knew one of the directors (and nearly got a mainstream movie produced with him in 1976) and wanted to show me the movie when I was a kid - he didn't know there was an x-rated version either, amazingly enough. He rented what turned out to be the x-rated version of the film at some local video store, or at least had to be because what we wound up seeing was not what he remembered from when he first saw it. It was definitely in the X-territory, far beyond what even now would be given an R-rating.

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Yes I want one too please...

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I suspect that any and all hardcore footage may have been destroyed when the F.B.I. confiscated the film. Even though (somehow) you have a BATMAN XXX and a STAR TREK XXX out on DVD now (the Batman one is quite funny, and even uses the Batmobile from the original TV show), back then the idea of doing a porno on a known fictional character like Flash Gordon was new and shocking. No doubt the estate that owned the Flash Gordon property sicked the government dogs upon them, despite the blatant disclaimer in the opening titles.

Though stranger things have happened; the FROM BEYOND dvd release contains the edited violence that was thought to be lost forever... until someone found the 35mm reels in someone's basement that is(!).

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I used to have it in VHS a long long time ago.

There was no real X rated part in it, you did see nude bodies and fake intercourse, but it was not X rated as in the sense it is today.

In 1974 erotic and porno movies were hip and it was ok to actually go out and see one with your date.

They had a story and a few more or less graphic sex scenes.

This one was middle of the road.

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The Hen's Tooth DVD is unrated, but it is the uncut version, or as close to the full X rated version as we're gonna get.

Basicly the MEDIA VHS release is the rated R version as it doesn't show the scene where Flesh personally "thanks" Prince Precious for saving him and his friends, because mainstream films didn't show things like that in 1974.

And yes, Flesh Gordon was released in the last days of when X-Rated films, before X meant seX, that's why an R rated version was released a few years later, to prevent it from being confused with an all out sex fest, like all X-Rated films were becoming at the time.



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A friend of mine ran a porn theatre in Boston back when this was released. He said he showed the full uncut X version a few times before the police confiscated it and gave him the cut one. He said it WAS hardcore! He said the only part that was severly cut was the oral sex sequence between Flesh and Precious and almost all the frontal male nudity was gone. He said the female nudity was pretty intact as well as the lesbian sequence. Either way he said it didn't change the fact that it wasn't a very good film.

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I still have the Hen's Tooth "Collector's Edition" VHS that I purchased back around the mid-90's. It is a 90-minute "uncut" edition. If I remember right, there's a quick scene of the "thanks" to the prince before the camera pans over to the front of the ship (the one that looked like a ladybug). Was this originally extended?

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