The Walking Dead UNCUT on Region B Blu Ray FOR THE FIRST TIME FINALLY!

[Rick Grimes]

Hey all you TWD fans out there outside of North America. Here is some great news: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-W...Blu-ray/71528/ The Walking Dead Season 1 is finally available uncut on a Region B release! Why now finally? FSK, the German ratings board, has finally given an 18+ rating to the uncut version of Season 1, that Anchor Bay released in North America and played on AMC in the US.

Thank you very much German distributors WVG Medien. I might just purchase your copy (despite the possibility of a German language menu and no English subs), just so I can watch The Walking Dead Season 1 UNCUT on my PS3. That would be cool. Besides, navigating the French menu's for the Caprica Blu Ray release was very easy.

Maybe now, the first step has been taken, which will lead towards a possible uncut UK/English version from Entertainment One.

Surprised you've been watching a sanitised version! Censored by the distributor, for no good reason except being cheap... (Despite my many posts on the subject trying to inform the public for those who are unaware).

Well, here is the story how TWD S1 had cuts for gore/explicit violence: The DVD/BRD distributor for the rest of the world, for a long time, have been saying in communication with frustrated fans of TWD, that they would not release another transfer, that was uncut, which includes the 40 seconds of cuts that were made to please the German censors (otherwise Germany would ban The Walking Dead Season 1). Check out the cuts at this link: WARNING: Contains Spoilers for those who have not watched TWD S1 Ep4 onwards. http://www.movie-censorship.com/series.php?TID=5087

Long story short: Entertainment One decided to make only one transfer, that contained the cuts for the German market, despite every other Region B market having no censorship issues with The Walking Dead Season 1! Why could they have not made either two transfers OR edit the scenes digitally for the German version... Which is probably what they did do anyway!
Therefore, people purchasing a copy of TWD S1 on DVD and Blu Ray outside North America have been watching a censored version of the show... With approximately 40 seconds of gore cut from the footage.

I have gone to great lengths to purchase a Region A capable Blu Ray player and then a US Region A player, so that I can enjoy TWD S1, the way it was meant to be viewed. Now I simply buy the Anchor Bay releases of TWD from the US. Thank you Anchor Bay.

However, I will probably purchase the German Region B copy, so I can lend it to my friends here in Australia and chuck it in and watch it on my PS3.
I fear that the Uncut German version of TWD S1 may be all we get here in Region B land.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Hopscotch Entertainment and E One... Please release make a UK/Australia UNCUT The Walking Dead Region B release.
Do what is right for the fans, hardcore or otherwise.

How can this be: The most watched cable series ever is being viewed censored outside the US by fans watching on home video! It is a travesty. An overzealous censorship board and a cheap distributor has led to censorship of a critically acclaimed TV show, that alongside The Sopranos and other cable shows of high acclaim is a work of art... That has been cut.
Write to EOne, email them, show them that the fans would like an UNCUT version of Frank Darabont's seminal work. The Walking Dead Season 1...

This is Rick Grimes, signing off. (Cue theme music).