OVERALL: Draw

The Norwegian release has the most extras and 5.1 audio.
The French release has the original mono and exclusive extras, but the film has forced French subtitles.

CUTS:

• R0 20th Anniversary Edition America- Dark Sky Films - No cuts (82:14 NTSC).
• R0 Director's Edition America- MPI - No cuts (82:06 NTSC).
• R0 Holland- Cult Epics - No cuts (78:53 PAL).
• R2 France- Opening Films - No cuts.
• R2 Germany- Laser Paradise - No cuts (79:14 PAL).
• R2 Special Edition Double Feature Germany- Laser Paradise - No cuts (79:02 PAL).
• R2 Special Edition Double Feature Norway- Another World Entertainment - No cuts (78:57 PAL)
• R2 Collector's Edition Scandinavia- SME/Future Film - No Cuts (82:16 NTSC->PAL)
• R2 Special Edition Sweden- Atlantic Film AB - No cuts (82:16 NTSC->PAL).
• R2 United Kingdom- Optimum Releasing - No cuts. Previous cuts waived.
• R2 United Kingdom- Universal Pictures - Yes, 48s. This film was highly controversial at the time of it's release. Some cuts were made to the cinema release version, with many more made for the 1993 video release. Re-classified April 2001 for the DVD release. Some original film cuts waived, and all previous video cuts have been restored. The BBFC only required 27s of cuts, but the distributor made an additional 21s of cuts:
  -For the forthcoming DVD release, the minor cut to the murder of the TV salesman has been waived. In addition, many of the cuts previously made to the camcorder sequence have been removed, including the re-editing of this scene. Whereas the scene was cut by 24 seconds on film and by a total of 1 minute 11 seconds (plus reordering) on video, it has now been cut by only 10 seconds in all to remove the sexualised image of the woman victim's breasts being mauled. The opening sequence showing the female corpse on the toilet, has, however, once again been deleted as per the previous UK film and video releases.
  -However, the story is not quite that simple. The BBFC only insisted on 27 seconds of cuts (comprising 10 seconds from the camcorder sequence and 17 seconds from the 'corpse on toilet' scene), but an additional 21 seconds of cuts were in fact made by the distributor. The reason for this lies in the corpse on toilet shot. As stated above, this entire scene was cut from the previous film and video releases. On this occasion, however, the Board agreed that the beginning of the scene could be left in, showing the camera panning across the room to reveal the corpse on the toilet. The scene could then be cut after the corpse is revealed to remove only the zoom into and pan down the woman's blood stained body. However, the distributor chose to remove the entire sequence as per the previous film and video releases, rather than merely edit out the last part of the scene. That is unfortunate in one sense but it is, of course, their choice. In fact, they have probably decided to do it this way because the cut looks too obvious if made in the way we directed, whereas by removing the whole sequence what could have looked rather clumsy actually runs smoothly.

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Comparison added by Craig on 19/07/01
Comparison last updated by James-Masaki_Ryan on 25/12/22

UPDATE LOG:

30/12/10: Updated specs for both UK releases.
01/05/17: Added Germany SE, ASINs.
08/05/21: Addition of the Sweden release.
25/12/22: Added Norway.