OVERALL: Draw

The following editions offer the original Italian cut of the film:
- R0 Italy has both Italian and English audio, although the latter has some issues at the beginning of the movie (see 'CUTS' section below). Some of the scenes are in Italian only with no English subtitles and Italian subtitles are forced when playing English audio. It has also the best set of extra features, none of which is English friendly.
- R2 Germany has both Italian and English audio, although the latter has an issue at the beginning of the movie (see 'CUTS' section below). Some of the scenes are in Italian only with no English subtitles, only German ones. It has also significant extras, but is not Anamorphic.
- R0 Scandinavia has only an unaltered English audio track, with some of the scenes in Italian only and without any subtitles. It offers some extras.
- R0 UK has only an unaltered English audio track, with some of the scenes in Italian only and with optional English subtitles for these scenes. It has almost no extras.

No edition offering the Italian audio with English subtitles is known to exist.

General notes:
The following versions of the film are known:
- The original Italian cut. In this version, the first scene of the movie is the group sex scene, featuring Italian credits and with the main title theme music. This is followed by the art lecture scene (a lesson about the Perugino by the professor John Richardson).
- The English export cut. In this version, the first scene of the movie is the group sex scene, featuring English credits and with the main title theme music. This is followed by the conclusion of the lecture scene, since is was never dubbed into English.
- The US theatrical cut. In this version, some of the marshland murder was used as a teaser opening sequence scored with some very familiar seventies library music (guitar sting at the end), with the shortened credits appearing over this sequence. The group sex scene unfolded just after, without credits, and once again with different music. This was then followed by the professor dismissing class after the lecture. Some of the gore and brief dialogue was also edited later in the film.
Special thanks to rewind user ecc for providing this detailed information, as well as cut status information for the America, German and Italy editions.

This film is also known as:
- "Bodies Bear Traces Of Carnal Violence"

CUTS:

• R0 America- Anchor Bay Entertainment - No cuts - English export cut (91:37 NTSC), although it includes the opening art lecture from the Italian version only in audio form over the opening credits (the visual track for the scene is not present here).
• R0 America- Blue Underground - No cuts - English export cut (91:37 NTSC), although it includes the opening art lecture from the Italian version only in audio form over the opening credits (the visual track for the scene is not present here).
• R0 Uncensored English Version America- Blue Underground - No cuts - English export version (90:06 NTSC)
• R0 Australia- Stomp Visual - No known cuts - could be the US theatrical cut, without any scenes in Italian language (85:18 NTSC).
• R0 Italy- Alan Young Pictures - No cuts - original Italian cut (89:38 PAL).
  The following alterations have been made on the English track:
  - At the beginning of the group sex scene, the music is the one of the US teaser opening sequence.
  - The end of the group sex scene has been filled with English dialogue from the post-lecture scene,
  After that the lecture scene has the correct Italian audio, and the post-lecture scene begins, thus repeating the dialogue from the end of the group sex scene.
• R0 Scandinavia- Another World Entertainment - No cuts - original Italian cut (89:37 PAL).
  Note, that the film/music fades to black at 89:01.
• R0 United Kingdom- Shameless Screen Entertainment - No cuts - original Italian cut (89:35 PAL).
• R2 Germany- X-Rated KultDVD - No cuts - original Italian cut (89:26 PAL).
  The following alterations have been made on the English and German tracks:
  - The title music of the group sex scene has been replaced with a suspense cue from later in the film.
• R2 Spain- Filmax - No known cuts.

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Comparison added by The Rewind Team on 06/09/02
Comparison last updated by Rob_Hunt on 26/02/23

UPDATE LOG:

06/09/02: Initial entry.
24/01/10: The UK edition is in 1.70:1 rather than 1.78:1.
14/05/18: Confirmed Italian as region free, and added more depth to extras.
26/02/19: RTs added to trailers on R2 Scandinavia.
26/02/23: Dates.
26/02/23: Updated title.