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• The Grindhouse Releasing re-release, as well as the 2005 DVD, features a scrolling warning before the film from the company stating that the film is uncut and uncensored and while they do not support the "artistic decisions" of the film, they do support free speech. It also plays part of Riz Ortolani's music score in the background.
  
  
• The Japanesese Laser Disc is uncut at 95 minutes, but is optically censored.
  
  
• The 2-disc release from in Australia from Siren Visual Entertainment is uncut, including the full Last Road to Hell sequence. This release is an exact copy of the USA release from Grindhouse Releasing.
  
  
• The 2-disc French Collector's Edition from Opening Distribution is uncut, but is also missing several seconds from The Last Road to Hell.
  
  
• The EC Entertainment Deluxe Collector's Edition (single disc) is uncut and runs at 94 minutes, but is missing five seconds of the Last Road to Hell sequence. The EC Entertainment 2-disc Ultrabit Limited Edition is also uncut and includes the complete Last Road to Hell sequence.
  
  
• The USA Grindhouse releases (the Limited Collector's Edition and the Deluxe Edition) are both uncut at 96 minutes. These versions include The Last Road to Hell sequence completely intact. The only other releases with the Last Road to Hell segment intact is the EC Entertainment Limited 2-disc Ultrabit edition and the Deluxe Collector's Edition from Siren Visual Entertainment.
  
  
• The Australian DVD, released by Siren Visual Entertainment in 2005, is the same version as the US Deluxe Collector's Edition 2-disc released by Grindhouse. The film is the complete and uncut 96 minute version, is coded Region 0, and is in PAL format. The DVD also contains the complete Last Road To Hell sequence.
  
  
• German video release "Cannibal Holocaust" from the label Astro was uncut, but was banned in 2000. The old first release with the title "Nackt und zerflischt" (Naked and Mangled) was heavily cut and is still available.
  
  
• The film became one of the most notorious video nasties and was unavailable in the UK for many years. The current version from VIPCO (VHS and DVD), rated 18, is heavily cut by 5 minutes 44 secs by the BBFC and removes all footage of genuine animal killings and mutilation, as well as editing the rape scenes and the infamous torture scene with the spiked mud-ball.
  
  
• The Professional Cine Media Laserdisc is also uncut at a running time at almost 92 min (PAL) from Holland.
  
  

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