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• The UK cinema version was uncut though the 1988 New World Pictures and 1991 VCI video releases were cut by 4 seconds to edit the scene where Julia's first victim pleads with her after being hit with the hammer. The cut was waived for the 1998 issue.
  
  
• An uncut version is available on video in the USA and features a few seconds of extended graphic footage in the scene where Julia kills one of her victims, who pleads for his life as she is about to hit him with the hammer.
  
  
• The scene of the victim pleading for his life could only be found on subscription TV channels in the UK until the release of the British DVD version, which restores the missing shot of Julia's first victim pleading, but only on the widescreen version. The pan-and-scan version, on the other side of the disc, still has only one "please!".
  
  
• Cut in Sweden for cinema by 4.5 min. When shown on a Swedish subscription TV channel, it was uncut.
  
  
• The version shown on German TV (rated "18") has 5 minutes edited out:
  • When Julia kills her first victim, the scene is cut after two blows with the hammer, leading directly to Julia leaving the room
  • Any scene with Frank draining his victims is cut out (except when he drains Julia)
  • The rat mutilation scenes are cut out
  • Larry's dead body can only be seen briefly (with the Cenobites)
  • Close-ups of Frank's Hands with hooks are left out
  • The very last time Frank is seen is at the beginning of the "tearing-apart" scene, with his body still basically intact.
  
  
  

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