- Although never classed as a video nasty the film has a very checkered history of censorship problems in the UK. The original cinema and 1986 video releases were cut by 1 minute 51 secs by the BBFC and many scenes were edited - most notably to the stabbing of a zombie with a bone-saw, a shovel decapitation, a scene of a head being squeezed, and a sequence where a woman is stripped, strapped to a trolley and forced to fend off the sexual advances of a severed head. The 1999 Tartan release lost 2 minutes 20 secs of footage and, although the saw attack and head squeezing was waived, the decapitation and sexual assault scenes remained cut. The latter had been pre-edited by the distributors using a slowdown technique and the entire second half of the assault sequence was completely missing. The 2001 Tartan re-release was slightly less cut and finally had the shovel decapitation scene restored, though 1 minute 49 secs remained cut from the female assault sequence. The film was finally passed fully uncut by the BBFC for the 2007 Anchor Bay DVD release. Since this 2007 release, all subsequent worldwide releases of the film on DVD and Blu-Ray have included the complete, uncensored version of the film.
- Some of the more recent Blu-Ray releases (Arrow's Limited Edition US release, Second Sight UK, and German Capelight releases) include a 105-minute 'integral cut', which restores all of the deleted plot scenes used in the censored R-rated releases, with the full uncensored version.
- US theatrical prints began with a disclaimer stating the film was unsuitable for audiences under 17 (this same disclaimer is also seen on some trailers for the film), and the Empire Pictures logo.
- Laserdisc version includes 20 minutes of additional footage, including a never-before-seen dream sequence.
- The cut R-rated version released in the US was padded out by the addition of 16 non-violent scenes. These scenes are included (with additional deleted scenes) as features on Elite's LaserDisc and DVD, Anchor Bay's DVD, and the Arrow Blu-Ray.
- The Australian version is uncut except that the US R-rated version was used in Queensland to obtain an M rating and avoid it being banned in that state.
- In the UK original rental release the film was released in an open matte full screen version.
- To get a FSK-18 rating, German version was heavily cut to reduce or remove most of the gore bits. The German TV version omits the gore entirely. Only in 2014 was this censorship waived and the uncut version was granted a FSK-18 rating since being delisted from the index list.
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