- The Canadian theatrical version of the movie is the original US R-rated cut, which was later released in the U.S. as the unrated DVD. In Canada, the DVD was only released in the uncut version, labeled as "Uncensored" (see below).
- Throughout Canada, the US R-rated version of Cursed was shown in theaters. In British Columbia, after an unsuccessful appeal to lower the 18A rating to a 14A, the US PG-13 version was instead submitted and shown in theaters.
- In the Canadian Maritimes, the uncut US "R" rated version was submitted which earned a 'Restricted' rating but the distributor Alliance Atlantis hopping to catch the lucrative teen market appealed and got the rating changed to 'Adult Accompaniment'.
- The original R rated version has been cut in order to receive a PG-13.
- A gorier, unrated version was released on DVD featuring scenes with violence more graphic than what was seen in the theatrical PG-13 version of the film. The differences are as follows (includes Spoilers):
- In the PG-13 version, Shannon Elizabeth's character Becky is simply dragged away by the wolf at the end of the opening sequence. In the unrated version, Becky is torn in half and her bloodied upper-torso is tossed back at Jimmy and Ellie.
- In the PG-13 version, during Ellie's nightmare, she merely bites Joshua Jackson's character Jake in the neck. The scene then cuts to a quick montage of bizarre images before Ellie wakes up. In the unrated version, after Ellie bites into Jake, she's shown ripping a large chunk of his neck off and then a torrent of blood shoots out of his wound.
- In the PG-13 version, after Joanie knocks out Jake she starts looking for Ellie and Jimmy. In the unrated version, she first stops by Kyle's body, digs into the large gash in his stomach with her hands, pulls them out and then licks his blood off her fingers before proceeding to look for Ellie and Jimmy.
- In the unrated version, Joanie (in wolf form) is killed when she is shot in the head and her brains slowly ooze onto the floor.
- In the PG-13 version, the coroner discovers that Joanie's corpse has changed back into human form when her nude body is shown laying on the floor. In the unrated version, a sheet over her body is pulled back and only her face, complete with a bullet hole in her forehead, is shown.
- In the PG-13 version, Jake's death by decapitation occurs off-camera. In the unrated version, Ellie is actually shown stabbing him in the neck with the shovel a couple of times before finally cutting his head off.
- DVD Unrated Edition contains additional two minutes of footage.
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