Extreme Version
(UK DVD)
Lucio Fulci
Italy
1979
This was a very welcome surprise to watch as the UK video release was completely ruined by severe cuts to allmost every gore scene. Here on the new DVD the film is remastered in beutifull picture and sound quality and best of all has only minor cuts which I will note later, a real step in the right direction from the BBFC. Although still not the totally uncut version we deserve at least this version gives you the chance to see the film allmost complete and it still retains the shock factor that was missing on video.Dont get me wrong, get the uncut version if you are a fan and desperate to see everything, just remember that this version is readily available on the high street and allmost complete and light years ahead of what we have legitimately been allowed to see before in the UK. Either way get it soon, it's a classic.
The Cuts
I can only find two short cuts in the film
The famous eye splinter scene is shortened, missing the actual penetration but leaving the last of the splinter going into the eye and breaking off.
When her corpse is found the group see the zombie's eating her, taking strips of flesh and eating them in close-up ,part of this is also missing with the section where a zombie takes a lump of flesh from her stomach area and eating it trimmed.
All the throat rippings,spurting blood, gunshot wounds are all intact.