 The original UK cinema version was heavily cut by the BBFC with edits made to  closeups of throat slitting, a repeated stabbing, the ice pick murder, and  axe blows (including blood frothing from a mans head) during the climactic  flashback. The film was then listed and banned as an official video nasty,  and a successful prosecution was brought against the distributing company  World of Video 2000 in 1984 for releasing an unauthorized video version  (which was 1 min longer than the cut cinema print). The film was finally  granted a video certificate in 2002, though all versions released in the UK  were from a longer pre