 The US theatrical release was sloppily cut by approximately 45 seconds to  achieve an "R" rating. Gore shots that were shortened or deleted altogether  include: scissors being pushed all the way into the prostitutes stomach  after which blood begins to spurt, the prostitute bleeding from her mouth,  Cropsy removing the pair of scissors from the prostitutes stomach and  pushing her out her bedroom window, blood splatting across the prostitutes  dresser mirror, Karen having her throat slit clean across with shears  followed by closeups and medium shots of her throat gushing blood, the  overweight kid on the raft looking down at his chest wound and crying,  Woodstock getting hit in the face with blood from his dearly departed  fingers, Woodstock holding his stump of a hand and crying as it spurts, blood  squirting out of Eddys mouth after shears are pushed all the way down his  throat, Eddy expressing pain as the shears are pulled out, the overweight  girl on the raft gushing blood from the slit in her head, front shots of  Glazer bleeding from his mouth as he is hoisted in the air via shears and  dragged towards a tree, side shot of Glazer writhing in pain as he is pinned  to the tree, and very brief clips of blood gushing during the two shots where  Cropsy is hit in the face with an axe and pierced through the back with  shears. This explicitly gory version has not yet been legally available in  the US since home video releases on Thorn EMI and HBO Video are the same as  the theatrical version, but the unrated print has been released intact on  video in Japan and possibly Venezuela.