OVERALL: Draw

The R0 German Wicked-Vision and R1 US Criterion releases have a (proper) remastered transfer and differing sets of exclusive extras.

The R2 UK Anchor Bay release has both versions of the film (see below) and a documentary, but the Unrated cut is a NTSC/PAL conversion, with inferior picture quality, and the documentary is quite unrelated to the film itself, since it is part of the Directors series. This edition also offers DTS 5.1 and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks, but only on the R-rated cut.

Also note that R2 French release has some exclusive extras, most of which are not English friendly, but is only the R-rated cut.

Versions:
Two versions of the film are known to exist:
- The R-rated theatrical cut.
- The Unrated cut.

Information on the differences between the R-rated and Unrated versions can be found at Movie-Censorship.com (SPOILERS!) and below:

The differences between both cuts are the following (NTSC running times - SPOILERS!):
* At 19:37, the murder of the grandmother is 0:08 longer.
* At 66:14, when Frank gets in the school, after the schoolteacher has been murdered, he looks at her, turns her head and watches his own hands, which makes the scene 0:10 longer.
* At 83:11, the ripping of the birth sack by Nola lasts 0:03 longer, until the fetus is fully visible.
* At 83:31, the cub-licking is 0:02 longer.
* At 83:36, after Frank puts his hand on his mouth, we can see another cub-licking scene which lasts 0:10.
* At 86:10, we can see the dead body of doctor Raglan for 0:03.
Special thanks to Rewind user Sairwas for his contribution in finding these differences.

A comparison between R1 and R2 France, with some shots from the Unrated cut is available on Sans Commentaire.

CUTS:

• R0 Limited Collector's Edition Germany- Wicked-Vision Media - No cuts - Unrated version (88:25 PAL).
• R0 Italy- Quinto Piano - No cuts - R-rated version.
• R0 United Kingdom- Arrow Films - No cuts - R-rated version (88:08 PAL).
• R1 America- Criterion Collection - No cuts - Unrated version (92:29 NTSC).
• R1 America- MGM Home Entertainment - No cuts - Unrated version (92:18 NTSC).
• R2 Austria- NSM Records - No cuts - Unrated version (88:23 PAL).
• R2 France- DVDY Films - No cuts - R-rated version (87:44 PAL).
• R2 Germany- Black Hill Pictures - No cuts - R-rated version (87:43 PAL).
• R2 Germany- FilmArt - No cuts - R-rated version (87:42 PAL).
• R2 Holland- A-Film - No cuts - R-rated version.
• R2 Japan- JVC - No cuts - probably R-Rated Version.
• R2 Scandinavia- Atlantic Film / Future Films / Star Media Entertainment - No cuts - R-rated version (87:48 PAL).
• R2 Spain- Filmax - No cuts - R-rated version (87:02 PAL).
• R2 United Kingdom- Anchor Bay Entertainment - No cuts - includes both the R-rated version (87:47 PAL) and the Unrated version (92:06 NTSC->PAL).
• R4 Australia- Universal Pictures - No cuts - R-rated version (87:44 PAL).

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Comparison added by Adrian_Busby on 19/06/02
Comparison last updated by Vincent_Prendergast on 24/01/21

UPDATE LOG:

16/07/15: added German releases (2x), Spanish, Italian and Austrian releases; updated cut status of several existing listings.
16/09/16: Addition of the German Wicked-Vision release.
24/01/21: Added Caps-a-holic link, added US Criterion, updated German mediabook release to R0, dual-format, and added runtimes for film & extras, added Movie-Censorship link, updated Winner notes.