OVERALL: Draw

Vinegar Syndrome is uncut, has an anamorpic transfer, substantial extras and has the original mono soundtrack.

But, do note that the Anchor Bay edition - although a cut version - has an exclusive commentary as well as 5.1 and DTS upmixes, a featurette on the bonus disc while the Image and Redemption DVDs have exclusive featurettes.

Kino / Redemption also has unique extras.

Note:
The full version of the film runs 85 minutes at 24 frames per second (also for NTSC formats) which translates to PAL formats as 82 minutes at 25 frames per second.

CUTS:

• R0 America- Vinegar Syndrome - No cuts (85:09 NTSC)
• R1 America- Redemption Films / Image Entertainment - Yes - :11 missing from a big gore scene.
• R1 America- Redemption Films / Koch Lorber - Yes (77:54 PAL-to-NTSC)
• R2 Double Feature United Kingdom- Odeon Entertainment - Yes - Previous BBFC cuts to the 'eating' scene at the climax have been waived. Also features footage missing from earlier video releases but is still shorter than the full 85 minute version (= 82 minutes at 24fps) (77:43 PAL)
• R2 The Norman J. Warren Collection United Kingdom- Anchor Bay Entertainment - Yes - Previous BBFC cuts to the 'eating' scene at the climax have been waived. Also features footage missing from earlier video releases but is still shorter than the full 85 minute version (= 82 minutes at 24fps) (77:43 PAL)

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Comparison added by The Rewind Team on 24/03/05
Comparison last updated by James-Masaki_Ryan on 17/12/20

UPDATE LOG:

7 Jan 2013: Revised specifications.
12 Mar 2012: Clean-up, and merging of the The Norman J Warren Collection.
07/03/16: ASINs added. R2 UK (Odeon) added. BBFC info added.
13/02/18: Tidyup.
12/03/18: added note about the film in Winner’s notes.
16/04/20: added Germany
17/12/20: updated IMDB, removed Germany boot.