Alternate versions for
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• There is an alternate version of the film which runs 91 minutes and contains several small and mostly inconsequential differences. These are:
  • "Version 2" is in the lower right hand corner throughout the movie.
  • There is no close-up of Jason pulling the machete out of Neil's stomach during the opening sequence.
  • Duke's (the paramedic) line is altered when he sees Joey's body. In the original version he says "Bunch of pussies..." while in Version 2 he says "I'll be damned...".
  • There is a different angle briefly used in Pete's death.
  • The scene in which Ethel yells at Junior as he is eating his stew is re-edited to remove the profanity, and uses some different angles.
  • When Demon is about to open the outhouse door, an alternate camera angle is used and some of the profanity he uses is cut from the scene.
  • After Junior is decapitated there is an alternate angle of Ethel in the kitchen, and her dialog is slightly altered.
  • The scene of Robin going to bed is re-edited to exclude some of her nudity and some dialog.
  • Before the above scene is a scene of Violet in her room which originally was part of a scene which occurred a few minutes later. When the scene happens a few minutes later, the footage that was previously used is not present.
  • When Pam fights off Roy with the chainsaw, she hits him twice in shoulder. Only the second hit appears in the original version.
  • When Roy dies, the camera stays on Pam, Tommy and Reggie instead of showing Roy falling on the spikes.
  
  
  
• British video version misses all shots of topless girls
  
  
• German video version has all the topless girls in but (nearly) all of the violence cut.
  
  
• When Lana the waitress is murdered with the ax, the shot of her body hitting the ground and quivering was cut to avoid an X rating in the US
  
  
• In the television version of this film, there is a shot of the paramedic saying "I'll be damned" after he pulls the sheet off Joey's mangled body, replacing the shot of Joey's body itself.
  
  
• The UK cinema version was cut by 56 secs by the BBFC and the cuts expanded to 1 min 22 secs for video releases. These included heavy edits to shots of the sleeping nude Tina and a closeup of her eyeless face, the crushing of a man's face with a strap, shots of a leg wound, a girl being strangled, shots of a naked girl sleeping in bed, and closeups of bloody bodies. The cuts were fully waived in 2002.
  
  
• On 7 March 2002, all previous cuts of the movie were waived by the BBFC and it was passed with an 18 certificate, which means the UK version is now identical to the US release.
  
  
• According to the film editors the sex scene in the forest was much longer in the original unrated version.
  
  
• An extra shot of Anita's dead body, before the one we get to see in the released version, was cut from the final print. This scene is intact in Version 2.
  
  
• The alternate "Version 2" includes the original version of Les's murder (in Tommy's dream). It was cut and replaced with a closeup in the R-rated version.
  
  

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