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Originally Posted by suziginajackson

I remember that

Was it VIPCO who released a version of it in the late 90's/early 00's, which was from an uncut master, and had to be withdrawn from sale a few weeks later because it was 'not the correct version'?

I remember walking into a shop in Fareham at the time, picking it up, um-ing-and-ah-ing and then putting it back because I couldn't justify the expense of getting it!

Damn - curse me!!!!

Taken from melonfarmers:

The film was released in cinemas with around a minute of BBFC cuts in October 1974.
It was released uncut in January 1983 by Iver Film Services. By November 1983 it had been listed as a video nasty and suffered a successful prosecution. It remained on the list throughout the panic and so became one of the collectable DPP 39s.

In 1993 there was a mysterious uncut Vipco version. It was nominally slated as pre-cut but somehow got a limited unsanctioned uncut release. It was withdrawn within days.

In 1999 the video was released on the Satanica label, in a version that was obviously taken from Vipco's planned cut version (Vipco's logo remains). This time the distributor removed every single violent scene before submitting it to the censors.

The same heavily pre-cut version was released on 2002 DVD by Film 2000.

Passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived and distributor cuts restored for the UK 2012 Nucleus DVD