In Australia, the filmmakers were required to make a number of cuts to the film before it could be approved for release and given a classification. Following the banning of the original cut of the film, which the board deemed to be too strong even at the highest of categories (despite an appeal, which was ultimately unsuccessful) due to the film's violence (which is often mixed with sexual undertones), following this the distributor chose to re-edit the film down from the original 103 minutes (uncut) to a version which ran at 96 minutes (with cuts) which was the version which was awarded an R18+ classification without further changes. (This version of the film removed sight of a masked killer sucking blood from a gaping wound on a woman's breasts, a man removing and then consuming the eyes from a decapitated head and then before performing sexual acts upon it, and sight of the killed holding a severed head between a character's bare legs). It is also worth noting that an edited 97-minute cut of the film was also submitted during the appeal stage however this version was also refused classification.
