Alternate Versions for
Evil Dead, The (1982)

• German version misses 48 seconds. There are 2 German versions on the market:
  • Tanz der Teufel (banned/uncut)
  • Tanz der Teufel 1 (heavily cut)
  
  
  
• The Swedish version, originally cut by several minutes was re-released in 1997 completely uncut, including the infamous tree-rape scene
  
  
• When originally released to cinemas in Britain, the UK censors removed around 18 seconds of footage, and it was this version which was released on video originally. Despite the cuts, it became one of the most notorious of the UK video nasties, and was subject to many obscenity trials before being withdrawn on video in 1984, when mandatory video censorship was introduced to the UK. It was not until 1990 that the film surfaced on video in the UK again, due to wrangles between the distributors and the BBFC over how much footage should be cut from a legal video release. In the end, a further 1m 6s was removed, in addition to the previous cinema version cuts. Most of the gore scenes were shortened or removed, with the tree rape scene being particularly targetted for cuts. The full uncut version has never been released in the UK.
  
  
• The 1998 Anchor Bay video releases, "Collector's Edition" and "Limited Edition" (35,000) have a stereo soundtrack.
  
  
• In March 2001, the BBFC decided to release it completely uncut in the UK.
  
  
• The Anchor Bay releases are complete and uncut.
  
  
• A small scene was cut from the U.S. release:
  • After all of Ash's friends have turned into demons, he goes outside and begins to panic. Frustrated and angry, he kicks in one of the front windows. Eventually settling down, he re-enters the cabins and again confronts the monsters.
  
  
  
• The uncut UK Anchor Bay DVD release in 2001 had a Dolby Digital 5.1 and a 6.1 DTS-ES remix. The image is also matted to 1.85:1 aspect ratio from the original 1.33:1 frame.
  
  

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