- Shout! Factory's Region A Blu-Ray release uses the edited Paramount US R rated cut.
- The US VHS release (Paramount Home Video 8485) has been cut down to just under 90 minutes, even though the box and cassette label both indicate a 93 minute running time.
- The US Paramount DVD is the cut R-rated version and is missing the following scenes:
- the second close-up of Tarmut's severed hands
- when the severed hands are sewn back on the monster, the entire footage of Peter Cushing helping out Shane Briant by gripping a severed artery between his teeth is missing
- the side view of the monster's eye being pushed back in its socket is missing and a reaction shot of Madeline Smith is inserted to maintain the soundtrack
- the gushing of blood from the asylum director's throat wound is slightly abridged
- about 4 seconds are removed from the scene of the monster's death, including shots of the inmates stamping on bits of his flesh after they have torn him to pieces.
- The UK DVD from DD Video was originally the same as the US R-rated version, but was then corrected to reinsert the teeth clamping sequence. However, all other cuts as described above remained. The German R2 DVD, which contained an English language track, restores all of the cuts except for the small trim to the close-up of the throat wound and was, for some years, the most complete version of the film available on DVD. The film was eventually fully restored and re-released on DVD in the UK in 2014.
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By what name was Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) officially released in India in English?
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