- A UK video release entitled Bloodbath of Dr Jekyll cuts from the opening murder of the little girl to the aftermath of Mr Hyde's later attack on the dancer, deleting some 26 minutes of footage inbetween.
- The uncut version of this film is very hard to find, a Japanese laser disc was intact but optically censored. The longest version occasionally turns up from American public domain companies and are usually compiled from several different releases. The British censor seems to have taken offense to all the scenes involving Mr Hyde's ridiculously fake 35cm 'organ' and any reference to it. In the UK there are several video releases going around all of which have suffered these cuts:
- Several shots of Mr Hyde beating a little girl to death are missing.
- The scene between Mr Hyde and the General's daughter is missing several organ shots.
- A brief shot of Hyde's organ is missing during his attack on Jekyll's male guest.
- A whole scene showing the doctors examining the dancer's dead body is missing.
- The General whipping his daughter is greatly reduced.
- A scene where the doctors discover the male guest's body is cut to avoid references to the dreaded organ.
- The climax where Mr. Hyde and his "wife" Fanny burn down the house is missing two incredibly graphic shots of dead bodies.
- Finally the scene where Fanny murders her mother has been shortened.
- Officially the British censors only cut 44 seconds from the film, but clearly a lot more than that is currently missing, indicating that the distributors choose to cut it beforehand.
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By what name was The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981) officially released in Canada in English?
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