Clive Barker had to make some cuts on the film after MPAA gave it an X rating: Two and a half shots were excised from the first hammer murder, including a close up of the hammer lodged in the victim's head.In the scene where Julia murders another man, the actor playing the victim felt that it made sense for him to do so naked. The nude murder scene was shot but ultimately replaced with a semi-clothed version.Close-ups of Kirsty sticking her hand into Frank's belly exposing his guts.Longer version of the scene where Frank is being torn into pieces by the Cenobite's hooks.Final shot where his head explodes and his brain messily splashes out was also cut.In an interview for Samhain magazine in July 1987, Barker mention some problems that censors had with more erotic scenes in the movie; "Well, we did have a slight problem with the eroticism. I shot a much hotter flashback sequence than they would allow us to cut in... mine was more explicit and less violent. They wanted to substitute one kind of undertow for another. I had much more explicit sexual encounter between Frank and Julia, but they said no, let's take out the sodomy and put in the flick knife." Barker also said on the commentary for the movie that the seduction scene between Julia and Frank was initially a lot more explicit: "we did a version of this scene which had some spanking in it and the MPAA was not very appreciative of that. Lord knows where the spanking footage is. Somebody has it somewhere.... the MPAA told me I was allowed two consecutive buttock thrust's from Frank but three is deemed obscene!".

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