- When Peter Jackson learned during post-production that the MPAA was going to give the movie an R-rating (despite many efforts to go for a PG-13 rating), he made Milton Dammers' death scene more gruesome by blowing up his head, instead of just having him shot in the chest and blown through the chapel doors. This caused problems with the BBFC, who cut the one continuous shot into two shots, minus the bullet blowing up the head. This censored Region 2 DVD was released throughout Europe. The U.S. television version uses the take where Dammers is blown through the chapel doors.
- UK cinema, VHS and initial DVD versions were cut by the BBFC for a '15' certification. The bloody shot of Patricia's mother lying on a bed was slightly shortened, and Agent Milton getting his head blown off is spliced into two separate shots with a quick, rearranged insert of Frank falling backwards to tone down the gore-factor - in the US version, Milton's head is blown off in one bloody shot. These scenes were reinstated in the Director's Cut, which also has a '15' certification, after the BBFC finally waived the cuts.
- USA television version replaces the scene of Dammers' head being blown off with him instead being blown back into the chapel doors.
- The director's cut, until recently seen only on laserdisc, now also available on DVD, contains 14 minutes of additional footage; it includes additional screen time for Judge (John Astin), extra scenes at Frank's home with Stuart and Cyrus, two extra scenes at the jail featuring Stuart, Cyrus and Dammers and additional dialogue for Dammers as he recalls some of his horrific undercover assignments.
- The Theatrical Trailer features some cut scenes. They include a scene in which Frank is visited in Jail by Stuart and Cyrus, they inform Frank that the police are going to try and pin the murders on him. Another scene takes place in Frank's house right after they scam Ray and Lucy, in which Stuart tells Cyrus that Frank takes them totally for granted and that they are his business partners. There is also a snipet of Frank jumping out from behind a giant rock looking terrified.
- SPOILER: USA Television edits out the scene where Patricia murders her mother.
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