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• The U.S. Mill Creek Entertainment DVD release under the title "Unsane" is listed as the 110 minute version. However, the version on the disc is pan-and-scanned, heavily edited and runs a little over 90 minutes.
  
  
• An VHS version containing the Director's Cut has been released by Malibu in Israel.
  
  
• The hand chopping was shortened by 4 seconds for a British cinema certificate, and this version was also released on video before 1984. In that year, videos were then required to be classified seperately from cinema releases in the UK.
  
  
• In August 1999 the British Board of Film Classification have finally agreed to award Tenebre an 18 certificate on video, subject to 2 cuts totalling 5 seconds. One of the cuts is the infamous hand-chopping scene, as edited from the UK cinema release.
  
  
• The film was originally released in America as "Unsane" and had approximately 10 minutes of footage cut. The Anchor Bay release titled "Tenebre" is the complete 101-minute film.
  
  
• US version gives co-writing credit to a non-existent 'George Kemp' (presumably a pseudonym for Dario Argento).
  
  
• The uncut version was finally awarded a video certificate by the BBFC in 2002. It is this version that appears in the Anchor Bay UK DVD, released in January 2003.
  
  
• Most available DVD versions are missing a few brief shots due to print damage. The Japanese and Dutch DVDs both include these shots and are fully uncut.
  
  

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