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From time to time it actually goes the other way round: While the, in Great Britain and Germany produced, pretty thrilling and atmospherically directed Subway-horror with main actress Franka Potente was released uncensored all over Europe, of all things the US-Version had several seconds of gore removed for the R-Rating to guarantee this in particular.
As usual in the States, the interferences come off marginally, restrict themselves on a few short takes which you can see in the censored version at least from different angles, so they hardly attrackt attention. But still not uninteresting that of all things a European production gets censored this way while other, much gorier US-horror movies get the commercially important R-Rating without being cut. Runtime designations of the explained scenes relate to the cut version. The rest of the runtime difference results from the PAL-NTSC runtime speed difference as well as the rounding of single explained scenes to whole resp. half seconds.
The edited US R-Rated version, represented by the respective US DVD by Lions Gate, has been compared to the uncut European Version, e.g. found on the FSK 16 DVD by Warner/X-Verleih
6 cut scenes = 8 Sec. 0:00
The FSK 16 DVD starts with the Logos of Time Warner respectively X-Verleih (not counted in the number/length of cuts). 13 Sec.
38:28 The last frames of the sidewise shot of the throat cut are missing, moreover the security guard's throat gets cut in an additonal frontal extreme close-up. The cutting wound gapes a bit. 2 Sec.
38:31 The take begins a little earlier: The killer's hand is lying on the backwards hanging head of the dead security guard before he pushes it forwards (which can be seen in the US-Version). 0,5 Sec.
1:12:31 The killer rams George's head into the pointed piece of iron in an additional backshot. Few frames
1:16:59 Craig's larynx gets gorily ripped out by the crowbar that is hanging on a chain in an additional close-up, he staggers back a little. 1 Sec.
1:17:06 Terminally injured Craig is shown in an additional third shot, showing the gaping, bleeding neck wound before he puts his hands on it again. 2,5 Sec.
1:17:08 Craig staggers a little longer in this shot while more blood is squirting fountain-like out of his neck. 1,5 Sec.
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