Versions of The Film
There are multiple cuts of the movie. The uncut Spanish language version, El Ataque de los Muertos Sin Ojos, runs over 4 minutes longer than the international English-language cut, Return of the Evil Dead, and contains longer, more explicit gore sequences. The opening of the English cut, contains a truncated version of the Templars' blood sacrifice before the villagers capture and kill the knights. In the Spanish version, the sacrifice flashback occurs when Murdo warns Jack and Vivian about the coming return of the Templars and contains shots of the virgin's heart being removed and eaten by the knights. In the Return of the Evil Dead cut, Murdo does not sacrifice a local girl to incite the Templars resurrection and when he's decapitated later in the film, the shot of his headless, spurting neck is removed. Several names are changed and/ or anglicized in the English dub of the film: the village of Bouzano is Berzano, Decosta is Howard, Amalia's unnamed daughter is Nancy, Moncha is Monica, Beirao is Bert, Mr. Prades is Matthew and Juan is Don.
Both versions are on the Blue Underground DVD release of the film.
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