Release and Legacy
The film secured international distribution after playing at the Cannes Film Festival.
The banning of an already cut version of Bad Taste in Queensland, Australia, three weeks into its run, led to the firing and dissolution of the Queensland Film Board of Review in 1990. The film had to be trimmed for release in Australia at the time, as the OFLC felt the gore too excessive. The uncut version was released by Universal Home Entertainment on DVD in 2005.
Apart from the uncut version, there is a heavily cut FSK 18-rated and an even more censored FSK 12-rated version in Germany available on DVD. The earlier is cut by approximately 6 minutes, the latter by approximately 10 minutes.
In Germany, the film was released theatrically in 2000, 13 years following its production. The German posters used the advertising tagline "From the director of the Lord of the Rings".
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