The film was listed as one of the DPP's 72 video nasties in the UK and even made the final list of 39 official titles for prosecution.
Out right banned in the United Kingdom along with many others including Fight For Your Life after the Video Nasty debacle of the 1980's. Many on the DPP list ie: The Department Of Public Prosecutions have since been passed uncut since the change at the top of British Board Of Film Classification because at the time James Ferman would not allow anything like blood on female breasts or certain weapons like Throwing Stars and Nunchucks which saw the famous fight scene in Enter The Dragon being censored