Editing Hellraiser (section)

==Censorship==
Clive Barker had to make some cuts on the film after the MPAA originally gave it an [[X rating]].<ref name="guardian" /> Two and a half shots were excised from the first hammer murder, including a closeup of the hammer lodged in the victim's head. In the scene where Julia murders another man, the actor playing the victim felt that it made sense for him to do so naked. The nude murder scene was shot but, ultimately, replaced with a semi-clothed version. Close-ups of Kirsty sticking her hand into Frank's stomach, exposing his guts, a longer version of the scene where Frank is being torn into pieces, and the final shot where his head explodes were also cut.<ref name="io9" />

In an interview for ''Samhain'' magazine in July 1987, Barker mentioned some problems that censors had with more erotic scenes in the film:

{{blockquote|Well, we did have a slight problem with the eroticism. I shot a much hotter flashback sequence than they would allow us to cut in.... Mine was more explicit and less violent. They wanted to substitute one kind of undertow for another. I had a much more explicit sexual encounter between Frank and Julia, but they said no, let's take out the sodomy and put in the flick knife.}}

Barker also said that the seduction scene between Julia and Frank was initially a lot more explicit: 
{{blockquote|We did a version of this scene which had some spanking in it and the MPAA was not very appreciative of that. ... The MPAA told me I was allowed two consecutive buttock thrusts from Frank but three is deemed obscene!<ref name="io9">{{Cite web|last1=Das|first1=Abhimanyu|last2=Anders|first2=Charlie Jane|url=http://io9.com/all-the-weirdest-secrets-you-never-knew-about-clive-bar-1650487166| title=All the Weirdest Secrets You Never Knew About Clive Barker's ''Hellraiser''|website=[[Gizmodo]] |date=24 October 2014}}</ref>}}