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Retitled Kiss of Evil for American TV, Universal trimmed the original film for its initial television screening so much that more footage had to be shot to pad out the missing time.

Additional characters-that didn't appear at all in the original release-were added, creating a whole new subplot.

Every scene that showed blood was edited out, e. g. the cinema release's pre-credits scene in which blood gushes from the coffin of Zimmer's daughter after he plunges a shovel into it.

Also, in the televised version we never do find out what Marianne sees behind the curtain, a sight which makes her scream.

A couple of the cuts result in scenes that don't make sense any more: while the theatrical release had Harcourt, when he frees his hands after being clawed by Tanya, smearing the blood on his chest into a cross-shaped pattern, keeping the vampires away as he escapes, the televised version omits the blood-smearing, leaving the vampires ' inaction unexplained.