Doctor Butcher M.D. (Japanese LaserDisc) vs. Zombie Holocaust (German DVD)
Missing opening credits
DVD: For approx. 1 minutes & 3 seconds there's a freeze frame of a skyline while showing the cast & crew credits... Then the camera pans over the skyline ending up zooming in on a window... Both versions now cut to the same scene inside the building.
LD: Starts out with an opening title sequence taken from an unfinished anthology called "Tales To Rip Your Heart Out" and inserted a couple of zombies from Zombi Holocaust.
Missing scene / no dialogue
Torans walk to the morgue is a bit longer
Missing scene / Extended dialogue
Doctor Butcher M.D.:
Dr. Drydock: 'We'll start by illustrating the stomach... The lesson today is about the stomach.'
Zombi Holocaust:
Dr. Drydock: 'We'll start by illustrating the stomach... tomorrow we'll do the digestive track... The lesson today is about the stomach.'
Missing scene with dialogue
Dr. Drydock: 'Now... the stomach is a bag-like enlargement of the elementary canal... Main section lies between esophagus and the duodenum ... It looks like a curved sack... with the concavity facing toward the right... It's what we call the small curvature, now it has the proverity of functions not all related to the digestion'
Missing scene with dialogue
Dr. Drydock: 'Frankly, I don't understand... Why something like this would make sense in a society of primitive savages, but today in New York City.'
Lori: 'But Dr. Drydock? do you really think we're that much different from savages?'
Dr. Drydock: 'I don't know, Lori!'
Shortened scene of Professor Stafford driving Lori to the restaurant.
Missing scene with dialogue
Lori: 'You can drop me off at the end of the block, professor... in front of the restaurant, that's were I'm having lunch... Thanks for the ride.'
Professor Stafford: 'It's a pleasure, Lori... Here?'
Lori: 'Fine, thanks!'
Extended scene of Lori saying goodbye to the professor and walking into the restaurant.
Extended scene
Lori walking down the hall towards her apartment
Entering the apartment and taking off her jacket.
Missing scene
Lori walks from the bedroom into the living room.
In the living room she light up some incense and then walks to the kitchen.
Missing scene with dialogue
Susan: 'How come all the primitive relics?'
Lori: 'Besides from holding a degree in medicin, I also have one in anthropology!'
Susan: 'Ahhh...'
Enxtended scene
Turan entering the morgue.
Missing scene
Turan captured by the other attendants.
Extended tracking shot.
Missing scenes with dialogue
Chandler: 'I'm tempted to try and steal you away from Dr. Drydock... Ah, just for a little while...'
Drydock: 'Forget it, Mr. Chandler!'
Vaguely shortened scene, but the order of the dialogue has been re-arranged:
In US Shriek Show/Media Blasters, GE Dragon Entertainment & danish version the scene in which Chandler, Dr. Drydock, Lori & George are looking at slides, goes like this;
Chandler: 'He's the only one that's been captured today... They found him eating the heart of a woman that just died in a highway accident.'
Drydock: 'Incredible!'
Chandler: 'Unfortunately, we were never able to question him... When the police found him, he reacted so violently that they were forced to shoot him...'
Drydock: 'Looks asiatic, too!'
Chandler: 'Yes... yes, he was! And now I suppose we don't have to theorize that he came from The Mollottos...'
Lori: 'There's a link between the hospital attendant and that man there... Have you noticed the tattoo on his chest? It's the same... I looked it up, it's also been found on the Molottos. My friend Professor Stafford can confirm that...'
Japanese LD / Doctor Butcher M.D.- version, it goes like this;
Chandler: 'He's the only one that's been captured today...'
Lori: 'There's a link between the hospital attendant and that man there...'
Chandler: 'They found him eating the heart of a woman that just died in a highway accident.'
Drydock: 'Incredible!'
Chandler: 'Unfortunately, we were never able to question him... When the police found him, he reacted so violently that they were forced to shoot him...'
Drylock: 'Looks asiatic, too!'
Chandler: 'Yes... yes, he was! And now I suppose we don't have to theorize that he came from The Mollottos...'
Lori: 'Have you noticed the tattoo on his chest? It's the same... I looked it up, it's also been found on The Molottos. My friend Professor Stafford can confirm that...'
Extended scene of Proffesor Staffords workplace
Missing scene with dialogue after Chandler & Lori's conversation with Professor Stafford.
Chandler: 'Well, he seemed to known what he was talking about your professor!'
Lori: 'He's one of our top-anthropologists and we're all waiting for him to win the Nobel Prize.'
Chandler: 'Hm-hm'
Lori; 'Well, I guess there isn't an awful lot else I can help you out with... The rest is up to you.'
Chandler: 'Well, it sounds if you're abandoning ship?'
Lori; 'Actually, I didn't want to get involved anyway.'
Missing sequence with dialogue of Lori and Chandler going back to his office after her apartment had been ransacked
Chandler: 'You're feeling better? Unfortunately, finding a thief in your apartment are all to common nowadays.'
Lori: 'I'm not so sure it was a thief... I'm afraid it's something else... something I can't figure out... Something to do with that symbol... I'm frightened, Peter!'
Chandler; 'I have just the thing for you... That's what the meeting in my office is all about... We shouldn't keep our travel companions waiting!'
Lori: 'Travel companions? To go where?'
Missing scenes with dialogue + a scene from Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters (Zombi 2) inserted (DVD: Picture 2 & 3 + 10, 11 & 12)... LD-version includes a shot of a departing aeroplane, which is not to be found in the DVD-version.
Picture 3, 4 & 5 in the LD-version are shots which occurs later on in the DVD-version
Chandler: 'How long has Doctor Obrero been on this island?'
Driver: 'Around 5 or 6 years, I don't know exactly...'
...
Lori [Yawning]: 'Between this heat and that flight, I just about had it...'
Susan: 'See what a reporter has to go through...'
George: 'That's bullshit... You know very well that the greatest journalist never write on location and they never even leave their desks...'
Susan: 'Ahhh... That's only when you're rich and famous... and that is what I'm going to become very soon... and it's all gonna be because of this trip!'
George: 'I'm rooting for you!'
Susan: 'Ha-ha... me too!'
...
Chandler: 'Ahh, that looks like what we're aiming for...'
Lori: 'What could lure a world famous surgeon to this corner of the globe?'
Chandler: 'He cures the natives... He's got Schweitzer's disease.'
Pictures from Zombie Flesh Eaters:
Missing
The 3 shots from the boattrip to Doctor Butcher/Doctor Obrero's island (see LD above) is used in the 'Boat trip to Kito'-sequence in the DVD-version.
Chandler looking for the island... Another shot inserted from Lucio Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eater (Zombi 2)
Picture from Zombie Flesh Eaters:
The Pitfall-sequence in the LD missing in the DVD-version...
The start of the scene, after the 'Pitfall-sequence', when Chandler and Lori comes out of the jungle has a couple of more frames in the beginning in the DVD-version
Lori: 'Peter! Are you sure we're going in the right direction?'
Chandler: 'Ahh, I think so! Come on...'
...
Chandler: 'Are you alright?'
Lori: 'Yes!'
Chandler: 'I'll get you out of there... Don't move... But are you sure?'
Lori: 'Yes, I think so! ... On this side ... I think I've got a foothold!'
...
Chandler: 'Stay there... Don't worry...'
...
Chandler: 'Come on...'
LD-version has a freeze frame of Lori & Chandler which blends into a freeze frame of the burning shack.
DVD-version does somewhat the same, but doesn't use freeze frame... and credits roll while the shack is burning...
