Originally rated 'VM14' (forbidden to audiences of under 14) for cinemas, the film was cut by the Italian censors for a 'T' (film for everyone) certificate to reduce all violence sequences. The censors removed blood, reduced gunshots, removed the eye-cutting sequence, the arm fixing sequence, the love-making sequence, the exploding and the death of Kyle Reese, and the machine squashing the T-800 to death.