Tourist Trap US & UK Blu-ray missing footage issue...

Quick note. It seems that the recent UK and US Blu-rays of Tourist Trap from 88 Films and Full Moon respectively are missing approximately 5 minutes of footage. Apparently the Blu's are missing full scenes, missing footage from other scenes and some scenes appear in a different order to the original 90 minute version of the film.

88 Films posted the following on the subject on there Facebook page.

'We're aware through the comments on its page that the running time on Tourist Trap has become an issue. We did notice this when we received the master from the US and did raise the issue with Full Moon but ultimately this is the only HD master available and we felt we had to run with it to give the UK fans at least the equivalent of the US blu-ray.

We considered adding in the missing excerpts from the DVD master but that would have created noticeable shifts in image quality and ruined the 5.1 mix. Also this release does include a brand new commentary by David Schmoeller and we're not aware that he had any issues with the master when he was recording that.

We're very sorry if anyone feels their blu-ray is not as good as it should be but hopefully you will feel that the new special features, lossless sound, booklet notes and reversible art will make up for the slightly shorter running time than our previous DVD release.'

For me this is a real shame. I have not seen the original 90 minute version so don't know to what extent this new version alters the experience but needless to say I would have preferred the original cut. There is a release in Japan from Happinet that came out in September last year. I've no idea if this has the original version and I'd appreciate confirmation one way or the other if any of you have it. Please leave a comment if you do.