- The 1985 VHS release opens with the credit "FGL Films Presents",which is missing from the 2017 DVD release.
- The opening credits are slightly different in the VHS and DVD releases. In the VHS, the credits appear in larger lettering and a different font style than the DVD version.
- The 2017 DVD contains an additional shot of Jenny examining her handbag in the opening scene, which is missing from the 1985 VHS release (the shot appears immediately before one of the girls asks Jenny if she can stay up late to watch a film on TV)
- In the 1985 VHS release, the shot of the note Elizabeth brings to the children's home plays while Jenny is reading the note. In the 2017 DVD release, the shot of the note appears later on in the scene, after Jenny has handed the note to Maurice, giving the impression that Maurice is reading the note, even though the hand holding the note is clearly female.
- In the zombie dream sequence, the 1985 VHS release includes an additional shot of Elizabeth, just before the two other girls begin to explore the garden. The shot is missing from the 2017 DVD release.
- The dialogue is far more audible in the 1985 VHS release, the sound mix on the 2017 DVD release often buries the dialogue under the music tracks.
- The 2017 DVD release contains footage of Basil vomiting blood at the bottom of the staircase, which was missing from the 1985 VHS release.
- After Basil's accident, the 1985 VHS release contains a scene of Maurice and Jenny quizzing Elizabeth about the accident and talking about Elizabeth's background ("I can't help but think that her parents must be pretty unique, wherever they are"). This scene is missing from the 2017 DVD release.
- The "cloud busters" club sequence is slightly different in the 1985 VHS release and the 2017 DVD release. In the VHS release, Elizabeth's supernatural powers are shown to be the reason for the party goers mobbing rock star Mick Philips and Jenny. The 2017 DVD release includes additional footage of the club's MC announcing Mick's presence to the rest of the club, which is depicted as the reason for Mick and Jenny being mobbed by the crowd.
- After the Cloud Busters incident, the 1985 VHS release includes footage of Mick and Jenny walking up the steps of the children's home and entering the hallway. The DVD release is missing this footage.
- The 2017 DVD release omits three, lengthy scenes. A scene of the children having breakfast, a scene of the children leaving for the swimming pool, and a scene of Maurice doing paperwork at the children's home (while the noise of the swimming pool incident plays over the soundtrack). All three of these scenes are present on the 1985 VHS release, and appear in between the scene of Mick and Jenny discussing Basil's accident and the scene of Jenny drying her hair and explaining the swimming pool incident to Maurice.
- The "satanic" voiceover that plays over scenes of children attacks adults towards the end of the film is far more audible in the 2017 DVD release, in the 1985 VHS release it is significantly muted and buried under music.
- Much of the violence in the climactic bloodbath has been removed or reduced in the 1985 VHS release. All of the missing gore has been reinstated in the 2017 DVD release.
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By what name was Suffer Little Children (1983) officially released in Canada in English?
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