 He died two years after the film's release.The film was picked up for a planned 1989 US release by Orion Pictures and prepared as a 95 min R-rated edit ("Terror at the Opera"), which had eleven minutes removed, mainly the epilogue set in the Swiss Alps and Betty's final confrontation with the murderer.However, due to Orion's growing financial issues and Argento's refusal to allow the epilogue to be omitted, the film was never released theatrically and only made available in the US as a VHS release from Southgate Entertainment.