Censored: Luis' rescue from heating vent and friendship with Teresa?

Here are a list of edits/cuts made to the Spanish version of "La Residencia" (that bootleg widescreen DVD doing the rounds). These scenes are included in the English Language VHS version "The Finishing School (La Residencia)":

# The whole credit sequence is the English credits and the lettering is in red as opposed to the Spanish print in blue. The English credits are intact and are not missing a number of frames like the Spanish DVD, which jumps at crucial moments during the main theme.

# The notorious whipping sequence is missing the moment where Madam Fourneau kisses the whipped girls back and tells her "I'm sorry Cadre, get some sleep. I know I won't."

# A shot is missing from the scene where Luis meets the girl in the boiler room and an unseen figure passes outside the locked door. Girl: "Who was that?" Luis" "I don't know." (Probably lost due to print damage at change of reels).

# The note the girl reads in the bathroom is in English. This was obviously shot at the time of production for the hands in both versions are the same and hold the same keys.

# The sequence in which Irene dries Teres'a hands (after she has been gardening) fades into a night shot of the house exterior, completely eliminating the longer 'stroking' wipes/caresses before the scene ends.

# When the girls take their showers the 'whipped girl' Catherine pulls her smock down and stands nude before Madam Fourneau. Eliminated are a couple of slow zoom and lingering closeups of both women's reactions, and also the moans on the soundtrack.

# The notorious 'sewing scene' is clipped of a copuple of lascivious mouth and lip close-up's and a shot where a needle is being threaded. Note the Spanish version plays out with none of the dubbed over groans and moans that are heard in the English version.

# A close-up of Madam Fourneau kissing her son Luis on the lips has been jettisoned.

# Following this, in the sequence where Teresa is 'tortured' by the three girls in the cellar, a couple of shots of dialogue are missing (print damage?) and one scene in the English version is the same dialogue but a completely different camera angle. A reaction shot from both tormentor and victim have also been excised.

# Later, psychologically rattled by Irene's insurrection, Madam Fourneau fumbles in a dictation class. A shot is missing (print damage?).

# The End credits in English use a yellow font.

As for the film's continuity, that seems fairly straight forward, there is no need to have everything 'explained'. Given that the film was shot with an international cast and then dubbed into a number of foreign market languages, I personally prefer the English version any day over the Spanish version. All of the actors in this film were dubbed, including those who delivered their lines in English, making it a bit silly for everyone to harken so longingly for the 'Original' Spanish version. If you want that version, you will more than likely get a censored version, evidenced by the above list of scenes not present in the Spanish Language DVD.