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Is This Unrated Version Actually Cut?? POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING

posted 17 years ago by Squonkamatic
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I've been an admirer of this movie for a while and have two different versions, the "Not Rated" MPI tape and the British SGE PAL tape. The content of the two is identical, the runtime of the British tape appears shorter because of the 25fps PAL transfer (5% faster than the NTSC: roughly 84 minutes PAL as opposed to 88 minutes NTSC) but that's not what I mean. It's bugged me from the first time I saw the movie:

At about 18 minutes into the tape one of the guys at the club starts using this arm exercise machine and the thing tears him apart -- if you've seen the movie you know what part I mean. What caught my attention is that as the guy is like bursting at the seams there is a LOOP of footage right at the end of his killing. Just as the blood really starts to flow and his ribs start poking out, the film on BOTH versions I have suddenly slows down, reverses for about a second and a half, goes forward again, reverses one more time, and then the scene ends.

It looks to me like there is an edit there to possibly cover up some serious gore: In the next seen we hear one of the characters say that he was ripped apart, which could be a figurative statement or there could be an alteration to cover up his arms being popped out of their sockets. Which sort of looks like how things were shaping up (no pun intended). Other than that I agree that the film is probably uncut but that one part has just bugged me for a while: Is this unrated version actually cut?? Doesn't seem to make sense though the sight of some guy having his arms pop out of their sockets would be more nasty than anything else in the movie, just wondering if anyone else has noticed it.

[–] comic_releif 15 years ago

Oh, that's quite strange... I guess you're referring to the UNCUT & UNEDITED VHS version? The version with the back of the video sleeve that says 89 (!) minutes running time, right?

I've actually wanted to get hold of this exact version for a while; problem is that I don't live in the states!

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[–] johnwills3 12 years ago

I have to see this movie.. thanks for uploading a clip. I think the dvd comes out very soon.

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[–] Mathias001 10 years ago

I'm curious as well if there was censorship in this movie. I remember renting this movie back in the day (good ol' videotape) and I remember at the beginning when the naked woman is getting burned by the steam in the sauna she smashes the window to the door with her hand. Then there are abrupt cuts. She starts to jump through the window then it cuts to her landing on the floor then it cuts to her just laying there with steam washing over her. So... what happened in between the cuts? How did she die? She wasn't cut by the broken glass or anything because there were no marks on her body.

I guess the version I saw was censored. Is there an uncut version? I am opposed to censorship and things like this bother me.

[–] RTheManF89 10 years ago

The MPI VHS is uncut.

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[–] Psychological_Gold 10 years ago

So... what happened in between the cuts? How did she die? She wasn't cut by the broken glass or anything because there were no marks on her body.

She didn't die. It turns out that she suffered some mild burns, and was temporarily blinded. She's actually one of the main stars (the Laura character). What happened guy, did you eject the tape after the first scene?

[–] Mathias001 10 years ago

No I did not eject the tape after the first scene. I was merely asking if there were cuts in that scene. I've seen so many movies over the decades it's hard to keep track of them all.

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[–] orchidclub 10 years ago

I can't imagine that it's cut, considering how insanely gory the rest of the film is. The filmmakers probably just decided not to get too graphic with those earlier deaths so that the gore later on in the film would be more shocking.

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Is This Unrated Version Actually Cut?? ***POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING***

Is This Unrated Version Actually Cut?? POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING