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when was this shot?


1999? if it came out in 2002, and was shelved for the previous three years - is my calculation correct? just curious

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Correct.

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Never understood why it was shelved! Is not a great movie, but worse than this one got release without any trouble

Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.

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The reason for this is because, it was filmed in 1999 and was to be distributed by Universal Pictures. But after filming was finished, Universal decided to screen it to a test audience; reactions were overwhelmingly negative, and thus the film was shelved while the studio tries for story rewrites and re-shoots to "fix" the film, even a new ending where the Killer is killed in a different way.

But even after all the re-shoots and title changes (orig title Detox, then The Outpost, later Eye See You), and after more test screenings to the new version resulting in more negative receptions, Universal stopped caring for the film and eventually decided to give up on it, further shelving the film until it was given a silent limited release in 2002.

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