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Are these DVDs cut?; DEVIL'S KISS and BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW
Topic Started: Oct 13 2008, 04:29 AM (2,909 Views)
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WANYON
Oct 13 2008, 08:43 PM
The fact that the 'Something Weird' tape features a minute of extra erotic footage means little really when discussing the completeness of the film at hand. It could very well be the the film's original Spanish edit is represented by Image Entertainment's DVD release whereas the 'Something Weird' tape may be representative of the export edit.

this is also making excuses and justification for a cut version...

I don't know about anyone else , but I wanna see the MOST complete version of any said film of interest !
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Oct 13 2008, 08:43 PM
Both are of great worth to fans/collectors, but neither can truly reflect the director's true intentions unless interview documentation of some sort exists where the director specifies which edit he prefered.

this is another thing that doesn't sway me either, case in point , Bill Lustig thought it was necessary to shorten the strangulation scene and remove the dinner date scene entirely from his film MANIAC , when elite entertainment picked up distribution in 1995....which was known as the "directors cut" or "directors prefered" version, which IMO removing those scenes didn't work, I felt the dinner scene was very important to the subject matter,as it was a way to show how serial killers can appear so normal and un-alarming so the victim lets his or her guard down, and before the victim relizes what's goin on it's too late !

which then Bill Lustig reinstated that scene and cut footage for the re-release when anchorbay distributed the title..

a directors vision can change and will change when ever it suits the situation, so i lend no credence to it !
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Haha, I joked about a dvd-vhs debate and now we're almost getting into one. :lol:

It's often difficult to figure out which version was the "originally intended" version. For instance, Steven Spielberg went back and changed (censored) E.T. - so does this mean this is really his director's cut version and therefore the best version? I think everyone would say hell no! Is FLESH AND BLOODY TERROR a better version than THE BEASTS because Thomas Weisser put XXX inserts into it? :ph43r:


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VH, I quite like BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW. Which vhs would you recon is the one to get (full picture, not dark)?? Do you know about this?


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the director will say whatever the person/company or licensor is paying him to say at that particular time......


the definitive version to me is the longest one...PERIOD !
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I thought the shorter version of BLADE RUNNER that stops before the sappy ending was better. :P

But otherwise I agree.


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Oct 13 2008, 09:48 PM
the director will say whatever the person/company or licensor is paying him to say at that particular time......

Right on the $money$!
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Just to clear this up about 'Blood on Satan's Claw'....I own this title on film and transferred it to VHS and DVD and it is fully uncut and in the proper screen ratio with all of the nudity and picture info clearly viewable unlike the UK DVD which crops it off. It's also way brighter than the UK DVD. So if the actual film contains this picture information then that is the way it was shown in the theaters.
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Oct 13 2008, 09:48 PM
the director will say whatever the person/company or licensor is paying him to say at that particular time......


the definitive version to me is the longest one...PERIOD !

I definately agree!
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Oct 13 2008, 10:48 PM
Just to clear this up about 'Blood on Satan's Claw'....I own this title on film and transferred it to VHS and DVD and it is fully uncut and in the proper screen ratio with all of the nudity and picture info clearly viewable unlike the UK DVD which crops it off. It's also way brighter than the UK DVD. So if the actual film contains this picture information then that is the way it was shown in the theaters.

Hi Bill, anyway of getting a copy of your 'BLOOD ON SATANS CLAW' on DVD-R??? Thanks, Eddie
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