Originally posted by: triffid
Did you stop the recorder in the middle of the movie? Is it really so bad?

Yes and yes. They added narration that is just stupid. And some of the deleted footage that they add doesn't work. For instance when the group is standing around the "dead" thing that they brought from the dog kennel Blair makes the statement that it isn't dead yet. This totally screws up the scene where Fuces and MacReady are in the helecopter and he reads Blair's report and makes the same statement. I guess they had to add as much as they could to make up for the gore they cut.

There is really a lot of footage cut from the movie that we haven't seen like:

A whole scene cut when the lights go out
A scene like the 50s version of the greenhouse but in this one features a certain illegal plant
Other dead bodies at the Norweigan camp
The rescue of MacReady (filmed just in case they needed an alternate ending due to test audience reaction)
Plus a bunch more misc stuff.