Originally posted by: Johnboy3434
On the contrary, this will be quite different from the 30th Anniversary Edition. When Russo added in that 15 minutes of new footage, he chopped 15 minutes of the original cut out. So, the 30th Anniversary Edition doesn't include all of the original cut's footage. That's reason enough for this edit, but there's more. The fan-edit-turned-legit-DVD-release Benefit for the Living Dead (aka the Survivor's Cut) mixed in a couple more new scenes and added a colored tint to the film, but cut out all of the 30th Anniversary footage. And neither of these recuts featured full colorization, a treatment only given to the original cut. So, this release of mine will have all in one place what would normally require purchasing three different DVDs. I think that's justification enough, don't you?
P.S.: I considered using the footage from the 3-D version, but it requires the special glasses, and the colorized footage would look better, anyway. Another version is the "Live from Wisconsin" version that aired last Halloween on G4, but it really just amounted to an MST3K type deal, only with two hillbillies that couldn't tell a joke to save their lives.
Originally posted by: slashface
I don't know what the point of this is since The only "alternate footage" would be in the 30th anniv. edition, which of course is already on dvd. The public domain versions would more likely have footage cut out rather than added in, since there is no actual "deleted scenes" for this film. There was a 3-D version released in some crappy 3-D boxset a few years back. On the other hand there are several alternate audio tracks that could be used. The Fox version has the MST3K track. There was a ghetto "laugh track" version that was released on DVD. And there's that homemade "night of the dawn blah blah blah". The only other thing that I could suggest is that you track down an introduction by George Romero that was filmed for the pay-tv airings.
I don't know what the point of this is since The only "alternate footage" would be in the 30th anniv. edition, which of course is already on dvd. The public domain versions would more likely have footage cut out rather than added in, since there is no actual "deleted scenes" for this film. There was a 3-D version released in some crappy 3-D boxset a few years back. On the other hand there are several alternate audio tracks that could be used. The Fox version has the MST3K track. There was a ghetto "laugh track" version that was released on DVD. And there's that homemade "night of the dawn blah blah blah". The only other thing that I could suggest is that you track down an introduction by George Romero that was filmed for the pay-tv airings.
On the contrary, this will be quite different from the 30th Anniversary Edition. When Russo added in that 15 minutes of new footage, he chopped 15 minutes of the original cut out. So, the 30th Anniversary Edition doesn't include all of the original cut's footage. That's reason enough for this edit, but there's more. The fan-edit-turned-legit-DVD-release Benefit for the Living Dead (aka the Survivor's Cut) mixed in a couple more new scenes and added a colored tint to the film, but cut out all of the 30th Anniversary footage. And neither of these recuts featured full colorization, a treatment only given to the original cut. So, this release of mine will have all in one place what would normally require purchasing three different DVDs. I think that's justification enough, don't you?
P.S.: I considered using the footage from the 3-D version, but it requires the special glasses, and the colorized footage would look better, anyway. Another version is the "Live from Wisconsin" version that aired last Halloween on G4, but it really just amounted to an MST3K type deal, only with two hillbillies that couldn't tell a joke to save their lives.
their re-creations of scenes from the movie were kinda funny though. the whole live horror movie thing was lame though, although the idea of taking out zombies with a block of cheese does kind of give me a chuckle.