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Idea & Ideas Wanted: for a 'Halloween II (1981): Rosenthal Cut'

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Hi all!

I’m contemplating making an edit in the future that will try to recreate the director Rick Rosenthal’s original version of Halloween II sans all Carpenter’s gory reshoots. That being said, I’m not sure exactly what Carpenter added, so I’m banking that you guys can tell me. This is what I have so far:

  1. Entire Sequence of Michael Stealing Knife from the old folks and Killing Alice
  2. Close-Ups in Karen’s Scalding Sequence. Or was she originally just drowned as the TV edit implies?
  3. Jill and the Doctor’s Deaths- Was this whole thing a reshoot? I’m not sure how they did the syringe deaths without gore.
  4. Jimmy Passing Out in the Ambulance- I might be wrong about this.
  5. Marshall’s Throat Slit- I know for a fact that the original was Loomis accidentally shooting him, as the marshall and Michael scuffled.

That being said, most of this is speculation, with the exceptions of (1) and (5). Someone even suggested elsewhere that the whole brother-sister subplot was added with the reshoots, but that seems rather extreme to me. I can’t think of how you would cut around that. So, if you have more accurate information, please share.

In addition, I plan to add back the deleted scenes from the TV version of character development.

Look forward to hearing from you all. Opinions and info would be very welcome

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any chance this project is salvageable? Sounds like a really cool idea!