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#268996
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Idea: TerrorVision and Meet the Applegates - preservation
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I agree, both of these are crying out for a preservation.

Terrorvision would be a great addition, seeing as it looks unlikely to hit DVD anytime soon. (It's another one that MGM own, and have seemingly no interest in releasing.) http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/forums/showthread.php?t=26549&page=1, Showtime air it in widescreen!

To those of who haven't heard of Terrorvision, it's a brilliantly tacky little 80's B-movie from Empire Pictures. The very mention of Empire should tell you all you need to know, but here's a scan of the UK video sleeve just in case:

http://www.itsonlyamovie.co.uk/COVERS%203/TERROR%20VISION.jpg

And I haven't seen Meet The Applegates in years, but remember it being a lot of fun (I remember being grossed out by the birthing scene very vividly!). Another modern B-movie pick.

So yes, anyone with a capture card please consider these!
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#268681
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Book Of The Dead Preservation (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/268681/action/topic#268681
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Other than the poster art I already posted above, here's a picture from http://www.withinthewoods.co.uk of the tickets handed out at the Redford premiere:

http://www.woodkeeper.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/horror/movies/evildead/ed_premtickets.jpghttp://www.woodkeeper.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/horror/movies/evildead/botd.jpg

They'll give you an idea of what the lettering on the opening title looked like, presumably.


Good news though - according to Josh Becker's website Synapse Films will be re-releasing Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except and Running Time on DVD with two old Super-8 movies starring Bruce and Sam, Stryker's War and Holding It.
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#260875
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Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260875/action/topic#260875
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Right-clicking didn't work for me at first - it just asked me to save an HTML file - so I let it run until the QT video with the question mark came up. Then I copied the URL of that video onto a window where I could right click it, and it saved fine, though for some reason it was as an MPEG rather than a VOB. The video looks great, like it came straight off a professional DVD. Can't wait to see the rest.

The direct link, before anyone asks, is: http://filelodge.bolt.com/storeanonupload/2006/12/07/Widescreen.vob
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#260651
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Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260651/action/topic#260651
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Originally posted by: DrakeRetro
I don't know if anyone else has ever had this idea, but since I don't plan on doing an extended AOD cut anytime soon I'll throw it out there.

There is away to use both endings to AOD.

Here is how, You start with the Original ( unused ) ending, Ash drops one tomany drops, falls asleep, Then fade into the smart ending. As the smart ending fades out it crossfades into ash awaking as he dreamed it all up. Then ofcourse he gets out of the cave realizing he is in a post apopcolyptic future.


I'm not too hot on this myself - it sounds interesting in theory, sure, but I think I prefer the idea of this edit being an alternative to the Director's Cut and hence using the S-Mart ending. Especially since it's only ever been attached to the near-unwatchable (at least to me) 81-minute version. Though if you're using the deleted opening from the DVD, maybe you should, given it would only really fit tonally with the apocalyptic ending?
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#259966
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Idea: Borat - The Promotions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/259966/action/topic#259966
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These DVDs feature the original Borat sketches from Da Ali G Show. I know the latter two are Region 2, but surely you can get around that?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ali-Show-Compleet-Seasons-REGION/dp/B000A9QKCI/sr=8-2/qid=1165185066/ref=pd_ka_2/202-5344268-8056601?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ali-G-Sacha-Baron-Cohen/dp/B00004ZBXW/sr=8-4/qid=1165185152/ref=pd_ka_4/202-5344268-8056601?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ali-Bling-Sacha-Baron-Cohen/dp/B00005RCAT/sr=8-3/qid=1165185152/ref=pd_ka_3/202-5344268-8056601?ie=UTF8&s=dvd
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#259878
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Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/259878/action/topic#259878
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While I still haven't been able to come up with anything as to the existence of a bootleg of the AOD workprint, I did look through Bill Warren's book The Evil Dead Companion recently and found a few excerpts detailing scenes that were shot but still haven't made it out on TV or DVD. Bear in mind though, that Warren seems to be talking about the 81-minute theatrical print in most of the book, so some of this information might need to be taken lightly:

pg.146: "Unfortunately, most of Evil Ash's blunders didn't make it into the final cut..." There's an on-set quote from Bruce describing scenes where Evil Ash gets frustrated at his soldiers because they're too "over-confident".
pg.148: More scenes with Bill (TCM2) Moseley as the Deadite Captain ("We're secured the courtyard m'lord!").
pg.151: According to Rob Tapert: "We originally had a much bigger scene at the beginning, with Charles Napier as Ash's mean boss, who was hollering at him all the time, but he got cut out completely." Bridget Fonda also had more screentime in the initial version. "We had a whole scene there talking about his banal life," Sam recalled. "How the boss was really mean to him, and how the stock boy was someone Bruce was mean to. But it took too long, and we want the kids to get to the goods, so there's now only a passing flash of him in his former element."
pg.154: Lists more cuts, but these seems to all be scenes restored on the DVD.
pg.232: "Originally," says Bruce, "the king pulled out his sword, came racing by and sliced Ash across the chest. Later, you'll see a cut on my chest that I never had before." The fact that Ash bleeds makes Arthur doubt his validity as prophesised saviour, although everyone was happy to believe it at the end of Evil Dead II.
pg.242: On the scene where Good & Bad Ash "split" in the forest: "An elaborate stop-motion effect was filmed for this sequence*, with a little puppet double Ash running through the forest, but it was cut - more for reasons of timing than because the animation didn't work. Part of the sequence appears in foreign versions of the film."

* might just be the "Oh Suzanna" shot from the Director's Cut where Evil Ash punches Ash right before the final "split".
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#256596
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The Plissken Files Project (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/256596/action/topic#256596
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Originally posted by: RIJIR
Originally posted by: Guy Caballero
Anybody know why they didn't use the bank robbery music on the cd when they included that scene on the dvd?


The quality of the clip looks like it is from the dailies before the music was added. I don't think they ever found the original negative.


I don't know whether this is true of the MGM R1 DVD, but the Momentum R2 issued here in the UK has a brand-new score by Carpenter on the bank robbery scene done especially for the DVD. I've never heard of this Alan Howarth cue though?

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#254901
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Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254901/action/topic#254901
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Hi Scott,

Brilliant job on that Henry The Red scene! The Evil Dead II score fits it pretty well too, though it sounded a little too high in the mix - maybe that's just YouTube compression, I don't know. And yeah, don't worry too much about branching; you seem to have very good instincts when it comes to what and what not to include. ocpmovie's idea for the ending sounds interesting too.
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#254626
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Book Of The Dead Preservation (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/254626/action/topic#254626
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The fourth disc of the Evil Dead Trilogy boxset, that came out here in Britain from Anchor Bay UK, also has the full-frame version of ED1. I've no idea if it's better quality than the Elite disc though. ABUK also included it in their Box Of The Banned boxset.

And isn't there an old, old trailer for ED under the title of Book Of The Dead? I'm sure I've seen one advertised on Raimi Super-8 bootleg compilations before. Maybe it was one they cut together before Irvin Shapiro told them, "Fellas, if you name a film Book Of The Dead, people are gonna think they have to read for an hour and a half..."
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#252936
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Request: a 'Serenity' movie fan edit? - ADM??
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252936/action/topic#252936
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Originally posted by: guiltyspark
Originally posted by: ocpmovie
>>I always wondered why Joss killed two leads in what most considered the start of a new franchise.

For him it was and is probably the end of a franchise .... also, Joss Whedon can be very mean to his characters. Cordelia, Anya, and Tara, anyone?

=(


But Joss has also stated that the two characters would be brought back (how? dunno) for the next film if it was produced.


Don't hold your breath - I'd be surprised if this extended beyond brief flashbacks or River "seeing" them in visions a la the beginning of "Objects In Space".
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#252807
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Request: a 'Serenity' movie fan edit? - ADM??
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252807/action/topic#252807
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Could you not just make the edit in PAL and convert it to NTSC later?

I'd be very disappointed if a Serenity edit used scenes from Firefly given the leap in production design etc between the two, but I guess that's the editor's decision. I really want to see a re-assembly of the version I saw in London on February 2005 - there were numerous little things that were cut for either keeping a PG-13 or to stop from boring newbies to the 'Verse, but that would have made it extra-sweet for established Browncoats. I'll try to find a proper list off the Serenity forum archives (I know there is one), but some of the most memorable were:

- Brief scene where the Operative is about to torture Minty and Fango.
- A longer shot of Kaylee crying over the dead child at the massacre.
- Mal and Inara nearly kissing after seeing the video message about the Reavers.
- There was a much more explicit low-angle shot of the Operative's sword being run through Mal (in the film it happens off-camera). Presumably cut for the PG-13, though it may have been because some though it would be "silly" that Mal would carry on after it. Maybe - I just thought it made him all the more hardcore :-D
- Fireworks in the funeral scene (hence why they're putting notes on a bloody rocket!!!)
- When Mal enters the cockpit in the final scene, he has a little play with Wash's dinosaurs and flicks the three switches before his scene with Wash.
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#252445
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Request: a 'Serenity' movie fan edit? - ADM??
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/252445/action/topic#252445
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Originally posted by: JHammondC
did you post it anywhere? I wouldn't mind seeing this.


If you're talking about a Serenity edit, as mentioned above for various reasons one has neither been finished nor posted. It would still be incomplete as there was several deleted scenes that weren't on the DVD, as those of us who saw advance screenings in 2005 will attest. Check out the Serenity: The Visual Companion book to see these scenes in script form.
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#244606
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Info: What is your dream fan edit if you could get the rare footage?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/244606/action/topic#244606
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Neat idea for a thread! It's a tough one though...

The Exorcist III instantly springs to mind. It would be great to see a version that conforms to Blatty's original cut (prior to studio intervention), titled Legion. (Mark Kermode claims to have been shown it by Blatty on a workprint VHS.) It's one of the most underrated horror films of the last few decades, and I'd love to see it get due attention.

Serenity with all the deleted scenes, by which I don't just mean the ones on the DVDs, but the scenes/alternate takes in the workprints shown early last year. (They all turn up in the unedited script in the Visual Companion book.) I saw a test screening in London in February 2005 and even now clearly remember footage such as a more graphic shot of Mal getting stabbed by The Operative that I'd kill to see again.

And, last but not least, "Director's Cuts" of Sam Raimi's Crimewave and Darkman would be awesome too.
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#243395
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Untitled Bruce Campbell Project (* unfinished project - a ton of info & ideas *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/243395/action/topic#243395
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Originally posted by: charliesheen
Hey Guys, OK dug out the old VCD sets I have - this is what is on them:

Attack Of The Helping Hand
The Sappy Sap
WNIC Radio TV Spot
XYZ Murders Trailer
Though SHalt Not Kill Trailer
Night Crew F/X Footage
Stykers War
PM Detroit spotling on Ren. Pics
Cleveland Smith
Torro, Torro, Torro
The Blind Waiter
Book Of The Dead Trailer
The Evil Dead Trailer
Within The Woods
(Note: I can't remember the name of the shot that was in such bad shape it wasn't encoded)

OK, now before anyone gets excited about these being capped form a 3rd gen dub they look and sound bad. The original negative these were taken from is in a horrible state and generally they are very dark and have low, poor sound. Asuming the DVD cap is got is there someone here who is good at doing a remaster of videos (playing with brightness/colour levels and remastering the audio tracks)?

OK, now since I got these I'm fairly certain the Evil Dead Trailer and Book Of The Dead Trailer cropped up on the special edition of The Evil Dead - this will have to be checked. I also noted that Styker's War was released on DVD in limited quanitites a few years back. Does anyone have this? I'm guessing what I have is actually a different cut or a workprint, imbd made it out like Bruce isn't in it much - but have a quick look now (been years since I watched it) he's in the start a lot (smoking a cigar no less) and this cut is only about 45 mins long and has a real make-shift credits at the end.

Another question - did XYZ Murders come out on DVD? I know there was a laserdisc, and is a trailer on it?

I also found my SVCD of Within The Woods and The Book Of The Dead Trailer. Now, as mentioned above it does not look great even though it's as low gen as you're going to get - the print Scott Spiegel has is in a bad way, but it's basically as good as you're going to get until it actually gets a real release (which may never happen). This Dub it was captured from was also sent to Anchor Bay for possible inclusion on a DVD they were putting out years ago (likly before Raimi decided to remaster from his print).

Annoyingly right now I can't find my Hail To The King trailer, it was on an old VCD and I found it a few months ago and stuck it on youtube so it is about here somewhere! I also have a cool short video that was a fan made vid for SKinny Puppy's Who's Laughing Now (which heavily samples Evil Dead 2) and is made up from clips of the film - with the samples. It was made back in the late 80s, early 90s on an analogue deck so it's pretty vintage. However it's currently MIA also, but will turn up...


The HTTK trailer is actually available for download right here ---------------> http://www.deadites.net/media.php

And that Stryker's War you have sounds like it could be the "pilot" shot in 1980, though Bruce is supposedly the lead in that, which conflicts with your report. Anyway, I'd love to see it. The TV news spot (I'm guessing that's what it is) on Renaissance sounds interesting too. Also, does your copy of The Sappy Sap have sound? Mine doesn't and I'm wondering if this is a common flaw with all bootlegged versions of it.
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#241955
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Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/241955/action/topic#241955
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It's lookin' great RidgeShark. I'd never seen that scene with music before either, so was surprised that it was more subtle (in so much as an Evil Dead film can be subtle) than I was expecting - no music, for example, when Ash steps on the nail. (Bruce's reaction is my favourite bit of the whole scene.) I think it plays well with the music, it would fit in great on the film.

I have an old Video Watchdog article from 1998 or so that does a big comparison of all the versions of AOD knocking around at that time. If you PM your email I could scan it for you if you like.