Before we get to the scene that's come up in today's slideshow, we have one other scene to deal with first:
200 INT - COTTAGE - NIGHT 200
as the two girls ENTER, Claire SLAMS and BOLTS the door. Suddenly, the CAMERA is BLOCKED OUT by someone stepping between the girls and the LENS.
GERARD - EXTREME CLOSE-UP
Blood running down his face, he leers evilly at them. They SCREAM as we
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End of scene as scripted - though it doesn't quite play out entirely that way.
There is no scripted dialogue, but dialogue is featured in the film. After Claire is heard bolting the door and they begin to come into the cottage, Tracy asks -
"What do you think we should do?" - to which Claire replies -
"I don't know. I know we hit him." And when it comes to the differences in the descriptions and directions, I love how the first shot of the inside of the cottage makes it appear as if the clothes hanging on the coat rack are actually a person -
- when I saw NoDS at an indoor theater (I first saw it at an outdoor) some people in the audience visibly jumped at the shot, which is what I'm sure DC hoped - and unlike how the script says that the camera would be blocked out by someone stepping between the girls and the camera's lens, Gerard is actually first glimpsed as Claire walks by him -
-without seeing him at first - and once Claire has completely passed by is when we hear Tracy and Claire scream and the camera moves in on -
- Gerard's bloody face - and it's worth noting that in the 97 and 129 minute versions on the film, the screams and the shot of Gerard last longer...
One thing I don't remember exactly, though, is if in the missing footage Gerard actually lunges at them, as in the following publicity still:
I'm 99% percent sure he doesn't - but...