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« on: January 28, 2017, 05:56:43 PM »
I really don't understand why all the scenes leading to Maggie making her decision to leave had to be cut. Sure, the "Hanging David" stuff contributes to her decision, but, as we'll see with Scenes 68 through 68C, and as can already be easily seen with Scene 21, they can also stand alone without any of that. The only excuse I can see DC giving is that in his opinion they slowed down all the action and mayhem surrounding the release of the occupant of the coffin, and to a lesser degree, David terrorizing Maggie at the Old House. But hello, it's actually nice to slow things down a bit here and there to give the audience a breather and to show who your characters actually are. But character stuff just wasn't what DC was about with this film - for him it was all action and mayhem and then later the blood and gore and to hell with character. And when it comes to the mainstream press, the film got some pretty bad reviews because of it. But I'm sure DC could have cared less about that - especially because the horror press lapped up every bit of blood and gore with a spoon... Though many of the actors, particularly Jonathan Frid, shared the mainstream press' view, with Frid once criticizing the film as "one sledgehammer scene after another" - and that was while he was supposed to out promoting it! But then, if I was one of the actors and I saw that some if not most of my best character stuff ended up getting cut, I would have been upset too...