What Remains Missing From the Catalog of Stephen King Films?
10-04-06 | 02:15 PM
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The longer cut of 'Needful Things' is much better.
The bulk of the new footage is used in 2 ways.
For one thing the movie opens with the credits placed over an entirely new 14-minute chase sequence of Gaunt coming into town and being pursued by Bannerman, ending in a fiery crash with Gaunt smiling menacingly from inside/behind the flames.
The other big addition is the whole plotline of Brian's mother: the Elvis glasses, sleeping with the Elvis bust, etc. It's back in the movie instead of her being all but cut out.
The rest of the extra hour is really peppered throughout the film giving more time to each character and really captures the feeling of the grand scale of the whole cross-wiring thing that the book had.
It sucks only having it on VHS, but I guess on the plus side is that at least the full-frame picture is actually just an unmatted negative, so there's nothing cropped off the sides.
The downside is that some of the gore (the dog) and the language has been edited for t.v.
Maybe this is a case where the studio that has it just isn't aware they even have it, rather than it being purposefully neglected.
The bulk of the new footage is used in 2 ways.
For one thing the movie opens with the credits placed over an entirely new 14-minute chase sequence of Gaunt coming into town and being pursued by Bannerman, ending in a fiery crash with Gaunt smiling menacingly from inside/behind the flames.
The other big addition is the whole plotline of Brian's mother: the Elvis glasses, sleeping with the Elvis bust, etc. It's back in the movie instead of her being all but cut out.
The rest of the extra hour is really peppered throughout the film giving more time to each character and really captures the feeling of the grand scale of the whole cross-wiring thing that the book had.
It sucks only having it on VHS, but I guess on the plus side is that at least the full-frame picture is actually just an unmatted negative, so there's nothing cropped off the sides.
The downside is that some of the gore (the dog) and the language has been edited for t.v.
Maybe this is a case where the studio that has it just isn't aware they even have it, rather than it being purposefully neglected.
