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Originally Posted by Daemonia  Indeed, Peter, I think you're right on all counts.
The Road To Hell sequence is a clever tactic by Deodato. We are shown real footage of human death and misery, only for the projectionist to turn round and say it's fake. It's not - but how many casual viewers actually believed it was fake? It's clever in that Deodato is constantly mixing things up so that the viewer starts to lose focus of what's real and what's not, which adds a frightening power to the film.
I've not seen any of the UK releases to date - does it lose the Road to Hell sequence? |
As far as im aware all releases are missing 10 secs from the road to hell apart from the Scandanavian and EC Ultrabit versions.
The US release aint cut per se as those 10 secs were missing from the negatives. The EC release used a different master.
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The Grindhouse and Aussy release has 10 sec missing from the actual film but the full sequence is inc as a extra.