More Bloody…Special Edition of My Bloody Valentine now reported as uncut

See article from shocktillyoudrop.com The Special Edition DVD is available at US Amazon for release on 13th January 2009

My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canada horror by George Mihalka (Paramount) Liongate’s initial announcement suggested that deleted scenes were going to be included only as a DVD extra ShockTillYouDrop.com has learned, however, that yes an uncut version of My Bloody Valentine is coming your way and the producers of the disc are working diligently to put the footage back into the film. And it looks great, says our sources. As confirmation adverts for the release say: Watch the deleted scenes separately, or as part of the film! Previously the R rated version was cut as follows: From cuts details on IMDb Gore was cut from the pre-credits sequence where the woman is pushed backwards onto a pickaxe. Mabel’s mutilated body was originally on screen for much longer. The scene where the bartender is playing peek-a-boo with the Harry Warden dummy was edited so that no blood is shown. He was pickaxed up his chin and out his left eye, then dragged along the ground with his eyeball hanging out. The face-boiling of Dave was shortened so you don’t see the after-effects while he is dying. Graphic head-on shots of Sylvia’s shower impalement were deleted. A stock footage close-up of the miner’s light being shown at the camera replaces the bulk of a shot of Hollis’ bleeding face after he has been nail-gunned. In the widely-seen release, the scene picks up after Hollis has mostly turned away. Howard’s hanging is shortened. In the original print, he was decapitated. The decapitation was cut out, so it looks like his body just falls, stops short when the end of the wire is reached, sprays blood all over Patty and Sarah, and then resumes falling. Not only do the cuts imposed render the scene senseless, but they also make it so there’s no payoff to Hollis’ earlier comment that Howard would lose his head if it weren’t attached. Axel’s left arm gets trapped under rocks in the cave-in at the end. He rips it off to get away, leaving his limb behind to horrify everybody else. But since the key footage of the arm removal all had to be removed itself, it is hard to see exactly what happened.