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Bad Edit Job

posted 14 years ago by MonteCarloMan
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When Stacy is talking to the hooker in their motel room it all of a sudden cuts with her sitting on the bed (during the same scene!) and Stacy saying "Bottoms up" how could they miss that?!? Bad...just bad.

[–] f6strings 13 years ago

Also, when the killer attacks the couple screwing in the van, he first knifes the guy as the woman crawls away, and we see her cowering in the corner. Then, a second later, we see the girl open the van door and run off, but it's CLEARLY either a different actress, or the same actress with a bad wig on! Maybe that's bad props (or bad blocking?) instead of bad editing..............

[–] MonteCarloMan 11 years ago

Any others? I can't remember off the top of my head...

[–] uziforu 10 years ago

There was a lovely closeup of eggs in a frying pan.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (63057267) 9 years ago

This film was obviously censored (heavily) to remove excess nudity (male and female) as well as gore. Whether the producers or the MPAA made the cuts remain as to be seen, but either way a potentially affecting thriller was ruined in the post-production stage, or afterward. Either way, the end result is a mess. What a shame.

[–] swr2777-1 9 years ago

Also, another one. When Warren Stacy, in the beginning of the film, is getting himself all spritzed up to go out to the Aero theatre and grabs his butterfly knife, there's a cutaway to the soon-to-be blond victim having sex in the van, and then we cut back to Warren in his apartment with the butterfly knife. I presume it's supposed to be just him thinking about the murder he's about to commit and/or the people he's about to kill, or perhaps an attempt at "parallel editing" (a la..."Meanwhile, in the park..."). Except that, in this cutaway to the couple making out in the van...um, Warren Stacy's reflection is in the window peering in, because it's a shot from the forthcoming scene in which he does actually kill them. ...making it more of an unintentional flash-forward for no good reason rather than a stream-of-consciousness edit. I adore this film, too, as an 80's guilty pleasure cable-fave...but, um, can they not see his glaring reflection in the cutaway shot to the couple? It's plain as day and takes up much of the frame!