Alternate opening with the apartment from the first film?
Does it really exist?
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If it really does exist on some early VHS tapes, then why isn't the footage on YouTube yet?
shareThat is like saying how come all these ultra rare movie trailers aren't on youtube if they are on old VHS rental tapes
I'm still waiting to see the rare trailer for Highlander III to be up on youtube. I've waited 9 years and never have seen it on there
It is a great trailer that makes the mediocre movie seem like a really exciting movie
While the other trailers for that film are all the same with just different title cards
It exists on VHS but no one can seem to get it put online
I've come across many who claim they have it but they simply do not have a way to get the VHS tape converted to digital. These days it is all about having it in the digital format
Not everyone is tech savvy or has the hardware to get VHS onto DVD or bluray
I do remember seeing the opening scene to Child's Play 2 back when it was a new release on VHS from the old Video Store in my hometown
I suppose it was from the first batch of tapes only
Remember this is from RENTAL VHS not RETAIL VHS
You couldn't exactly buy these copies from Walmart and many video rental shops didn't sell their tapes during the early 90s
When I finally got around to going back to that same old video shop , they no longer had VHS copies of any title
It was all DVDs by that point
I do remember seeing the opening scene to Child's Play 2 back when it was a new release on VHS from the old Video Store in my hometown
I suppose it was from the first batch of tapes only
Remember this is from RENTAL VHS not RETAIL VHS
You couldn't exactly buy these copies from Walmart and many video rental shops didn't sell their tapes during the early 90s
When I finally got around to going back to that same old video shop , they no longer had VHS copies of any title
It was all DVDs by that point
I think you might be mistaken. First off, VHS rental copies are mass-produced so if it were the first run, there would literally be thousands of copies of it floating around.
VHS rental shops often did sell copies of their tapes but their selling methods were different. There was usually about a ninety-day window between when the movies came out for rental and when they were sold as sell-through tapes in stores and aired on premium channels like HBO. This allowed the video stores, who were paying about $100 a copy for these tapes ample time to earn money back on their investment. They would buy them often in bulk and once they turned a profit, they would sell their excess copies they no longer needed as "previously-viewed". The rental copies would usually have different previews and such and sometimes, slightly different artwork but very rarely would you get a completely different cut of the movie like that. They usually offer up the theatrical version or in some rare cases, a special "director's cut" VHS if there was a particular complaint with the theater version but almost never would you just have a random new opening in a handful of early prints. TV versions would sometimes add scenes to compensate for footage they had to remove or to spice up a network TV event. In fact, there is actually a TV version of this movie with alternate footage.
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I really don't think there is an alternate opening for three reasons:
1) There's a TV version from like 1996 or 1997 that has extra scenes as well as an alternate ending. I did see the alternate ending the first time I saw the film and when I rented it from Broadway Video about a year later, I was confused why they didn't pan the camera back into the factory. The first time I saw CP2, it was at the part where Andy finds a good guy doll in his closet at his foster home and the dad says it's only a doll. When I recorded it on Sci-Fi back in like 1999 or 2000, it didn't have the alternate opening, just the normal one with the maintenance guys working on the burnt doll from the first film. I even recorded the third film as well, I think.
2) The music score at the beginning would have to be changed as well as the opening part where they zoom out from one of Chucky's burned out eyes.
3) If it really was on only on, let's say the first 100 rental VHS tapes then someone would've uploaded it to YouTube already.
The first one-hundred tapes would also make for such arbitrary number as well. The video industry was a booming business at the time. It would really make no sense to just put out a random, small number of cassettes like that. Unless they were specifically making a limited amount of copies, I can't see why they would do that. It also wouldn't make much sense to do it for rental copies as the upside on this would be minimal.
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Given that there were THOUSANDS of video stores between Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, D-Rose and all the Mom & Pop run stores, it wouldn't make sense to produce such a small number of tapes, especially since CP2 was a massively popular movie.
The alternate opening is just an urban myth until someone can provide solid, concrete evidence that it actually exists.
Plus if there were such a cut, it would have been mentioned in this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYKOzhpLi0
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