As many people know back in the past, television versions of films were radically different from the theatrical versions. Anyone have any good examples of this. I'll start.
Halloween II - It is essentially a recut of the film. Scenes are totally re-sequenced, significant amounts of deleted footage is added, most of the blood is gone, a few disapperances of charaters are completely unexplained, different takes of scenes are used, and there is an alternate ending. The old TV version is actually quite a different film.
Poltergeist. It's not all that different in the TV version, but versions shown in the mid 80's had an alternate "face ripping" scene. The first couple of shots are the same when Marty starts to pick at the lesions that appear on his face, but the drops of blood in the sink were recolored to appear brown. At the shot where he would have really started to tear into his face, it is replaced by his face covered in some brownish muck and his eyes are whited out to give him a zombie appearance. It is actually almost equally creepy, but probably not seen since the 80's
Halloween II - It is essentially a recut of the film. Scenes are totally re-sequenced, significant amounts of deleted footage is added, most of the blood is gone, a few disapperances of charaters are completely unexplained, different takes of scenes are used, and there is an alternate ending. The old TV version is actually quite a different film.
Poltergeist. It's not all that different in the TV version, but versions shown in the mid 80's had an alternate "face ripping" scene. The first couple of shots are the same when Marty starts to pick at the lesions that appear on his face, but the drops of blood in the sink were recolored to appear brown. At the shot where he would have really started to tear into his face, it is replaced by his face covered in some brownish muck and his eyes are whited out to give him a zombie appearance. It is actually almost equally creepy, but probably not seen since the 80's