harry mandfredini says he scored part 2 when it was uncut, which is why the music doesn’t flow at some of the parts where they censored it. that footage would be fairly easy to reinsert…about as easy as it was to reinsert the my bloody valentine footage…sure they didn’t master that all to well, but i’ll take it.

as for the rest of the movies, some stuff was cut before scoring, so reinserting it would be a huge job. like in jason lives, listen to the cut footage on the boxset–the music doesn’t match. it’s more than just a couple of frames to add back in. tom mcloughlin would have to sit down and really do some work on it…that’s another factor–the involved people have to be willing to do it.

basically, some of them are doable, some are not. for those that are, the potential profit would have to justify what it would cost to do it. i think it would but maybe i just live in a fantasy world.

but there’s no doubt the footage still exists…over the years we keep being told it doesn’t exist and gradually more and more surfaces. people have been saying the footage from part 3 would never see the light of day, but in ‘his name was jason’ they actually have a shot of a couple censored frames from andy’s death.

i’d say the biggest problem is, it’s film. for NONE of these releases have they actually gone back and mastered film. they actually took their old fullscreen masters that were used for the VHSs and cropped the tops and bottoms to make them widescreen. a company that takes shortcuts like that is going to need MAJOR persuasion to do something like recut from film.

but back on topic, i’m already sold on this boxset. i can’t wait to see the full series in hi-def. i’d pay double for uncut, but i’m not gonna get my hopes up…i try not to get my hopes up with anything from paramount. they don’t pay attention to detail, don’t care about quality of the product, and they’re just not very talented or hard-working people, in my opinion.