The Original Discovery Of Tamara In Part 8
When the Deluxe DVD of Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan was released in September 2024, the buzz surrounding the disc was that of the cut and deleted scenes that had been found at Paramount Studios. The biggest question to be answered was that of the original kill of the boxer. Did we get to see the boxer have the darts thrown in his eyes and how gory was it going to be? Well, we found out that the scene was really pretty weak and a good thing that the death was changed to a sauna rock to the abdomen.
One of the pleasant surprises was the discovery of the wide shot of Tamara’s glass shard-ridden body by Eva. The unedited shot showed that Jason dispatched of Tamara in a more brutal fashion, which the fans all want to see. However, what if this was not the first choice of how Tamara was to be discovered by Eva? Well, looking at the Call Sheet for the day of filming for the scene. It looks as though Tamara was supposed to be found a different way.
According to the filming documents, Tamara was to be found hanging on the door hook of the bathroom door! Eva discovers Tamara on the door hook while seeing her reflection in the shards of glass on the floor. Pretty cool to see that at one point there was an alternative discovery of the body. Somewhere in the creative process, the filmmakers decided to change the scene to what we see today. Would the original discovery of the body been better?
I think this would have been awesome! Especially if the glass shards were all sticking in her. Nice find! I never heard of this before.
Honestly I think they shouldve went with the wide shot of Tamara on the floor. That looks freakin brutal.
I love that, even in death, she is still looking in the mirror! Here character was so vain. What a great screen shot!
ANY version of a FRIDAY the 13 movie in UNcut really uncut becomes the film in a piece of gold O F THE SLASHERS MOVIES
sorry for my bad ENglish
The amount of cuts those idiot made to part 6-VS was just unheard of. I’m still waiting for the best Friday the 13th sequel to be filmed.
Friday the 13th: Jason Takes the MPAA
Cause anyone with eyes can see that the people at the MPAA are KINGS at “Slashing”.
Would be interesting to see the kings of slash go head to head.
Steve
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Yes that body dicovery would have been way better!!
i meant ‘discovery’
Well i think that the original death would off looked really good and should off stuck with it. Not that her death in the film was crap or anything, but it would off been better.
In the original script that I have Kane wrote all the stunts on the backside. Will check if I can find anything about the alternative scenes.
Mario