I am honored that LGF picked up my film for distribution for the masses, and it is also my hope that one day everyone can see "Murder-Set-Pieces" the way it was meant to be seen. (and, I'm not only talking about the gore scenes, the rape scenes, the child murder scenes, and the torture scenes.I'm talking about the specific dialouge that is edited out of the film, the music, the cinematography and the editing, period. Seeing the "NC-17" rated version of "Murder-Set-Pieces", is an entirely different experience than the severely edited "R" rated version. My vision was edited by the great Todd Ramsay (John Carpenter's "The Thing"). I DID NOT edit this new "R" rated cut from LGF. It was made with the "NC-17" rating firmly in mind from the beginning. "Murder-Set-Pieces" was NEVER intended to be an "R" rated film. (Note: Both the Theatrical 105 minute Cut and my Director's Cut 90 minute DVD (released by Fright Flix Productions) are UNCUT, NC-17 rated versions!!.īoth the Theatrical Cut and my Director's Cut versions are essentially my vision.where as the Lion's Gate "R" cut was done to appease the MPAA- (Motion Picture Association of America-and-get it into Blockbuster Video. (The only reason they edited it from the Theatrical version, and not my Director's Cut, is to pad the running time-other wise the film would time in at 68 minutes!!) Lion's Gate edited it for censorship reasons.
So, the Lion's Gate version was edited from the 105 minute Theatrical Cut. (I edited my Director's Cut version for artistic reasons, not censorship reasons). It is Uncut as well, but I tightened the film to my original vision. My Director's Cut DVD of "M-S-P" runs 90 minutes.
The Lion's Gate "R" rated version is based on the THEATRICAL CUT-which ran 105 minutes. There was 22 minutes cut out of the Lion's Gate 83 minute "R" rated version of "Murder-Set-Pieces"!! (twenty-two minutes).a record for a horror film!! A clarification by the filmmaker himself.
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