Friday the 13th Part 4 - Uncut Kills
The Friday the 13th series made its mark on audiences with a simple premise, a strangely compelling antagonist, and creative, over-the-top violence. Most, if not all, of the 80s editions of the series had to make pretty heavy cuts just to receive an R rating from the MPAA, rather than the dreaded X. While the little bit of excised gore from the first film was restored to make an "uncut" version on DVD and blu ray, the rest of the series has not received such a treatment. However, much of the cut footage is available through a number of sources, and generally it would be great to see it restored to the films. Here is a comparison between the theatrical and uncut versions of some of the deaths in Part Four. This supposed "final chapter" of the series allowed special effects all-time great Tom Savini to go nuts on the kills, culminating in the "death" of Jason Voorhees himself. His demise was short-lived, but it was still spectacular.
Search around YouTube enough and you will find yourself in some pretty dark and disturbing places. Fortunately, you can find your way back to the goodness and light by simply searching for the phrase "cut slide." A cut/slide is a very specific type of horror movie kill, in which the victim gets something sliced off almost without their knowing. You see the horrible realization dawning on their faces only when the victim slides down a wall or collapses slowly to the floor with their dismembered body parts dropping away underneath them. Watch this cut/slide montage and you'll see what I mean.
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