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Topic: Does a "Texas Chainsaw" 2x600' exist?
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Kurt Gardner
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 193
From: San Antonio, TX
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted November 25, 2017 06:03 PM
I won a 2x600' print of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" on eBay and am awaiting its arrival from Belgium (it's in English). Is it the Iver 4x400' mini feature crammed onto 600' reels or is it something else? I've never heard of one this length.
The seller said it was from Perry's, but they were only distributors, not manufacturers, weren't they?
From the screen shots, it looks like the Iver print, kind of faded, but that's what I like -- the grindhouse, drive-in vibe. And surely with two 600' reels, there's plenty of time for all the killings.
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Kurt Gardner
Expert Film Handler
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From: San Antonio, TX
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted December 01, 2017 06:53 PM
This is an odd one. It has an "R" rating card and the Bryanston logo at the beginning. It also has John Laroquette's opening monologue, which the Iver 4x400 didn't have. The first reel and half of the second reel seem to include all the footage from the first part of the feature.
But once Kirk, Pam and Jerry are killed, it jumps into hyper speed, racing through the rest of the film. The scenes of Sally and Franklin are completely deleted, and the spooky walk through the woods calling for Jerry almost immediately cuts to Leatherface killing Franklin.
The scene of Sally running to the Old Man's gas station/barbecue is included, but the dinner/screaming/bloodshot eye scene is gone. We're not introduced to Grampa; he just pops up for the hammer scene. After she jumps out the window, the end is pretty much intact with the trucker. etc.
I can't tell who may have manufactured this, since the leaders were replaced.
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Kurt Gardner
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From: San Antonio, TX
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posted December 02, 2017 07:05 PM
I had the 4x400 Iver, and as I'd mentioned before, I really dig the grindhouse/drive-in look. This print's color matches the Iver. So going by actual color grading -- it'd be a 5 out of 10. For nostalgia viewing -- 8 out of 10. The blues are going, so it actually looks like two-strip Technicolor.
I was on the lookout for another because I'd lost the first 800' of my Iver print in a stupid projector malfunction. I was running it for some friends, and the takeup reel stopped moving at one point. Since the projection wasn't interrupted, we didn't notice it, but when the reel ended and I turned on the lights, I found the film in a pile of unforgivably tight knots on the floor.
God, I tried for weeks to untangle the print, twisting the film right and left, spreading it out all over my apartment, even trying to cut and resplice it at the bigger knots, but no go. I was heartbroken.
So I was delighted to receive this print and see that this edit was seemingly uncut for the first half of the film while whipping through the last half that I didn't need. Now I have an extremely full 800' reel for part one, matched up with my also full 800' of part two, which has all the later scenes that this edit deleted. And the colors match!
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