Here are some thoughts from Mick Cantone on yesterday's 35mm showing of Jess Franco's THE DEMONS at the ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES in New York City. It will be shown again on November 9th, at 7:15PM
by Mick Cantone: Regarding
the print of THE DEMONS, it was a VERY battered print that had turned
reddish, as Eastmancolor films tend to do. It was the 79-minute US
theatrical print as per the Dutch VML video release. This print, however
had two scenes grossly misplaced. The scene with the Mother Superior
masturbating was shoved in the middle of the scene where Lady De Winter
and Renfield are examining Kathleen and Margaret in the convent. Also,
the scene where Lady De Winter is orally pleasuring Margaret was
inserted into the middle of the scene where Margaret kills her. After
seeing this print, I came to the conclusion that the scenes were snipped
out by a sneaky projectionist for his private collection and then
crudely inserted back into the film proper. One of the highlights was
finally getting to meet Mirek Lipinski. Very cool guy.
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