![]() He breaks through the handrail and is hanged by the neck. The Unrated Version features a second shot of the corpses, of which a small part is also in the Theatrical Version (not listed among the cuts). The Theatrical Version features a shorter shot that is the second shot in the Unrated (and also longer here (see next cut). The Theatrical Version features an alternative shot of the guy closing the door behind him.Īs the game tester finds his two friends dead the first shot of the bodies inside the blood-drenched room is missing. Before he leaves he tells them not to ruin their parents' bed and finally leaves after the guy in bed has put on a pig mask and gets ready. The girl in bed says that they have to get him a girlfriend while her boyfriend gets ready for round two, ordering the other guy outside. The first shot after the opening door has been extended and another one has been removed.īefore he leaves again the following is missing in the Theatrical Version: The time indexes derive from the PG-13-Theatrical VersionĪfter the game tester has opened the door to the bedroom we see the couple having sex a bit longer.Also, many of the violence cuts are only a few frames long and barely noticed in moving pictures – so it is important to bear in mind that the movie is not necessarily as brutal as it appears in this report. But some details are lost even in the film itself, for example the breasts of the hanged woman at the beginning that are barely visible even in the Unrated. In the film itself this is no problem while the little screens are barely recognizable. Note:The brightened screenshots do not represent the original picture quality of the film where many shots are dark and not very detailed.Some screens have been brightened up considerably because otherwise nothing would have been recognizable on the small screenshots.Mistakes are possible due to the immense amount of changes.Recuts are not or only sporadically mentioned.It should be out of the question which version is the better one – counting over 50 cuts, heavy storyline trimming and overall fifteen minutes shorter, the Theatrical Version is a tame bore for teenagers between 13 and 17 years of age. Not great but no waste of time either – and a good deal gorier than the other PG horror flicks. And indeed Stay Alive is a decent B-movie with an atmospheric first half but nevertheless somewhat weak in the second half. 12 missing scenes / shots in the Unrated versionĪmong all the PG-13 horror flicks of the last years it attracts attention that "Stay Alive" received critiques nowhere as devastating as those that the often rightly so dispraised competition. + 20 Censorship cuts using alternative footage / recuts So some of the changes have been labeled with more than one category or left out entirely. For example, there are changes that definitely can be counted as censorship but are so long and important for the storyline that they also have to be listed as storyline cuts. This report summarizes the changes made to 83 cuts / changes.ĭue to many overlaps it was difficult to define categories. ![]() ![]() Unrated version (US DVD, NTSC): 100:46 Min.ĭue to the vast number of overlaps, heavy recuts and very much alternative footage it was equally impossible to specify the exact number of changes and cuts. Due to the excessive use of alternative footage and recuts it was impossible to specify the exact amount of duration of the cuts made so we'll just compare the running times of both versions.
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