Blood Harvest

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Summary: Blood Harvest DVD is censored!
Review: DON'T BUY THIS DVD.

The DVD of Blood Harvest is a ripoff.

I just watched this fave old horror movie of mine, Blood Harvest, in its DVD incarnation.

Only if you can't get it elsewhere should you buy this DVD.

This is edited in several places, including these two key scenes: first of all, in the famous shower scene, Jill gets forced out of the shower when a "mysterious stranger" turns off the cold water. In my recorded-from-cable VHS version, an additional short scene shows Jill not only jump out, but grab a towel and flash a brief, but lovely, full frontal - and if you're familiar with the movie, you know that the actess playing the character Jill is especially gorgeous.

That's gone from the DVD. It shows the brief, unrevealing dash from the shower, then cut to Jill wearing a robe in the kitchen.

The scene of Jill's friend hung upside down in the barn, stripped to lingerie: the unedited scene where the girl's throat is slit, followed by a brief-but-gory squirting blood shot, is gone entirely from the DVD. Only a brief flash of the dead girl is shone.

I think every gore/nude scene has been edited in some way. Plus,picture quality varies tremendously from the beginning (almost looks 3rd generation videotape), to almost passable high video tape quality. Nothing APPROACHING typical DVD quality, even for old films transferred.

In the credits, it mentions "International Director's Cut", or some such. What baloney. The film looks like religious censors went after it with hedge trimmers.

With the sudden cheapness in DVD recording machines, schlocks like those that edited and are selling this hacked version of Blood Harvest, should be prosecuted for fraud.

You've been warned.

I'll continue watching my uncut, nearly as good picture (and warmer colors) VHS tape of 13 years.

This is about the DVD version.

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Summary: A Great Cult Movie Lost In Obscurity
Review: I loved this movie so much I have seen the original but I do know why the scenes where cut out for anybody who read the last review. They where going to relase it uncut but according to the new rating standards of movies with that much nudity it would of had an X-rating which would of cut down on its sales so they cut it down to an R-rating altough I do think it sould of been releced uncut I do see there point Wal-Mart would never market an X-Rated movie but they will an R(most wal-marts still won't carry Clockwork Orange).Anyway I hope this helps anybody in general its a great and veary disturbing movie and staring Tiny Tim makes it great on its own. So yeah if you can find a uncut copy get that but you don't lose that much on DVD