When a production company starts shooting a horror film in a 100 year old...and actually haunted...Sid Grauman built movie palace turned strip club in San Francisco, the "inhabitants" revolt and take over the movie for their own purposes with bizarre and shocking results.
Intrigued by the Director's Notes and trailer of the bizarre *Demon Cut* of The G-string Horror? Check out the Theatrical World Premiere of *Demon Cut* at the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco in late November/early December, 2013.
Global Amusements is making available an limited number of 2 DVD sets of the original edit of The G-string Horror plus a custom burned copy of the *Demon Cut* for $66.66, which includes sales tax and normal shipping via USPS in the US and Canada. This rare pre-release Collector's Package also includes a personalized copy of the Director's Notes, which attempt to detail how this strange manipulation of the film came about. Please click the Buy Now button on the right to pay via credit card, debit card or PayPal.
The angry ghosts of the Market Street Cinema, fed up with all the
cameras, lights and too many probing questions, have re-edited The
G-string Horror to their own liking.
Director’s Notes on how
the *Demon Cut* of The G-string Horror came to be.
These first notes appear on The G-string
Horror website and describe some of the seemingly paranormal anomalies that
occurred during the shooting and editing of the film. The final cut (for public
release) of the film contains material that was “spontaneously” altered during
editing, changed back, altered again…and again…and finally just left they way
“they” wanted it. The official DVD, Blu-Ray, digital, etc. version of the film
that is being released to the public contains some of this unexplained input.
Then…after mastering, replicating, etc…and after the Ghost Adventures crew did
their investigation and stirred things up a bit, the timeline of the film in
Final Cut Pro went through a violent and bizarre transformation “on its
own”.This altered state of the
film will be described in more detail in the second set of notes.
1. In 1985 I was shooting in an exercise
chamber at the Northern Shaolin Temple in China that had never been
photographed before. The monks allowed me and two other cameramen to shoot for
a few minutes only. We kept shooting, I suppose, longer than the unseen
“inhabitants” of the chamber thought acceptable. Although all indications were that we were
recording, there was nothing recorded on any of our tape beyond the first
couple of minutes that the monks had originally designated. A similar thing
happened while I was shooting a sub basement tour with a dancer/witch at the
Market Street Cinema. We encountered several of her unseen friends who did not
like what I was doing. From that point on, nothing was recorded even though, by
all indications, the camera was functioning properly. That was just the beginning. Much of the
strange tale told in the film actually happened in a slightly different form.
Shots were moved around in the edit…not my doing. At times the movie DID change
each time it was viewed…not just for me…others also. And none of us were
“smoking” or drinking. The actors were not themselves at times. On several
occasions when an actress was playing a fictional version of one of the ghosts,
it seemed that the real ghost took over and enjoyed being “exercised” by a
human host.
2. In December, 2012, the Ghost Adventures (Travel Channel)
crew did an investigation of the Market Street Cinema. The episode was first
shown at the beginning of March, 2013. During the investigation Zak Bagans had
a serious run in with the dancer/witch (mentioned above) and one of her dead
friends who chose to show his demonic side.
Soon after the show aired I noticed that the hard drive that
contained the files for the film was showing less…and then still less…available
space, and I had added nothing. I opened the drive and found that a copy of the
film had been made and that the timeline for the copy contained a flipped
(backwards) version of the film superimposed over the normal forward version. I
had not done this. No one else had access to the movie. Malfunction? Hardly.
There have been experiments with hidden (demonic?) messages
being added to songs by artists, or interpreted as such by fans, by reversing
audio, and even an experimental presentation ofKubrick’s The Shining projected backwards and forwards
simultaneously that has developed a cult following, but those manipulations
were performed by human hands. (see links below) I had already experienced what
seemed to be some sort of paranormal intervention in the shooting and editing
of the film, but nothing this extensive.
“Bizarre juxtapositions and startling synchronicities…you
begin to get drawn into the surreal, hypnotic interplay of images on screen.
And you begin to see that the movie is commenting on itself, playing with its
own themes and echoing itself again and again.”
Badassdigest re The Shining Forwards & Backwards
But this was just the opening move in what has become a
surreal and darkly comical game. Several days after the film had been turned
backwards, other changes…new footage I could not account for, shots of ghosts
who had been “left out”, voice changes, disturbing messages, etc…began to
appear spontaneously. I have come to realize that I now have very little say in
whatever the final “final cut” of the movie will be. Through the continuing
work of my prankster “collaborators”, the film continues to evolve on its own.
I have been able to make copies of a recent version of The
G-string Horror, which I call the *Demon Cut*. A Director’s Cut is out of the question at this point.
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