Notes On The Shining/*Demon Cut*/Connection

 

When I started shooting G-string Horror interviews at the Market Street Cinema in Dec, 2011, I talked to a woman who had worked there as a dancer for many years, who most there thought was a “witch” and who claimed to “know” the many spirits who still “live” at the theater. The woman insisted on remaining anonymous, but finally did allow me to film her. She appears in G-string Horror in shadow with her voice disguised. The woman, we’ll call her Mariana, seems to be the “real thing”…very disturbing to be around at times. She told me that she sees the theater as the same as the Overlook Hotel in The Shining…still occupied by the dead who had worked there over the years and who will never leave. Mariana is obsessed with The Shining…feels that her and her dead friends are part of the Overlook/Shining family, and like to visit the hotel often. Very creepy.

Mariana…

- Gave customers psychic readings during her private dances in the back booths of the theater.

- Had a regular customer who worked at a film and video lab in San Francisco.

- Asked him if he could make her a copy of The Shining that ran backwards. Special messages revealed when watched that way.

- Even more occult meanings revealed if you watched it forwards and backwards at the same time. (Others have discovered this also. See previously posted director's notes.)

- The customer created a backwards/forwards Blu-Ray disc for her.

- She showed it after hours in the porno screening room of the theater for a select group of her clients, theater workers and “the dead ones”.

Her “friends” really liked to watch it this way.

- After G-string came out and Ghost Adventures made her and the ghosts of the theater extremely angry, she insisted that she and her friends make a *Demon Cut* of G-string to make things right. They flipped it backwards, superimposed it on itself, then did other things to it to reveal what they want to say through the film.

- After they did this, they screened it secretly in the closed theater along with their version of The Shining.

- To really set things right, she asked if it was possible to get both films in “The Festival” (Another Hole in the Head) where The G-string Horror showed last year.

- Mariana’s “friends” still “live” at the theater even though it’s closed. They and Mariana plan to be at the Another Hole in the Head screenings of “their” version of The Shining and *Demon Cut*.

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Paranormal Activity Re-edits The G-string Horror

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 of  Kubrick’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.

Charles Webb

  

http://badassdigest.com/2012/10/01/fantastic-fest-review-the-shining-forwards-and-backwards/

http://screencrush.com/shining-forwards-and-backwards-review/

http://fantasticfest.com/films/the-shining-forwards-and-backwards

http://listverse.com/2011/08/28/top-10-famous-cases-of-backmasking/