If you’re a fan of director John Landis’ An American Werewolf in London, we’ve obtained a very cool deal with to share with you immediately! The video beneath comes from Paul Davis, the identical man who launched all that superior behind the scenes footage from The Exorcist, and in this video, he presents the iconic werewolf transformation scene with the authentic rejected musical rating.
The authentic rating was created by Elmer Bernstein who scored different movies reminiscent of Ghostbusters, The Magnificent Seven, True Grit, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments, Three Amigos, Airplane, and extra. Davis explains:
“Here is something that myself and the team at New Wave Entertainment tried to pull off back in 2008 as a bonus feature for the first Blu-ray release of An American Werewolf in London in September 2009. With the blessing of John Landis and Universal Home Entertainment, we attempted to restore Elmer Bernstein’s original score that was recorded and subsequently rejected for the legendary transformation sequence.
“Couldn’t quite get there because there were no separate audio tracks to remove the Sam Cooke audio, but it was an interesting experiment. While it wasn’t released on the Blu-ray as a separate feature, we thought the result was pretty interesting, and certainly changes the tone of the scene.”
He went on to inform Bloody-Disgusting:
“We confirmed it to Rick Baker, who had not heard the rating, in the slicing room in LA in ‘08, and he was stunned by it. Just seeing that reaction from the guy who created all the FX for the scene was worth it.”
Davis also said in the video: “I think you will see in this sequence, as Elmer Bernstein recorded it, it completely changes the scene. It makes it a horror transformation.”
The original version of the scene features Sam Cooke’s music “Blue Moon” enjoying throughout the transformation. It’s defined that Landis wished the vibe of the sequence to be “sad and painful” relatively than “scary.”
I really like the Bernstein rating with the scene much more! It offers the scene that traditional chilling horror vibe to it and it’s a lot darker and extra haunting. I feel it’s good for the scene, however I perceive why Landis selected to go in one other course. I’m simply completely satisfied that we really obtained to see the scene with Bernstein’s rating!
Watch the scene for your self in the video beneath and tell us what you suppose! I additionally included the authentic scene to be able to evaluate the two.
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