Synopsis:

After the tragic death of his wife, Frank Bannister discovers he can communicate with the dead. When a demonic spirit wreaks havoc on his small town, he may be the only one who can stop it.

Intentions:

This is the third in my “Quick Fix” series. QuickFixes are simple fanedits of films I enjoy. The primary intention is to trim the movie here and there to improve pacing, tone or characters. These aren’t edits that substantially fix a bad movie. If you don’t like the source movie you won’t care for this fanedit.

Change List:

Cut the cold opening between The Ghost and Patricia. Really doesn’t make any sense when you think about it and it’s just a pre-title teaser that tries to grab the audience by the boo boo. Cut the “What’s this Shadow of Death thing…” exchange in the newspaper office. Cut the walking chicken during the attack on Ray and Lucy. (DC Scene) Cut Stuart throwing up. Cut some of the ghost humor when we first meet them. Cut Cyrus’ “A-Double-A-C” rant (theatrical scene) and the ensuing DC scene of Stuart wanting to stand up to Frank. Cut Judge’s bit about his ectoplasm drying up. Cut the scene where Frank gets a letter from the bank and needs to get $15,000 nao and blah blah blah. (DC scene) Cut Frank and Judge driving. (DC scene) Cut Ray failing to open the door. (DC scene) Cut the mummy bit in the museum fight. Cut the revolving door gag shortly after. Cut Ray talking to Lucy in the car. (DC scene) The second hour of the flick is pretty much the same. Cut the epilogue scene. Sure it’s short and harmless and it’s usually good to end a movie with people happy and in love but meh whatever. I usually turn the film off right before this scene.

Additional Notes:

Main goal was to tighten up the pacing in the Director’s Cut. Overall I prefer the Theatrical Cut but the DC has some nice additions. I focused mainly on cutting unfunny humor and lame scenes. This is my second edit in HD and for right now I’m just making a 720 MP4 and a DVD5. I doubt in the future I’ll make a BD since you can easily hook up a laptop to a TV. Hell you could probably plug your phone into your TV and it’ll still look shiny.

Special Thanks:

TM2YC for inspiration.