For any of you who only saw the "chopped" version, my sincere apologies for missing out on a great suspense chilling movie. The best last older Bette Davis film IMO> The original many hour version, which I actually recorded on VHS on in October 1986, is outstanding. For overly avid gore fans who think tons of blood and separated body parts make a great horror movie, this is not for you. This is a thinking movie. I was caught up along with Nick, and desperately wanted to know what happened to Grace Everdeen, why would she leave the Coombe and what did Jack really know and could no longer tell? Where did the Widow really get her medical knowledge? I finally consolidated my VHS version to DVD in order to preserve it and it now comprises one of my Halloween favorites, along with Amazons, Hocus Pocus, Hammer Film's rendition of Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Star-Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, The Raven with the Great Vincent Price and Peter Lorre and Salem's Lot, the original version. Like all great true horror films, it's how you scare yourself not the amount of entrails that matters and what makes this an awesome movie.
