DS - Deleted Scene (doesn't appear in the released version at all)
ES - Extended Scene (similar or identical to the released version, but with substantial additional material at the beginning, middle or end)
TS - Trimmed Scene (similar or identical to the released version, but has a bit of extra
material at the beginning and/or end)
MS - Missing Scene (A scene that is NOT in the Workprint version)
AT - Alternate Take (similar to the released version, but obviously a different take of the scene)
LD - Looped Dialogue (this is an original dialogue line, before it was changed for the released
version)
AD - Audible Director (you can hear Dan O'Bannon shouting directions)
| TS / MS: Tramp Attack | Before the Tramp wanders to the graveyard, he looks in some trash cans. We do not see Trash bite him. |
| AT: Hold Me Tight | Casey's brief conversation with Chuck is slightly extended (by three words), and an alternate version. She says "Chuck? I never did like you. But please, under the circumstances, hold me tight!" |
| TS: Contained | The scene begins with additional dialogue: SPIDER: {Referring to Frank and Freddy} You know, I don't think we should stay in here with them. ERNIE: That's right. We really have to do something with them. TINA: Do? Do WHAT? BERT: Look, I think it'd be a lot wiser if we... Later, when they have left Tina and Freddy alone in the chapel, the scene goes on a bit longer...she asks Freddy "Are you okay? What're we gonna do?" |
| ES: Freddy Attack | Freddy's attack on Tina is extended and cut a little differently. There is no stop- motion film effect when he first attacks her. They circle around the podium at the front of the chapel, which he knocks over. She runs to the door, he follows and slams into it. He pushes her down on a pew and she kicks him off, which is where the scene in the released version actually begins. Before throwing the candlestick at him she throws a folding chair. There is an additional shot of Frank running down the hallway. |
| ES: Comfort | Bert has a wonderful, comforting scene with Tina after he slaps Spider, followed by
some dialogue by the Half Woman stand-in: BERT: Don't you worry about Freddy and Frank. You see, they've gone to heaven. Those things out there...they're just dead bodies that want to eat our brains. HALF WOMAN: Oh God...brains! Brains, give me brains! The pain, it's coming back! SPIDER: Make her shut up... |
| ES: Escape Plan | SPIDER: ...That's a big fuckin' "If," man. BERT: Yeah. You got a better idea? SPIDER: {Thinks for a second} Nah. Guess I don't. I'll do it. |
| ES: Frank's Cremation | The scene starts with a closeup of Frank staring at something. The camera slowly pulls back to show that he's staring at the furnace across the room. He stands and groans. The furnace tilts back and forth in a dreamlike way. He mouths a prayer just before putting his wedding ring on the furnace switch. |
| AT: Preparing To Run | This take is so different that it's virtually a deleted scene: BERT: Ernie, you've got to stay here with her, okay? {To Spider} What's your name? SPIDER: Spider. BERT: Spider and I will get one of the cars, we'll drive it right up to the door here... you got any more of that nitric acid? {Ernie shakes his head}. SPIDER: Which car do we take? BERT: We'll take Ernie's car. {To Ernie} Where are your keys? ERNIE: Uhhh...uhhh, my clutch is stickin' and I cannot guarantee the safety of that car. SPIDER: Police car... Bert doesn't ask Ernie to come to the door, but Ernie says a different (and much inferior) line at the end of the scene: ERNIE: Bert! BERT: What. ERNIE: That...that favour...you still owe me? No matter what happens, uhh...don't name it after me. BERT: {Laughing} You big shit. TINA: What if you guys don't make it? BERT: You gotta think positive, little lady. Alright, stand by. Now! |
| LD / MS: Back At The Warehouse | We don't see Bert and Spider drive the car into the wall, or any fire on the cars. When they enter the warehouse and Chuck asks who Bert is, Spider says "He's cool" instead of "He owns this place." When the car explodes, their reactions go on a little longer. |
| AT: Phone In The Office | When Ernie tries to use the phone in the office, the take is very different from the
one in the released version: he doesn't close the steel shutters, leaving the window
wide open. |
| ES: Into The Attic | Once they're in the attic, the scene continues for a long time: Ernie loads his gun, puts some sort of gear on top of the trap door, then pushes it away and spends time setting up the board to hold the door down. During this time there are a lot of Freddy ad libs going on ("Tina! Where are you!") |
| TS / LD: The Helecopter | Just before the helecopter arrives, Chuck -- looking out the window -- says "the rain's startin' up again." Casey repeatedly tells the others to listen. The helecopter voice is by Dan O'Bannon, off-camera. When they go to open the basement door, Chuck grabs Casey and says "come on!" |
| ES: In The Attic | This scene goes on longer...Freddy says "Tina, Tina, listen to me. We always meant so much to each other. So PLEASE open the hatch...it's wrong that you should keep me locked out like this!" |
| TS: Into The Basement | We see Chuck, Spider, Casey and Bert go through the basement door. |
| ES: Calling The Police | When Bert calls the police, we get more dialogue interspersed with some that did
end up in the final cut: BERT:"Yeah, gimme the police. It's an emergency, operator! C'mon, c'mon, c'mon! Yeah. Police? Thank God, we're calling from the Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse on East Central, and we're inside your blockade, and we need help! Wha? Uh, they put me on hold, for Christ sake." COP: Yes, go ahead. Yes I can hear you. BERT: Yeah, you gotta help us. There's a bunch of us trapped inside your barricade here and we can't get outta here. COP: You say you're INSIDE the barricade? BERT: That's right, we're trapped INSIDE here, and we're goners for sure if you don't come and get us out right now. COP: First of all, mister, what the hell is going on in there? I've lost a dozen good men and nobody can tell me jack shit. BERT: Well it's, it's uhh...I don't think I...look, there are a bunch of people in the cemetary who are stark, staring mad and they'll kill ya and eat ya if they catch ya, it's like a disease, it's like rabies only faster, it's a lot faster, that's why you got to come in here right now and get us the hell out of here right now! Please! Please! COP: Yes, well hold on. {Shouting off camera} Mike, got a guy here says it's rabies! Get the medical examiner down here in one hell of a hurry! Now just sit tight, mister, we're gonna send somebody in and get you out. But first of all you've gotta tell me exactly where you are. BERT: Alright. We're at the Uneeda Medical Supply warehouse, 21706 East Central... you know where that is? COP: Just a minute, I can't hear you, there's a lotta noise out here... When the zombies attack the cops we don't see the one of the zombies lose their head, and we don't see Trash biting the cop. |
| TS / MS / AT: Calling The Colonel | There is no shot of the military call going through a microwave hookup (just a storyboard). There is a long pan from the Colonel's bedroom windows to his bed. After he is finished talking on the phone, his wife asks "What is...is...is this it?" The Colonel's conversation with his superior is an alternate take, and ends with the additional line, "It looks like our worst-case scenario." |
| MS: Missile Sequence | The sequence with Sgt. Jefferson is time-coded (beginning at 09:05:00:00), as are all subsequent special effects. We are shown the missile actually gliding into a chute, and the word "Locked" is superimposed over a black background instead of a keyboard. The headset dialogue is a different voice. When it's time to fire the missile, Jefferson says "Ready on this end, sir!" and the headset voice says "Fire." |
| DS: The End | After the nuclear explosion, there is a voice-over speaking over images of disaster footage, giving us an alternate ending: "The image you are seeing is the fireball cast by a low-yield tactical nuclear artillery shell. More than twenty square blocks of industrial Louisville were destroyed in this explosion, which was officially described as a petrochemical refinery accident. Over 4000 persons died from the immediate effects of the blast. Studies by the Department of Health Education And Welfare, as well as the Jefferson County Health Inspector, have shown a 1200% inscrease in the incidence of leukemia and infant mortality among residents of the area. These and other complaints from the survivors of the Fourth Of July Louisville Refinery Disaster have lead the Environmental Protection Agency to order 900 tonnes of soil removed from the area. At the time of this filming, that soil is residing in 175 railroad cars, parked on an unused railway line...in South Dakota." There is a special effects shot of railway cars coming to rest in a desert. |