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Holy Shit This ‘Jurassic World’ Deleted Scene Stinks
Gone are the days of Blu-rays like Blade, boasting authentic, insane alternate scenes that were the catalyst behind my first Blu-ray purchase. I stopped watching deleted scenes years ago when I realized studios were jamming home video releases with garbage in order to sell a copy. With that, some crazy ones slip past me. Take this one, for example, which popped up on reddit this past weekend.
Colin Trevorrow‘s Jurassic World, which I thought was quite fun, carried quite a few scenes that gave homage to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park adaptation. One was removed from the final film, presumably because it was a piece of shit.
In this deleted sequence, Owen (Chris Pratt) “teaches” Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) a thing or two about animals and scents. In order to mask themselves from a potential dinosaur attack, Owen explains to Claire that she needs to mask that “vanilla scented lotion” by covering herself in dino crap. While the scene already makes absolutely no sense, what’s bizarre about it is how Trevorrow’s camerawork sexualizes the moment, as shown above. What were they thinking? I’d love to have been a fly on the wall when this scene was shot and to know why it was eventually excised from the film. Maybe Trevorrow just has a strange fetish? No matter, the scene is below and reminds me of when humans cover themselves in zombie guts in order to trick the undead…
“What, no good?”
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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