Anytime I hear the news of a studio taking power away from a director or writer I get pissed off. It’s just an obvious sign of more commercialism being inserted into the film. Maybe some of you out there remember a film called CLIVER BARKER’S THE PLAGUE that hit shelves a couple years back, but what many don’t know is that the film was basically raped by the producers.
Before the release of the film, the producers took the film away from director Hal Masonberg and re-cut portions of the film, used stock footage, and changed loads of dialogue to reconstruct the film completely. On top of all that, the film has very little to do with Clive Barker, despite what the title would suggest. Barker didn’t even write the story, as the producers led people to believe.
But Masonberg didn’t just sit around and get pissed off about what the producers had done, instead he used what he had and cut his own version of the film. And Masonberg’s cut of the film has garnered great response, but without the backing of Screen Gems, the cut will never see the light of day.
And before this article begins to sound like a UNICEF commercial I’ll tell you how you can help. There is an online petition that you can partake in and hopefully Screen Gems will pay attention. If you wanna help get this cut of the film out there, go
HERE.
Also, read The Arrow’s review of the original cut by going HERE.
THE PLAGUE star Ivana Milicevic and those lips can plague me all she wants…