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Ok. You wanna hear a story?
First off, my name is Henry Wayne.
Outside of the theater job, I was just an ordinary High School student. The only interests I had outside were watching World Wrestling Federation (which we now know as WWE), Powerpuff Girls, and Toonami.
But this
You all remember the cult 1985 film Return To Oz right? Yeah. That Disney film. It was said to be one of the scariest films of all time, mainly because of the Wheelers and that head scene.
Until Now.
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He said that before it was released in the UK in July 1985, a test screening was held on June 19 1984. He then told us about 9 minutes into the screening, people came running out the door, crying and screaming in fear. His manager then threw away the original reel cause it was too scary, but he then managed to grab it out of the trash with nobody watching and kept the reel since then. He even brought the reel with him to the Regal cinema.
Another employee then suggested that we watch the reel. The UK employee, his
When looking at the reel, it said
A Private employees-only screening was held in Auditorium #10 around 9:45 PM. About 10 employees, including my manager attended the private screening. The only one who
Well, what I watched was not what I expected it to be.
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The lights dimmed down, and the film starts. I was expecting the classic Walt Disney Pictures logo since Return To Oz was a Disney film, but instead we got the MGM Logo. Makes sense since MGM made The Wizard Of Oz. Only difference about this logo is that there was no Leo the Lion roaring. Just an empty logo that lasted for 5 seconds.
Then the normal opening titles played as the scene zooms out to
She just kept staring, and staring, and staring right at us. It started to get a little creepy. One employee wondered if this is the entire film. Just her staring right at us. Then this happened.
About 3 minutes later, blood started coming out of her nose before cutting to black. I was a little disgusted by this. Again, we thought the projector broke, but then a low demonic voice says,
I was wrong.
All of a sudden, we cut to the Emerald City where a huge explosion occurs on one of the buildings. We actually got jump-scared by this. But it
It was disgusting. The screams of the residents, the blood coming out, the remains of
But it
A few minutes later, it slowly pans up her body and does a 360 turn before stopping at her head, seen in back view. And it just stays there for 3 minutes. Again, we thought this was the end of the film.
Then all of a sudden, BAM! Dorothy turns her head around Exorcist-style, revealing her face to be all bloodied up, her
Then Russian text pops up. We
But as I was saying, you think
We cut to Tik-
When he turned around, he was holding
The Nome King then dropped
A few seconds later, we cut to Dorothy on the electrocution bed, and this is where it all falls apart. The backward music plays again, murmurs are heard, the brief 1 second flashes of her body parts return, and Dorothy still stares at us, but
We sighed in relief as we thought the film was over. As we got up, classic footage from the 1st Oz Movie began to play, where the Tin Man, Dorothy, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion were about to sing the classic
BAM!
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We cut back to Dorothy on the Electrocution bed, screaming loudly, high-pitched, and ear-raping. We covered our ears. It was loud as ever. But that was just the beginning. She was getting electrocuted, the screen was flashing, her eyes started to gouge out, and her skin was starting to melt. Oh. My. God.
And then her head exploded and the screaming stopped, and it stayed on that shot for a while. We unplugged our ears after what seemed to be minutes of screaming. After a few minutes of that same shot, we cut to black and see the Ruby Slippers landing on the floor, shattering in the process. I
We were shell-shocked. Especially my manager. Jason was right all along. Why did they actually do something like this!? Was the director drunk or something?! When we came out of the auditorium, there were people in the hallway confused and concerned, obviously they heard the loud ear-raping scream. When one movie goer asked what the hell was that noise, our manager, holding the film reel, replied,
While others chose to stay to work for the rest of the night, me, my manager (his
Murch responded 3 hours later, saying that the cut was directed by someone else before he took over. Murch explained that a newcomer director by the name of Peter Collins, known for his low budget horror films from the 70s. He further explained that Collins and MGM had an agreement to make a new Oz film based on the books, but Collins had other plans. He wanted to make it edgier and more horror-style, which led to the cut being made without any executive, not even the CEO at that time, of MGM noticing. The actress that played Dorothy in
Murch then told me that the cut was shown to a test audience in the UK and, like Jason said, people ran out of the theater in fear and complained that this is the scariest thing ever seen in the UK. That is until the famous Cold War Film Threads came out that same year of 1984. Because of this, MGM and Collins were fired from making any future Oz films and Collins soon committed suicide, leaving a suicide note saying,
Murch advised me that if I or anyone else sees that cut, he requested that the viewer destroy it before or after they see it, and that they have been warned if ignored. Sure enough, we destroyed the cut earlier. But I found out on a forum that there are other copies of the cut out there, waiting to be seen. Waiting for people like me to get haunted by it. Waiting. And Waiting. And Waiting.
So this is a warning to anyone
This is Henry Wayne signing off.
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