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The original G-String Horror
was pretty unusual in both plot and approach, being a cross between erotic
horror from the trashy side of the genre, "enhanced"
documentary, and actual ghost hunt - so it's probably only fitting that
this alternative "demon cut" is not just a slightly altered take
on the original story but actually works as a sort-of sequel, the story
being that the spirits depicted in the original have gotten their own
hands on the footage and radically re-cut it. The plot as such
remains (relatively) identical: 20 years ago, the once prestigious
Market Street Cinema that has long been turned into a strip club: Stripper
Baby Doll (Natasha Talonz) tades a couple of customers who were having a
birthday party down to the basement for a bit more privacy - but
unfortunately, these customers are psychopaths, and they slaughter her
down there. Now a filmcrew wants to make a movie in the club, and the
owner (Mike Gleason) is more than happy to accomodate them ... but then
things get weird: Things start disappearing, the filmed footage seems to
change with each viewing, everybody on cast and crew seems to feel a weird
presence ... and occasionally, there's a stripper on stage who's just not
supposed to be there and who, when followed, vanishes into thin air. Psychic
reader Lady Zee (Debra Lamb) is called in to investigate. At her psychic reading, she immediately notices a ghostly
presence at the place, that of Baby Doll, the murdered stripper whose body
has never been found. But despite trying as hard as she does, Lady Zee
just can't figure out what Baby Doll might want - so she asks her nephew
Sean (Trevor O'Donnell) to infiltrate the filmteam to do some ground
research. Only later does she realize she has put her nephew in mortal
danger - maybe too late, because now all hell breaks loose ... What
sets the Demon Cut apart from the original version then is that it
includes messages from the spirit world, allegedly written by the Market
Street Cinema ghosts/demons themselves, the timeline of the movie is
slightly altered, oftentimes scenes from much earlier or later are
superimposed over actual narrative scenes, some voices are altered as if
to mock the characters, and sometimes the ghosts seem to totally disagree
with the original intentions of the filmmakers, and make this known in
various forms. Now does all/any of this make the Demon Cut a
better movie than the original? Hard to tell, really, as the basic concept
of the thing is so weird that much of whether one likes it or not depends
on whether one can accept the concept (I do, just in case you're
wondering) - but the Demon Cut does add an extra layer to the story
via its many associative superimposed images, its deliberate yet not
random messing with the timeline and the like ... but on the other hand,
that makes the plot of the movie a good bit fuzzier and harder to get -
then again, the whole thing is so weird, it's still lots of fun one way or
the other. Recommended - to those with an open mind and a macabre sense
of humour at least.
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