References for AMERICAN TWILIGHT Livestream Event (With Joe Bob Briggs)

Invaders from Mars Rough Cut (Raw)

John 'Bud' Cardos's and Tobe Hooper's and Julius Banzon's The Dark Re-cut

Anatomizing 'The Dark' - Long article on The Dark

The Dark Twitter - Where it is revealed Hooper's early shooting work on the film took place largely in Karen Black's home as a location!  Karen Black must have been a longtime acquaintance, as she was then married to his future Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 screenwriter and fellow Texan L.M. Kit Carson. 

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION: THE ROUGH CUT RECONSTRUCTION (V.1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzNZXkTL_c

A glimpse into what could have been.

It is by and large the same film.

Hooper is no editor.

But this is the Spontaneous Combustion as borderless genre soap opera he imagined.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa went on to make similar films, predominantly the monstrous romances, with Loft and Daguerrotype.

(Unfortunately, YouTube has flagged the video for copyright reasons from being viewable in essentially all territories outside the US. If you are an international viewer and would like to watch this reconstruction cut, please reply or message me directly.)