Gremlins Online!

Ian from The Gremlins Museum has pulled back the curtain a bit on the legendary Gremlins Assembly Cut and Deleted Scenes tapes that were sent to him by Joe Dante.

Check a look at the full article here:
https://www.gremlns.com/gremlins-rough-cut/

Personally speaking, I cannot believe we finally after all these years are getting shots of the legendary Bavarian Snowman scene and what seems to be much more to come down the line. Seeing Billy saving Mrs. Deagle’s cat from the police cruiser scratches a 30+ year old itch I have had since reading the novelization and the illustrated adaptions. I cannot wait to see it in action.

Similarly, the alternate opening scene mentioned fills a few minor plot gaps that we mentioned many years ago over on the Deleted Scenes page.

The rough cut and the Assembly Cut are two very different things, though many people have conflated the two.

The Assembly Cut refers to the 2h 35m VHS tape that was the first assembly of the film before being edited down to the 106 minutes we know and love.

The Rough Cut is the Gremlins Museum project which will be a rough cut of the film with many of the deleted and alternate scenes included, and Ian is planning to share it with Joe Dante once it is done. This is a long-term project so we will likely not hear a whole lot between now and then as he hides in the editing room obsessing over every frame. (I know I would)

The assembly cut and deleted scenes tapes have not been made public yet, and this is due to the legality of sharing this kind of footage without the proper dotted i’s by the rights owners. We are all hoping they will be released someday, but for the moment we can all live vicariously through updates from Ian over at The Gremlins Museum.

There have been many people who feel entitled to see this footage NOW, but let’s face it, screenshots and confirmation of the longer cut is more than we have gotten in literal decades for us ravenous gremlins fans! I hope that this project gets us the long cut we have been dreaming about, and maybe even a Gremlins 2 edit in the future if this one goes well.