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• In a rough cut of Deadly Friend, Elvira's death was originally shot as a less gorier scene. Instead of having her head explode with the basketball impact, Samantha smashes her through a panel in her front door with part of Elvira hanging outside and the rest inside. Also, in the same rough cut, the scene where Paul is dreaming about Samantha's father coming up out of his bed was extended in showing her father come completely out of the bed, full body, instead of just his head, as used in the final cut.
  
  
• The newly released DVD features several seconds of previously deleted footage from the VHS release. These scenes include:
  • When Samantha is dreaming about her father coming into her bedroom and she breaks a vase and stabs him with it, close-ups of Sam's face getting hosed with blood are present.
  • After Samantha murders her father in the basement boiler, Paul comes in and pulls the upper half of his body from the boiler and you get several more seconds and close-ups of his charred skeletal face.
  • The infamous 'basketball' scene in which Samantha kills Elvira with a basketball is extended to show more of Elvira's head exploding all over the wall and her headless body walking directly from the wall instead of cutting back to Samantha's face and then showing the body walking around as in the VHS release.
  
  
  
• Several seconds of gruesome footage, including the entire "basketball death", were removed when the film was first released in Ontario, Canada.
  
  
• The original Australian Video Version has all US deleted scenes totally uncut. These scenes are: Sam's father being stabbed with the broken flower vase and blood spurting out of the broken end all over Sam, Sam putting her father in the cellar furnace is uncut, and Elvira Parker's death scene, is totally uncut, Sam's father's burnt head coming through the bed is also uncut.
  
  

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