Synopsis:

This movie in its original format feels like there should be more going on than there actually is, and it left me feeling unfulfilled and slightly annoyed. By removing as much of the filler and misleads as possible without hurting the flow of the narrative, I believe I have made a movie that treats its viewer with more respect while telling an interesting story with a fairly unique premise.

Intentions:

WAY WAY too much of this movie is spoon-fed to you, the "dumb" viewer, so I removed as much of the over-exposition as I could without deliberately making anything vague. There were actually quite a few scenes where, for some inexplicable reason, they literally say out loud what they just did right after they did it. I can't make heads nor tails of it but M. Night seems to do this a lot, so I think it might be him specifically making his movies impossible to misunderstand. In the exact opposite direction there were too many red herrings, so I trimmed those back too. What you end up with is a shorter movie that tells an interesting story without too much filler. It's a shame there aren't any good deleted scenes to add back in.

Change List:

Editing Details: I worked largely from the assumption that I am not an idiot, and then I removed anything that felt condescending or seemed like it was wasting my time. Cuts and Additions: Added: Disclaimer and "A JasonFlippy Edit" card Moved: Arriving at cabin to its chronologically location Moved: A few scenes to make the opening slightly shorter Credits: Matched original font and moved them Shortened: Wen's talking to her grasshoppers Removed: Wen's lines about having one dad Shortened: Wen and Leonard's first chat Deleted: Leonard's second line about his broken heart Deleted: Flashback to "first time meeting the parents" Deleted: Redmond being rude, since he's so soft right after Deleted: Flashback to "meeting Wed at orphanage" Altered: Tidal wave footage to be lower quality, à la cell phone camera Deleted: Some wave footage (no camera would survive that long) Added: Music to the bathroom scene with Eric (Kabuki by SergeQuadrado) Shortened: Eric and Sabrina in the bathroom Removed: Wen's escape attempt entirely Replaced: The short flashback of "the bottle smash" with the full flashback Removed: Andrew telling the group about Redmond being a gaybasher Removed: All mentions of them meeting on the message board Removed: Sabrina's overexplanation of why she hit him Removed: A shot of Andrew loading the gun too slowly Removed: Flashback to "stitches, training, buying gun" Removed: Andrew going outside to get Redmond's wallet Removed: Andrew overexplaining how he thinks they met Removed: Andrew saying that Redmond is a bigot Removed: Leonard saying "you're wrong about all of us" Removed: Andrew overexplaining about taking their vehicle Removed: Leonard "I know when someone's lying" Removed: Eric overexplaining about the Four Horsemen Removed: Finding captor's personal items in truck Removed: Andrew seeing Redmond's real name

Special Thanks:

Thanks to @ArtisDead for taking the time to approve this one and @tremault for the discussion in my ITW thread!