Greetings! Savant's new reviews today are

And a pleasant Tuesday to you! Feedback from the Sci-Fi, Frankenstein & Dracula reviews has been positive, so Savant is in a particularly good mood -- especially after some helpful readers corrected some of my, uh, creative facts.

One of the better web discussion boards has a post claiming that an edit had been made to the Sci-Fi set's transfer of The Incredible Shrinking Man, that at the end of the spider battle sequence, 16mm prints show an extra shot of 'spider goo' dripping down onto Scott Carey's forearm before the jump-cut and music disruption. It's obvious that something was removed, and by power of suggestion I'm already 'remembering' the shot that the reader mentions, but I just can't trust that memory. I don't remember what happened in the 35mm print that I saw, or on old TV showings, except that some kind of jump cut was always there. I checked the new DVD against a 1988 VHS pre-record I've saved (want to be able to show people how bad the old pan-scan version looks) and they're identical, cut-wise. The spider goo reaches Carey's fist, there's a repeated-frame 'hold', and then the jump cut. If there's more, we'd love to see it some day. That's just for the record. Thanks for reading! Glenn Erickson