DvD?

Well, first off, I've given up on trying to find the director's cut of the first one, but, someone from a bootlegging horror movie site ripped me a copy from his Japanese "uncut" laserdisc. I'm pretty sure it is uncut, but you never know. It only has a few extra seconds of gore added in a brief scene w/ Chris George and Samantha Eggar talking about his experiance in Vietnam. It's a super bad quality tape and the guy didn't even edit it right. Laserdiscs had 2 sides, so in the middle of the movie the screen says something like, turn to side 2, and after a few minutes the guy finally turned it over. So, I never watch that version, just my old Embassy tape.
Going back to the topic of part 2, I too read that there is a making of featurette out there and I know there is a theatrical trailer. I'm sure there are enough stills out there if there ever came a dvd a stills gallery could be included. I read that there are some deleted scenes out there and a few brief snippets of a deleted scene can be found in the trailer.
I believe that MGM owns the rights to these movies, because the original was originally released through Embassy, and a lot of there old movies were released through MGM on dvd, like The Howling, Phantasm, The Fog, etc. And MGM originally released part 2 and they still make it, though you can buy it only off of Amamzon.com on vhs. I've alwys dreamed that MGM would make a double feature out of these 2 movies, but I doubt they will, and if they did, we probably wouldn't get uncut versions, but that is certainly possible as MGM has released a lot of movies in there uncut state although the cover says it is the r-rated version. And if we're lucky we'd get the trailers as extras.
I hope all this helps,
Brian