WORKPRINT found here...

Talked to someone who knows someone who knows someone who saw this version at the infamous L.A. screening in March 1993, and he actually loved it. Said it was much better than the theatrical.

This guys supposedly liked the original ending, with Carly crossing over to the dark side. The only thing that he said the theatrical version did better allegedly was the opening death scene. In the original version, it's a maintenance guy who accidentally stumbles upon the hidden camera feed behind a light during a repair job. He supposedly goes into the elevator shaft to investigate, then is killed by falling object that decapitates him. Then I guess you see a glimpse of someone in the shaft above stepping back into the hallway, and letting the door close.

In the theatrical version that we all saw, Naomi Singer gets thrown off the balcony instead. If this is true, this opening would make more sense, since everyone keeps telling Carly that she looks like Naomi throughout the movie. At least, we have a frame of reference.

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I just wish Joe Eszterhas could've made the motives for killing the various victims clear. The way I understand it:

1. Naomi was killed because she knew about the cameras but had ordered Zeke to stop it. Zeke said he would do so to keep her from turning him in, then killed her instead to shut her up.

2. Vida was killed because she could link Zeke to Naomi.

3. Gus was killed because he was on his way to Japan and would certainly see technology there that he would recognize in the building - exposing Zeke. Plus he probably had gossip, as well.

4. In the original version, the maintenance guy dies because he discovers the bugged light fixture.

Anyway, I would love to see the workprint just to see if it's as better than the original version as they say.