Fly Away Home - Alternate Version of Hot And Bothered

Hello there everyone, I am here because I have had the most disturbing encounter with one of my favorite movies from Columbia Pictures. The movie I am mentioning is entitled Fly Away Home. The film resembles a 13 year old girl who lives with her father Thomas Alden. In the movie, Amy raises a bunch of little birds soon to be geese and she and her father build aircrafts to help them fly south for the winter.
Now I have a problem when I watch this film. Out of all the scenes in the film, my favorite scene would have to be the shower scene. Why? I just find the scenery despite being inside pretty cool. You’ll have to forgive me for what I like.
Anyways, In regards to this, I came across the most haunting version of the shower scene that scarred me for life. It all started on the 24th of September. I had just finished my day at Lakeview Elementary School and was ready for the weekend. I rode my bike down to the park that was not that far. I went and visited the local Lakeview Branch Library to see if they had any good books and DVD’s I could get.
I got a few books including a Battle For Dream Island character guide, a book about Curious George and a book about the country of Mexico. As I thought that the media section wasn’t interesting, one thing of course caught my eye. It was a VHS of the movie Fly Away Home. I decided to take it with me. The books including the VHS were due in 2 weeks.
When I got home, I decided to play on my Nintendo Switch. Later that evening, my parents told me that they were going out for the evening and my little sister Phoenix would be spending the weekend at her aunt’s. This meant that I would be in charge of the house for a little while and it would probably give me the opportunity to watch my favorite movie.
The moment I opened the VHS, I recognized that it came along with a disc. The disc’s case was in a CD sleeve. It reminded me of those little sleeves you get with rather special edition video game cases at GameStop. The disc’s art appeared to be a shot of the shower scene, also known as Hot and Bothered. On the disc was also the Surround Sound logo which seemed confusing, considering the fact that it’s mostly seen on Columbia Tristar tapes. It also showed the date of when the disc was made, it’s year was 1999.
Since my VCR/DVD combo has a DVD player, I decided to watch the DVD to see my thoughts on it. The DVD started with a warning that said this:
“Warning:
The following DVD contains strong nudity, blood, gore and jumpscares that may not be suitable for younger audiences. For everyone’s information, viewer discretion is advised.”
Oh geez, I hope this DVD won't go too far. There were some previews for Thomas And The Magic Railroad, Bear In The Big Blue House and The Trumpet of The Swan. Then it went to the menu. I pressed play and the movie started, until I recognized something out of the ordinary.
Rather than the film starting with the death of Amy’s mother or what not, the film started automatically with Thomas Alden in his workshop when his good friend came by. Watching the beginning, I also recognized that there was no Columbia Pictures logo.
When Thomas and his good friend were walking into Thomas’ house for some coffee, the scene jumped to the shower scene where Amy and her ducks were happily showering. However, as the camera panned across the shower, there was a sink that mostly consisted of blood in it. The fact that it had blood possibly meant that the shower water would fade into a blood red color.
As Amy was wetting the crap out of her hair and she later scrubbed her arms with soap, my theory….. was correct. The water turned red and Amy soon opened her eyes to see red stuff on the ducks and she screamed when she saw it. She tried turning off the shower but nothing worked, so the only way she could get out is by breaking most of the shower door. But as she tried, the blood slowly rose up. As she kept screaming to get out, the sound of Alicia Botti’s screams from Thomas & Friends were played.
We then see Thomas who for once didn’t even care about the situation Amy was in. His other friend Susan burst in as soon as she heard Amy’s screaming. She kicked down the door and grabbed an axe to burst Amy out.
But before she did that, she said, “Amy, I need you to calm down because what I’m going to do may seem dangerous. Just trust me.”
So Susan broke the door down and the blood came out along with Amy who I could see had absolutely no clothes. I got completely disgusted just looking at it. But trust me, I’m learning about the human body in 5th grade.
Amy thanked Susan and she went to her bedroom to change. What I have seen literally scared me to the brink. Just think about it, the blood covered water, those screams that played, they disturbed me.
After that scene, it immediately cut to the credits. Thank god that’s over. Or was it? The next thing that happened was the Surround Sound logo as pointed out by the disc. However, instead of being blue like the original logo, it was instead red. 
But after the letter S formed, the screen was rapidly flashing as the sound of a woman’s scream played. And when the words surround sound appeared, there was blood dripping out of it.
The logo lasted for 32 seconds before fading. As I thought it was over, I reached for the DVD remote only to see something that scared the shit out of me. It was a photo of a canadian goose’s head but it had what seemed to be black eyes with red pupils. In the background, there was a scream that happened to appear from one of the Five Nights At Tubbyland.
It then went back to the menu. I took the DVD out and put it somewhere so I can easily show it to my parents when they return.
The next morning, I had some thoughts of smashing the DVD, but then I would end up getting fined by the library. So the first thing I did was show the film to my parents, and let me tell you, they were horrified. Later that afternoon, I emailed Sony all about it. They told me that they actually had plans to make Fly Away Home a horror movie. Didn’t that sound familiar? Well yeah, I remember when The Banana Splits got their own horror film.
I have some very sincere apologies to Anna Paquin as she probably never asked to be in a film like this. Whatever I just experienced, I hope to never look at again.
Category:Lost Movies
Category:TV
Category:Sony