Pencilmation The Movie Directors Cut

Let's go back to the year 2012, okay?

Remember Pencilmation The Movie? That film caused a lot of buzz, and I happen to be a big fan of it myself. Recently, it piqued my curiosity that there was an unreleased Director's Cut of the film, and as soon as I heard about it, I began searching for it. I tried contacting the people who worked on the film, via emails or phone calls, but I never got a response or I only got an answering machine.

My last resort was contacting Ross Bollinger, the person who directed the film. I managed to get on a Skype interview with him, and I asked him general questions like "Where did you get the idea for this film?" and "What did you think of the finished film?" and whatnot. So when I finally asked him about the purported "Director's Cut", he just fell silent. I could see his face going pale. He proceeded to tell me, "Please...Don't look for it. Just...just let the memory die." He hung up the call right then, and I just sat at my desk, confused. I went to bed.

The next day, I tried emailing Mr. Bollinger about the Director's Cut, to try to find out more. I managed to get a response exactly fourty-five minutes later! The email said: "Just give me your address and I will send it to you... if you're sure you want to see it, then I guess I can't stop you. Beware, for the things you will see will forever stay in your mind for the rest of your life." I was unsure if I really wanted to see the Director's Cut at this point, but hey, morbid curiosity got the best of me. So I sent back another email with my address and a "thank you".

About a week later, I received a package from Mr. Bollinger himself. It was the Director's Cut VHS tape... strangely it was a VHS tape. I popped it in my VHS player (Yes, I still have one) and let it play.

Oh, no, how I wish I could take that back!

Well, the intro of the film was different. You know, where Supermate stops Nat Peterson? Well, the shot just... stays there. It just froze on Supermate’s face. It didn't move at all. You couldn't even hear Supermate’s voice. It was just total silence. After about six minutes, the tape cut to the scene of Pencilmate and Supermate going to that Headquarters place, Wow, this was pretty late in the film. Again, it was dead silence. It cut to static for about five minutes, but again it was silent. The weird thing is that I could make out some sort of video in the static... It looked like Pencil Mate standing over Pencil Miss, and Pencil Mate somehow tore open Pencil Miss’ chest and proceeded to eat her intestines. All in drawing. This emotionally effected me greatly, as Pencil Miss is one of my favorite characters. I nearly vomited, but after the video clip ended, the film cut to the scene where they sneak into Nat Peterson’s lair, but again it was silent.

When it got to the scene of Pencil Mate and Pencil Miss dressed as robots, it once again cut to static. This time there was no hidden video thankfully, and it was just regular static. It cut to the shot Mini Mate trying to deactivate the shield. However the scene went on longer than I expected... Pencil Mate jumped off of the platform into that place he said he was not going to in the headquarters scene because he would be a “lost character”

It cut to the gang finally confronting Nat Peterson. The disturbing thing is, the scene just keeps going. The pen minions eventually kill most people by beheading them, and Pencil Mate was thrown out the window. Instead of the credits rolling, there was a message saying:

"The dead has risen. Long live Beelzebub."

I quickly turned off my VCR, ejected the tape and THREW IT AT THE WALL. Unfortunately my mind was quick enough to think to destroy the tape, so it is still out there somewhere... if you ever see a VHS copy of the director's cut of Pencilmation The Movie, *REPORT IT TO THE POLICE IMMEDIATELY!!*