10 Deleted Scenes That Would Have Improved Movies

7. King Kong: Spider Pit

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This is about as mythic as deleted scenes get.

For decades, film historians and cinephiles have searched for this scene to no avail. Thier curiosity comes from the fact that when the original film first screened for audiences, it included an infamous spider pit sequence that terrified audiences so much that it had to be cut from the film.

After some of our heroes are thrown from a log by the great ape, they fall into a large pit filled with gargantuan spiders, insects, and lizards who all try to eat and dismember them. It was apparently so intense that the test audiences of the 1930's were fainting all over themselves.

What we do know and can see of the scene is all thanks to Peter Jackson, who did incorporate the scene into his 2005 remake and also cut together footage from the archives to create something resembling what the original sequence might have looked like. With it included in, it fills gaps in the plot as well as providing the movie one of its most hair-raising sequences. It deserves to be in it.

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