Koukol 5 wrote:
I noticed in the photo gallery extra some shots of the nurse in the MM grip.
I wonder if this was filmed and edited out?

Sort-of SPOILERS!!!

This is a huge thing with me.  I strongly suspect it was shot and not used.  Here's why.  Number one, it was in the script.  In it, the nurse stumbles in a mud puddle and Melty catches up and chomps her face and neck.  I don't have any confirmation that the biting effect was created, and the stills are probably all posed publicity shots, but in one (can't remember if it's on the disc) Melty has his hands on her shoulders and she is right in front of a puddle.  I don't think they would have bothered to make the puddle unless they were planning on following though and filming the atttack with her in it.

Also, Jonathan Demme's death occurs off-camera, but you may have seen one or more photos of him layed out with Melty daintily removing one of his intestines.  This was also in the script, and the fact that they went to the trouble to fabricate the effect makes me think that they filmed it as well.  Can't help wonder if this was a ratings board concession.  Maybe the nurse attack as well, though that seems less likely.  These "missing" scenes haunt me though.  I imagine they have long since been discarded.