Director Brian Greer prepared a drastically altered 18-minute version of the movie for film festivals that only features the characters of Keith (Justin Rubenstein) and his girlfriend. This version is a meditation on love and death, ending with the marriage proposal flashback that appears as a deleted scene on the DVD. This cut of the film completely omits the rest of the characters, the supernatural elements of the film, and most significantly, the entire denouement in the hotel room. This version of the film is titled "atrophy (revisited)".