I just found out that a remake of the original Friday the 13th movie is going on, set to be released in '09. If you're like me you grew up with the franchise and remember things like the old NES game, the novels, and even going as Jason for Halloween (complete with a toy meat cleaver that would scream when swung).
Clive Barker's even going back to remake the original Hellraiser. This is more a rewrite than a remake, though. But for those of us who follow the Cenobites like they were gods it doesn't really matter. Eight movies just isn't enough. I need more Pinhead, more Lament Configuration, and more insignificance of humanity compared to the powers of Hell.
Here's hoping this is worth the wait.
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"Money is the root of all evil...I think I need more money."
Freddy vs. Jason is more my style, but I'll admit I liked Jason X. Actually I hear it's going to go into the details of Jason's past that never got touched, like where the mask really came from and what he's been up to since his "death" in the Fifties. There's an article on Wikipedia here.
"Money is the root of all evil...I think I need more money."
Eight movies just isn't enough. I need more Pinhead, more Lament Configuration, and more insignificance of humanity compared to the powers of Hell.
Just thought I'd point out that the Cenobites - outside of the films - were not from hell, but an alternate dimension where pain and pleasure were one and the same. The cenobites weren't evil, per se, but alien and amoral. In fact they only play a small part in the stories I've read; a fact which has appeared more frequently in some of the direct to dvd versions. I never cared much for them in the films, because they are treated as randomly mindless and EVIL killers - while in the material I've read they never committed their acts out of evil ... which isn't to say the results were any nicer.
Uh...that's not something appropriate for this thread--or this forum--but I'll try. Try to imagine the sex club from Crow: City of Angels, the freaky subway car in Hellraiser: Deader, and Strangeland coming into one place. That's a start of what I'd call "heaven." No, I am not kidding. That's simply how I swing, so to speak.
That said, let's try to stick to the OP. Anyone else know of any oldies-but-goodies being remade?
"Money is the root of all evil...I think I need more money."
Wiccy of the Fraternity wrote:I am so tired of remakes.
Eh. Remakes aren't anything new in the movie industry. Heck, those old classic Hammer flicks are essentially re-makes of Universal's films from the 30s, and I kinda doubt if we'd have Ravenloft today if Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing hadn't brought Dracula back into the limelight.
"Who [u]cares[/u] what the Dark Powers are? They're [i]bastards![/i] That's all I need to know of them." -- Crow
Wiccy of the Fraternity wrote:I am so tired of remakes.
Eh. Remakes aren't anything new in the movie industry. Heck, those old classic Hammer flicks are essentially re-makes of Universal's films from the 30s, and I kinda doubt if we'd have Ravenloft today if Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing hadn't brought Dracula back into the limelight.
True, but at least those remakes were worth watching. The present remakes are generally garbage with very few notable exceptions (Dawn of th Dead for instance).
I'm just glad that movies like The Signal are still being produced.
Wiccy of the Fraternity wrote:
True, but at least those remakes were worth watching. The present remakes are generally garbage with very few notable exceptions (Dawn of th Dead for instance).
Oh, there's remakes from the past that went nowhere too, like the 1934 version of The Maltese Falcon called Satan Met a Lady (that's right, the version we all know and love is the THIRD version), or the 1951 American remake of M (which I've heard is actually pretty good). For that matter, some remakes only look better in retrospect-- John Carpenter's version of The Thing was pretty heavily slammed by critics when it came out for being so viscerally gross.
Sturgeon's Law has always applied, but the crap of recent times just tends to stay around longer, especially with modern media preservation-- I bet there were plenty of perfectly horrid films whose nitrate prints didn't survive, or whose acetate "safety stock" was recycled during the war. (Acetate actually degrades too, but far less volatilely than nitrate, so it wasn't observed for a while.)
The remake of The 39 Steps is also pretty atrocious from what I near, but I refuse to watch it out of my love for the original. Let's also not forget Psycho. What's the point in a remake that tries to perfectly copy the original? *sigh*
Wiccy of the Fraternity wrote:
The remake of The 39 Steps is also pretty atrocious from what I near, but I refuse to watch it out of my love for the original. Let's also not forget Psycho. What's the point in a remake that tries to perfectly copy the original? *sigh*
IIRC, in an interview the film's producer said that his kids wouldn't watch a B&W film, and he didn't have the money or clout to have the original colorized.
... Come to think of it thats the only reason to watch Andromeda too...
