If it's good why remake it (like escape from ny). but even if it was good as long as they do a good job who cares? The thing is Horror fans are suckers. Hollywood knows we will go see just about anything. And as long as it makes them money they don't care how good or bad the remake /sequel is

I woulnt.


I dont think its that they dont care exactly. I think it just seems like they dont care because these films 99% of the time arnt as good as the orginal. I usually dont even look at them as remakes. Normally I just look at them as totally diffrent movies.

March 30, 2008 - MASTERS OF HORROR creator Mick Garris revealed that his colleague Joe (HOMECOMING) Dante will likely replace him the helm of the THIRST remake.

“Joe Dante will direct THIRST now, because I’m off to do [Stephen King’s] BAG OF BONES,” Garris said.

Not to be confused with the two similarly titled and themed vampire movies shot in the U.S. in the last few years, the original 1979 THIRST (about a cult of human blood farmers) was helmed in Australia by Rod Hardy and produced by genre vet Antony (PATRICK) Ginnane.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's nothing, you wants to be sick? Do you people want to have your stomach turn after reading about a remake? Check this out...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1773


That's right... Madonna wants to remake (and star in) Casablanca...

Jesus christ......lets just Remake Citizen Kane with Seth Rogen while we are at it.

lol

I'd watch that.

Its been years since anybodys took anything Madonnas done seriously anyway.

Yeah I probably would too...

Yeah, about 20 years actually.

I...I...I...I think I'm going to cry. That, or be violently ill.

Most likely both.

Oh.......God....NO, there is so much wrong with that I wouldn't know where to start. At least no one seems to be warming to the idea.

Best.
Idea.
Ever.

April 03, 2008


Dimension Films is rewiring "Short Circuit," acquiring rights to remake the 1986 film.

The original introduced Number 5, a robot built by the military to be a highly sophisticated weapon. It developed a conscience and a personality after being hit by lightning, and then needed the help of humans after it was targeted for destruction by its makers, once it became a peacenik.

S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, who created the characters and wrote both "Short Circuit" films, have been hired to write the remake. David Foster and Ryan E. Heppe will produce with John Hyde.

Deal was made by Dimension co-chairman Bob Weinstein, who called "Short Circuit" a worthy addition to its family film slate.

Foster, who produced the original with his partner Lawrence Turman and son Gary Foster, said the film will be similar in theme to the original, but it will factor in advances in technology.

I really don't know what to say about all thees remakes:eek:

why cant they just put money in to making something original

soon there going to make a remake of a nightmare on elm street :mad:

and when they run out of movies to remake what are they going to do remake the remakes oh god:rolleyes:

soon there going to remake resent moves like saw 1-4 / sarcasm hopefully. (those are the only horror moves that i can think of that are not remakes :mad: )

Then there probably going to do a double feature thing when a new and original move comes out to theaters the remake comes out with it and you will have to pay full price to see both. (sarcasm)


remakes have became a monster and can not be stopped:eek:

I personally dont care how many movies get remade or what movies they remake, or how many times. If Im not interested in seeing it, I just woulnt see it. Ill admit, I didnt hate Zombies Halloween remake. Didnt think it was as good as the orginal, seen worse though. But.........I got home..........put the orginal in the DVD player............and guess what..........the orginal played, not Zombies version. So no matter what anybody says, the orginals are still there.
Once somethings on film, theres no getting rid of it. Its there forever.

I do think its childish to decide you hate something without giving it a chance first. But.........if your that strongly opposed to something, dont support it.
Bitching about it on the internet isnt going to do anything.

I dont understand what drives people to remake a film that only came out in the 90's.

what happened to that trick or treat movie that had vampires and zombies and ghosts and everything rolled into one???

The reason why i said what i said is because i really did not start getting in to the horror genre allot until The house on the hated hill remake came out.

And a lot of the time i don't know if something is a remake or not.

i like some remakes and it is good some times to do it but it seems like thats all there doing is remakes thats why i said something about it.

Actually...Several movies HAVE been remade many times...The Blob, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, War of the Worlds, and quite a few others...So, I own multiple versions of some movies...I'm not complaining :)

I have no problem with remakes...Sure, most can't touch the originals...Is it because they're BAD, or just that the originals are so GOOD? Personally, I think The Blob just keeps getting better and better, while I don't believe anyone can outdo the 1978 version of Body Snachers (with Donald Sutherland and Jeff Goldblum), which happens to be a REMAKE.

It's simply a matter of opinion based on personal preference. I do believe that each movie (even a remake) should be judged on its own merits.

Would we prefer if they just gave these remakes a different name, and we referred to them as 'rip-offs' instead (IE: Friday The Thirteenth and Bloody Murder)?

Remakes don't replace originals...We simply have MORE of something that's related to what we like...I am thankful for that...I would rather have a few sequels or remakes to my favorite movies, than to just see them end completely...I also like adding to my collection.

So, while I would appreciate some originality (who wouldn't?), and I have found a bit in some independent gems, I really don't mind watching a few remakes of the 'good ones' in the interim :)

I am not totally against remakes.

i only have two main reasons why i am not totally up for all thees remakes.

1. i didn't start to really get into the horror genre until 1999 so back then and know it is hard to tell whats a remake and what is not.

2. my second reason is it seems like thats all there doing is making remakes.

it would be nice if they made like 3 remakes a year and leave the rest of the year to do some original moves.

And i know some of you might think that i could just look up what is a remake and what is not. But i just recently started to get into it more then i did back in 1999. So i am going to the older ones to add to my horror move collection.

Just out of curiosity, how many horror remakes have been released recently (I am talking like 2001-2008 or so)? Only a few come to mind:

Wickerman
Dawn of the Dead
Halloween
Psycho
I am Legend
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Hills Have Eyes

I can't remember any more...

Black Christmas, Body Snatchers (again), Creepshow, When A Stranger Calls...SOOO many (those are just off the top of my head), as well as American remakes of Japanese movies


Now they're just gonna keep popping into my head...I'm trying to eat...lol

Im not trying to put words in your mouth(or on your fingers as the case may be) but that statement gives me the impression that you may watch a movie, then later find out it was remade and not like it because it was remade. If you watch a movie and like it, who cares if it was remade or not? If you judge movies based on merit alone youve got a 50/50 chance of liking it or not. Theres alot of movies coming out that arnt remakes, youve got the same shot with them.
I might be off on what you ment by that. Thats the way it seemed though.


There would be less hatred for remade movies if people DIDNT compare them to the orginals. Thats alot of the problem.

But.........Reguardless of how anybody feels about it, if nothing else its pumping money back into the horror genre.

Hahahahaha... people would enjoy eating shit more if they didn't think about that steak they had last week....

I can beast explain this with the dawn of the dead. I never knew it was a remake until i seen it the original in my video rental store.

I was meaning to give it a try but never got to it.

I tried watching it on comcast on demand but when i did it just seemed bland to me because the zombeis just seemed to slow. they scar me much more when they run like a bat out of hell.

its just i would like to see the original some times before seeing the remake.

now i do like the dawn of the dead remake over the first just because it scared me more.

now the the amityville horror remake i liked it and i also liked one of the ones before it. but i don't know if it was the first one or not because i heard that there was a lot of remakes on that one.

I liked a lot of remakes except for the fog the ending seamed weird to me
and i never seen the first one.

It just seems to me like thats all they are doing now is making remakes thats all and for the one compliant i think it would be cool to see the original one before the remake if possible.

Hmmm.... who died and made you moderator?

Ah yes. I remember The Fog, War of the Worlds and Amityville were redone, and when a Stranger Calls too. They redid Body Snatchers? Hmmm was that the Nichole Kidman movie?

Yeah, it was her + Daniel Craig. Looked pretty pathetic...I havent seen it.

I think I understand what your saying. Your rambling a little bit. Anyway. My point is, what you think about a movie after seeing it should be based on that movie alone. Not which you saw first. I honestly dont see how that enters into it. No matter the order, your still going to like one more than the other.


On a side note, Im not trying to change anybodys opinion either way. Im not wild about most remakes myself. I dont decide that until after I see them though.

That would make it the fourth adaptation of Body Snatchers, then. Dang. Next to I Am Legend, that would probably be the most remakes of any horror movie.

- Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller addressed the PG-13 rumor about Friday the 13th remake and how ridiculous it is.

"None of our remakes have been PG-13," Producer Brad Fuller points out. "How do you remake a rated R horror movie and take the guts out literally and figuratively? What is F13 without sex, drugs and really, really long sharp machete? And why would we, horror fans ourselves, produce a movie devoid of the things that made the title so appealing in the first place. So let me say for the record, that the F13 that we start shooting this Thursday is a full bodied, rated R film."

He elaborates on just how R-rated this film will be. "It has insane kills that will be shown in all their glory- it has a group of college students who drink and even have sex. We are betting that if we don’t hold back that the audience will reward us for being bold in a time when some horror movies are playing the ratings game. So we embrace the R-rating Friday the 13th will have, and hope you will too."

Marcus Nispel directs the film, which stars Jared Padalecki, Derek Mears, Amanda Righetti, Danielle Panabaker, Aaron Yoo, Travis Van Winkle, Willa Ford, Nick Mennell and Jonathan Sadowski.

Jason Voorhees returns to Camp Crystal Lake on February 13, 2009.

April 23, 2008


Fox 2000 is set to bring Brian De Palma’s “The Fury” back to the bigscreen.

The label has tapped Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman to pen a contemporary reimagining of the 1978 supernatural horror film.

New version will center on a young man with heightened kinetic powers who is abducted by the government in order to take advantage of his special gifts.

The original, starring Kirk Douglas and John Cassavetes and released by 20th Century Fox, was based on John Farris’ 1976 novel of the same name.

Ted Field is producing through his Radar Pictures banner. Mike Weber exec produces.

Newcomers McGreevy and Shipman penned the spec “Of Every Wickedness,” about America’s first known serial killer, which landed on the industry’s Black List of the hottest unproduced spec scripts and garnered the duo a lot of attention. They nabbed “The Fury” gig off of that script.

May 15, 2008


Hot news on the Piranha front - the forthcoming remake of Joe Dante's 1978 horror classic will be shot in 3-D.

As previously reported, Alexandre Aja (High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes) will helm the project, about a school of killer fish munching on teen flesh during spring break.

And with the film's international rights currently being sold in Cannes, Dimension Films head Bob Weinstein explained "The film presents us with a unique opportunity to launch a new global franchise and take advantage of the incredible developments in 3-D technology."

Director Aja will work with 3-D expert Neville Page (currently collaborating with James Cameron on Avatar) to create the creatures, with the violent horror expected to earn itself an R-rating.

June 3, 2008


CineTel Films has acquired rights to remake "I Spit on Your Grave," the 1978 female revenge film that was reviled for its depiction of sex and violence.

The remake rights were owned by Meir Zarchi, who directed, produced and wrote the original. Though the majority of CineTel's releases are straight-to-DVD titles, the company will make "Spit" for a theatrical release.

In the original, a woman is abducted, brutally attacked and raped and then left for dead. She survives, hunts her attackers and dispatches them in graphic ways. Critics, especially Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, hated the film, much to Zarchi's delight.

"The more the film was attacked, the more money shot into my pocket," Zarchi said. "The two persons who contributed most to that, especially in the beginning, were Siskel and Ebert. ... I wouldn't change a frame of it, and I hope the remake is just as controversial."

Pic will be produced by CineTel prexy-CEO Paul Hertzberg and Lisa Hansen, with Jeff Klein, Alan Ostroff, Gary Needle and Zarchi as exec producers.

As reviled as it was when originally released, "I Spit on Your Grave" was a precursor to a slew of female revenge film hits, Hertzberg said. Contemporary genre fare has become so graphically violent that the original doesn't seem as outrageous as it did 30 years ago. Hertzberg is listening to pitches from writers on how to ratchet up the shock factor.

"After seeing what was done with an R rating on films like 'Saw' and 'Hostel,' we think we can modernize this story, be competitive with what this marketplace expects and not have to aim for an NC-17 or X rating," Hertzberg said.

Contacted by Daily Variety, Ebert said only that his hope is that this time, the result is a better film.

I heared death race 2000 is being remade but is just going to be called death race (for obvious reasons).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_%28film%29

So is this guy really naive...or just stupid?

Seems like another "re-imagining" to me.

Aren't they all? :rolleyes:

Not Psycho, or Funny Games, or... alright you got me. :)

What do you all think about the Rififi remake with Al Pacino? Doesn't seem like a horrible idea to me even though it's going to giant shoes to fill.