Faces of Death
The Dread Central web site interviewed director JT Petty about the release of his latest film THE BURROWERS on DVD April 21st, and he gave them the skinny on what direction his proposed remake of FACES OF DEATH will be taking.
"It looks like FACES OF DEATH will be the next project of mine to get the green light," Petty told them. "I'm not really big into 'camp'. I think horror definitely wants to be funny, but I think camp is explicitly not horror. Making bloodletting safe is basically what camp is about. It's a fine thing to do, but I'm just not interested. So basically what I'd love to do with FACES OF DEATH is make something that's as scary for me to watch now as a thirty-two- year-old as the original was for me to watch when I was twelve. I remember not watching that movie because I was so scared of the fact that you're watching people really die. It's impossible to have that feeling once you're a grown, jaded horror fanatic, but the closest we can get is kind of what we're all chasing."
"What is still effective about FACES OF DEATH is that all of that actual autopsy footage which is so obviously real leaves you so unbalanced that anything that they're showing you around that has this weird kind of effect," JT continues. "Being that it's sharing footage with that honest footage lends it a unique kind of effectiveness. A lot of what we want to do with the remake is playing with what's real and what's not in terms of what you're seeing. There is an interesting line to draw between real violence and fake violence. Like how much more perverse is it to sneak real violence into a big Hollywood movie and disguise it as a special effect than making any underground horror film that you can make? Or making people curious about if what they're seeing is real or not."
"The whole trick of FACES OF DEATH is that there's no reason to make the original FACES OF DEATH now," Petty adds. "Like if a twelve-year-old kid wants to watch people die, they can just go online. They can watch Saddam Hussein die, so you don't care about some redneck alligator warden in Florida. The fact that that's so easy for kids or anyone to see now -- in fact it takes an effort not to watch people die now -- seems so much more frightening than this original collection of so-called stuff."
Big deal, we had a real life autopsy on a main television channel here in England a few years ago... so that will be nothing new.
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Piranha 3D
The Moviehole.net web site confirmed that Elisabeth Sue will in fact be starring in Alexandre Aja's film, Dimension Films' remake of Joe Dante's classic from 1978. "Shue is playing the role of Sherrif Julie Forester, a take-charge authority figure in the community of Lake Victoria - where the action/ankle-biting takes place," the site reports. "She's the mother of Jake (one of the central characters in the film - the shy teenager who gets to prove his worth when human-eating fish threaten his family and friends), Laura and Zane." Shue started her career as the sexy "girl next door" in classic 80's films such as THE KARATE KID, BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 and ADVENTURE IN BABYSITTING.
As long as it's better than his Mirrors remake, I'll be happy.
More Piranha 3D
Adam Scott is taking a break from comedy and moving over to horror. The star of STEP BROTHERS and KNOCKED UP is going to have to watch his step when he toplines Alexandre Aja's PIRANHA 3D, the remake of Joe Dante's classic film from 1978, reports Moviehole.net. The film, starring Elisabeth Shue, is set in Lake Havasu, Arizona, where a tremor causes the lake's floor to open, setting free scores of prehistoric piranhas. It's up to Shue's character, the local Sheriff, and her teenage son, to essentially save the day. Scott will play Novak, a diver for the US Geological Service who helps discover the piranha outbreak. The remake hits theaters May 19, 2010.
Videodrome
Universal Pictures is set to remake David Cronenberg's 1983 classic VIDEODROME reports Variety. In the original, James Woods played the head of a sleazy Canadian TV station which jazzes up the ratings by receiving abd broadcastings transmissions of a show called "Videodrome" which shows torture and murder. Later he finds that a side-effect of the Videodrome signal is maliciously provoking brain tumours in the viewer and causing hallucinations which are able to manifest in his physical flesh.
The new one will introduce the idea of nano-technology and make the film a large-scale sci-fi action piece. Cronenberg is not yet involved in the new project. Ehren Kruger (THE RING remake) will pen the script and produce alongside Daniel Bobker.
Phone
The reboot of Byeong-ki Ahn’s Korean horror Phone will actually be a Korean /U.S co-production and following in the footsteps of the successful remake of THE GRUDGE, Ahn the director of the original film is attached to helm and produce the remake. Another plus, theres also talk that the production may even be set on location in Korea, keeping it even closer to its original source material. No word yet on the cast, but with the script already in the final stages of completion, Korean agent Mirovision said it expects to start production as early as the latter half of this year, with an aim to release the film in the summer of 2010.
I can't see them finding a child actress so young that will be as good as the actress in the original, she was brilliant in certain scenes.
Okay, some more remake news. I haven't seen the original.
Twisted Pictures, The Genre Company Rat Entertainment and LightTower Entertainment teaming to produce the potential horror franchise starter MOTHER'S DAY. Darren Lynn Bousman (REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA) helms this loose remake of Charles Kaufman's 1980 Troma Films cult horror classic which follows a family of villains. Led by a smart, manipulative and sadistic mother, they return to the house where they grew up and terrorize the new owners and their guests. Scott Milam penned the script and a Mother's Day 2010 release is planned.
Originally posted by MildPossession
Okay, some more remake news. I haven't seen the original.Twisted Pictures, The Genre Company Rat Entertainment and LightTower Entertainment teaming to produce the potential horror franchise starter MOTHER'S DAY. Darren Lynn Bousman (REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA) helms this loose remake of Charles Kaufman's 1980 Troma Films cult horror classic which follows a family of villains. Led by a smart, manipulative and sadistic mother, they return to the house where they grew up and terrorize the new owners and their guests. Scott Milam penned the script and a Mother's Day 2010 release is planned.
Mother's Day was campy fun
Originally posted by cropsy_is_godi disagree with you, remakes are OK if your remaking a bad or outdated movie, like the thing or the fly which were better then the originals, but the problem lies when they remake a good movie. which will always end with a love/hate it argument, so as long as they leave the great classics alone, and only remake the shitty and outdated movies. I'm fine with it, though i think Hollywood writers should start earning there pay and come up with newer stuff as well.
The amount of classics that get remade or are getting remade is pathetic. I'm sorry but i don't believe remakes should happen there's no need and imo it's ruining the horror genre.
Funhouse
Eli Roth is supposedly in talks to direct the remake. “I’m talking with Universal about that one,” Roth reveals. “THE FUNHOUSE is a movie where the first half is brilliant - they set up these great characters - and then they pay off none of them. You have Marco the Magician sawing his daughter in half, the brothers who run the carnival and the funhouse setting. And then it’s all about this weird mutant thing. It should be about the kids getting killed in horrible ways, put in different contraptions in the funhouse and the final girl being strapped into the ride and sent into the tunnels to be confronted by terrifying tableaux of her dead friends. A smart remake could be so much fun. Kill the kids in fabulous ways and continually reuse the bodies by making them freaks in the freak museum, sew their eyes shut, waxworks That’s the stuff I want to do in a remake of THE FUNHOUSE.”
He has a point, I need to drag out my DVD of Funhouse and watch it again, but I don't remember finding it that fantastic. I like the sound of the 'freak museum'. Could be a good remake. Any excuse to have a freakshow/carnival themed film for me. 🙂
2LDK
Plans are underway to bring 2LDK to the big screen here in the States. The title refers to "two bedrooms, living room, dining room and kitchen," and is a remake of the 2002 film by Yukihiko Tsutsumi.The violent horror thriller is about two actresses rooming together who are both competing for the same part in a film, and while waiting for the answer as to who gets the role, turn on each other in their apartment in a flurry of violent-erotic behavior.
I've yet to see the original but have been wanting to see it for years.
Friday the 13th II & The Birds
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET remake, producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form spilled on the progress of various Platinum Dunes projects. First up, the sequel to this year's hit FRIDAY THE 13TH remake. "We want to have fun. We want to present something that audiences haven't seen before. One of the things they haven't seen before is Jason in the snow" said Fuller. The pair said they've no real plans to make the film in 3D due to cost and time restrictions, but they like the idea. No script is yet in place but if they can get it moving fast enough, they'd like it ready for release on August 13th next year. The pair also admits that their planned remake of THE BIRDS is still very much stuck in development - "We keep trying. I don't know. That is so hard to get the script right. We struggle with it. I won't have anything to say until the script is finished."
Bride of Frankenstein:
Universal and Imagine are developing a remake of the monster classic BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN says The Risky Biz Blog. Elsa Lanchester starred as the titular bride in James Whale's 1935 feature which follows on from the classic 1931 FRANKENSTEIN. In 'Bride', a chastened Henry Frankenstein abandons his plans to create life, only to be tempted and finally coerced by the Monster, encouraged by Henry's old mentor Dr Pretorius, into constructing a mate for him.The Bride rejects the Monster however,
Spoiler:. THE ILLUSIONIST filmmaker Neil Burger will direct and co-write the script with Dirk Wittenborn. Brian Grazer and Sean Daniel will produce.
resulting in her death, that of Pretorius, and apparently the Monster's own death, when he destroys Henry's laboratory
I can't really remember the original, must see it again. Oo the director seems a nice choice because the atmosphere of The Illusionist was rather good.