Just a few days ago, we all heard the news of director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) leaving the remake of The Wolf Man just weeks before shooting was to start. That one's definitely one to watch for since it's scripted by Andrew Kevin Walker of Seven fame.
Now, apart from Universal, RKO is also set to bring new life to its horror classics, according to a Variety report. Its recently-launched subsidiary, Roseblood Movie Co., has lined up eight remakes. They are Lady Scarface, While The City Sleeps, The Monkey's Paw, The Seventh Victim, Bedlam, Body Snatcher, Five Came Back and I Walked With A Zombie. (The last four titles were already slated last year when RKO made a co-financing deal with Twisted Pictures of Saw fame.)
dear god, please, make it stop.
most recently Andrew Kasch at dread central put it best:
The term "remake" has now joined the ranks of words like "cancer" and "bankruptcy"; you just know it’s not going to lead anywhere good.
Woah, what a gigantic bore.
And hasn't Body Snatcher been remade 3 times already (although I admit to liking the remake from 1978).
that's The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.
this one's the Boris Karloff movie.
I love the original Body Snatcher (not Invasion). Karloff is terrific in it!
I hate that they're trying to remake the Lewton films; the rest kinda leave me uninterested but the Lewton films are iconic even if some aren't the best movies in the world.
Honestly, not to be contrarian for the sake of it, but how many of these are really classics? I mean, sure, I can see a bunch of them being packaged by the studio in a box set of "horror classics" but beyond that...
ALL of Val Lewton's are classics. You can exclude Lady Scarface, While The City Sleeps, The Monkey’s Paw from that list, as he had nothing to do with those.
I hesitated to say that they're classic because some of them aren't great films but they are all certainly exemplary horror films and even though some of them are heinously dated (I Walked with a Zombie is pretty Un-pc to say the least and Cat People has some pretty laughable dialogue that substitutes for sexual tension), they all accomplish something that most other "classic" horror films don't, namely they establish a strong atmosphere where you feel like caring about the characters. They're strawthin at times but at least they're stronger than cardboard cutouts that populate most horror films.
They're smart and fun but yeah, they're not all AMAZING. They're pretty darn good though.