Horrible news... but I need some proof first

[SaintMort]

I'm not sure how many people listen/watch Podcasts but one podcast I'm a huge fan of is GeekScape... it's a punk music video director and he does his episodes with like other filmmaker/scriptwriter friends in LA... this past episode they were reviewing the Hitcher Remake and said that Dave Meyer (director of the Hitcher and When a Stranger Calls remakes) has announced that his next film is going to be a remake of Friday the 13th except it's not going to be Jason's Mom anymore in this one; it's going to be Jason and it'll show you how he found his hockey mask (which as we know f**ks up the first 3 movies of the series 2 of which being the few good movies in the series)

This might be the worst news in Horror movie news (besides the rumored Evil Dead Remake)... I mean at least with Halloween I'm curious on what Rob Zombie is going to do with it

Why are these directors f**king with cult classics that aren't even like 20-25 years old

[CheezeFlixz]

Probably because most of these directors are 20-25 years old and therefore the movie is really old (to them) and there can't possibly be anyone left alive that saw them when they were a new release. So it has to be re-released with all the lastest greatest CGI-techno-super-duper-special effects as the old ones were just hokey. Just a theory.

[CoreyHeldpen]

Probably because most of these directors are 20-25 years old and therefore the movie is really old (to them) and there can't possibly be anyone left alive that saw them when they were a new release. So it has to be re-released with all the lastest greatest CGI-techno-super-duper-special effects as the old ones were just hokey. Just a theory.

So true. That p**ses me off just a little. Doesn't that p**s you off just a little?

[CheezeFlixz]

Probably because most of these directors are 20-25 years old and therefore the movie is really old (to them) and there can't possibly be anyone left alive that saw them when they were a new release. So it has to be re-released with all the lastest greatest CGI-techno-super-duper-special effects as the old ones were just hokey. Just a theory.

So true. That p**ses me off just a little. Doesn't that p**s you off just a little?

Better to be p**sed off than p**sed on ... it is somewhat annoying they can't seem to think up a great new movie, so they take a great old movie and screw it up.

[daveblackeye15]

Yes that p**ses me off a little and I'm even younger than they are.

[peter johnson]

Yeah, but wait'll you see my Claymation/techno-disco/Emo/Crunk remake of Citizen Kane!!!
peter auteur/denny orifice

[Trevor]

 

I think I'm probably one of the older posters here (nearly 40) and I have seen most of the original great fright flicks like When A Stranger Calls, Halloween,\
Dawn Of The Dead and others.

Let me say this: I don't like remakes of classics at all. I agree with the OP that they are buggering around with them. Rather re-release the originals and make money that way.

Remakes I have avoided:

The Hills Have Eyes
Dawn Of The Dead
When A Stranger Calls

I believe that there are remakes of It, HellRaiser and Halloween in the works....................someone borrow my eyes now, please.

[Fausto]

GOD@#%$#%$#$#%DAMNIT$#@$%$^###&$&#$%#f^&$#$SHI###what the hell are they doing? These movies are F#%$ classics! What gives them the right to take someone else's work and screw it up? Is hollywood that short of ideas that they have to keep spinning out the same films just to make a quick buck? I can only hope the same thing happens as it did with that Suspiria remake - It'll get canned after the original director says how much its going to suck (hint to all directors-make your opinions clear if you dont want some idiot screwing around with your film).

[Jack]

They're remaking every damned movie ever made, I don't even bother caring anymore.  Can you imagine being a kid these days, and every movie you see is a crappy remake of stuff that was really good back when we grew up?  It's like their whole pop media culture is just a second rate lie.

[daveblackeye15]

Dawn of the Dead ('04) is one of the better done remakes. Actually it's not so much of a remake but more of a 'redo'. It's different but entertaining, maybe that's why I like it.

[Doc Daneeka]

hint to all directors-make your opinions clear if you dont want some idiot screwing around with your film

I wouldn't mind if someone wnated to screw with one of my (hopefully upcoming) films. They want to put their own spin on it, fine, it's their world and if I get in some possessive fury I might be crushing an inspired (maybe not well-executed) vision.

[Joe the Destroyer]

The Evil Dead remake is not a rumor; it's 100% true.  Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell are both producers in the film, and Campbell himself said they aren't going to let it be ruined.  This is one the few remakes coming out I have a little faith in.   I'm not usually against remakes personally.  I just figure if it's a remake I wouldn't want to see, then I just avoid it. 

[Torgo]

What I had heard about this proposed F13th remake was that they were basically going to distill all of the major plot points of the first 4 films into one movie.

Plus, they were going to try to show just how in the heck Jason survived out in those woods and what happened between the years of the 1st film to the 2nd.

I think that it's going to be mainly a complete turd as I know a few people who went to see the Hitcher remake despite me telling them to not go see it (I'm a big fan of the original, which I know isn't a perfect film, but it's an entertaining one).  They said that The Hitcher remake sucked so bad they walked out by the halfway point.

There have been some instances in which some remakes have turned out to be really good films.  Examples include John Carpenter's The Thing and the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake.  But the reason why these films were so good is that they basically reimagined the entire films and really were totally different films from the originals.

I think that someone remaking a movie should be like someone covering a song, it should only be done if someone puts their own stamp on the song and don't just do a pointless retread of a song that was perfect to begin with.

[JPickettIII]

I have seen some of the remakes.  One of them was The Amnytiville Horror.  The new one sucked a$$.  The orginal was far scarier and more fun to watch, just because you used your imagination instead of Hollywood special effects.  The other one was When A Stranger Calls, the orginal was a million times better, the remake just played off of the gore.  The last one I saw and reget seeing was The Hills Have Eyes.  The orginal one was good, the remake was nasty.  I did not like the rape scene, it disturbed me in the new one.

I think that the producers are trying to push beyond the edge to make people like the movies and I believe that this hurts the movie.

Oh well, I am not incharge of the movies, but I will be incharge of my money.

John

[Jack]

I think what makes the remakes so bad (at least the ones I've seen) is that the originals had two very important things:  character and story.  Likable, or at least sympathetic characters, and the plot kept you interested.  The remakes just throw those two elements out completely, substituting cliche characters who are either extremely unlikable or else just completely unsympathetic, and all the more interesting elements of the plot are taken out.  Instead they have lots of CGI and porobably some really stupid jump scares.