Why Is This Happening?

[Anonymous User]

Why are they remaking The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? OH GOD WHY? This news made me want to cry. It was absolutely perfect the way it was. This would be on the same level as a remake of The Exorcist, it's a horror classic and a pioneer, you can't f**k with it. Or at least you shouldn't. Part of what made TCM so good was it's low budget, it was dirty, gritty, and oozed slime from all of its pores. So you think a glossy multimillion dollar makeover is gonna recapture that? When has a multimillion dollar glossy Hollywood remake ever been good for this kind of movie? Anyone remember Jan de Bont's abysmal shot-for-shot remake of Psycho?

Another way the TCM was so brilliant is that it worked on the principle that sometimes what you don't see is much more frightening that what you do. Everyone things of TCM as being an over-the-top gorefest but it really wasn't, there was hardly any blood in it. However your mind really has no choice but to fill in the missing pieces and when it does it's usually more ghastly and horrifying than anything they could possible put on camera. Hell the expression and cries of the woman as she's placed on the meathook in TCM is what made people get up and leave the theatre when it premiered, not buckets of blood. Do you expect Hollywood to have that kind of restraint when it comes to the gore? Hell no, they seem to have the exact opposite philosophy when it comes to horror movies. Show everything, exploit it as much as possible and throw enough red food coloring over it until no one will even bother to question whether it's scary or not. Well balls to that I say. As a true horror fan I have absolutely no intention of going to see this. It was done right the first time, any attempt to mess with that formula can only end in disaster. Some movies simply do not need to be remade.
PS- Hi everybody!

[Ash]

I say why judge it until you've seen it?  (the remake)
 
Am I right?

And by the way...Gus Van Sant directed the shot for shot remake of psycho which I thought was decent...not great....but decent.



Post Edited (08-23-03 02:43)

[Anonymous User]

Because it's the principle man.  The principle.

[Shecky]

Well said! Perhaps I'm mistaken, but isn't Michael Bay being tapped to helm this remake as well? When I mentioned this to my wife, her reply was: "I don't remember any big explosions in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'..."

She put it very concisely. All Michael Bay can do is over-the-top action films, like "Armageddon", "The Rock", et al. This remake is doomed from the get-go.

[Tranquil Featherman]

I Peter Jackson be hind the production of the new one? If he is, it will definatley suck!

[NEC]

And the weird part is is that it TECHNICALLY isn't even a remake! Strange I know, but from what I've been hearing for awhile is that it's a 'retelling' or 'reconceptualization' whatever that means.

[Vermin Boy]

So, in other words, it's a remake made by people who think they're too cool for remakes. I have a feeling this is gonna hurt.

[The Burgomaster]

Cornstore wrote:

"Why are they remaking The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? OH GOD WHY?"

I originally said the same thing. But the trailer actually looks pretty good. I am generally a hater of remakes, but I will probably give this one a chance.

[dean]

although i too am a sceptic of remakes; despite how well it was made, i really didn't like the psycho remake, no matter how hard i tried to like it [it was actually sorta classy, but it just didn't gel for me]

but in light of this, i've heard good stuff about this new and upcoming TCM movie.
haven't seen previews or anything to do with it and won't b able to for ages [things are slow where i am]  i think that they actually recognised the need for the gritty feel of the original, and reproduced it.
so lets give them points for not just letting bruckhiemer make it into a slick 'i got a cool car so lets go steal some s**t, screw some chicks and have some gunfights'-type movie, and that it may be less ''hollywood'' than we think

or i could be horribly wrong and shall never voice an opinion ever again, it may very well be the unholy crapness that it may very well be!!

[Tranquil Featherman]

It just won't be the same. I mean, c'mon!!! The annoying way the guy in the wheelchair was acting, and that's just at the TOP of my list of reasons this should never be remade.
 Why not re-write the Bible next, or maybe a remake of Squirm!!! or a remake of Killdozer!! Some things are sacred and should NEVER be messed with ( heh hemmmm, Peter Jackson....) But who am I to b***h and whine?

[Paul Hotbranch]

A lot of movies can be remade.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is NOT one of them.

As a fellow director,I say this is an insult to Tobe Hooper,Gunnar Hansen and all horror fans(like me)in the world.It´s an atrocity.It´s cinematography violation.

Damn you,Hollywood.