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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 13:38:39 GMT
You can reboot a franchise or a single stand alone horror film for a 1 off or to be turned into a series what do you all pick?
For me it's Nightmare on Elm Street. I really liked what the remake was trying to do with it and I thought Jackie Earle Haley did a good job in his performance. That being said his make up looked really bad in that film and it just looked like he was wearing a really bad rubber mask and it was very distracting whenever you saw a good glimpse of it. I also remember watching that movie and thinking the acting was bad from it's young cast which is odd now considering one of them was Rooney Mara as Nancy. I do know for sure I didn't care for Kyle Gallner's performance at all and Katie Cassidy was meh. The thing is I feel like this franchise really should get another shot possibly done with somebody like James Wan directing it. Freddy Krueger is such an iconic character to just sit and let die.
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Feb 20, 2017 14:09:03 GMT
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Post by Reynard on Feb 20, 2017 15:05:46 GMT
Child's Play should be remade based on Don Mancini's original "Blood Guy" script and not the existing 1988 movie. Get rid of Chucky's idiotic voodoo origin story, out-of-place action scenes, lame one-liners introduced in the sequels and play up the whodunit side along with the script's psychological/media critique subtext and it could be a terrific movie.
Tom Holland's 1988 movie is not bad but just about every change he made to the story was for worse.
No sequels needed. Child's Play should have never been a franchise.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 15:18:37 GMT
Child's Play should be remade based on Don Mancini's original "Blood Guy" script and not the existing 1988 movie. Get rid of Chucky's idiotic voodoo origin story. What was Chucky's original origin? I do remember that film terrified me as a child. Looking back at them as an adult they're pretty bad. |
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Post by Reynard on Feb 20, 2017 15:36:06 GMT
Child's Play should be remade based on Don Mancini's original "Blood Guy" script and not the existing 1988 movie. Get rid of Chucky's idiotic voodoo origin story. What was Chucky's original origin? I do remember that film terrified me as a child. Looking back at them as an adult they're pretty bad. Mancini's original script didn't have any serial killer / voodoo nonsense at all, it was about Andy being a troubled kid who makes a blood oath with this doll who is his only friend. Without Andy realizing it the blood oath makes the doll come alive. Andy's hate & frustrations literally bleed into the doll, which then goes on to kill people that Andy holds a grudge against. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 15:38:22 GMT
What was Chucky's original origin? I do remember that film terrified me as a child. Looking back at them as an adult they're pretty bad. Mancini's original script didn't have any serial killer / voodoo nonsense at all, it was about Andy being a troubled kid who makes a blood oath with this doll who is his only friend. Without Andy realizing it the blood oath makes the doll come alive. Andy's hate & frustrations literally bleed into the doll, which then goes on to kill people that Andy holds a grudge against. That does sound more interesting and would sure hold up a lot better today than the version we got. |
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 20, 2017 17:11:07 GMT
I was very excited when we heard about a remake of House on Haunted Hill, I grew up on that movie...so the 1999 film was a major disappointment and the opening vivisection scarred me for the remainder of my childhood. It was an interesting concept but I wanted something truer to the original and if I could reboot that, I would, and I would try and do it right.
Actually I was always very curious about what Watson Pritchard's first night in the house was like, I always hoped we could've seen a prequel that we saw why he was almost dead when they found him.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 17:37:30 GMT
You can reboot a franchise or a single stand alone horror film for a 1 off or to be turned into a series what do you all pick? For me it's Nightmare on Elm Street. I really liked what the remake was trying to do with it and I thought Jackie Earle Haley did a good job in his performance. That being said his make up looked really bad in that film and it just looked like he was wearing a really bad rubber mask and it was very distracting whenever you saw a good glimpse of it. I also remember watching that movie and thinking the acting was bad from it's young cast which is odd now considering one of them was Rooney Mara as Nancy. I do know for sure I didn't care for Kyle Gallner's performance at all and Katie Cassidy was meh. The thing is I feel like this franchise really should get another shot possibly done with somebody like James Wan directing it. Freddy Krueger is such an iconic character to just sit and let die. Hellraiser. |
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Post by Reynard on Feb 20, 2017 17:49:47 GMT
I was very excited when we heard about a remake of House on Haunted Hill, I grew up on that movie...so the 1999 film was a major disappointment and the opening vivisection scarred me for the remainder of my childhood. It was an interesting concept but I wanted something truer to the original and if I could reboot that, I would, and I would try and do it right. Actually I was always very curious about what Watson Pritchard's first night in the house was like, I always hoped we could've seen a prequel that we saw why he was almost dead when they found him. I miss old-fashioned mystery / haunted house movies. We get so very few of them these days and I have trouble remembering which was the last really good one. I'd like to see a remake of House on Haunted Hill that's set into a kind of huge mansion that we see in the original poster but other than that stays close to original story. I've never liked the exteriors and establishing shots of the original which contradict the interiors in a way that has always bothered me. |
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 20, 2017 18:22:53 GMT
I was very excited when we heard about a remake of House on Haunted Hill, I grew up on that movie...so the 1999 film was a major disappointment and the opening vivisection scarred me for the remainder of my childhood. It was an interesting concept but I wanted something truer to the original and if I could reboot that, I would, and I would try and do it right. Actually I was always very curious about what Watson Pritchard's first night in the house was like, I always hoped we could've seen a prequel that we saw why he was almost dead when they found him. I miss old-fashioned mystery / haunted house movies. We get so very few of them these days and I have trouble remembering which was the last really good one. I'd like to see a remake of House on Haunted Hill that's set into a kind of huge mansion that we see in the original poster but other than that stays close to original story. I've never liked the exteriors and establishing shots of the original which contradict the interiors in a way that has always bothered me. Gotta admit though, it really grabs your attention. And it really seems to fit together, a house of stone and brick with metal bars in all the windows which Pritchard points out, a jail would be proud of, they are prisoners in the house until morning. I don't think they were going for symbolism but I think it actually worked. And I have to agree, I love the old fashioned haunted house movies, and no, you really don't see too many of them anymore, especially ones that would actually rely on 'realistic' effects, the blind woman was just that, a freaky looking person, she glided out but she didn't do that shaky movement you see in every movie now. The disembodied heads, did they look realistic? I don't know but they weren't overly disgusting. |
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Post by schizkebab on Feb 20, 2017 18:45:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 3:05:43 GMT
I was very excited when we heard about a remake of House on Haunted Hill, I grew up on that movie...so the 1999 film was a major disappointment and the opening vivisection scarred me for the remainder of my childhood. It was an interesting concept but I wanted something truer to the original and if I could reboot that, I would, and I would try and do it right. Actually I was always very curious about what Watson Pritchard's first night in the house was like, I always hoped we could've seen a prequel that we saw why he was almost dead when they found him. I never saw the original but I did see the remake of it from 1999. Is the Watson Pritchard character the same as the Watson Pritchett character in which Chris Kattan played in the 1999 version? The only thing I really remember from that movie is him dying at the end. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 3:07:22 GMT
You can reboot a franchise or a single stand alone horror film for a 1 off or to be turned into a series what do you all pick? For me it's Nightmare on Elm Street. I really liked what the remake was trying to do with it and I thought Jackie Earle Haley did a good job in his performance. That being said his make up looked really bad in that film and it just looked like he was wearing a really bad rubber mask and it was very distracting whenever you saw a good glimpse of it. I also remember watching that movie and thinking the acting was bad from it's young cast which is odd now considering one of them was Rooney Mara as Nancy. I do know for sure I didn't care for Kyle Gallner's performance at all and Katie Cassidy was meh. The thing is I feel like this franchise really should get another shot possibly done with somebody like James Wan directing it. Freddy Krueger is such an iconic character to just sit and let die. Hellraiser. I have surprisingly gone my entire life without seeing one single Hellraiser film. Any of them that you'd suggest to watch? |
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 21, 2017 11:50:37 GMT
I was very excited when we heard about a remake of House on Haunted Hill, I grew up on that movie...so the 1999 film was a major disappointment and the opening vivisection scarred me for the remainder of my childhood. It was an interesting concept but I wanted something truer to the original and if I could reboot that, I would, and I would try and do it right. Actually I was always very curious about what Watson Pritchard's first night in the house was like, I always hoped we could've seen a prequel that we saw why he was almost dead when they found him. I never saw the original but I did see the remake of it from 1999. Is the Watson Pritchard character the same as the Watson Pritchett character in which Chris Kattan played in the 1999 version? The only thing I really remember from that movie is him dying at the end. Yeah, that's him. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 14:43:37 GMT
I never saw the original but I did see the remake of it from 1999. Is the Watson Pritchard character the same as the Watson Pritchett character in which Chris Kattan played in the 1999 version? The only thing I really remember from that movie is him dying at the end. Yeah, that's him. Damn...I never saw the original but I'd get why those would hate the remake. This film disappointed me a lot. But it did lead to me loving the Rose Red 2 part TV movie a lot. |
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