Horror Movies We Never Got…

Don't forget the third twist: a still-living Stu was masterminding everything from prison, Following-style. I don't think the actual outline has ever been released but I would love to read it. He also planned a Scream 5 where Jill is in college after successfully getting away with 4's events. I liked 4's ending, but that would have been interesting.

Speaking of Williamson, the original script for Cursed was pretty fun, and it was nearly all filmed before being completely rewritten and reshot. Who the werewolf turns out to be is so hilarious I don't even want to spoil it here.

The original Friday 3 with Ginny either is an asylum or hunting Jason with Ted would have been cool, just because Ginny is awesome.

I remember disliking that H4 treatment. Granted, it's more original than the actual H4 which is basically just a remake, but it kinda goes too far in its own direction as H6 would later do.

Immediately what I thought of.

There are so many of these. It's a great topic with a lot to dig into. Most of the ones that we've heard about are those in long standing franchises.

There are a ton of scripts and pitches and treatments out there for Freddy vs Jason, but I recall one that I read way back before that movie actually came out that had the very different title of Jason vs Freddy. The concept was that Jason Voorhees was real and the movies were loosely based on his real life murders. He was still very much human even though the movies got more outlandish. He gets arrested and the lawyer who is hired to defend him researches these horror movies starring Jason and begins to have nightmares featuring a scary burned figure in a sweater and hat with razor fingers. I supposed she didn't recognize his hand when she watched Jason Goes to Hell while doing her research. Anyway, I don't remember all of the details, but the movie somehow ends up in a mall and Freddy rides the elevator with a guy and makes his snake tattoo movie and turn into a real snake and attack him. Not sure why this was happening when nobody was asleep. As I recall from reading that script almost 18 years later, it wasn't good, but the basis of the idea was sorta enticing to read even though nobody would have been happy about it if they actually used that idea.


There was an article recently about the guys who are writing the new Hellraiser movie and the pitch they had for Halloween after Rob Zombie was leaving the series. They were not big shots, just a pair of writers among apparently very many that submitted a pitch. There idea was basically to pick the original series much later and not to exactly discount the series, but to not directly reference them. Michael was sort of an urban legend that kids would read about online about how there were these killings in different towns on Halloween night on different years and they weren't officially connected but online sleuths were trying to connect the dots. Then you'd see Michael roll into this random town, like a drifter or something, and put on his mask and start to stalk some teens. Their idea was that we wouldn't no much about his life outside of being 'the shape' but that they'd suggest he had some kind of a life the rest of the year, but in late October he'd find a town to terrorize and kill some teens only to leave without being caught and find a new place the next year. They didn't go into great detail on what the plot was (or I just don't remember it all that well) but it was gonna feature a movie theater and some run down, economically beaten down parts of a suburban town as a setting for some horror set pieces.

If anyone cares or hasn't seen it I'm sure I can find the article.

The Halloween that almost got made at that point was called Halloween Returns, and there's a lot of info on what that would have been out there too.

I don't know if it counts, but New Line did try to convince Sam Rami and Bruce Campbell to do Freddy vs Jason vs Ash. I guess there was some brief interest and a treatment was written, but it didn't go very far beyond a few meetings after Rami and Campbell were told that Ash couldn't kill off either character.

Yeah. There's a good chance they weren't particularly interested in doing it to begin with, I suppose.

Dario Argento's FRANKENSTEIN

I read about this proposed early '80s project some 10-15 years ago... I don't believe the script was ever completed.

It was to be a gory (naturally!) retelling of the Frankenstein story, only set in 1930s Nazi Germany instead of the 19th Century. Argento supposedly wanted Timothy Dalton to play the Peter Cushing-ish Baron Frankenstein.

(Argento made TENEBRE and PHENEOMENA instead.)

Helloween Michael Myers vs Pinhead this was in talks after Resurrection and H20 supernatural Myers vs demon king Pinhead wouldve been cool to see