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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 7, 2022 14:25:17 GMT
To my knowledge "Old scratch" has never been released... It starred Tom Dekker and Ashley Laurence. About a band selling their souls to Satan. "American girls" is apparently based on the rape and murder of two Australian schoolgirls. We got a trailer but it's never appeared anywhere. "In a madman's world" (2016) is based on Dean Corrl dubbed the serial killer the Candyman. Along with two teenage accomices he would procure young boys and teens to rape, torture, and murder. Also Marilyn Burns's last film. Someone said it's on YouTube but I haven't checked yet. That reminds me, that All American Massacre movie with Bill Moseley still has yet to see the light of day. Surely it must have been better than some of the actual Texas Chainsaw sequels we've gotten in the intervening years... Never heard of that one.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 7, 2022 15:07:31 GMT
A Nightmare on Elm Street Almost Became a Reality Series - Why It Didn't Happen
Not a horror movie, but I remember following this story way back when. There was a Nightmare on Elm Street reality show that was actually produced, but for convoluted reasons never was released in any form. They completed 6 episodes in which Robert Englund was the host who traveled to the contestants' home town and interviewed them about their deep phobias and nightmares. Then the contestants were then brought to an LA soundstage where the production would recreate their nightmares to force them to confront their fears as a sort of form of therapy. It was produced by and was supposed to air on CBS, but they decided to shelve it because they were both weary of it being too much like Fear Factor, and not enough like Fear Factor, as well as being concerned about some legal issues with contestants possibly having some mental illness. It's kind of a shame. I have no interest in reality shows at all, but this one sounded like an actual original idea which makes the network's reasoning for canceling it all the more bizarre. Robert Englund seems like a natural TV host. I'm not sure if he was gonna host the Nightmare segments in Freddy makeup, but that would have been cool. I guess I can sort of understand them not going forward with the show, even though the reasoning is a little dubious, but since they fully completed 6 episodes I kind of don't understand why they've never released it in any form... or how it never even leaked. I'm sure I'm not alone in being curious to see it.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 18, 2022 14:45:49 GMT
Failed 'Friday the 13th' Reboot Writer Reveals What Went WrongSaw this article recently about the Friday sequel from a few years ago that fell apart. This article doesn't go deep into it, but the script is available online too. I have not looked at it myself.. yet. David Bruckner, who I believe had already directed The Ritual, has directed The Night House, and is currently directing the new Hellraiser movie was the director and the writer was Nick Antosca who has written a lot for TV, created the series Channel Zero, and wrote the script for Antlers which just came out a few months ago. There's a long list of things that happened over the course of the development that ultimately killed the movie, as always seems to be the case, but ultimately Paramount wasn't ready to go after there was a regime change and the new people that took over at the studio level wanted to change things and development stalled. If anyone here is interested in this subject in general, and this project in particular, there is a podcast called Best Movies Never Made co-hosted by the guy that made the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune. I heard this episode a long time ago, but I believe it was David Bruckner himself who was the guest, and he detailed all the many twists of developing that script, including when the new studio execs suddenly demanded that it be turned into a found footage movie, and all the many stupid things that happened along the way. When he spoke about it, it sounded like it would have been really good. Of course, without having read the script, I can't really say it would have.. and then even if that script was produced there's no way of knowing if it would translate, how many things would go wrong along the way, how much execs and producers would have interfered, etc. etc. Either way, I think that interview is worth a listen.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 19, 2022 18:07:52 GMT
I read the script. It was cute. Not ha-ha funny but better than the Jaws 3 we got.
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Post by MCDemuth on Jan 20, 2022 1:52:36 GMT
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Post by MCDemuth on Jan 20, 2022 1:55:24 GMT
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Post by MCDemuth on Jan 20, 2022 2:24:57 GMT
Home Alone: 666 Kevin must now face his ultimate fear... being alone in a demonic house, with even more scary things in the basement... And this time, his mother isn't coming coming back for him. Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern return as Harry & Marv, now zombies from hell...
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Post by forca84 on Feb 8, 2022 0:16:00 GMT
There's a 2007 movie called "Urban Decay"... Sounded similar to "Wrong Turn" etc. Guess it got shelved.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Feb 11, 2022 19:52:54 GMT
On a recent episode of the Kingcast (a Stephen King podcast), Glen Mazzara (who wrote on The Walking Dead and was on the show previously to discuss his pilot for an Amazon pilot for a Dark Tower series that he wrote and directed that was not picked up) detailed his script for a movie he wrote called The Overlook Hotel.
As you'd probably assume from the title, it was based in the Stephen King miliue. It was written as a prequel, of sorts, to The Shining. As he explains it, Warner Bros wasn't really happy with most of the takes that they had gotten, and most of those scripts were about the Grady twins. He decided to go back early to the beginning of the hotel, from the founding of the grounds and the building of the structure. It was based on King's original prelude to The Shining which was not published originally and is still fairly obscure. I've finally found a link, but I think there are very few printings that include it.
It's worth listening to the episode and hearing them go through the plot beats. I won't detail it all, but they describe it as basically a horror take on There Will Be Blood. They absolutely gush over his scripts on the show, and of course things sound great before they're made, but this one did sound like it could have been good. Mark Romanek was attached to direct.
From what he said it sounded lime they decided not to go ahead because they were also developing Doctor Sleep and that had a better pedigree because King had written the novel. Then, if I recall, it was resurrected by HBOmax, but then JJ Abrams signed a deal to develop an Overlook series, and they shelved his script again. Then, HBOmax decided not to go forward with Abrams' project and Mazarra thought he had a shot at creating it as a series for HBOmax, where his script would be bulked up into a first season of a series, and each subsequent season could take place at the Overlook in a different decade, but apparent Bad Robot (Abrams' company) still retained some rights and was trying to find another outlet for it.
All convoluted, but it sounds like Abrams and Mazarra probably could have teamed up and got that going.
Anyway, it's worth listening to that episode and if that script is out there somewhere I may try to read it sometime.
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Post by forca84 on Feb 11, 2022 20:01:03 GMT
I enjoyed "Doctor Sleep" alot more than I thought I would... With "Chapelwaite" getting a 2nd season (origin to "Salem's Lot") I could see them doing an origin series to "The Shining" maybe down the line.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Feb 11, 2022 20:58:44 GMT
I enjoyed "Doctor Sleep" alot more than I thought I would... With "Chapelwaite" getting a 2nd season (origin to "Salem's Lot") I could see them doing an origin series to "The Shining" maybe down the line. As of this past August JJ Abrams was still trying to shop it as a series to a different outlet. There doesn't seem to be any news since then. So either things are happening behind the scenes with no announcement, or it's in Limbo, in which case it is possible that HBOmax or HBO or Warner Bros will pick up the Mazarra version still. But there's no traction on it yet. I was enjoying Chapelwaite, but I never finished it. I liked it for the most part, but I have like 3 or so episodes left. I'll have to get back on it. Chapelwaite drew a lot more story out of that short story than I thought was there, and that seems similar to what Mazarra was trying to do with the original prologue to The Shining (which is called 'Before the Play'). I would have liked it as a film, but I also kinda like the idea of that story being the first season and progressing by decade each season. It sounded like a good idea to me.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Feb 25, 2022 17:14:27 GMT
As mentioned in another thread; There was a sequel miniseries to The Thing in development at the (then named) Sci Fi channel back in 2005. It was set to be a two part (or 'two night') event call The Return of The Thing, and saw the bodies of both MacReady and Childs being discovered by Russians who take them in and recover the alien spacecraft, or at least parts of it. Then the narrative jumps ahead 23 years to the present day of 2005 (at the time) when rebels break into a lab where samples are held and take off with a vial of a bio weapon, but of course we know that it's something else. The plane in which these rebel terrorists are attempting to escape crashes in New Mexico, and the main narrative takes place there, swapping the cold for the heat.
The scipt is online, apparently, as is a good deal of concept art. Frank Darabont was attached as a producer, and this was at a time when the Sci Fi channel had some legitimate hits with their original mini series, like the multiple Dune projects they had going.
It sounded great (as many un-made projects do) and it fell apart for all sorts of different reasons, as is often the case. I haven't listened to it in quite a while, but this whole thing was outlined by the writer David Leslie Johnson McGoldrick (who wrote for The Walking Dead and wrote Orpah, Aquaman, and The Conjuring 2 amongst other things) on the podcast Best Movies Never Made. It was a while back, but it was fun to listen to.
I don't quite remember many plot details beyond what I mentioned already, but it did start with the idea that both MacReady and Childs were both human, and now both dead. That might have been a little bit controversial for fans, but I thought it kinda worked and was good to get it out of the way in the beginning.
Anyway, for those interested; that podcast episode told a lot of detail, and there are also lots of concept drawings out there, as well as the entire script, evidently.
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