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Post by novastar6 on May 1, 2022 6:24:50 GMT
Great horror remakes in the 80s, The Thing, The Blob, Invaders From Mars, and just great horror movies in general that decade.
If House on Haunted Hill had been remade in the 80s instead of the 90s, who do you think would've directed it, and what direction do you think they would've taken it? Maybe not asylum for the criminally insane, maybe still just old haunted mansion in the middle of nowhere, but what do you think would've been done differently?
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Post by forca84 on May 1, 2022 21:25:30 GMT
No CGI baddie Ghost for one thing... I'm assuming there could be more onscreen violence. Whereas in the remake we mostly saw the aftermath.
And perhaps some more nudity aside from the Ghosts... A synth score maybe.
I feel like the MPAA would probably make some major cuts if it was made in the 80's...
The 1999 remake did what it could at the time... The sequel "Return to House on Haunted Hill" had a bit more cgi gore than part 1.
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Post by masterofallgoons on May 2, 2022 13:10:15 GMT
My first thought was that the team that made Poltergeist would have made that instead. But Spielberg and co. would likely not have wanted to make a remake at the time, and if so would likely not have gone for the William Castle exploitation-ish kinda remake. But perhaps Tobe Hooper may have been into the idea on his own had he gotten there before he got the gig with Spielberg looking over his shoulder.
On a peripherally related note, Stephen King pitched a remake of The Haunting to Spielberg in the early 90s the ultimately morphed into his Rose Red miniseries. So there was a distinct possibility that a Stephen King written, Steven Spielberg directed and/or produced movie remake of The Haunting could have been made in the 90s before the 1999 The Haunting remake that we ultimately got. I believe it would have been a looser adaptation of the novel than the original film was.
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Post by novastar6 on May 2, 2022 13:11:14 GMT
But what would the house in question be? Like Hull House in Night of the Demons? Most 80s slashers targeted teens but in both versions of HOHH the guests were made up of mostly career people: pilot, doctor, secretary, columnist, ex-baseball player, etc.
For that matter, between $10,000 and $1,000,000, how much would each guest stand to receive if they stayed all night in the 80s?
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Post by masterofallgoons on May 2, 2022 15:54:25 GMT
But what would the house in question be? Like Hull House in Night of the Demons? Most 80s slashers targeted teens but in both versions of HOHH the guests were made up of mostly career people: pilot, doctor, secretary, columnist, ex-baseball player, etc. For that matter, between $10,000 and $1,000,000, how much would each guest stand to receive if they stayed all night in the 80s? Well that depends on a lot of factors. I'd say if we go with the Tobe Hooper idea, and if he was working with a decent budget at a studio you'd likely have seen the mature aged cast. So I'll go with that. And I think the rich guy shelling out money was have been a Gordon Gecko-ish Wall Street douche bag. That kind of person was a popular character type in those days and the story would be conducive to that type. Given that I'd suggest he'd offer $1 million. That would have been more money in the 80s than the late 90s, but the were the figures that the slicked back haired, Regan era, Wall Street types were dealing in, and it would sound good in a movie. I think the house would have been similar. A big spooky old mansion. That was not the popular move of the day, but I think it would have been done as a throwback and a response to the rise of slashers and dead-teenager movies. It would have been faster paced with slicker and cooler practical and optical effects, which I would guess might include gore effects and therefore an R rating. I'm picturing that my imagined bad guy would be wealthy Wall Street millionaire and now investor and developer who seeks to exploit the haunted house as an attraction, perhaps similarly to the 1999 remake, but also like Jeffery Jones in Beetlejuice, and so I'll just go ahead and imagine that this imaginary remake would get there first and cast Jeffery Jones as this same type of character off of the back of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There's a whole other idea of what this could be if it was a lower budget, teen focused 80s horror movie... which would be fun too, but this version is my first idea |
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Post by The Pumpkin King on May 8, 2022 12:06:30 GMT
I personally would have loved to see a House on Haunted Hill horror movie directed by Fred Dekker. It seemed like it would have been made around 1989, after he completed the movies "Night of the Creeps" and "The Monster Squad." Sure, those movies had a lot of humor to them, but for a zombie/alien movie and classic monster movie I consider them both vastly underrated. In some cases, B movies to me can stand the test of time when done right. But honestly, I would have watched any horror director take on that remake. Sadly enough, Raimi was tied to "The Evil Dead" franchise, Craven was tied to "A Nightmare on Elm Street," Don Coscarelli was tied to "Phantasm," George Romero was tied to his 'Dead' series and John Carpenter was tied to his unrelated 'Devil' trilogy of movies in the 80s.
And I think the setting for a remake back in the 80s would have been either a haunted mansion or abandoned insane asylum. Both would have worked in my opinion even if those sets were already overdone by the end of the 80s. At least we would have got more traditional special effects and less CGI, which is another reason I liked the Dekker movies. I liked the "House on Haunted Hill" remake, I watched it in theaters. It's a good-bad flick for me, but one I never got tired of over the decades. There's still a couple favorite horror moments for me in the film.    
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