The Blob. I don't really get this one. How scary can they make a giant booger?
The Fog. Ok, I could see this one being improved upon. The bad part about this is towards the end of the article.
The writer's exclamation point there isn't happiness. Why remake Halloween? What could possibly be added outside of more gore? The lack of gore and kill shots was what set Halloween apart from standard horror films. It was the shadows and implied danger of Michael being anywhere that gets that film ranked in the top 5 horrors of all time. Leave it alone Carpenter.and that Carpenter has been fielding offers to remake HALLOWEEN!
Not remake news, but Godzilla gets a star. That's pretty cool.
Hollywood is out to ruin another series and character. Silence was great. The rest of the series has been going downhill from there. This one doesn't even have Anthony Hopkins cast yet.
And because nobody is sick of this series.
"We thought that a lot of people who saw the movie always wondered why he uses a chainsaw," explains Form. "No one really explains it, he just does. We tried to explain a little bit in our version why he wears a mask, but here we’re really going to try to show you how the mask originated, and stuff like that."
That's stupid on so many levels.
Scream 4.
The Thing remake or sequel?
Jaws on steroids. At least its not a remake.
Another Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Pet Cemetary.
which has been described as a "reimagining" and is thus likely to depart from Stephen King’s original novel
So Hollywood thinks it can do King's story better than him?
Anyone else thinking "straight to video" on some of these like I am?
Jurassic Park 4.
Now for the good news and the reason why I started this chain. I was sent to the Fangoria site by a friend and thought I'd pass on the bits above, but the real story is here.
I guess we'll know in about 2 summers if Raimi is serious or if he's just pulling our chains.