Really? Another remake???
@crimsonladybug (3112)
United States
January 31, 2009 1:59am CST
I just went to the IMDb to find information on something completely unrelated and stumbled over a trailer for the Last House on the Left.
The original was brutal and has been voted by several different horror film ....er... groups as the scariest movie ever (some groups have listed it in the top five, but still up there at the top). I'm a little bothered by the fact that they are remaking it with Monica Potter (who has a done a lot of romantic comedies) and Sara Paxton (who has done a lot of Disney and Nickelodeon stuff).
Wes Craven is producing it, which is a vote of confidence since he wrote and directed the original but still I say, if it ain't broke.... Re-release the original into theaters for a couple of weeks to expose it to a new generation. Remakes rarely ever turn out well.
2 responses
@starr4all (2863)
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11 Feb 09
When I first heard about this I was ticked off. That was one of the original great brutal movies. It won't even be close to the original movies caliber. What people tend to forget when doing remakes is, the time period it was made. The times have a way of influencing how it was made. Also, wtf is up with having a romantic comedy and a disney actresses on the movie? How is it going to be brutal enough? I'm going to already say it's probably going to flop like so many remakes.
@crimsonladybug (3112)
• United States
12 Feb 09
Time is definitely going to be an influence. Nowadays, the brutality of the original would be left on the cutting room floor because it wouldn't be "family friendly." I don't believe that movies, horror or otherwise, should be dumbed down so that Little Johnny Preschooler can go with Mom and Dad to see the scary movie or the vulgar comedy instead of staying home with the babysitter. Based on the fact that the big wigs in the new movie industry don't seem to agree with me, the original Last House would have never survived the pitch meeting.
@crimsonladybug (3112)
• United States
6 Oct 09
More to that end, and totally unrelated to the topic of horror movie remakes but on the subject of Johnny Preschooler going to inappropriate films, I don't understand how an hour and a half movie with at least three plain and clear nipple shots, one guy who can't be bothered to remove his pants before *ahem* manually relieving his tension, and ten F-bombs in one 5 minute scene, not to mention enough high velocity spatter to fill a swimming pool, can conceivably receive a PG-13 rating.
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
31 Jan 09
Very true. The only reason they remake a movie, is because it was a hit the first time. They're trying to ride off the hit parade. The problem is, it was a hit the first time cause they did it RIGHT. Redoing it again is an automatic slam and a vote against it. If they're going to do remakes, they should take the flops and redo them. Those might make it the second time around. It sure would save us the trouble of having to deal with them.
Some remakes do work. When the director takes the original idea and goes in a totally different direction. But why not give it a different name, and not call it a remake then? I'm sure one of the remakes worked, but I can't put a name to any right offhand.
