Anticipate the Amityville Remake

After watching Ryan Reynolds give one of the most baffling performances ever in Blade III I am not terribly hopeful that this is going to be good (esp. since horror remakes have been pretty bad lately.) What is up with the baffling plot twisting remake of Assault on Precinct 13 though?!?! Why?

one of the amityvilles was in 3-d if i remember correctly.

Haha it's always 3.

ha, the amityville horror 4-3D!

Haha Amityville bucking the trend!

The sequel is like if The Exorcist and Flowers in the Attic had a baby.

The scariest thing in the original is James Broling walking around in tight briefs !!!!MY EYES!!!!!

that weird pig thing in the window gave me NIGHMARES. maybe this wasn't even really in the movie. also, the wife's scary lingerie.

Some remakes are great - the blob, the thing, the fly and the texas chainsaw remake was great.

amityville 2 is better than the exorcist btw and assault on precinct 13 has ethan hawke who is always worth watching.

I thought The Texas Chainsaw Massace remake was really weak so I think we may have to agree to disagree here. All the other remakes you named are pretty good to great though. Still, Ryan Reynolds! ACK!

ryan reynolds sucks. esp if you are canadian and have to see him on shitty movie-theatre magazine covers like i do!

Yeah - I didn't expect too much from the Chainsaw remake but it scared me in the cinema, had Jessica Beil looking damn fine and turned the ante up to 10. Tobe loved it BTW... not a patch on the first because few horror films are but a damn good try, better than the sequels (Tobe's own part 2 excepted because it's a masterwork in its own right) and pretty much every other US genre film of 2003.

The Dawn of the Dead remake, on the other hand, did little for me.

You coming to our fest in SF, Alex?

Yes, I am.

The first 15 minutes of the Dawn of the Dead remake was really pretty well done, but yeah it completely succumbed to mediocrity after that.

Cool. Drop me an email and I'll look forward to meeting you. You will have to have you come to the big guest of honor party on the 31st March. It's for a certain legendary filmmaker icon who might just be a fan of anthology films, werewolves and blues singers... you heard it here first...

Official announcement soon!!

Dawn of the Dead: Yes, first 15 mins lured me into thinking it was going to kickass. After that - not much to offer.

and assault on precinct 13 has ethan hawke who is always worth watching.

-- FilmFrank (FilmFran...), January 11th, 2005.

What?!? Name one film project that Hawke has participated in worth cherishing.

And the TCM remake vacuumed all of the lo-fi creepiness out of the original script by the end of the first reel.

Tis true: most remakes suck, all horror remakes suck, ergo the Amytiville Horror remake will suck balls.

Also, this is not the first place i've read a glowing review of the first 10 minutes of the Dawn of the Dead remake, and I agree. But why the fuck do we need these super-slick revisions of classic low budget horror flicks from the 60's and 70's that are justly canonized for being low budget and therefore "edgy" and weird.

Nevertheless, I can't wait for the I Spit On Your Grave remake starring Angelina Jolie and directed by Brett Ratner.

Haha, man that would be funny.

Texas Chainsaw was a good remake - have you seen the sequels incidently because the way I see TCM 2003 is TCM Part 5. It's no more or less of a remake than parts 3 or 4 (part 4, especially, chops exact scenes from the first).

ALL horror remakes such? I guess you don't much like Hammer films then, or Claude Rain's Phantom of the Opera (or Robert Englund's for that matter), or Cronenberg's The Fly, or The Thing, or The Blob... I don't think you can say all horror remakes suck at all.

2001 Maniacs is coming out this year too.

Ethan Hawke?
Beyond Sunrise and Sunset... Training Day...

Ouch! You pierced my thesis with The Thing and The Fly. Although I would assert those were exceptions, being directed by actually talented filmakers.

I guess I wouldn't mind seeing the Amytiville Horror remade, but by a real visionary like Cronenberg instead of some studio hack fresh off their latest rock video or whatever.

I actually never saw the Before Sunrise/Sunset as I'm not much for the romantic stuff (and I've a revulsion to Ethan Hawke as a leading man). I did forget that Ethan was in Training Day which was a great movie dominated by Denzel Washington's performance, which was immeasurable in keeping my tapioca down despite the presence of Hawke.