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LightChaserMar 31, 2005 11:54am
With the success of the ring and it's sequel, and many more japanese horror movies either being re-made and maybe influencing other american movies do you think we are seeing a little golden age of horror movies?

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marginalprophetMar 31, 2005 7:17pm
Horror movies have always been good box office. Hollywood knows the big box office depends on teenagers. From Ask Flickchick last week:

Question: I feel as though half the horror movies I see now are remakes -- is it my imagination, or are today's filmmakers really strip-mining the genre's past as never before? -- Mark

Flickchick: It's not your imagination: Between the remakes and the sequels, it seems that when it comes to horror, the grave robbing isn't restricted to what happens on screen. Following hard on the heels of new versions of Dawn of the Dead (2004) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), there are remakes of House of Wax (1953) and The Amityville Horror (1979) awaiting release and original Chain Saw director Tobe Hooper's new version of The Toolbox Murders (1978) just debuted on DVD and video.

Moreover, a remake of John Carpenter's The Fog (1980) is in preproduction, and new takes on The Bad Seed (1956), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Crazies (1973), Dead of Night (1945), The Entity (1982), The Evil Dead (1983), I Saw What You Did (1965), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Pet Sematary (1989), Phantasm (1979), Prom Night (1980), Race with the Devil (1975), The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Scanners (1981), The Sentinel (1977), Suspiria (1976), Terror Train (1980), When a Stranger Calls (1979) and The Wicker Man (1973) have been announced as being in development.

Remakes of the already-remade Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Blob (1958) and Wasp Woman (1959) are in the works, and let's not forget the planned U.S. reprises of foreign genre titles, including The Eye (2002), Intacto (2001), Cure (1997), Tell Me Something (2000) and more.

Why all these remakes? I can understand foreign films like The Ring, but does everything have to be updated? Does anyone have an original idea? This is conservative filmmaking. Just rent a bunch of Jamie Lee Curtis movies!

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LightChaserApr 1, 2005 4:48pm
Plus I saw they are re-making 'Dark Water', although I've heard 'The Ringu 2' and 'The Ring 2' are different.

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dragonheadApr 12, 2005 12:14am
The Ring 2 and Ringu 2 are different. (The Ring 2 is a little disappointing, considering it has the same director as the Japanese originals.) I like to think of them as different aspects of an ongoing universe. If you like those films, try and get hold of a copy of "Rasen" as well. It's based Koji Suzuki's follow-up novel to Ring. It's sort of "Ring 1.5" and adds a really interesting angle to the whole thing. More cerebral.
The most disturbing remake news I've heard though, is that the Korean masterpiece "OldBoy" (see it!) is to be remade with bloody Nicolas bloody Cage....sigh....
dementiaApr 12, 2005 9:11am
Can it really be called a golden age? If Hollywood comes out with more original horror films, then yes. But remaking Asian films? Nah.

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LightChaserApr 12, 2005 9:18am
Yeah, but like I've heard hollywood is bankrupt creatively, I mean how long is it before we see 'Three's Company' the movie?
dementiaApr 12, 2005 9:21am
Not long I'm afraid. I just heard that they're making "Dallas" the movie. Eek!

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LightChaserApr 12, 2005 9:22am
Now that's scary.
dementiaApr 12, 2005 9:29am
LOL! I know! You're a fan of Ringu, right? Have you seen all the three films? Did you know that Fuji TV aired Ringu Saishusho which is a 12 episode Ringu series for tv? I haven't seen the series yet but I want to!

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LightChaserApr 12, 2005 9:35am
actually i've only seen ringu 1 netflix doesn't have of the others.


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