Last House On The Left remake
 

Fuck. This does not look good. From the trailer alone it's obvious just how much the story has changed. Dammit. And Wes approves. And the saddest thing? I'm gonna go see it. I can't help myself. I have to.

Anyway, Fuck Buttons is in the trailer. Odd huh? See it here:

http://wescraven.com/

Piss yer pants!

I knew you'd bite.

Are you gonna see it? As much as I know that I'm gonna spend 2 hrs like "OH MY GOD, THATS NOT WHAT HAPPENS IN THE ORIGINAL--THIS SUCKS" I'm still gonna go see it. Cuz I'm weak.

I'm going to maybe watch it online. Doesn't really interest me.

Moaning about remakes gets old pretty quickly, but seriously. Last House on the Left?!?!? Improving something is fine but when it just looks like another opportunity to sex up the soundtrack, insert some ironic dialogue and generally fail to grasp what made the original so fucking awesome in the first place?

I'm boycotting it*




*Don't quote me on that.

haha. I don't really moan about remakes. I just treat a film as a film. I'll openly say that certain remakes are better than their originals: Black Xmas, The Thing, The Blob, and so on. So whatever.

I'm only moaning because... well it's Last House, and well, we're way more pussy now. And I just dnt think this will have the emotional resonance of the original. But I'm a longtime huge Craven fan, and will see anything he's attached to because it'll bother me if I don't.

Just so I can keeo you on your word. I'll ignore the other comment.

No, I was referring to myself. I'm always moaning about them and it gets to the point where i just feel like I'm saying the same thing over again. And I agree with everything you say in this and your first post.

haha, cool.

As you say, Carpenter's The Thing is a far better film than Hawkes' original. Although I actually think that's largelu because Carpenter didn't really trying to remake the original - as such. I think it's more a kind of homage to 50s sci fi movies in general. It's more like a tribute than it is a remake. And besides, the Thing never had that 20-30-something cult following in the way that LHotL has. 90% of the horror being remade right now comes from a fairly brief period (mid-70s early 80s) which has a massive cult following that's easy to exploit. As you say, while we both know that, and will nodoubt be moaning all the way through it, we'll still pay good money to watch the bastard.

Word. Remake-wise though, I must say, I'm really excited about MBV3D. That shit looks amazing. I mean I watch the original every year on Valentine's Day. So I'm a fan. But for some reason I really am into this remake. Which for the most part, I'm normally "not."

well yeah. I'm probably not as big a fan of the original MBV as you are but i do like it. Either way, doing it in 3D at least shows a bit of originality. I'd love it if they did LHotL in 3D. I also get the feeling that the people remaking MBV are doing it as a bit of a labour of love. I mean there isn't that big an audience that'd know the original so I'm guessing it's not as easy to exploit.

I'll tell you this though, they so much as think about remaking Basket Case, even if they decide to do it in 4D, with a scratch'n'sniff card, I'm declaring war.

unless it's by Frank Hettenlotter. Then it'd be fine.

Oh for crying out loud....this is about at necessary as Jerry Bruckenheimer ordering a remake of "Airplane!". I mean, I'm sad too that the golden age of exploitation cinema is very much over, but really, is there any point to this? It's not going to be a radical re-interpretation, or a substantial improvement on the original.

What next, an "ironic" re-making of "Driller Killer"?

I'm still tired of sequels and remakes.

calm down, Nelly. There was no "point" to those films either. Except cheap thrills. And that's what's being offered here. Plus it's in 3D. Something slightly different. It's going to be a fun cheap thrill. Good enough for me. (*referring to MBV, not Last House)

Fuck Buttons is in the trailer?
What the shit?

noisereductions - Oh, I wouldn't disagree with you there. It's a purely subjective viewpoint here from me.

I'm glad that you and Demonrail mentioned Frank Henenlotter here - think I'll watch "Brain Damage" again over the next couple of days.

the fully uncut version only got released in the UK last year, i think i'll watch that instead.

oh God, do I love that one! Ailmer is the shit!

It's not that shocking. THey sound like horror-trailer music.

Yeah.

(Basket Case aside) I don't mind the idea of any film being remade, just like I don't mind the idea of any song being covered. But when I find out that Brother James is being covered by Offspring (the equivalent of what's going on in Hollywood with remakes right now) I understandably have come to dread the result.

The trailer I saw had Taken By Trees.

Plus I love how they give the entire film away in the trailer. Even the variations on the original's story. Good marketing right there.

I really don't understand how people can complain about all of these remakes and then they go and see 99% of them. You know they're not gonna be as good as the originals so why bother?

I'll also ignore the comment where someone said they enjoyed the remake of Black Christmas more than the original.

haha.

I'll take it all back if in the remake they show the mum running through the backyard with a severed penis in her mouth.

The original is fucking boring, and the script is weak, and it doesn't have Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Boring? Now that I know what kind of "horror fan" I'm dealing with, i can let the comment slide.

The kind of horror fan who bought out the entire vhs horror section of a video store going out of business. Yeah, I guess I dnt know much about the genre.

At any rate, I'm not actually comparing Black Christmas and Black XMas. But as seperate films Black Christmas is probably a 4/10 and Black XMas is probably a 7/10. So to me the new one is a better film. I don't know what kind of "horror fan" that makes me?

that's exactly what i was thinking when i watched that trailer. "oh, so in the remake their daughter makes it back to the house alive and then instead of the chainsaw killing they're going to bring out the microwave."

just another attempt to cash in 70's cult horror. it has worked with so many other movies and this won't be the last one. i don't really care how it turns out because i can't get bothered about watching remakes anyway.

Just thought they'd be way too unknown.

I tend to agree with this. i wouldn't say either were that great, probably rate the remake at a five, but seeing as how I'd give the original a 3 It's maybe more a case of the remake not being quite as bad as the original. There's a tendency to look upon every horror film produced in the 70-early 80s through rose tinted glasses when it's clear that not everything released during that era was exactly golden. For every 'Basket Case' or 'Martin' or 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' there were a dozen 'Terror Train's.

I must be one of the few people who thinks the orignal Black Christmas is one of the best horror-films made (and obviously it's not nostalgia). I just think it's genuinely creepy (the phone calls, the killings themselves, the cold atmosphere) and I like the twist (or anti-twist). Modern films can't scare me like that... maybe it's because the older ones don't have lame, heavy-metal soundtracks, ironic post-Scream dialogue and crystal-clear pictures (I dig the graininess of old films). Second only to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre for me, followed by a group of not-quite-horror-films like Repulsion, Don't Look Now, etc.

To avoid fainting, keep repeating to yourself: 'It's only a remake.. it's only a remake.. it's only a remake..

Looks like shit.

word the fuck up.