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“They’re Here,” Again

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 8:52 am by Jami

Poltergeist

MGM has hired Stiles White and Juliet Snowden to write a remake of Poltergeist. No director is yet attached to the project and I hope it stays that way. It’s not often that you have a horror movie franchise that is itself cursed. Dominique Dunne was strangled to death by her ex boyfriend shortly after the release of the first film. Julian Beck died of stomach cancer during the filming of the second film. Will Sampson died of complications during heart surgery a year after the second was released. He even tried to bless the sets and locations during filming to fend off evil spirits. Heather Michele O’Rourke died of illness during the filming of the third film.

I’d say that’s half a hint for your ass that the first film was just fine.

Seriously, besides the fact that I think remakes are just plain lazy, leave this one the fuck alone. Poltergeist doesn’t want any sequels and you can be damn sure it won’t like a remake. Please, there’s enough scary shit out there to write a perfectly new and equally bat shit scary movie without digging up old ones.

[Via Variety]

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7 Responses to ““They’re Here,” Again”

  1. AvatarHenry
    Posted: Aug 20th, 2008 at 9:12 am
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    Yes, plenty of other ideas. You just hit on one. A movie about a series of movies that are cursed. The plot follows the actors and director as they try to complete the cursed movies and they keep dying under strange circumstances.

    Well, maybe it’s not a GREAT idea, but at least it’s not another fucking remake.

  2. Avatargreg
    Posted: Aug 20th, 2008 at 9:14 am
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    It was only a matter of time. Every other great classic horror movie has been remade. Are they running out of Japanese horror films to dilute?

  3. AvatarLurch Kimded
    Posted: Aug 20th, 2008 at 9:16 am
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    We could get Uwe Boll to direct, and hope the curse takes effect :P

  4. AvatarMax
    Posted: Aug 20th, 2008 at 10:21 am
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    You know why it was considered cursed? Apparently the directors thought it would be fun to use real human remains as props. Which is what the movie is about. Irony? Karma? :) The actors didn’t know of this though.

  5. AvatarKevin Bahrt
    Posted: Aug 20th, 2008 at 10:55 am
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    @Henry, they actually already made one of those movies, let’s see if I can find it on Hulu… ah, here

  6. AvatarKevin Bahrt
    Posted: Aug 20th, 2008 at 10:56 am
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    Jami, I messup the linkage, forgot the slash apparently. The above link is not safe for work.

  7. AvatarJami
    Posted: Aug 20th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
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    @Max, oh fuck all! I didn’t know that! That’s really fucking horrifying.

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