Hills Have Eyes remake battling MPAA
Filed under: Horror, Remakes and Sequels
The MPAA has handed down an NC-17 rating to Alexandre Aja's remake of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes. Craven is producing the new film, and he talked to Empire Online about what needs to be done to get the picture an infinitely more marketable R. "It's a very strong picture and we're trying to figure out what to do
with that, without ruining it," Craven said, "We have to deliver an R
rating." Apparently most of the to-do has to do with a scene adapted from the original film, in which mutants attack a family in a trailer. "It's intense. Very intense. The attack on the trailer in my film was
horrible, but it was over fairly fast," Craven says. "This one goes on
almost ten full minutes. It's fairly faithful to the original, but Alex
added other things that also make it worse, what's happening to these
people." The film will be released on March 10, but as the goriest bits will surely be excised to appease Dan Glickman, you'll have to wait to have your mind blown for the DVD. 
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11-30-2005 @ 6:18PM
Scott Weinberg said...
Nothing like hyping your own MPAA rasslin' for some free press ... but as a HUGE fan of the original "Hills" and a pretty big fan of High Tension, I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed for this remake.
And I know it's an obvious sentiment, but at least it's not some wimp-ass PG-13 project.
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11-30-2005 @ 6:15PM
josh said...
I, for one, am looking forward to this. Aja showed some serious horror movie chops with Haute Tension. Even though that film was seriously flawed, it's problems stemmed more from the films concept, not it's execution. THHE is very solid source material for him to work with, and one hopes that Craven's involvement will keep it from becoming some sort of parody of the original.
That said, American horror films are way too focused on remakes at the moment. Is Eli Roth the only young horror filmmaker out there who is willing (and able) to work with original material? (Personally, I'm also holding out hope for Lucky McKee's The Woods...)
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11-30-2005 @ 6:23PM
Scott Weinberg said...
"one hopes that Craven's involvement will keep it from becoming some sort of parody of the original."
That's what I was hoping on The Fog. ;)
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12-01-2005 @ 3:08PM
josh said...
Was Carpenter heavily involved in the Fog? I didn't see it, but it certainly didn't look like it was any good.
Carpenter's track record over the last decade is pretty lackluster though - Craven has arguably improved (mainly just because he did so many bad movies just for cash at the middle stage of his career).
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