I Have a Premonition of a Lame Sandy Bullock Flick
Filed under: Horror, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Sony, Trailer Trash, Remakes and Sequels
How many J-horror remakes have we weathered in the past three years? Five? Seven? Boy is that a trend I'll be happy to see die ... but not just yet, apparently. Seems there's still a remake of The Eye due to hit theaters late next year, but before that we get Sandra Bullock starring in Premonition -- a flick that definitely seems to be a semi-kinda-remake of Norio Tsuruta's Yogen (aka Premonition) from 2004. That film, which clearly borrowed a few cups from the original Ringu, is about a phantom newspaper that informs people of tomorrow's bad news. Not a bad little entry into the J-horror canon, but a slight one nonetheless....actually, come to think of it, I'm beginning to suspect that these films have no connection. Based on this new trailer and the few plot synopses I've seen lying around, it looks like the only thing the two movies have in common is the title. My bad.
Anyway, Sandra plays a woman whose husband is killed in a car accident, only when she wakes up the next morning, he's (dun dun dun) still alive! Scary! The movie comes from German director Mennan Yapo and second-time screenwriter Bill Kelly. Co-starring alongside Ms. Bullock will be Julian McMahon, Amber Valletta, Nia Long, Peter Stormare and Kate Nelligan. Release date is March 16.
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12-31-2006 @ 1:17AM
Peter Nellhaus said...
Hey Scott: I read your bio in Rotten Tomatoes. I would expect someone who has your education, and is published in several outlets to know that J-Horror refers only to horror films from Japan. A quick look at IMDb will confirm that the Pang Brothers' "The Eye" is a Thailand/Hong Kong co-production. By the way, the American "Grudge 2" was quite popular here in Thailand, and did better business than the Thai horror film and Japanese horror film that were released at about the same time.
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