BREAKING: Director Chosen for 'My Bloody Valentine' Remake!
Filed under: Horror, Lionsgate Films, Remakes and Sequels
It's not every day you get to share news of this magnitude. I'm actually a little nervous about it. I mean ... Psycho, sure. Halloween, why not? But when someone decides to step up and remake a film like My Bloody Valentine ... wow.OK, silly joke. Sorry. If we're at the point where April Fool's Day, Prom Night and My Bloody Valentine are being remade, aren't we just about due for a big SPOOF to come along and end this remake parade already? This is coming from the biggest horror geek you'll ever see: My Bloody Valentine? Really?
The original was a Canadian import that (slavishly, dryly) followed the Halloween / Friday the 13th template, right down to the oh-so-clever insert-holiday-here gimmick. Plot-wise, it was about a guy in a gas mask who swung a mean pick-axe and enjoyed putting dismembered hearts inside candy boxes. Clearly this film demands a remake.
So who will be bringing this non-classic to the (probably television) screen for a new generation of giddy gorehounds? Why, Patrick Lussier, of course. Who else but the man who gave us one Prophecy, a White Noise, and three whole Draculas could dare to approach the works of John Beaird and George Mihalka? First-time screenwriter Zane Smith was the adapter; production on the Lionsgate project gets underway in Pittsburgh in just a few months.
[ Thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com for the long-awaited news! ]
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1-31-2008 @ 12:16PM
Christopher said...
Great another childhood Horror Classic down the drain!!
What are they going to do with this one, give a PG-13 rating like they are doing with that laughable mess "Prom Night", & I'm sorry Rob Zombie pissed all over the Re-Make of "Halloween"! I'am still wondering how come "Halloween" didn't get 1 single Razzie Nomination for being 1 of "THE" worst Re-Makes of 2007!!!
PLEASE HOLLYWOOD STOP KILLING ALL MY FAVORTIE HORROR FILMS FROM THE 1980'S!!
In a March 30, 2007 issue of "Entertainment Weekly", the film was ranked 17 in a list of guilty pleasures, listed among the such films as "Dawn of the Dead" and "Escape from New York", and called "the most criminally underappreciated of the [slasher] genre." Popular filmmaker Quentin Tarantino calls it his all-time favorite slasher film
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1-31-2008 @ 1:54PM
Jason said...
My Bloody Valentine is better than you're giving it credit for, Mr Weinberg. The killer is genuinely creepy, for one, slinking around those mine tunnels in that mask with the head-lamp blinding his victims. I mean, it's not Halloween level, but it's one of the best examples of the 80s slashers. It's better than any of the Friday the 13th movies.
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1-31-2008 @ 8:56PM
Ray said...
Thirding the motion. You're not giving the original its due. It's far superior to any of the Friday the 13th movies, or pretty much any of the horror remakes of the past few years.
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2-05-2008 @ 6:51AM
JanusCarrera said...
i fourth all this...i mean ok it wasnt as popular as friday the 13th or halloween but that doesnt mean it wasnt good...as an 80's baby i loved this film..it was done so great for the time it was made in..give more props to it
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