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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Horror Musicals
Filed under: Horror », Music & Musicals »
By Alison NastasiWith the announcement of Carrie making a return to the Broadway circuit after a short-lived disastrous first go-round, I'm left holding my head and wondering, "Why?" Horror musicals are like your socially awkward cousin. You know, the one who talks too much and quite possibly bears an uncanny resemblance to Franklin from Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Is it fair to hold the horror musical to the same standards as the dastardly horror film remakes that seem to be happening in droves? I don't think I can help it. Few horror musicals have been born from an original idea which leaves me with the same funny feeling. I'm well aware that remakes have been happening since the dawn of time but this kind of remake is worse. When you add the word 'musical' to anything it evokes a horrible visceral reaction within many people. Adding it to the word horror just seems like a bastardized and shrieking kind of wrong.
Isn't the comical genius of Young Frankenstein and Evil Dead perfect as is? Young Frankenstein was a parody. So, is a mugging Dr. Frankenstein belting out a song called Transylvania Mania anything other than pointless and silly? The film Cannibal! The Musical, another intentional parody by beloved low-budget Troma Entertainment, has more class by comparison. Even Cronenberg's The Fly has been made into an opera, but they don't have me fooled. Adding the smooth vowel-ridden word to the title doesn't soften the blow. In fact, it's almost more cruel. However, Repo! The Genetic Opera would probably disagree with me.
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Non-Musical Remake of 'Little Shop of Horrors' Coming!
Filed under: Horror », Deals », Remakes and Sequels »
It was bound to happen. We've had a cajillion films turned into musicals, or in the case of the The Producers, a film turned stage musical, turned screen musical. Now we're getting the tunes ripped away for something darker.Bloody Disgusting recently spoke with Declan O'Brien about Wrong Turn 3, and he revealed that there's going to be a new Little Shop of Horrors. Forget Frank Oz; we're not talking about musical remakes here, but a return back to the original, awesome Roger Corman material from 1960. O'Brien said: "I just optioned Roger Corman's Little Shop of Horrors, which I'm setting up as a big studio remake." The director went on to say that they're shopping it to studios this week, and it won't be a musical: "it'll be dark."
This is the best remake news I've heard in a while. (Don't take that as a cue to get more musical and remake crazy, folks!) There might have been two campy versions, but I can easily picture this with excellent effects and a killer plant that's actually sinister, rather than darkly humorous. What do you think? Can you imagine Audrey in the dark halls of real horror? Or do you wish she'd just stay BIG in LAUGHS! and blood-hungry in song?
Cinematical Seven: Monster vs. Alien Super Smackdowns
Filed under: Cinematical Seven »
My imagination was caught by the title of the upcoming movie Monsters vs. Aliens. I've seen a lot of monster movies and films with aliens in them. I wondered how would some of these characters fare in battle against one another. How would the gentle aliens from Galaxy Quest be able to stand up to vampires? Could Superman defeat the monster from The Host? How would Ford Prefect deal with Noah Cross?
So I decided to stage a smackdown event featuring some of the best-known monsters and aliens in film in one-on-one combat. Instead of matching up characters with similar (or notably different) abilities, I paired them up the old-fashioned way: pulling names out of a hat. Two hats -- I filled one with the names of every alien creature I could think of from movies, and another with every conceivable monster. Here are the results. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Watch This: Original Ending for 'Little Shop of Horrors'
Filed under: Comedy », Horror », Music & Musicals », Romance », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Remakes and Sequels », Trailers and Clips »
As any hardcore Little Shop of Horrors fan can tell you -- and there are tons of us -- the 1986 cinematic version once had a much darker ending ... one that was much more in line with the dual source material of this musical and this Corman flick. But since this was 1986 and Frank Oz's movie had a lot of funny people in it ... a few test audiences deemed the finale too dark, and so we got a so-so ending tacked on to an otherwise excellent musical comedy.
When Warner Bros. first released Little Shop of Horrors on DVD, the original ending was included as part of the special features -- but that release was recalled right quick, which means that most of us actually own this particular DVD. But now, through the magic of YouTube + Cinematical, we can finally sit down and pick through the original ending of Little Shop. Obviously it's not "final print" material in any way, but you can definitely get enough to make you wish, oh I dunno, that someone would toss some money at the flick and let Frank Oz re-create a director's cut.
So if you own the "original" WB DVD, well goody for you. The rest of us can watch the fascinating footage right after the jump...
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