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In the new film, Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. One by one, sorority girls on campus are being killed by an unknown stalker. But the killer is about to discover that this generation’s young women aren’t willing to become hapless victims as they mount a fight to the finish.
Sounds totally dreadful. I'm not a big fan of Jason Blum as he mostly makes cliched and rote jump-scare movies, but this just sounds like it's missing the point of the first movie. The pitch seems to be to substitute the sorority girls' vulnerability and replace it with some modern empowerment trope whereby they're totally kick-ass heroines. Needless to say, I won't be seeing this at the flicks.
Exactly that. In other genres, it might be fine to shout from the rooftops about having empowering female characters. But in a slasher film, they need more than just empowering female characters for their usp. Change the gender, and make it more subversive. Otherwise, what are they selling me that I haven't seen in countless other slasher films. The slasher sub-genre is built on the idea of the meek quiet girl, who after seeing her friends brutally killed off, is forced to dig down deep, to find the strength and courage to fend off her tormentor.
Well put, I couldn't agree more and that's easily one of my favorite aspects of the original. Sounds like this remake will be a PC-laden mess of "empowerment" just for the sake of doing so.
That’s exactly what the synopsis would imply sadly. But thankfully we have the original - one of the best-ever horror films IMO.
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First poster for the horror/western film The Pale Door:
The film follows a gang of cowboys and a mysterious woman who seek shelter in a seemingly uninhabited ghost town after a disastrous train robbery. Seeking help for their wounded leader they are surprised to stumble upon a welcoming brothel in the town’s square but soon discover that the town is home to a coven of witches and blood-thirsty wolves.
Couldn't have put it better. =D> I might try and find where I have put the DVD, and give it a watch. I can't remember the last time I watched it.
http://collider.com/halloween-2-release-date-jamie-lee-curtis/
Geez that was fast! If only Bond could churn it out that fast again!
I'd certainly love to see a return to that speed of output again.
It is finally happening: Danny Boyle has confirmed that 28 Months Later is currently being written by Alex Garland.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/danny-boyle-yesterday-beatles-james-bond-25-robert-pattinson-batman-interview-a8967666.html
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/edgar-wright-diana-rigg-terence-stamp-film-last-night-in-soho-1203251366/
He later elaborated that it's still just in the idea stage at the moment (has been for a few years now) and that Garland is busy working on his own projects, so they haven't started writing it yet. It's still in "abeyance" and best described it as "you never know".
So, it's not quite confirmed yet.
But, hopefully that changes. I liked both of the first two films a lot.
The Pale Door looks interesting. Big fan of Joe R Lansdale's writing. And if you've never read his stuff then do yourself a favour and give his stuff a go.
Excellent news, I'm eager to see what they come up with. I loved Train to Busan, thought it was a nice, humanistic version of a zombie outbreak film with some amazing action sequences.
I'm eagerly awaiting a new Friday. Even with the high number of installments thus far, I don't think Friday has really peaked when you compare the series' best with its peers best, Nightmare and Halloween, whose top installments are easily better than anything from Jason. However, there is a lot of potential for Mr. Voorhees to have his classic entry (even now), so I'm all for a properly planned out reboot (preferably a trilogy and no more).
As for who would do it? I'm not sure. I'd like to see it done relatively grittily, fairly similar in tone to the 2009 Marcus Nispel film (which actually was a bit of fun), but better. The fantasy aspect of Jason works far better when it is in the background, used to fill in gaps and colour the story rather than being its backbone.
On the other hand, they could do what David Gordon Green did with Halloween, and reboot the franchise but from a particular film. I would suggest keeping the first four films, ending with Jason's "death" and create a new follow-up that retcons Parts 5 to Freddy vs Jason, and the remake obviously. With this you could also go many ways, either stick create a new character arc and story for a teenage Tommy Jarvis, setting the film in the 80's, or have Jarvis grow up and have a family, setting the film in modern-day.
Overall, I'm not sure which one I'd go with, but they both will have death, drugs and teenagers. Although if I was writing this myself I'd want some humour but with respect for the franchise with well-written characters and a tense and scary arc that elevates from start to finish.