The second victim of reboot weirdness if the Zork series, with the new browser based mmorpg outing, Legends of Zork. As with the Larry games, I was a fan of the original Zork games (up to Return to Zork), and spent countless hours exploring the Great Undergound Empire. If you haven’t played a Zork game, be sure to check out the wiki page, as well as original in your browser at ThcNet’s error page.
The multi-player browser game reinvention seemed promising at first. The basic description seemed to evoke Urban …

Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto
Genre: Japan, Drama
Release Date: June 10, 2008
SHE SAID:
Sometimes I think movie awards are granted to the films that show the most boobies. Just show a little heart and a little tragedy and a lot of skin and there’s your accreditation. Take the laurel-gilded Ballad of Narayama for example, with its sexless sex where couples copulate coldly during conversations, perhaps as a clue to their mundane work-to-play ratio (the character we see often having sex is a jester type in opposition to his …

This looks amazing. Simply amazing. I’ll definitely be looking forward to this one. Check out the trailer.

So, you probably already knew about the pending Oldboy remake by Justin Lin, the My Sassy Girl remake starring Jessica Alba, and the Kairo remake starring Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell). Now add to this list Battle Royale and The Seven Samurai.
New Line will be handling the Battle Royale remake. The funny thing is that Toei wanted to release the original here, but in a wide release on over 300 screens. The Hollywood suits wouldn’t agree to that, despite the film’s legions of American fans, and decided to go ahead …

So Variety has reported Warner Bros is now going to remake Clash of the Titans. Isn’t it terrible that you have to refer to an increasing number of films in terms of “the original” and “the new one”? Hell, even The Wicker Man is being remade, sans Willow’s song and dance no less. Anyways, the original Clash of the Titans was one of both Kris and my favorite films as we were growing up. I think we must have seen it at least 18 times between the two of us. Now, …

Just came across this on Fangoria.

Variety reports that Alcon Entertainment, Intermedia and Kadokawa Pictures will produce and Warner Bros. will release an English-language remake of ONE MISSED CALL, Takashi Miike?s 2003 chiller. The original (pictured) was Miike?s entry in the post-RINGU cycle of supernatural films, in which a group of young friends receive mysterious calls on their cell phones which presage their own deaths. The story centers on one girl who gets the fateful message and must figure out how to cheat death within three days. The original is out …

Universal is planning a remake of The Wolf Man starring Benicio Del Toro, with a script by Andrew Kevin Walker, of 8mm, Seven, and Sleepy Hollow fame. Benicio’s normal look lends one to believe he wakes up every morning face down on his front lawn, having collapsed after a night’s worth of binge drinking, so you might say he’s the perfect choice to play the lupine man. And with Andrew Kevin Walker helming the script you know it will be something qute disturbing….okay, so Sleepy Hollow was more fun than …

Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes (review) is one of my favorite horror films. Maybe because Kris and I are avid road trippers, or maybe because I saw it at an impressionable age, Craven’s film has found a permanent home in my collection. The tale of a non-violent family pushed to acts of savage violence in the wake of relentless attack by desert cannibals may seem comically absurd, but in execution proves raw and affecting long after the final frame. As with many of the horror remakes of late I …

Ok, here’s a strange press relase. I thought it was another Travolta joke initially, kind of like the Samuel L Jackson and Travolta remaking The Killer from way back. Anyways, news straight from New Line; Hairspray is to be remade with John Travolta and Queen Latifa.
Press release below:
JOHN TRAVOLTA AND QUEEN LATIFAH TO STAR IN NEW LINE CINEMA’S MUSICAL FILM ADAPTATION OF HAIRSPRAY
LOS ANGELES (March 3, 2006) – John Travolta and Queen Latifah have signed on to star in New Line Cinema’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway …

Come see costars get clobbered while the main characters defy gravity and all physics in Peter Jackson’s rendition epic of King Kong! Why, they survive a stampede and avalanche of not one, not two, but a bunch of brontosaurii, not to mention a swarm of freakishly giant lampreys and insects! Naomi Watts as breathless doe-caught-in-headlights Ann Darrow even lets giant centipede antennae probe her tonsils in some gross post-production humor, not hentai. Witness Colin Hanks turn into a young Dan Aykroyd! Watch Adrian Brody as the …

Following the trend of regurgitating Japanese horror films such as The Ring, Juon/The Grudge and Dark Water, the Weinstein’s Dimension Films will remake Japanese horror thriller Kairo or Pulse, based on a screenplay adaptation by Wes Craven and Ray Wright. READ MORE »

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I’m usually against horror film remakes, but sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised. I was adamantly opposed to the Texas Chainsaw remake, yet it ended up being one of my favourite horror movies of the year. But even though Chainsaw was a re-imagining as risky as Burton’s Planet of the Apes, and dropped all sociopolitical criticisms found within the original, it still managed to honor its source material. In fact, the film even garnered the financial backing of the original Chain Saw scribes, Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel. However, with the …