The horror, the horror

[trinityofone]

I was on imdb looking up a random detail about the 1958 The Blob, the one with Steve McQueen. (Don't ask.) And apparently, they are remaking it. Again.

Why? Why why why why why why why? I am so sick of all these horror movie remakes. I mean, I know that everyone says there are no new ideas in Hollywood, but do the H-Wood bigwigs really need to compose this kind of song-and-dance number about it? Do they have to start a parade? Can't they at least keep ripping of Japanese horror films? Ripping off yourself is just too sad.

(Not to mention the fact that the House of Wax remake freaks me the fuck out. I saw the trailer before Constantine, and while nothing in it was explicitly scary, my brain pounced on the idea and has proceeded to do all kinds of nasty, twisted things with it. Sometimes I want to kill my imagination, honestly. And now they've put up a huge House of Wax billboard right on my route home, so I have to walk past it every day. Lovely.)

The one advantage of this influx of crap horror? More opportunities for psychopepsquad-style snarkage. psychopepsquad, if this was a skill you could figure out how to market, you'd make a million.

Back to concocting elaborate metaphors based around bad '50s B-movies...

Comments

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the idea. The idea is awful. And it's totally gotten under my skin. Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!

I doubt I would be scared if I saw the movie. It's what I cook up on my own that's so terrifying.

[sonofzeal.livejournal.com]

The scariest thing about House of Wax is that Paris Hilton is in it. Although if someone can assure for me that she dies a most grizzly death, then that might go from working against the film to working for it.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Says the director, quoted in Entertainment Weekly: "It's a win-win situation. If you like [Paris Hilton], you want to see her; and if you don't, you want to see her suffer." You're playing right into their hands, Jim!

[sonofzeal.livejournal.com]

It's a trap! In that case, I'll wait till someone I know gets the DVD, watch the scenes where she suffers using scene skip, and then return it, without having paid for it or viewed the full "artistic vision." Mwuhaha!