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.