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Horror News & Discussion Redux

John Carpenter to Executive Produce New HALLOWEEN Movie for Blumhouse

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John Carpenter, creator of the original Halloween films, will executive produce a new production in the horror franchise. Miramax and Blumhouse Productions will co-finance development and production, with Malek Akkad serving as producer under his Trancas International Films banner and Jason Blum producing for Blumhouse.

Miramax, which holds worldwide distribution rights, said it will determine its theatrical distribution partner at a future date.

“Thirty-eight years after the original Halloween I’m going to help to try to make the 10th sequel the scariest of them all,” Carpenter said in a statement.

Fueled by masked creeper Michael Myers, the Halloween franchise was started in part by Carpenter and Moustapha Akkad in 1978, and eventually encompassed 10 films that Miramax says generated nearly $400 million in worldwide box office.

“Halloween is one of those milestone films that inspired everyone at our company to get into the world of scary movies,” Blum said. “The great Malek Akkad and John Carpenter have a special place in the hearts of all genre fans and we are so excited that Miramax brought us together. We cannot wait to find and collaborate with the right filmmaker to give Halloween fans the movie they deserve.”

John Carpenter To Exec Produce New ‘Halloween’ For Miramax, Trancas and Blumhouse Productions
 
My favorite thing about that whole article was he wants to make it the scariest of them all. Make it creepy, make it scary, I'm hoping this ends up working out.
 
I love JC but he's always seemed resentful of the Halloween franchise, and really just films in general these days

I hope he does put his best effort
 
prod2821 said:
I love JC but he's always seemed resentful of the Halloween franchise, and really just films in general these days

I hope he does put his best effort
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Motivated JC is champ though, I think he wants to be the one to turn the franchise around and steer it in the right direction so I'd be shocked if it was a lazy effort.
 
What do you guys think of The Hills Have Eyes remake? Re-watched this and the dude with the glasses makes it worth watching alone. Just to see him kill those mutant scum sucking motherfucking whores.
 
OneManOrgy said:
What do you guys think of The Hills Have Eyes remake? Re-watched this and the dude with the glasses makes it worth watching alone. Just to see him kill those mutant scum sucking motherfucking whores.
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It was a somewhat typical but certainly effective horror in the post-Hostel style. I wouldn't recommend against seeing it. I definitely felt bad for Buffalo Bill when he got burned alive. Legitimate actors like Ted Levine and Kathleen Quinlan took it to a level above the typical hacking-up-innocents film. The same way the cast elevated the Last House on the Left remake.
 
TKing said:
Motivated JC is champ though, I think he wants to be the one to turn the franchise around and steer it in the right direction so I'd be shocked if it was a lazy effort.
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I don't know if I'd say motivated JC as much as prime John Carpenter.

He seemed to suffer from M. Night Shyamalan syndrome, where he was legitimately talented and effective for his first number of movies, and then...lost his abilities more than lost his motivation. At least it seems to me.

I think he has wanted to make good movies and recapture his former glory, but really couldn't even repeat the production of his old films if he wanted to anymore, much less make something even better.

It has happened to many directors... Orson Welles, Cimino, Renny Harlin.
 
BisexualMMA said:
It was a somewhat typical but certainly effective horror in the post-Hostel style. I wouldn't recommend against seeing it. I definitely felt bad for Buffalo Bill when he got burned alive. Legitimate actors like Ted Levine and Kathleen Quinlan took it to a level above the typical hacking-up-innocents film. The same way the cast elevated the Last House on the Left remake.
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Yeah, that burning alive scene was quite grim. I think that's why I like this film, because of the raw brutality of it. No forgiveness.
 
OneManOrgy said:
What do you guys think of The Hills Have Eyes remake? Re-watched this and the dude with the glasses makes it worth watching alone. Just to see him kill those mutant scum sucking motherfucking whores.
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I like it, it's pretty ballsy and creepy
 
Last horror movie I watched was the remake of Maniac with Elijah Wood.

All in all, I would say I was rather disappointed. I'll give it a 4.9 out of 10. I could talk about this movie in some detail but I won't bother unless anyone else has opinions or wants to discuss it.
 
BisexualMMA said:
Last horror movie I watched was the remake of Maniac with Elijah Wood.

All in all, I would say I was rather disappointed. I'll give it a 4.9 out of 10. I could talk about this movie in some detail but I won't bother unless anyone else has opinions or wants to discuss it.
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I enjoyed it. Didn't love it but what didn't you like about it?
 
looking forward to The Conjuring 2

have yet to see The Witch...my buddy said it was disappointing but im not sold on his taste in movies (he thought dinner for schmucks was hilarious)
 
Blood Python said:
I enjoyed it. Didn't love it but what didn't you like about it?
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Well, it suffers by comparison to the original. Joe Spinell was a hell of an actor and he really invested himself in the original character. But I won't hold the original against the remake.

Having the vast majority of the film (I think all but one or two shots) filmed in first-person POV got fairly tiresome for me. It was just a gimmick that didn't really add to the story and, while it might have been effective if used sparingly, it just kept me from getting to know the Elijah Wood character. He was mainly a voice actor...and that was a problem because I wasn't a huge fan of the way Elijah Wood chose to voice the character.

At times his voice was effective, and at times it seemed like a caricature of "creepy voice." He sounded like a prank phone caller at times.

Sometimes Elijah Wood was above average, sometimes he was average, and sometimes he was below-average.

The girl who played his love interest was actually quite good in her role. She stole the show.

They had some bad CGI once or twice that took me out of the movie, and especially so given the authentic practical gore of the original Maniac.

I was fine with having a Maniac that didn't look physically disgusting like Joe Spinell did in the original, and I got the reference the girl made in the "first date" scene (I pictured you fat with long greasy black hair and acne, or something like that). And while that could have been a clever line delivered differently or written more subtly, it was so specific and out of place in the conversation that, again, it took me out of the movie.

It was all right, but I think they would have been better off just calling it something else. There was no reason to have it be a remake of Maniac, especially if they were going to film in such a radically different style.

I thought the soundtrack was good.
 
Crazy this thread is getting traffic.

I miss the golden age of these threads like four years ago. We kinda flew through the first five or six. Probably my fault for going to jail and stalling things out.
 
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