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Re: Happy Birthday to Me remake 2009
from Bloody Disgusting:
Just yesterday I was sifting through my DVD collection and came across J. Lee Thompson's Happy Birthday to Me, one of my all-time favorite '80s horror movies. The first thing that popped in my mind was "I wonder why this isn't being remade?" and "I wonder if they remade it, could it be cool?" By an ironic stroke of fate I received an e-mail this morning answering one of the two questions. We can confirm that a remake to the film is officially in the works. No other details can be revealed at this time. Whether it will be a "killer party" once again remains to be seen, but I can see this remake getting a solid treatment. In the original, Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on...
This is fucking sacrilegious. This is one of those really cool flicks from the 80's that should not get a remake treatment. Fuck, it is so obscure they could just rerelease the original in theaters and it'll make a ton of money.
If this truly gets put into production, I might have to start boycotting all remakes.
- julia (babydolls)
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Re: Happy Birthday to Me remake 2009
there's gonna be a poltergeist remake - godsakes - is nothing sacred?! Havent seen Happy Birthday... - but will source it - always looking out for old/ORIGINAL horror movies.
Re: Happy Birthday to Me remake 2009
there's gonna be a poltergeist remake - godsakes - is nothing sacred?! Havent seen Happy Birthday... - but will source it - always looking out for old/ORIGINAL horror movies.
If you have Netflix, its on there. Definitely get this film. Its a hidden gem from the early-mid 80's horror boom.
- julia (babydolls)
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Re: Happy Birthday to Me remake 2009
I dont have netflix but will investigate - cheers for the heads up. thats an era of horror i'd like to get to know more - the more obscure ones that is.
Re: Happy Birthday to Me remake 2009
I dont have netflix but will investigate - cheers for the heads up. thats an era of horror i'd like to get to know more - the more obscure ones that is.
Add these to your list as well...
The Burning
Gates of Hell
The Boogens
The Burning is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. Its basically just a slightly different version of Friday the 13th, but its an incredible film. Never understood how it got ignored by so many people.
The raft scene was very controversial for its time. It was actually removed from most versions of the film so it could be released in different countries.
The film was released on DVD last year uncut, and is not nearly as hard to find like it was the past 20 years.
- julia (babydolls)
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Re: Happy Birthday to Me remake 2009
excellent - am in the right place for horror recommendations for sure! Cheers james!
Re: Happy Birthday to Me remake 2009
We broke the news last April that a remake of Happy Birthday to Me was in the works, but that was the tip of the iceberg. Today we learned a little bit more info that might get a few of you excited. After the success of My Bloody Valentine 3D, we're being told Lionsgate has decided to get behind the remake of the classic 80's film and will also produce it in 3-D, instead of moving forward on a MBV:3D sequel (lame). In the original, Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on...
-Bloody Disgusting
Trailer for the original:
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I'm now looking forward to this, mainly for the 3D angle. Since they obviously aren't gonna stop with remakes, might as well embrace various elements of the trend.
Re: Happy Birthday to Me remake 2009
Not necessarily Happy B-Day To Me, but that attitude James is pretty much what I adopted back when it seemed every film was getting remade. You can't stop it, they make money (usually) and the old franchises are over. Might as well look at it as a fresh start for some of your old favorites that are never ever coming back.
My issue was how really average/mediocre alot of them were. Like they laid the groundwork for a really great film, but didn't follow through. I thought The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, after the major misstep that was Part IV, that it needed a reboot in the form of TCM2003. But it was just so-so, and so was it's sequel. Halloween had been a clusterfuck of epic proportions since H4, and could've greatly benefitted from a remake to readjust and get it back on track, but H2007 was an average film, and hopefully it's sequel will be better. F13 was another that had been dead as hell for over 20 years, and New Line had the means to jump start it again, only to see a film that probably wasn't better than Part VII, and you flat out hated it.
I try to embrace this remakes, but i'm actually kind of tired of them being stuck in purgatory. I'd actually like them to go one way or the other. Be really good (Batman Begins) or be really really fucking awful (Psycho '98).
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