"B" movie remakes???

[RobertScorpio]

This weekend I watched the awful B movie THE GIANT CLAW. It was just terrible, especially the silly puppet they used for the giant monster bird...oye!

There were a lot B scifi movies back in those days, some good, and some bad, hey they still make them today (Star Trek Nemesis). What B movies could you see them remaking in a serious way that would be 'hits'?

Rob
Scorpio

 

[JustAFriend]

I've been real surprised with the current rash of remakes that no one has re-done "Them!"
CGI'ing the ants would seem to be a fairly easy task after Starship Troopers.

That said, I'd rather that they spend the money on NEW material--- there's 100,000 stories on the sci-fi shelves that still NEED to be made instead of rehashing the old stuff over and over again....

 

[msbae]

I've been real surprised with the current rash of remakes that no one has re-done "Them!"
CGI'ing the ants would seem to be a fairly easy task after Starship Troopers.

That said, I'd rather that they spend the money on NEW material--- there's 100,000 stories on the sci-fi shelves that still NEED to be made instead of rehashing the old stuff over and over again....

Like Childhood's End, perhaps?

If we have to have more remakes, I'd like to see a remake of Forbidden Planet. However, I want the original soundtrack and Robby the Robot to be used. It wouldn't be Forbidden Planet without them.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Whoops..I had no idea I posted this in the tech section..moderator, go ahead and move this to science/fantasy forum..sorry..

Rob

 

[RobertScorpio]

I've been real surprised with the current rash of remakes that no one has re-done "Them!"
CGI'ing the ants would seem to be a fairly easy task after Starship Troopers.

That said, I'd rather that they spend the money on NEW material--- there's 100,000 stories on the sci-fi shelves that still NEED to be made instead of rehashing the old stuff over and over again....

Like Childhood's End, perhaps?

If we have to have more remakes, I'd like to see a remake of Forbidden Planet. However, I want the original soundtrack and Robby the Robot to be used. It wouldn't be Forbidden Planet without them.

Umm...well..I could see them doing it with out Robby. Unless they really re-thought what he looked like and did...I just watched the remastered version a few months back and found him to be the weakest link..

Amazing though how that movie has 'star trek' all over it. I am not sure if GR ever mentioned this as inspiring aspects of Trek, but it sure looks like it did..

Rob
Scorpio

 

[RobertScorpio]

Thanks TPTB for moving this way lost thread..

Rob
SCorpio

 

[Goji]

A lot of them have been remade already. Even as obscure a title as "Earth vs. the Spider" was apparently remade a few years ago, though I've yet to see it (and likely won't). Most of the remakes are pretty terrible ("The Blob", "Village of the Damned", "House on Haunted Hill"), some have been okay ("The Fly", "The Thing"). Though I consider the originals classic, great films, I think a remake of "The Incredible Shrinking Man", "Village of the Damned" and "The Crawling Eye" could be potentially worthwhile.

"The Incredible Shrinking Man" would just be a lot of fun with today's effects, "Village of the Damned" has a story that was held-back by being made in an era deathly afraid of certain aspects of it (the book's references to Darwinism were thrown out entirely, and the forced impregnation angle is glossed over - hell, the script wasn't even allowed to use the word "pregnant"). "The Crawling Eye" has always been a fun story, with a very interesting monster design. I also like the unusual high-mountain setting. But the effects during the finale are, at best, barely passable even for the era it was made in.

 

[nx1701g]

The remake of Night of the Living Dead was fairly good. Dawn of the Dead's remake was typical Hollywood by the numbers storytelling. The remake of Day sucked (both the actual remake and the Resident Evil: Extinction version).

 

[RobertScorpio]

The remake of Night of the Living Dead was fairly good. Dawn of the Dead's remake was typical Hollywood by the numbers storytelling. The remake of Day sucked (both the actual remake and the Resident Evil: Extinction version).

I still think the first NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is the best movie because it has that 'raw' feeling to it that none have been able to recapture....but the new one was okay as you say..

Rob

 

[Dayton Ward]

It! The Terror from Beyond Space.


Oh,wait. Alien kinda sorta already did that.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

The Giant Claw may be awful, but it's loads of fun.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I've been real surprised with the current rash of remakes that no one has re-done "Them!"
CGI'ing the ants would seem to be a fairly easy task after Starship Troopers.

That said, I'd rather that they spend the money on NEW material--- there's 100,000 stories on the sci-fi shelves that still NEED to be made instead of rehashing the old stuff over and over again....

There's all sort of those movies on Sci-Fi Channel Saturdays, they're just too cheap to pay the remake royalties so they make their own giant animal movies.

Eight Legged Freaks was a fun throwback flick.

A lot of them have been remade already. Even as obscure a title as "Earth vs. the Spider" was apparently remade a few years ago, though I've yet to see it (and likely won't). Most of the remakes are pretty terrible ("The Blob", "Village of the Damned", "House on Haunted Hill"), some have been okay ("The Fly", "The Thing"). Though I consider the originals classic, great films, I think a remake of "The Incredible Shrinking Man", "Village of the Damned" and "The Crawling Eye" could be potentially worthwhile.

"The Incredible Shrinking Man" would just be a lot of fun with today's effects, "Village of the Damned" has a story that was held-back by being made in an era deathly afraid of certain aspects of it (the book's references to Darwinism were thrown out entirely, and the forced impregnation angle is glossed over - hell, the script wasn't even allowed to use the word "pregnant"). "The Crawling Eye" has always been a fun story, with a very interesting monster design. I also like the unusual high-mountain setting. But the effects during the finale are, at best, barely passable even for the era it was made in.

Well, there was The Incredible Shrinking Woman though at 27 years old I guess that's in "classic" territory itself. I see IMDB has Brett Ratner linked to an Incredible Shrinkig Man movie.

 

[Orintho]

Always liked 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' - it might make a good remake with a decent budget.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Always liked 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' - it might make a good remake with a decent budget.

Rumor was John Carpenter was attached to a remake 15 years or so ago, obviously never happened.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I think that with a halfway decent director at the helm rather than an overambitious fertilizer salesman, you could make a pretty creepy horror movie out of Manos: The Hands of Fate.

There have been a couple recent remakes that I was surprised that I really liked-- Dawn of the Dead & Death Race.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

I think that with a halfway decent director at the helm rather than an overambitious fertilizer salesman, you could make a pretty creepy horror movie out of Manos: The Hands of Fate.

The MASteR doES not APprOve of SUch... rEmakes.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I think that with a halfway decent director at the helm rather than an overambitious fertilizer salesman, you could make a pretty creepy horror movie out of Manos: The Hands of Fate.

The MASteR doES not APprOve of SUch... rEmakes.

Truth be told, I'm mostly campaigning for this because I have a certain resemblance to Torgo and am hoping to get cast.

 

[FalTorPan]

Truth be told, I'm mostly campaigning for this because I have a certain resemblance to Torgo and am hoping to get cast.

The legs and feet?

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Truth be told, I'm mostly campaigning for this because I have a certain resemblance to Torgo and am hoping to get cast.

The legs and feet?

No, actually just in the face a little bit. The beard does a lot of the work. That picture above actually, IMO, looks very similar to some of the worst pictures of me. (If I had a webcam, I'd prove it.)

 

[Kirkman1987]

a little off track, but I saw Peter Jackson's bad taste today for the first time. I haven't laughed so hard at a movie in quite a whille.