tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post5254030120170932787..comments2024-03-27T15:16:57.305-05:00Comments on F This Movie!: Six Horror Movies Almost Directed by Someone ElsePatrick Bromleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-37745378036024714832013-10-29T13:18:40.307-05:002013-10-29T13:18:40.307-05:00Awesome additions. Thanks, Tim. Romanek was the gu...Awesome additions. Thanks, Tim. Romanek was the guy who made a lot of the early creative decisions, right? Like bringing Rick Baker on to do the makeup/transformation effects? Seems like he had a good sense of where the movie needed to go. I don't even totally blame Joe Johnston, because he inherited a mess. But that movie's a mess.Patrick Bromleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-33283694919088071592013-10-29T13:16:14.616-05:002013-10-29T13:16:14.616-05:00One other notable one involves the remake of The F...One other notable one involves the remake of The Fly, which was originally set to be directed by British director Robert Bierman from Charles Edward Pogue's script. However, after Bierman's daughter was killed in a car accident in South Africa, he dropped out of the project, unable to concentrate on it. <br /><br />In an interview on the Fly DVD, he says he's never watched the remake as he still has a vision in his head for what the film would have been. Of course, after he left, the producers were able to get their first choice, David Cronenberg, who changed the script to suit his unique tastes and a classic resulted.<br /><br />Just today watching the Nightmare on Elm Street blu-rays, one of the writers revealed he and Wes Craven had been attached to Beetlejuice for a time, when it was still more of a horror film. That would have been a slightly odd direction to go, although in retrospect there's a clear lineage between Beetlejuice and the later wisecracking stages of Freddy. <br /><br />I also would still like to see what Mark Romanek's take on The Wolf Man would have been.Cinemaspectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03677204852599391459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-34137850968547478722013-10-28T10:11:36.460-05:002013-10-28T10:11:36.460-05:00Thanks, James. I'm glad he didn't direct R...Thanks, James. I'm glad he didn't direct <i>RofLD</i>, too, because I like the version Dan O'Bannon made. And I totally understand not liking Tobe Hooper or the movies you mention. I would never kid myself into thinking that everyone should like them -- there's just something about his movies that speaks to me (I do think they have atmosphere), but I get that it doesn't speak to everyone. I'm glad you gave them a chance. That's all anyone can ask!Patrick Bromleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-43174175937803198352013-10-28T10:08:41.162-05:002013-10-28T10:08:41.162-05:00Great article btw. Really interesting. Great article btw. Really interesting. James M Macleodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-83579131921272757612013-10-28T10:07:00.350-05:002013-10-28T10:07:00.350-05:00I know Patrick loves Tobe Hooper but man am I glad...I know Patrick loves Tobe Hooper but man am I glad he didn't direct Return of the Living Dead. Other than Texas Chainsaw Massacre I have not really cared for Hooper's other stuff. Mainly Funhouse and Lifeforce which I know Patrick loves. For a film as crazy and visually imaginative as Lifeforce is I found it cripplingly dull. I watched the same week I saw Tarkovsky's Nostalgia and it was Lifeforce that I found difficult to sit through. I think it was mainly the characters. Other than Patrick Stewart who was fun to see I felt like every character was completely (coincidentally) lifeless. I felt like every character was just there to tell the main character where to go next or basically for him to sound ideas off of. It was like a long episode of Dr Who that was humourless and without any energy at all. And I really want to like that film because some of it is so damn imaginative. Plus, I love crazy-ass films. <br /><br />Funhouse was a similar problem. That film is pretty wild and yet I found it so dull too. Not a lot happens in Texas Chainsaw but that atmosphere is just so engrossing. The Hooper films I have seen since were without any atmosphere it seemed. I'll give Hooper another shot eventually because maybe I wasn't in the right mood but those two films really put me off his work. James M Macleodhttp://thepeoplesmovies.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-57256197851366804212013-10-28T09:37:18.141-05:002013-10-28T09:37:18.141-05:00I know it's a movie with a lot of fans, and I ...I know it's a movie with a lot of fans, and I really want to love it because it's set in a movie theater and full of references. I think it's the roughness of the filmmaking that gets in my way. The movie had a lot of production problems (including losing the director and producer mid-shoot) and it shows. My favorite stuff is all the movie-within-the-movie footage, which is what Bob Clark and Alan Ornsby shot. Patrick Bromleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00771837625286775607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-3283446606193253852013-10-28T09:33:32.129-05:002013-10-28T09:33:32.129-05:00I think so. It's odd but fun, and as someone w...I think so. It's odd but fun, and as someone who attends all-night horror marathons you should get a kick out of it. http://mushniksflorist.blogspot.com/2013/10/scary-movie-month-day-18.html?m=1JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17867827164062216789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-39472495032925312392013-10-28T09:14:29.926-05:002013-10-28T09:14:29.926-05:00Hmm...as someone who has watched most of the RE mo...Hmm...as someone who has watched most of the RE movies, I can assure you "amateurish and garbage" is pretty much what we ended up with anyway.Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03114869401584310369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-37683819204568069502013-10-28T09:07:39.152-05:002013-10-28T09:07:39.152-05:00One of my favourite things about movies (and by ex...One of my favourite things about movies (and by extension commentaries/special features that so often bring these things to light) is just how much serendipity/chance/luck/whatever you want to call it is behind the finished product we see on the screen. Or, as evidenced by your list, what we DON'T see. I recently watched <i>Halloween 3</i> and I liked it a lot more than I remembered, but damn, a Joe Dante <i>Halloween 3</i> could've been somethin else. And it's been quite awhile since I've seen <i>Firestarter</i> but I bet I'd be watching it more often if my favourite horror guy, John Carpenter, had directed it. Fun "What If's..." to think about. And if the whole parallel universes theory is true these movies might actually exist somewhere! Let's smoke some dope and talk about THAT for a few hours. Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03114869401584310369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-33753407034698267972013-10-28T08:42:33.503-05:002013-10-28T08:42:33.503-05:00Disagree about "Christine" being neither...Disagree about "Christine" being neither being a good King adaptation (it's right up there with "Carrie" and "The Dead Zone" as primo movie versions of S.K.'s books) or one of Carpenter's best (when you have as many great movies as Carpenter has something as polished, moody and all-around excellent as "Christine" can't help but end up in the middle of the pack by default). To me it rocks as both, and it's one of the few horror movies that I always get something new every time I rewatch. The <i>'show me!'</i> scene never once has failed to just about completely blow me away! Of all the movies listed here a Carpenter-directed "Firestarter" sounds like the biggest missed chance for something really special.<br /><br />And as someone that hasn't bothered to watch any "Resident Evil" movies (but have played and love the game series; "RE2" and "RE4" are the "Dawn of the Dead" of zombie videogames, hands down!) I still think the producers, who obviously wanted only to make money, were right to pick P.T. Anderson based on the track record of money-making sequels (regardless of their worth as horror flicks) the original movie has spawned. Did you read the script Romero wrote for "RE"? It's surprisingly amateurish and garbage, showing Romero to be completely out of touch with the elements that made the "RE" games series click. Even if he had somehow directed the first "RE," by the 2nd movie they would have already rebooted the franchise and brought over Anderson to jettison whatever Romero would have done. Restrained-by-studio Romero we've had lately shows he was the wrong man for the "RE" job.J.M. Vargashttp://www.dvdverdict.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217427319662074458.post-51438038141377833682013-10-28T08:26:05.649-05:002013-10-28T08:26:05.649-05:00Is Popcorn worth watching?Is Popcorn worth watching?Adam Riskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01165600746796326821noreply@blogger.com