News Roundup: Horror Spy Kid
It's the Saw IV poster art! So clean and yet so messy.
Speaking of Saw, sequels director Darren Lyn Bousman has cast all grown-up Spy Kids star Alex Vega in his upcoming horror rock opera Repo! The Genetic Opera. If it's even half as good as Phantom of the Paradise, we'll love it.
Elizabeth Banks will be playing the wicked stepmother in Dreamwork's Tale Of Two Sisters remake. That's actually very good casting, if you ask us.
And the loveliest of them all, Creepers star Jennifer Connelly is teaming with Clive Barker, Guillermo Del Toro and stop-motion geniuses the Chiodo Brothers for Born, about a stop-motion artist who finds his creations coming to life. Connelly's talented husband, Paul Bettnay, plays the stop-motion artist.
Chappell's Show regular Charlie Murphy is writing and starring in Frankenhood, where he re-animates dead corpses for his basketball team. Can't he just call on Blackenstein?
Blade/Demonic Toys screenwriter David S. Goyer will be writing and directing a modern day remake/sequel (or "requel") of The Invisible Man for Universal.
And speaking of classics, someone thinks it will be a good idea to let the Saw producers remake several Val Lewton films.
Finally, we take this moment to remember horror journalist and great guy Daniel Robert Epstein, who passed away this week. He will be missed.
Do you hear that sound? That's the sound of real horror fans groaning at the mention of yet another "Saw" film. Please let this one bomb. Dear god let it bomb. Jigsaw is dead and so should be the franchise.
Four films in just four short years? Enough is enough. Instead of going out to see "Saw IV" this Halloween season, I beg you all to go out and see "Trick 'r Treat" or even "30 Days of Night". I haven't seen either, but by viewing what's available from them now, you can just tell that they are going to give you more for your buck than another Darren Lynn Bousman directed "Saw" sequel.
Instead of forking over fists fulls of cash to see "Saw IV" why not stay home and watch the best television event of the year - MONSTERFEST XI. Even though I own most of the films on DVD, there's just something wickedly special about watching these classics on TV. I guess it just reminds me of my youth. Not sure.
P.S. Not only is Twisted Pictures shoving another "Saw" sequel down our throats, but now they have to go out and ruin perfectly good RKO films? Hey, Hollywood! Buy a clue, err, rather, buy some original scripts instead.
no, no, no! not another saw movie. modern torture films are TORTURE. why cant the seires die. ill come right out and say it, the saw flicks suck, make something original. even worse once they quit making saw films then hostel sequels will take over (which needs to die too).
im freakin' tired of all these remakes: suspiria, the creature from the black lagoon, my bloody valentine, the last man on earth, and now the invisible man, this is CRAP! why cant people write their own movies with their own ideas. you think hollywood would learn from all the failed horror remakes and sequels we have now. honestly is original horror dying?
this halloween dont waste your money stay home and watch some good horror, maybe a movie on monsterfest 11, lets make this one great!