The Prom Night remake slept with $22 million over the weekend, so expect more…”PG-13 tiara horror”; which also means you can expect more requisite, “Is Horror Dead, I Mean Really Dead This Time?” editorials on other sites. Fango reports via a privy industry site that writing duo Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, who are responsible for this July’s 3D Piranha remake (I predict it will both slay and make a tidy profit), have finished a script for another remake: 1983’s The House on Sorority Row. No news yet on the studio/director/tipping point.
The original is not the worst slasher I’ve ever seen, if simply for the fact that having a pool/house partaay with friends right after you’ve killed an old lady sounds like fun, in theory. Having aforementioned non-GILF come back from the dead and cane horny teens to death? Less so. What, no gumming? So, yeah, remake remake remake. Sweat it out. I wonder how many weeks we have until there’s an announced remake for Slumber Party Massacre? The prototypical, huffy ’80s horror villain cruising around in the so-not-suspect Amber Alert windowless van has to set his stare on a Brittany Snow doppleganger (oxymoron?) sooner than later.
Discuss: Is PG-13 cheerleader horror the new CGI talking forest-animal movie?Â
April 14th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
The teenie-bopper horror hymen was popped along time ago and has now become the inevitable loose object of loathing that nobody wants.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
i think the key to a remake is to take it seriously.
For example: even though rob zombie’s Halloween didn’t please all, you just know he honored/treasured the original, and respected the material/carpenter enough to give it his best. i think alot of these prom nights, amitiville horror, hitcher, etc, are being looked at like: make the same film, just add 2008 style/effects/cast to it. thus making for a disasterous snore fest.
they gotta look at what the original film was trying to say about the world during it’s time period, and therein lies the succesful formula. it’ll open more doors to the plot as a whole.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I remember this film. The old days when video was exciting. Thought it was quite good…remember the ending fondly. Look foward to a sequel
April 14th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
@ OC
What exactly was the original trying to say about the early ’80s?