1. This is my favorite Movie of All Time.
2. Hollywood doesn't have movies with Fantastic writing anymore.
3. The reason this movie is so Good, is that the writing was so Good.
4. Dead of Night needs a remake & Guillermo del Toro should direct it.
Whats wrong with Charles Chrichton?
he's brilliant
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They could remake it with a female dummy and use Keira Knightley because she's so wooden!
(I've got my Bitch Head on today.)
"Bitch Head" or not, she IS pretty wooden!
shareThe film is a masterpiece and a remake would be superfluous. I must say, though, that I would like this film even more without the comedic golf sequence. I just think that I would have preferred the sombre air to be sustained throughout. But I still love it, and just ordered it on DVD from Amazon.com.
sharei would love a remake...i feel that so many amazing stories are never experienced by people simply because they're not into watching old movies. with a remake, the stories could be revitalized and updated. if it had the right director, it could be made even creepier (though not neccessarily better) than the original. it is a really good movie and it would be nice to see it on the big screen. also, i'd also prefer a version without the golf sequence for the same reasons.
shareYes as long as it does not include teenagers and overdone special effects.
shareWord! I just saw it for the first time and the golf sequence semi-ruined the perfect creepy stories building up to the best one (IMHO, Dummy).
It could have been intentional, maybe the stories were too heavy for the year (1945) and they needed a comedic sequence to chill out the audiences??
Maybe I'm just being obtuse, but I really don't understand the concept of wanting to have your "favorite movie of all time" remade.
shareI sort of agree. I look at black christmas and wonder why it was remade. At the same time having a template to go from to re-work plot holes or endings that might not be as effective gives the story a chance of rebirth. I also think some movies suffer from a dated feel. Wether it is the music, special effects or dialogue. If you look at some war movies from the 50's through 60's they reek of naively pro-war patriotism. The green berets with john wayne that came out in 1968 comes to mind. .
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well said
shareNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
shareThere is nothing to understand, it makes no sense whatsoever! The fact alone that it's a person's favorite, yet they want to see it changed... Riiight! Don't try and understand it.
We've met before, haven't we?
It's getting remade.
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How's that for a slice of fried gold?
A remake would not work. The atmosphere could never be duplicated, and the stories would never pack the punch they did back in 1945. It should be left alone in the context that it was made in
shareif this needs a remake then you need a swift kick to the head....
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This film needs remaking as much as Shakespeare needs rewriting!!!
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I'm not too averse to a remake. Tim Burton could do it. He would emphasise the bleakness without making it gratuitously gory.
share"This film needs remaking as much as Shakespeare needs rewriting!!!"
Thanks Pamfino!!! That's the best way of pointing out how unnecessary remakes of classics are!
I will never understand why people want movies remade! In my experience remakes only lead to people ignoring the original version.
It's a pity how many people know (and praise) remakes of movies like "The Ladykillers", "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three", "Flight of the Phoenix", "Get Carter", "The Producers, "Rear Window", "Cape Fear", "THe Wicker Man", etc., but don't know the orignal version and usually don't even want to 'cause "they are old".