They just want to remake everything because they are completely unable to appreciate a film unless it "looks modern".
It's not just that, the movie makers and their fans are simply out of ideas. And this is ironic since this movie was considered plebe trash by the critics at the time in Japan.
I can just imagine some fancy effects and good acting trying to be pulled off in a remake of this. Or if they go the other way and ham up a production, it wouldn't be much better. They'd be damned if they did, damned if they didn't. In other words, good spoofs is nothing we haven't seen done well before, but House isn't really just a spoof, and it's not even fully a comedy, either. If they're going to make a new movie trying to walk that line, why bother with an old story and movie name? Stop being lazy and create a new one around modern technology.
Then again, I hear they're remaking Suspiria, so anything for a buck, I guess. Hopefully, this movie is even more cult, less digestible, and less known than Suspiria to warrant a Hollywood money remake.
Why can't you be a non-conformist like everyone else?
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BrianCTyler
12 years ago
I wrote a screenplay, it's an American version of this just for fun. I wasn't trying to improve on this film I just wanted to take everything and write it as an American story just for fun.
I loved that the character's names were based off their personalities, and I didn't want to repeat that. Instead I named them after Joss Whedon characters that have similar personalities.
Gorgeous - Cordelia
Fantasy - Marti (actually a writer from Buffy, someone with an imagination)
Kung-Fu - Buffy
Auntie - Aunt Darla
Prof - Willow
Melody - Tara
Mac - Mellie
Sweet - Winifred
Mr. Togo - Mr. Gunn
Ryoko - Serenity
Father - Joss
The girls attend a private school in New York City and the aunt's mansion is in West Virginia. The backstory is mostly the same, except the aunt's fiancee died in the Vietnam war. I know that war is overdone in film but it was the only thing I thought would have made sense.
The death scenes are totally different... I decided to think of things that terrified me as a child and so I used them. One of them is cleaning in the kitchen when suddenly a gigantic spider crawls out of the oven, grows larger and eats her. There's a play-room full of vintage games, toys and a claw-machine with a big clown inside. The claw reaches out, grabs the girl and pulls her in.
It was very, very fun to write.
"Cinema is everything to me. I live and breathe films -- I even eat them!"
- Lucio Fulci
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