Do You Want to See a Re-Make?

Does anyone really want to see a re-make of THE BEAST WITHIN?

I suppose it could be done for the sake of entertainment value, but little else could be done to improve the original, because the original was good enough.

If there was a remake set in 2008 and Billy is 17 years old, that would mean his biological mother is ambushed and raped by the transmorgrophied swamp man mutant in 1991 or later 1990. Only minor adjustments would be needed to bring the remake up-to-date. You notice the original did not require extensive use of expensively-constructed sets. Normal outdoor settings and old buildings served as the film sets in the 1981 original. The couple might look younger like in their later 20s. The car would of course be a modern make. The woman's clothes would be different, that is, she would be wearing a short skirt with the jacket and blouse and pantyhose, as was common attire back in 1990-91. The question for a remake here is, presuming the MPAA rating is still going to be R - I don't see how a studio could tone down the gore to a PG-13 rating and still maintain the original plot - how far are the studios going to allow the nudity and sexual violence. Toning down everything to achieve a PG-13 ratings in this politically-correct social environment of 2008 would inevitably produce an inferior remake with no doubt a loss of investment. If the movie producers and director take the obvious road and figure, "Heck, it's going to be R-rated anyway because of all the blood and gore, why not just go with it?" That means replicating the original nudity and sexual violence of the original. There is the possibility that more explicit nudity and graphic sex could be filmed, or at least filmed but used only in an NC-17 DVD version. In the 1981 original, a body double took the places of Bibi Besch and Kitty Moffat in their rape scenes. It was fairly obvious though. When the mother's husband finds her naked and unconscious in the swampy woods, the woman he is carrying out in his arms looks to be much taller than Bibi Besch, who was 5'4" in real life. The body double looked as if she was 5'9" or 5'10". The body double for Kitty Moffat is not so readily apparent until you watch the movie again and closer. It's possible that the same body double replaced both actresses. It was convenient that both Besch adn Moffat were blonde, so only one blonde body double needed hiring. One imdb poster below claims that his mother visited the film set back in 1980-81 as she was a local inhabitant of the area. His mother reportedly told him that a young woman from a local college was hired as a body double for Bibi Besch. But given today's polarized politically correct social environment, it might be a tough sell to remake THE BEAST WITHIN. The only way I think someone could get away with it is to produce a direct-to-DVD version which could permit more graphic and explicit action.