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If You Had the Chance to Remake This....


If you had the chance to remake this movie, what elements would you want to keep and what elements would you want to get rid of entirely?

I would do the following:

- Make Horace Pinker a bit less obvious of a killer beforehand. What I mean to say is make him seem slightly trustworthy to get into these peoples homes but once he's inside he becomes a raging killer.
- Eliminate the dream sequences, instead just have Jonathan be there when Pinker kills his family and have Pinker escape, targeting Jonathan as a victim.
- Make it clearer if Jonathan is Pinker's son.
- A little less camp and a bit more evil after Pinker's execution and subsequent supernatural reign.

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I would have just kept Pinker alive as a serial killer who had a physic/dream connection with Jonathan. That premise had potential and started out pretty good. I would take out all the body switching stuff and getting sucked into TV land, the latter especially ruined the movie. I get that it was supposed to be ridiculous and absurd the problem is it just didn't work.

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The magical necklace is the first thing I'd get rid of in the remake.

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