If this movie gets an American remake, I would buy it just so I can pee on it...American remakes of foreign horrors do not deserve anything but that. I can already imagine it's suckage. Take the scene 10 minutes into the film, with the husband and wife lying in bed and they hear something over the monitor out of the blue. In the remake , it will probably play out like this - unnaturally attractive 20-something couple going to bed, having a gratuitous overly revealing sex scene with no meaning, then the couple will talk about the wife's former alcohol abuse problem (because in American horror, character development means having a history of substance abuse ala The Orphan, Haunting in Connecticut, etc), then we will hear a crescendo of piano keys being violently banged, until they reach an extremely loud musical climax accompanied with garbled, alien-like voices that sound like demons from the deepest circles of hell speaking in tongues, coming out of the monitor. This, of course, will all be done with 100 camera cuts in a 2 minute scene. No thank you!!!!
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Nekrophagia
14 years ago
It's reassuring to see that so many people also hate remakes. If you don't have an original idea, don't make a film. It's as simple as that. People that sit around all day looking for films to rape are not film makers. They are simply rapists. Death to Platinum Dunes!
"I'm - I'm hurt real bad. I think I'm dying"
"Continue dying"
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sandifay62
13 years ago
I don't have a problem with remakes or sequels. Some work, some don't, they are just more movies. A bad one is quickly forgotten and makes the original look even better and a good one brings attention to the original. Also it's not evil Hollywood that just snatched away mmovies and remade them, the makers of the originals give them permission and make money off them, too.
The problem is that the wrong people tend to make them. You can't just blindly say that Hollywood needs to remake this movie. You have to be more specific.
This movie, if it's going to be remade to get more attention, it would be a great candidate for a great director to remake it. If a great director does remake it they'd have to cast great actors, too. It's the people that actually make the movie that make it good or bad, it's not about where it's made.
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crownklown
13 years ago
The people on this board are idiots. I love Spanish horrors, unlike Japanese horrors which have great stories but weak visuals, Spanish horrors succeed in both counts. And yes, the remake of REC was pretty atrocious compared to the original. However, I think here a remake could work, and for all I care make it a Spanish remake, I dont care what country does it, but like the poster said there were some limits due to the format of the original release that could be improved upon with a bigger budget. I think the background for one is one area that could use a little more meat, we get the scene with the kid at the beginning, and he finds the one article showing the house at some earlier point in time, but it seemed there was something a little more there, something that caused the rift in the first place.
Look normally I agree, the only time a movie should be remade is if some significant period of time has passed, but I think this could be one time it could work.
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BoomChikahWahhWahh
13 years ago
I disagree with you about Japanese horrors but you have to realize how saturated the market is - they're like the little girl with a little curl. When they're good they're very very good, and when they're bad they're horrid but that works with Spanish horrors, too. Asian horror is, by far, my favorite but I do waste some mighty fun time in some European horror (this film, Let The Right One In, Somnia, etc).
We really have to get out of this remakes-only thing in American horror, it's getting ridiculous. Even our home grown stuff are remakes and sequels from the 70s & 80s these days. It's ridiculous.
That doesn't mean all remakes are bad, but I've never seen a good one.
Grr, argh!
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