SUSPIRIA remake

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/03/05...spiria-remake/

Looks like David Gordon Green, a director DannyT likes, is directing this truly unnecessary remake.

He's done a bunch of Malick rip-off indie movies nobody has seen, and is currently busy selling-out by directing the dreadful-looking Judd Apatow joint THE PINEAPPLE EXPRESS. So I can't help but get Neil LaBute/WICKER MAN worries.

Quoth Green: “It’s an opportunity to take all artistic excellence and be inspired by what was a low budget Italian 70’s gore movie”


What a douche. He seems to have mistaken Argento's lavish, big-budget art/horror masterwork with some Lucio Fulci cheapie like NEW YORK RIPPER.

Although if he does the right thing and casts Angela Bettis then I'll cut him some slack. She's as slight and petite as Jessica Harper (perfect to play a ballet dancer) and she's the greatest actress to ever work consistently in the horror genre.

[Kagemusha]

Although I agree that hollywood needs to stop with the remake/sequel madness (did we really need a remake of Prom Night??) I do enjoy David Gordon Green's movies. I really like All the Real Girls and George Washington and am interested in seeing his new film Snow Angels. I'd hesitate to call him a Mallick ripoff (and its now 2AM and I just got off of a long shift so my brain cannot coherently make an argument now) but I'd be interested to see what he does with this.

There are some remakes that I would've liked to seen done right. A good version of Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Kairo (Pulse) would have been interesting. Had they done a sidequel of sorts depicting the events that are so clearly global in the original from an American POV instead of rehashing the Japanese one and taking out all the spirit and horror that made the original one of my favorite of the j-horror wave (which has long stayed its long-haired white dress wearing welcome)