COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
I enjoyed the original greatly, a genuinely original and
entertaining combination of horror and comedy.
But I cannot imagine someone doing a remake.
Seems a bizarre and trivial idea, but then Hollywood is
loaded with such ideas, having tried insipid remakes of great films - a few of
Hitchcock's best, for example - and remakes of good little foreign films
(Priscilla, Queen of the Desert comes to mind), almost all of which stank to
high heaven.
The son of the original director doing it smacks of the days
of Frank Sinatra Junior making a kind of career out of imitating his father
poorly.
But, you see, if you can get just enough people through the
doors of cinemas for a week or two, even such dud projects can be profitable,
and that is the only thing that ever counts in Hollywood.
I'm sure there are good copies of the original on DVD, a
much better entertainment value than tickets for this thing when it shows up.
