Originally Posted By Lisann22 You silly people they are remaking this film so they can showcase the next hot teenybopper babe. You know the scenes: Girl in tank top tee, bikini underwear, <she's wet and it's winter time of course> goes down the dark staircase with a butter knife, shaking and shivering...
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Hmmmmmmm... You're probably right, Lisa... Is she currently on "The OC" or other teen dream TV belch?
Originally Posted By kennect Did anyone around here actually see the original film? Who can name the person that starred in it? No fair if you have to look it up online to get the answer!!!!!!
Originally Posted By kennect Now Lisann22, The next question for you is did you see the film when it first came out? I did and I want to say it was nothing special...It had its moments that were fun but I want to remember it as being nothing really special at the time...It isn't like they are remaking a true classic...Sorry, even though you win there is no prize!!!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Yes, I did, it was a date flick and I hated it. I didn't think it was all that scary.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 woody, they've traced those posts and... They're coming from within LP! GET OUT!
Originally Posted By kennect lisann22, You are right...It wasn't that scary at all...In fact the whole thing was nothing but for that warning about the call coming from you know where...Did they actually give that away in previews? There was another film from the same period that I can't think of the title of now...But it, like so many others, were an attempt to rip off the success of "Halloween"...Which to me is the most frigthening film I have ever seen in a theater....But this other film I mention had a scene in it where a head ended up in an aquarium and somewhere in the course of the film the characters rode a darkride attraction at an amusement park....Ring any bells? I want to say it had a lenghty title such as the film being discussed here...
Originally Posted By kennect In reference to my above post...Could the film I am thinking of be "He Knows You are Alone"?
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Noooo, wait that's the College flick about the girls in the house. He Knows Your Alone is about the soon to be brides. I think that came out in 80/81, I was a Senior.
Originally Posted By kennect Black Christmas? No..... Just to throw this in and very OT...Scream 2 was filmed just down the street from where I live...Who could have thought the lovely Agnes Scott campus would be choosen for such a film! Can you tell I enjoy horror films?
Originally Posted By wonderingalice ^^*LOL* I loved them as a child - Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and the whole gang of "B" movies/stars that made screaming and being scared FUN. The too-true-to-life slasher stuff I just can't handle. Real life newscasts mirror too much of it now. The "Scream" series of films are some of the of rare recent scary movies I've seen and I really enjoyed them because of the humor blended in. "Sixth Sense" was great, and I liked the remake of "House on Haunted Hill," too. "The Ring" was cool even if I didn't "get" all of it (who did?? *LOL*) "Poltergeist" is still one of my all-time, all-timers, but the sequels were lousy. I saw the first couple of installments of "Friday the 13th" when they first came out (even saw "Texas Chainsaw" and "Last House on the Left" at the drive-in back in the '70s), but as I got older and the world got scarier, I decided I didn't want to see that type of blood and gore anymore. I prefer scary movies with a decent storyline. Saw the original "...Stranger..." and like you guys, thought it was pretty much a nothing movie. (I knew the Carol Kane answer without looking, too. ;-) Won't bother with the remake at all unless it happens to come on TV on a boring Saturday afternoon sometime.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan The Donald Sutherland/Jeff Goldblum/Leonard Nimoy version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in tha late 1970s was a great remake. Truly scary fun with wit and style.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice And the Jeff Goldblum "The Fly" was absolutely repulsive! *LOL* I mean, I liked it, but that bathroom scene! ACCCKKKK!!!
Originally Posted By Daannzzz "The Donald Sutherland/Jeff Goldblum/Leonard Nimoy version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in tha late 1970s was a great remake. Truly scary fun with wit and style." I love this version and have a copy of the DVD. I did see "When a Sytanger Calss" at the theater, way back when... The first ten minutes was great. I don't remeber anything past the revelation, so in general it must not have been a great movie. but that first part was so well done and I always enjoy Carol Kane.
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Daannzzz... Was that a bootleg version? ;-) (Sorry... *L* Love the typos!
Originally Posted By ilvdland Okayyyy, I saw the original movie when I was little, and I'm sorry, it scared the CRAP out of me. Yeah, if I watched it now, it would be totally stupid. BUt when you're 7 or 8, I can't remember how old, it was scary. And to be a complete dork, when I just saw the trailer, and I heard "Have you checked the children?" I kind of had a twinge. But I do agree, the whole movie was basically shown on the trailer. I may rent it, but I'm not going to see it in the theater.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 The brain drain has obviosuly hit Hollywood also....no original ideas left ? I just hope I never have to see remakes of Maltese Falcon / Casablanca / the Thin Man etc.......Front Page / --- there just aren't any Bogart's / Cary Grants / Katherine Hepburns / Myrna Loys around for those roles...these are slightly before my time, but the quality of acting -- even by the supporting characters was amazing -- there are precious few actors around today who can hold a candle -- DiNero / Hoffman / Pacino etc -- but they are not exactly young any more either. I hope people start tiring of remakes -- even Peter Jackson, whom I admire to the nth degree for the quality of the Lotr movies - isn't going to have the Titanic beating box with Kong everyone predicted -- how many times can the same movie be done ?
