Last House on the Left to be remade

faceman · 30-05-2007 8:33am #1

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32823

read this this morning. Not sure how many of you seen the original but i cant see how this would work. The original was intense (and banned!) but im not familiar with this greek director so who knows what could happen? Another pile of shoite hills have eyes?

what you think?

Jonesy3110 · 30-05-2007 8:35am

Loved the first one! I'll keep an open mind to a remake too tho

faceman · 30-05-2007 8:38am

^ i'll never forget my first viewing of the original with me mate and some girls. the girls thought it was snuff and made us stop it. We watched it later when they left!

Petey2006 · 30-05-2007 8:52am

Another rubbish idea. What next? A remake of Cannibal Holocaust? I Spit On Your Grave?!

lodgepole · 30-05-2007 9:50am

Not the worst idea in the world. Last House on the Left was a remake of sorts itself, and as valuable a film as I think it is, with the right film makers it could be remade into something really good. Let's be honest, there are some aspects of LHOTL that are really poor, the photography, much of the acting... The chicken truck, with the bumbling cops.

Incidentally, the first Hills Have Eyes remake was excellent, I thought a fair bit better than Craven's original.

Eirebear · 30-05-2007 9:54am

I'm not sure this is a completely bad idea, if they can keep the atmosphere of the original, and the (lack of?) morality the original had, but give it a more modern feel then we could be onto a winner.

On a side note....are there no original ideas in horror anymore?

mike65 · 30-05-2007 11:06am

if they can keep the atmosphere of the original

Thats where it'll be doomed to fail then, a films atmosphere is particular its itself any attempt to replicate it will just smake of copycat.

Half or maybe most of the reason such films have a cachet is down to the enforced low-budget DIY vibe.

Mike.

Jonesy3110 · 30-05-2007 11:12am

On a side note....are there no original ideas in horror anymore?

I might be wrong, but I think the whole comedy horror things been doing well lately.

I dont think anyone could remake Cannible Holocaust! No one would have the balls, or at least I like to think so

madrab · 30-05-2007 11:23am

they would never be able to make a proper remake of cannibal holocaust as they would never get away with making another turtle pie

Jonesy3110 · 30-05-2007 11:33am

madrab wrote:

they would never be able to make a proper remake of cannibal holocaust as they would never get away with making another turtle pie

They could make a cgi turtle. Like that surfer turtle from Finding Nemo.

Id go see it if they did that.

Galvasean · 30-05-2007 11:50am

Lodgepole wrote:

Incidentally, the first Hills Have Eyes remake was excellent, I thought a fair bit better than Craven's original.

As an action movie the Hills Have Eyes remake was fairly decent, but as a horror it just failed since it wasn't a bit scary. Of course NOTHING could be worse than the original Hills Have Eyes 2

the dog has a flashback which shows clips from the first movie!

I can see the LHOTL remake joing the likes of the Wicker Man, the Hitcher, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Omen etc. etc. etc. in a very long line of horror remakes which completely missed the mark.

30-05-2007 1:43pm

There was a remake of Last House on the Left in 2006 called Chaos. They changed the name because the producers felt it was original enough to be judged on it's own. Guess what, it's not.

As for Cannibal Holocaust a remake is due in 2009. David Hess of LAst House fame is starring.

Last House on the Left to be remade

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