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You think this film is worth being remade?


I think it maybe if the got the right writers and directors and make the best plot for it.

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I hate remakes but with the right people this could have a good remake



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YES I think it should be remade, I was 10 when I watched this movie my 1st horror movie :D and boy did it scare the flipping crap out of me and I was hook on all horror movies since then & still love them I agree with the right writers,directors it should be done right but it would have to start off in black & white & maybe Diana's daughter or son was telling a story about what happened to her with the Gargoyles and r they still around now ?? :)

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I would see a remake out of curiosity just to see what they keep from the original and what they change. I bet it would be very dark and gory now. It would at least get more people to see the original. It is a very underrated film.

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I just hope they don't make it into something like they did to the Transformer series or TMNT or G.I.Joe.

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Yes, all special effects and no story. I can't stand those kinds of movies.

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You and me both! Oh I really had hopes for Transformers. Damn Bay for his ignorant.

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This film doesn't need to be remade; it's fine the way it is.

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Where do you people come from? A movie is "worth" NOT being remade - not the other way around.

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Have they ever remade a TV movie before? Just wondering.

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Yes. One good example is "Breakdown" (1997), which was a loose remake of the 1973 TV movie "Dying Room Only" starring Cloris Leachman & Dabney Coleman.

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I finally saw it like 30 years later. It confirmed what I suspected, those guys were goofballs and the movie stunk.


Are you talking about "Gargoyles" in this sentence? I thought it was a very effective creature feature on a TV budget. The opening act creates a creepy desert ambiance with the allusions to the gargoyles (watching the car from the top of the ridge, etc.), the skeleton, the attack on the shack, and then the car.

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I know what you're saying; the movie's very comic booky. But considering the context of 1972 and the limitations of a TV budget, I thought the costumes were well done, particularly the chief winged gargoyle and his mate. Note the distinguishable masks of the others.

"Gargolyes" should be respected as the precursor to modern low-budget creature features (e.g. SyFy flicks). Imagination and legend are about good versus evil and the power of selfless courage against impossible odds. In other words, there's little else more heroic, intriguing and spooky than man against monster, and I think "Gargoyles" delivers the goods for this genre.

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I just realized I forgot all about "It".

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(Insert Face-Slap here)

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Lol!

(I can't help but think of that scene where Capt. Kirk kept slapping his face).

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and 'Salems Lot.

A TV movie remade as a ...TV movie.


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