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In Desperate Need of a Remake that is Faithful to Lovecraft

posted 13 years ago by ScarletSpider87
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I absolutely hate remakes. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." If someone actually did a story right the first time, you won't be able to do it better, no matter how hard you try.

However, this film is a poor, poor representation of the original Lovecraft story. It wasn't done right at all. If you read his original story for yourself, I think you will see that it is much better than this film. I hope that a film-maker will one day make a faithful adaptation.

[–] grrrdevin 12 years ago

I can't imagine a way of faithfully adapting the story and having it be feature length.

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[–] leekingswood 12 years ago

the same was said about LotR...

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[–] grrrdevin 12 years ago

Seriously? LotR is a huge, sprawling epic that has enough material for even a dozen movies.

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[–] Cosmic_Cre 12 years ago

It wasn't suppose to be a direct adaptation of the original story. They never claimed it was. First of all, the story is too short. Secondly, if you haven't noticed, Lovecraft is very hard to translate to film, that's why I'm glad they took a different approach and started the movie right after the events of the original story and grounding it into a more streamlined narrative.

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[–] AESP_pres 12 years ago

The original story is not even ten pages long, it would be hard to do an hour long movie just by using it and nothing else. Anyway the short story is all in the prologue before the opening credit.

[–] mitzibishi 11 years ago

I was done right in its own way.

But i could see a remake being ok if done in an opposite tone in a dark way.

Hell i could see this being done in the same year with a Hellraiser tone and being standalone.

[–] jim-w-itte 9 years ago

see a remake being okay if done in an opposite tone in a dark way

Mind you, I'm watched only the last 10 or so minutes of this on Comet, just now and I'm thinking - the way it's done now is not dark? This is bloody disgusting! (Mind you, I have a very low tolerance for gore, so I shouldn't be commenting at all.. but still - if this isn't dark, then what is?

[–] cyguration (3951) 4 years ago

Don't mind that guy. This movie is dark enough as it is.

It's already gorier than most of today's horror flicks and really gets into the minutiae of its gore. Even when Crampton's character falls out of the window and breaks her leg you can literally see the bone protruding out and the inside of her leg. How much darker and gorier does mitzibishi want this film to be?

It features cannibalism, evisceration, decapitation, mutilation, and all manner of body horror. There aren't many more movies out there -- past or present -- that are as gory, dark and disturbing as this in the sci-fi category.

[–] vincensg-1 8 years ago

Check out Banshee Chapter