Reboot it
..and make it take itself more seriously and this could be a great monster flick
shareNo need to reboot it, its good enough as it is.
Its that man again!!
MovieChat Forums > Deep Rising (1998) Discussion > Reboot it
A big part of it's charm is it's un-seriousness.
Too many horror movies fail because although they have big budgets etc they have no sense of humour on how absurd the situation is.
The best Friday the 13h, nightmare on Elm streets, Tremors, Jaws etc all had humour, whether in the action, characters or how weird the actual events are.
That's why stuff like Saw etc are just sleazey depressing horror porn as you watch people suffer for the sake of suffering.
While, I agree that the reason this movie worked was it's complete lack of taking itself seriously, I would never go so far as to say the Naghtmare on Elm Streets or Friday the 13ths that did the same were the best.
IMO, the first three Nightmares were the best. After that, they all went downhill. Partly because the villain became a joke of himself. Aside from the remake the last few Fridays were a joke of themselves. It became an exercise in which absurd way could they have Jason kill those idiots. There's no point in that.
Really, in neither case, the absurdity of whatever the situation was not what made the movies bad. Horror is good. I like movies that strike fear in you. When you care more about the absurd tongue in cheek deaths than you do the characters dying then that's a problem.
No more reboots please. I'm so tired of every movie being rebooted nowadays. A sequel would be cool.
shareThis movie could not be made today. It's a big budget horror/action/creature feature with a hard R rating. Studios won't spend big money on these anymore. It would have to be pg-13 for them to allow for the budget now.
shareSadly, this is 100% spot on.
shareSuper 8 reminded me of this film... and Super 8 doesn't even come close to Deep Rising. These hard R rated creature/action/horror films are done.