I just heard that there is an American remake in the works being written by the guy who wrote "Orphan". Now, I'm not one to immediately discard an American remake of a foreign property but I was wondering what form this will take. Will it be in a documentary style or a flat-out film narrative?
Anybody know anything?
It's going to be the same documentry style, featuring the same scenes, same dialogue, same things're going to happen but with different actors
shareWhy? This movie was near perfect. Instead of remaking it they should just put the money into re-releasing it with a creative ad campaign.
shareIf they're doing a remake just make it a film, not another documentary style film.
shareIt already had its theatrical run in the U.S. Not many people will see the remake probably. So just let it be.
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I think the remake will be better if a few things are adjusted, jmho.
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I agree, here where I live (Mexico, near US border) I dont recall the movie ever been shown, here we usually only get Hollywood movies and rarely films from other countries. I found it fascinating that Shutter was shown (the original thai movie).
shareThis movie was not shown where I live either.
and of course theres going to be an american remakeWhen there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
You'd think after what we did to Kath and Kim the Australian government would sever all ties with us...
shareHeaven forbid that an American audience should ever hear anything but an American accent.
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Heaven forbid that an American audience should ever hear anything but an American accent.American accents are boring, big time. share
>Heaven forbid that an American audience should ever hear anything but an American accent.
Have to agree there. It ain't broken, so don't fix it.
An American remake made by Americans or an American remade by Americans or...?
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Not looking forward to the remake at all. It can only butcher it based on what they did with REC, etc.
shareREC wasnt' all that great to begin with. Also, the US isn't the only country on the remake trend. Word is Scotland is going to release their own remake of our own The Blair Witch Project.
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of course... yanks have to hollywoodize everything and turn it into **ap
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I'm sure it will still be filmed in a documentary style, as that's really where Lake Mungo lives and breaths and to take that away really wouldn't be a remake at all. My guess (after having seen a lot of American remakes of foreign horror films) is that they'll add in some cheap scares, ruin much of the subtlety (ghost will now be much more obvious), erase several of the talking points that made Lake Mungo so great, and probably throw in some more gore, too.
Hollywood's horror is really crap these days. I don't even know how they still get away with it because it seems every time it happens everyone I know and everyone online is b!tching about it.
The problem is that this wasn't widely released in the U.S... it didn't come anywhere near where I live and I didn't even hear about it until it had been out for a year or so. So, if it is remade using the documentary style, you are going to have a bunch of people who never heard of it screaming that it is a PA ripoff. Obviously it is a MUCH deeper story than PA, but the setup with the brother putting the camera in the house to try to see her on film, calling the psychic, etc, I would imagine it would get a lot of undeserved criticism for being a copycat.
I'm not totally against US remakes, either, but I have never seen an Americanized film that I enjoyed as much as the original.
I liked the American remake of The Ring. But don't even get me started on the Psycho one...
shareIncidentally, the producers of "The Ring" are the same people responsible for the "Lake Mungo" remake, & it's apparently going to be told in a regular "narrative" style instead of a documentary one:
http://citysearch.com.au/movies/1137675967597/Australian+Horror+Gets+H ollwood+Remake?city=darwin
Remakes aren't necessarily bad things, but they are kinda hit & miss (really more of a "miss" lately). While I actually thought "The Ring" was a brilliant film & much better than the original "Ringu", a film like "Quarantine" just didn't quite have the same feel or create the same reaction as the original "(Rec)". I guess it just depends on who ends up doing the remake & how much creative control they have over it. I loved "Lake Mungo" & don't really see the need for a remake, & unfortunately Hollywood has a bad habit of completely missing the point of the original source material that it draws from. I think the "documentary" aspect of the movie was one of things that really made the original film work so well, & I believe doing it as just a regular narrative will take most of that away. But you never know, I could be wrong. I guess we'll find out for sure soon enough.
I totally agree with you. I think the documentary style is what freaks me out most about the movie. This style makes things a bit more distanced and not so immediate and mixing up the footage and interviews was very cleverly done to build up a story arc.How on earth are they going to do that in a remake with a normal narrative style?
Also something that some people may not realise is that Lake Mungo was made by the director writing up detailed treatises for each actor and scene and then the actors were interviewed in character. It was NOT scripted. That leant the film an authenticity that will be missed in any remake that does not utilise the documentary style.
It's been 3 weeks since I saw this movie and I am still thinking about it (and a tad scared at night time still. lol. That damn cell phone scene got to me!).
If this movie "freaked" you out...you should really get out more. The movie was ok but nothing in it was creepy or scary...if anything it was more about grief and loss.
shareLOL. I watch heaps of horror films but for some reason ones that are shown to be found footage trick my mind into seeing them as real, even though I know they aren't real. Other horror films don't creep me out.
And the idea of running into a dead version of yourself...well that just does my head in.
I totally understand why people would be upset about this. I don't like crappy Hollywood remakes myself but ... Lake Mungo sucked. It had a good idea, good story but the execution was sooooooo disappointing.
I'm looking forward to this remake. (plus I LOVE found footage movies. i really want this to be good!!)