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Columbia to remake THE TINGLER with Neil Moritz... It's ok... Scream!
Hey folks, Harry here... It was reported in the trades today that Neil Moritz (FAST AND THE FURIOUS, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER) was set to produce for Columbia - a remake of the William Castle classic, THE TINGLER. Sadly - I don't think they're going to rig theaters with buzzing seats - nor do I think they'll plant someone in every audience to tear apart... basically a lobster, while someone screams that the Tingler is loose in the Theater. Of course, I could be wrong.
THE TINGLER is a wonderful classic Vincent Price film that relied quite a bit on the theaters to add to the fun of the film. There was LSD use on screen and delusional fear enhancements to cause fear. The scene of torturing the mute woman, who could not scream, to capture the Tingler - that creature that grips all of our spines, that is only destroyed by letting out a scream... I'm just not sure how they'll update it, or if it necessarily needs updating. I do know they tapped a cool pair to write it. Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan - behind the very fun FEAST - are scheduled to try to break the problems of updating the classic bit of horror hokum. Remember, the only way to beat the Tingler is... to... SCREAM!!!!!
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Aaaaarrrrgggh!
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So many remakes, so little time. I still think this kinda of thing is best done at places like Disneyworld and MGM studios.
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Or am I thinking of something else? I'd pay to go to the cinema if they threw in some electroshock...
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as are all remakes.
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The underrated Joe Dante film Matinee was pretty much a love letter to this movie. Instead the film within the film was Mant and they had the electrified seats in one of the best parts of the movie.
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...it could use a little more cowbell.
(yes, its a retired classic, but in the wake of pretenders like Gotta Eat and such, perhaps the time is right for a comeback) -
Okay, okay, but it really is too soon for someone involved in "Fast & Furious" and "Last Summer" to make any other movie. It'll always be too soon for them.
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Take that, stupid stupid 'gotta eat'.
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Its a MAAAAHN, BAYBEEEE.
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FROM MY NUTS SHRIVILING UP FROM LOOKING AT NAKED HARRY RING IN THE NEW YEAR IN THE UPPER LEFT HERE OY VEY A SHMEAR
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Way more funny than Tomboy Beanpole. Cracks me up every time. But not as funny as the Hulk Hogan stuff, brother!
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Harry - Do something quick...
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Where does that come from? I guess I missed something. Because its stupid.
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I propose that any role that Vincent Price was in can NEVER BE REMADE. The tingler was a fun, and pretty creepy, little flick, and of course VP was the shit. Neil Moritz should be fucking hanged for the shit fests that were FAST AND THE FURIOUS andI KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, and should be banned from making films at all.
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Damn you, BROTHER!
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The news is just that they hired two new screenwriters - the brilliant guys who wrote FEAST! - because the previous draft obviously didn't generate a studio greenlight. Personally, I don't give a flying fuck. Never seen the original, not interested in it, not interested in the remake.
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Seriously, who starts this stuff? Anyway, a better name for this movie would be "THE TINKLER"; because nobody gives a piss about it. Damn You, Michael Bay.
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EFFIN' TIRED OF THEM. LAZY FUCKS. THE FALL OF OUR CURRENT SOCIETY WILL HAPPEN WHILE EVERYONE ONE IS WATCHING ONE OF THESE RE-HASHED TURDS.
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sigh..I got nothing
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The Bat Suits Flame-Nipples GOTTA EAT a tomboy beanpole and cheet on Damn Michael Bay!
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Though I wish it would starve to death.
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GOTTA EAT THANKSGIVING DAY!!
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For you, Del Sol
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Hollywood is creatively bankrupt! Lay off our treasured classics! Tingly seats! Blasphemy! BlasPHEE-MAH! Blah blah! Wah wah wah Wah wah. ok, just one more g bong rip.
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An obscure "Impostor" reference from the "tomboy beanpole" era, if I may be so bold.
And a note to WISEBLOOD -- they could always do what was done in the "House On Haunted Hill" remake -- basically have Geoffrey Rush do an impression of Vincent Price throughout the film. As a fan of William Castle and his cheese-tastic work I say " Roll 'em ! " -
if you dont like the new slogans, just remake the old ones.
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Really, even Manus needs to eat. Feast was DUMB. REMAKES SUX. Keep the LSD in the story. LSD is cool : P
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really, REALLY nice guys.
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fuckin' bloody-disgusting.com got this first!
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any of you kids really seen the Tingler? I remember staying up 'till maybe 3:45 am in the days before VCR, splashing my face with water to stay awake just to catch this. And the station actually played the print with the colour sequence instead of b/w straight through. AH the good old days.
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Fuck eating.
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will not work unless its made like matinee. Goodman rules.
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Both films that FUCKING SUCKED
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Now I have had the satsifaction of seeing my two most hated AICN TB phrases ever in the same subject line. Whip-Tash!
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call back
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Most entertaining thing I've read on this site in months, that includes all of Mori's articles.
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They used to show this movie in the gym at the High School when I was young. Was very cool, like a big sleepover party. Scary, fun shit.
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Jan 05, 2007 6:15:22 PM CST
I like Rally's fries, but I never feel I GOTTA EAT them
by s-mart shopper
and why do I have chickychow stuck in my head? I keep yelling it at the dogs!
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that came from the review of the new Cedric the Entertainer movie this week. AICN reviewer says the last line of the movie is "Spy's gotta eat" or something stupid like that.
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..coming this Summer from The Wayans Bros.
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I think "Gotta eat" Started here before the Spy's gotta eat review was posted
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FEAST was STUPID. FUN ? sure. well written? No. The Movie killed Project Greenlight. Speaking of P Greenlight when is season 3 coming out on DVD?
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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seriously this is a better catch phrase. I forgot Todd and his Iron Giant BS. I forget most of these BS postings but do get a good chuckle from time to time lol chick your phrase is TOO LONG. "Gotta Eat" is the new "That's HOT"
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It was the greatest moment of the original black and white movie, but if the remake is a color movie... you know, it will be a non sense moment.
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did you ban me from the Indy 4 talkback?! wtf?
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Now thats a film that could really POP with the right special effects. Starring Will Smiff and Kosmo Kramer.
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Oh, and William Castle's descendants gotta eat. This will never die. Just accept it.
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So who knows what type of remake this will be. Personally, I thought that Zemekis had the rights to most of this great old Castle/Price material at Dark Castle. Maybe it was just House on Haunted Hill, Thirteen Ghosts, and House of Wax. They had not been doing a bad job per se (and Eli Roth stole some stuff from House of Wax for Hostel) but the tone of the remakes was definitely not in the same vein as SAW 4 or HOSTEL.
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Dear god this world deserves a giant meteorite.
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was great, we need a full length mant feature.
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