Blech!

Says it all, really. Who's directing, Rob fucking Zombie?

You heard it here first.

Any one of those would benefit from a CGI brush-up and a few quids worth of set-building.

This can't do anything but fail.

Shoot me. Shoot me now.

If you want to make a movie "inspired" by VIdoedrome, just like how Rolling Thunder and Hardcore were inspired by the Searchers, I am all for it. Just have it about a website or internet channel and change the name. DON'T just slap the videodrome title on it so you can ride someone else's success.

We should appreciate that they exist at all.

That's why Videodrome was such a masterstroke. It really drilled down into that paranoia and hit a nerve when nobody else was tackling it on that level. Sure there were videogame movies, but those usually either just glossed over the surface with "hero kid" winning the big prize for being the best in the end. Or became huge 90 minute commercials (Cloak and Dagger comes immediately to mind) to sell a pile of games and systems.

By contrast, Cronenberg knew where the hot nerve was and how to hit it. He crafted a story that cultivated horror from the paranoia. And he's so damned good at doing that. He knows that real terror comes from within, not from what goes bump in the night.

I doubt that in today's world, now that we're so awash in technology and media and we know what the consequences have been, the new adaptation would have the same impact.

Sad, really. Hollywood cannibalizes itself yet again, while there are so many great original stories languishing out there that may never be told.

All ideas which will probably be sacked in the remake and replaced with MORE BLOOD!!!! Because we all know that great horror films are all about gore and jump scares...

My whole thing with remakes is, why remake something that is already basically perfect the way it is?

Some of the greatest movies in history have been remakes, but they had a point: The remake improved upon the original in some way, usually because technology allowed the new filmmakers to do things not possible in the original. Case in point: BEN HUR. There was a silent version of Ben Hur that had bee a tremendous success, but cinemascope, sound, and various other advances allowed Wyler to adapt the book in a much more spectacular way than had ever been possible before. Thus, not a waste of money or time. So it was a good remake.

Something like THE OMEGA MAN/I AM LEGEND was a good contender for a remake, because both of the original film versions left a lot to be desired. The Will Smith version, of course, was a huge disappointment, but I don't fault Hollywood for thinking that story was a solid remake contender for a number of reasons.

VIDEODROME, however, is a classic work of pop art, and more importantly, a product of its era. Unless the new film is somehow going to be as culturally relevant as the original, which I highly doubt, then what is the point? We all know it is going to be a fucking watered-down PG-13 piece of shit that might follow the concept of the original but will be totally devoid of any of the subtext.

Damn! I heading to Barnes & Noble right after work and picking one up.

Videodrome is one of my favourite horror movies, not because the effects are particularly good or because it gives a lot of great scares. But because it makes you think about how susceptible the mind is. How easily we can be led, changed. How seductive it can be to give into things like torture, perversion, depravity (granted, a very subjective thing)

I find another movie that works on that similar level is Dead Ringers. About the very sick, psychosexual, co-dependend connection between two gynecologist twin brothers. Jeremy Irons gives a tour-de-force performance.

The movie can deal with themes like how we have been desensized to what is shocking, including sex and violence, and the how the internet can spread imagines that many find tastless but others look as entertainment (like beheading’s in Iraq, or how people can pretty much look up any sexual act as home). It also can touch upon how the internet can pass along hateful and dangerous ideas, and the entire thing about Renn transforming and mutating can be looked upon as the ultimate computer “virus”.

Which makes me laugh at all these remakes. This is exploitation filmmaking by the bigger studios. They are EXPLOITING the names of the original films to get people interested. And like a lot of the old exploitation films, that is all they got to get people interested in seeing it. The only reason you would see “THREE THE HARD WAY” is because it had a black cast.

And like someone above mentioned, 4 out of 50 remakes seem to be good. The sad thing is that the old grindhouse movies had an excuse – they had a limited budget, time to shoot and edit, and the majority of people working on them were not that talented. But despite that some of them were pretty good, and many of them were at least audacious or daring. However, the Remakeploitations have big studios backing them, millions of dollars in their budgets and even have some decent stars and actors in them. What the fuck is their excuse for having so many of them such shit?

Hollywood should restore and re-release the classic versions rather than fun gutless talentless remkes. Videodrome remake? I wouldn't pay to see that even if they had my family hostage. Now a restored version of Cronenberg version? I'd pay full price.

I think this one should stay in the 80's!

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