Completely Out of Ideas

[wolven7]

Bigdumbface - [Fightin' Stance]--- Whatever You Do, Don't Answer The Phone... Or, y'know, see this movie. They literally took one of the oldest urban legends ever, and made it into a fucking horror flick, for the spring. What the fuk is wrong with Hollywood?

Seriously, people. Do better.

Comments

[wacko1138.livejournal.com]

You do realize it's a remake of a movie from 1979 with the same title? So it's even more evidence of a lack of ideas than you said.

[wacko1138.livejournal.com]

And if I remember correctly, the original is the source of the oft quoted but never cited line "The call is coming from inside the house."

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Really? See, I thought that legend existed, prior to the movie, and that that line was a feature, but if it has a root, in film, then that kind of makes it a bit better.

Kind of.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that, and figured someone else would see it, too. At first I had hoped that they weren't the same movie, but no.

No.

Dude!

[karishi.livejournal.com]

According to one of the reviews of the '79 version of the movie, the kids she checks on throughout the movie are already dead. That makes the whole story like a hundred times more cool, even if it does make you want to strangle her for not checking a pulse.
And even if it doesn't make it worthy of a feature-length film. Kinda like The Polar Express...It's really great stuff, but there's not enough there. Stretching it devalues it, just like printing more money.

Re: Dude!

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I like that. I hope they keep it, as it would be a gutsy move, on hollywood's part, not having done something like that, in a long time. They're kind of loathe to kill off the sympathetic children, but, in a horror movie, it's exactly that kind of dislocation that you need.

[tribeofone.livejournal.com]

No, I won't unless someone forces me to. I refuse to give them my approval for making crap and I vote on that with my cash. I will not give them a dime for this pos

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Good. That's the way it Should be.