Honestly, they just need to find a non-moronic company to put out the 1988 remake on an easily available Blu-ray. That film is seriously great and deserves a much bigger audience than it can enjoy right now.
WB Remaking Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
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Honestly, they just need to find a non-moronic company to put out the 1988 remake on an easily available Blu-ray. That film is seriously great and deserves a much bigger audience than it can enjoy right now.
Seductivpancakes
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Isn't this like the second remake?
Also yes, a new blob movie would be neat.
Also yes, a new blob movie would be neat.
It's like the forth.
It'd be the fifth time this is having a big screen adaptation.
Yeah Twilight Time's blu ray releases are so bizarre, both The Blob and Fright Night are sadly stuck with an OOP, extremely limited release blu ray by them when a company like Scream Factory would've done both films justice.
I'd pay money to see a Killer Klowns remake.
plagiarize
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As others have said, The Invasion sucked.
I'd love to see the pre Wachowski's reshoots version of the film though to see if it's any better, because it sure felt like a movie that got put through some pretty rough reshoots. Tonally it was all over the place, and that happy ending didn't make a lick of sense (or show any remorse for all the people they killed who could have just been cured).
Now really does seem like a good time for it though. Sadly the fears that drive this story never seem too far away.
I'd love to see the pre Wachowski's reshoots version of the film though to see if it's any better, because it sure felt like a movie that got put through some pretty rough reshoots. Tonally it was all over the place, and that happy ending didn't make a lick of sense (or show any remorse for all the people they killed who could have just been cured).
Now really does seem like a good time for it though. Sadly the fears that drive this story never seem too far away.
plagiarize
Banned
It should be a $20 million project tops. If they spend as much as got spent on The Invasion, then they deserve failure.
This wouldn't be a terrible direction to go.
Less than zero subtlety, but something different at least
Seductivpancakes
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The last one actually came out 10 years ago:
It sucked.
I only know that this movie exists because WB brought in the Wachowskis and James McTiegue to rewrite and reshoot it...after the previous director had already finished shooting the movie.
I don't know why they want to remake this thing again.
Escape Goat
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It's themes are easily transferred from one generation to the next.
RoyaleDuke
Banned
This is going to be awful.
Also, a new blob movie like the 80s one would be great, that shit is horrifying.
Honestly the only way to up the ante is to make it even more horrifying, long takes of really painful deaths by the Blob until it inevitably gets bigger and we get a ending similar to the original one for Little Shop of Horrors, except the universe is eventually swallowed up by the blob instead of just Earth.
Also, a new blob movie like the 80s one would be great, that shit is horrifying.
Honestly the only way to up the ante is to make it even more horrifying, long takes of really painful deaths by the Blob until it inevitably gets bigger and we get a ending similar to the original one for Little Shop of Horrors, except the universe is eventually swallowed up by the blob instead of just Earth.
Fun facft, Frank Darabont of the Shawshank Redemption, The Mist and the first season of The Walking Dead was wrote the script to the Blob movie from the 80's
The gore in that film is gnarly as fuck. I'll need to rewatch it.
Its one of the few horror movies from that time period, or really in general, that I can think of that had children being killed by the monster.
The director of that movie went on to direct Spider-Man Homecoming. Talk about a serious fucking step up.
HyperZone<3
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in between he also made the 'children-in-peril-western-noir' Cop Car. Its actually really great.
Fantastic. One of the best studio horror films from the 90's and probably the most underrated.
Icanplaythat
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The last one actually came out 10 years ago:
It sucked.
Stop it, it was fine.
As for the OP, I'm for investment in horror movies wherever I can get it.
Escape Goat
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Gaius Cassius
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Naw, man, it was awful. I get it. Some people gave it credit for the thoughtful ending, but it was still absurd. Millions, maybe billions probably died in the events of the film. Yet were to believe like a month later everything is back to 'normal. And by normal I mean reading the paper about the next way how were going to war with eachother. 70s version was superior in every single way.
Icanplaythat
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I'm a Jeffrey Wright mark, so maybe that clouds my mind on the subject.
When I think of terrible body snatchers style movies, I think of "The Puppet Masters". That is a grade A atrocity.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Yeah, what's an 8th remake? At this point it'd have been weirder if we went over a decade without getting one
FWIW, the Umbrella Entertainment Blu-ray is region-free, and is going for around $14 from various online importers.
mariachi507
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Awesome, I think I'll buy it.
afternoon delight
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It is without a doubt one of the worst made films I think I've ever seen... But it's still oddly enjoyable. Like a made for TV movie aping the TV version of The Stand.
No one will touch the Sutherland one, it's perfect.
Subpar Spatula
Banned
Yo Daniel Craig was in a movie before James Bond?
SatoAilDarko
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
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| 22 Years
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
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| 15 Years
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Body Snatchers (1993)
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| 14 Years
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The Invasion (2007)
The time in between remakes seems to be getting slightly smaller each time.
Also the last two remakes were different parts of the original title.
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| 22 Years
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
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| 15 Years
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Body Snatchers (1993)
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| 14 Years
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The Invasion (2007)
The time in between remakes seems to be getting slightly smaller each time.
Also the last two remakes were different parts of the original title.
I H8 Memes
Member
This was after Casino Royale
Classic.
Rated-Rsuperstar
Member
Why not remake invaders from mars? Another body snatcher film. It would only be the third one!
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