Jack Hill hired to remake his own films
In a new variation on the current fad for remaking every film for which the copyright can be bought, Fangoria is reporting that Jack Hill has been joined by director/cinematographer Mark Atkins to remake a number of Hill’s ’60s and ’70s low-budget features.
Scheduled to be updated are three films that starred Boris Karloff: House of Evil, Fear Chamber and Isle of the Snake People. The rights to a fourth Hill film, The Sinister Invasion, are currently being negotiated; also in the package will be a never-filmed original Hill script, Squirm (no relation to Jeff Lieberman’s killer-worm opus).
The only good thing in all this is that Squirm may finally get made. For the rest, we really don’t need any more remakes - especially not when they are being launched on a production line such as this.
Sunday 10 Sep 2006 | Paul | New and Upcoming Films, Crap remakes
No production line here. Each film is getting a wholly new update, more a matter of being inspired by the original stories than simple remakes.
But thanks for the mention.
==Jack