Monday, January 07, 2008

Bad movie remake potentially good?


From cinemablend, I was all prepared to rag all over the trailer for Prom Night, the latest movie to send a bunch of nubile teens to the slaughter at the hands of some crazed something or another. I guess I was grateful that it wasn’t some piece of technology responsible for the killings, but that wasn’t enough to make me stop shaking my head and mutter “Oh, the things this job forces me to think about for more than 10 seconds.”

Strange thing, though: Prom Night actually looks kind of fun. Meaning, it’s the kind of movie I could imagine myself going to see with a bunch of friends back in high school, the days when Jennifer Love Hewitt was making a career running away from a knife-wielding maniac. From what I can tell the movie involves no torture or elaborate torture devices, and is actually more of a cat-and-mouse chase between a bunch of promgoers and a psycho who is in love with one of them. Basically, it’s No Country for Old Men for teenage girls, except without the air gun and the whole “lament about the state of the world” thing.

Anyway. I’ve rambled about this long enough. Check out the trailer for yourself
here, and please share in my marveling about how they managed to turn “Time After Time” into a typical mid-00s emo rock anthem. No, really, I’m marveling. Way to update Cyndi Lauper for today’s kids!

1 comment:

Octopunk said...

If, like me, you had trouble watching the trailer on that link, try this one.

Yes, that is a great cover of Time After Time.

Sure, that could be a good slasher movie.

No, there's no way they can sully the original, because it's a terminally stupid movie.

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