While movie remakes are popular across genres (Anyone remember the 2018 remake of Garry Marshall's "Overboard"?), the horror genre is especially susceptible. The genre is unique insofar as its scares endure more than most. Where comedies and action movies, for instance, are inextricably linked to their time of release, a scary movie is a scary movie. With a fresh coat of paint, what was new three decades ago can seem fresh again.
A curious contemporary trend has emerged in which relatively recent titles are remade just a few years after their original releases. Released just 14 years after the first "Cabin Fever," the remake used the exact script as the original. Recently, horror filmmaker Anthony Diblasi released "Malum" in select theaters. "Malum," a remake of Diblasi's 2014 indie "Last Shift," isn't quite a shot-for-shot remake so much as it is a reimagining. With more money and more experience, Diblasi revisits his demonic fable in a new context.
A curious contemporary trend has emerged in which relatively recent titles are remade just a few years after their original releases. Released just 14 years after the first "Cabin Fever," the remake used the exact script as the original. Recently, horror filmmaker Anthony Diblasi released "Malum" in select theaters. "Malum," a remake of Diblasi's 2014 indie "Last Shift," isn't quite a shot-for-shot remake so much as it is a reimagining. With more money and more experience, Diblasi revisits his demonic fable in a new context.
- 4/16/2023
- by Chad Collins
- Slash Film
The wilderness is a breeding ground for unimaginable horrors. With expanses of trees, the darkness feels as though it’s closing in on you. Tree limbs creak, the silver moon hangs low overhead, and the campfire crackles its golden orbs into the sky. But around you, there lurks a malevolent force, human or otherwise, plotting your demise. In both Robbie Banfitch’s The Outwaters and Dutch Marich’s Horror in the High Desert, terrors you’ve never known jump out of the screen.
There’s a moment in The Outwaters when an unidentified man stands on the horizon, wielding an ax. The skyline blankets the Mojave Desert like scattered diamonds. The man’s presence looms and induces waves of chill bumps. And blood-soaked horror is swift. His feet crack over the earth, and in one full motion, he plants an ax right into Robbie’s skull. “My head is raining,...
There’s a moment in The Outwaters when an unidentified man stands on the horizon, wielding an ax. The skyline blankets the Mojave Desert like scattered diamonds. The man’s presence looms and induces waves of chill bumps. And blood-soaked horror is swift. His feet crack over the earth, and in one full motion, he plants an ax right into Robbie’s skull. “My head is raining,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Bee Delores
- bloody-disgusting.com
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