Look, TV choices on Sundays are shit so when I saw Christopher Lee’s name in credits, it was all I needed to get me to watch Return To Witch Mountain. I have very fond childhood memories of the Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing double-whammy on Saturday afternoons thanks to the WLVI Creature Double Feature and because of this Hammer Films has always held a special place in my heart. I have only seen the first of the Hammer/Myspace production of Beyond The Rave and I wasn’t expecting it to be so good. As a matter of fact, I figured that this was Hammer in name only but it’s a pretty solid production with its head in the right place. Maybe if I can pull myself away from Grand Theft Auto 4 long enough, I’ll run it through all the way to the end.
In some very uplifting news, it looks as though Hammer is gaining some momentum and coming back to the fold full time by securing the remake rights to the little Swedish vampire movie that could, Let The Right One In, against such Hollywood behemoths as Warner Brothers and Paramount. Considering the amount of hype that Let The Right One In has been receiving thanks to film festivals, it should speak to the drive that Hammer has to return to the hearts and mind of horror fans everywhere. I’ve made my opinions clear about how I feel about remakes but in the hands of Hammer, a company best known for its contributions to gothic horror and vampires, this should be an interesting return to form.
Thanks to Dread Central and Variety for the news.
May 7, 2008 7:50 am
Didn’t this movie come out pretty recently? And it’s ALREADY being remade?
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May 7, 2008 1:17 pm
Yeah, I’m not surprised. Magnolia is at least giving the Swedish version a short theatrical run and then putting it on R1 DVD. [REC], which has been remade as Quarrantined, didn’t even get that luxury. That one hit the film fest circuit and was snatched up before Americans could see a foreign version.
Not that they would. I mean, subtitles… Am I right?