Why The Exorcist must NEVER be remade

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Laurie penna

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No one would have the guts to do the masturbation scene in the glory it was done in, in 1973 (Not even you, Rob - I Screwed-Up-One-Classic-Horror-Aready- Zombie)

There isn't a director as twisted as Billy Friedkin who would dare shoot a gun next to the heaRAB of actors to get a reaction (True story. God bless you, Jason Miller)

Not one actress working today could ever match the performance of Ellen Burstyn. Not ONE!
 
It should never be remade I agree it's way too much of a stand alone movie in my opinion to tamper with,although it probably will be knowing Hollywood.

But how did Zombie screw up Halloween,that movie has already had 8 sequels to date.It doesnt take anything away from the original and I enjoyed it anyway.
 
They came very close to screwing it up with that "version you've never seen" version. There was a reason "we've never seen it" - because it ruined the original!
 
Leave the Exorcist alone. I doubt it could be remade to any credible standard.

Look at the mess they made of the prequel. Although I prefer dominion to The beginning. Has a creepy sort of this aint right atmosphere. Dont know why they scrapped it in favour of a 100% reshoot. (That was instant financial suicide)
 
Its just a thought but

Just because something is remade doesn't make it compulsary to watch it.
Hollywood will always have those that go for the safe option in film making, we will have to live with it i'm afraid.


I saw the Exorcist far to late in life to enjoy it, missed it on the cinema then came the, ban much much later I saw it on video.

Shock impact was still there but sadly both I and the world had changed and moved on.

Some very good acting performances though which were still well worth seeing.
 
I'd actually be interested in seeing this. The original Exorcist, good as it was, was not perfect by any means so I say give Mr. Zombie a chance.

I could just be numb to the idea of remakes since hearing that Seven Samurai is to be remade though.

Now that is a film that should never be remade.
 
That is a good point, however, at my local cinema (the Cineworld in Nottingham) they love showing trailers to remakes of bad horror films (well, bad horror films in general) before the main movie so i kind of feel i have seen these films just because i have sat through the adverts so many times.
 
Was a classic film imho didn't suck at all!, a remake though is inevitable for it, this after all seems to be the day and age for a plethora of crappy remakes...there all being re-done! :cry:
 
If it did happen I'd like to see William Peter Blatty do his own version seeing as he wrote the book and directed a half decent version of his own Legion sequel.
 
I wouldn't mind seeing a remake of it.
I might like it better than the original, which in my opinion, is overrated.
Scariest film ever!....my arse it is! :)
 
Exorcist II The Heretic was the funniest film ever made.

Exorcist III was excellent. Better than the book I reckon. But then Blatty was a screen writer before he was a novelist. He wrote the Pink Panther sequel A Shot in the Dark.
 
I've never understood why people get up in arms about remakes, the originals will always be there to enjoy.

Some remakes I like, The Hills Have Eyes and Dawn of the Dead were both pretty good for remakes I thought, others I have hated but either way I always have the originals to watch anyway so i'm not going to let it bother me.
 
Zombie's interpretation of Halloween was laughable.

Quite what he was up to with the cod psycho-babble is anybody's guess & having a 7 foot tall wrestler play Michael Myers only compounded the error.

Michael Myers is supposed to be superhuman not look superhuman. :rolleyes:
 
It was a reimaging so to be fair the characters were his interpretation and you can't really say what Myers is supposed to be in this version.

Some liked it,some did not and personally I'd of prefered them to use new characters completely and a more interesting plot from the part Myers escapes as opposed to the worn out 'maniac stalks teens' premise but after Halloween 6 and 8 this movie was good to see.
 
Fair enough but you can't have Michael Myers be a product of a broken home & a 7 foot tall mutant freak.

Zombie definitely fell between two stools on that one.
 
Went to see Rob's Halloween with an open mind, but did nothing for me - the original was great due to suspense (and lack of actual violence you see), plus you get to know Laurie, the remake seemed to spend so much time on Michael that I couldn't give a rat's a$$ about the victims since we barely saw any of them before they started being offed.

Definitely the Halloween franchise went stale a long time ago, pretty much after H2. As a standard slasher, the Zombie Halloween was average, as a remake it sucked (imo).
 
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