"The Wicker Man" remake trailer.

I think the surest road to failure would be to try and recapture the magic of the original. The best bet, in my experience, is to try and work one's own magic while retaining whatever originally inspired the remake. I mean, just about every good remake I've seen diverged considerably from the original and went and did its own thing.

Nurse Betty was brilliant, btw.

absolutely. i couldn't agree more. the trailer does not lend much hope to that being the case here, though...

I haven't seen the original (though it's in my Netflix queue.). So I can't really say. But I did see some striking images in the trailer, so I might have to see it. Depends on the reviews.

I assure you, the trailer for the remake feels nothing at all like the original. The original isn't really a horror movie; it's more of a quiryk whodunit with an unsettling ending, which really only works because a good deal of the film is infused with a kind of weird levity that puts the conclusion in such stark contrast to everything that led up to it.

Somehow these seems a far cry from Britt Eckland singing "How Do" to get Ed Woodward all hot and bothered... I mean, c'mon how can you beat:

Sergeant Howie: Religious? With ruined churches, no ministers, no priests... and children dancing naked!
Lord Summerisle: They do love their divinity lessons.
Sergeant Howie: But they are... a-are naked!
Lord Summerisle: Well, naturally. It's much too dangerous to jump through fire with their clothes on.

[Edited on Jun 07, 2006 by Darke]

And, according to IMDb, Ellen Burstyn's character is "Sister Summerisle".



[Edited on Jun 07, 2006 by Landed]

mmmmmm......molly parker





[Edited on Jun 07, 2006 by Mythony]

If you think A Fistful of Dollars is better than Yojimbo, you're out of your goddamned mind.

Do you think A Fistfulof Dollars is shit? Because no one ever said anything about being better than the original.

This actually make bile well up in my throat.

Yeah, I kinda think Fistful of Dollars is crap. It's almost shot-for-shot, which is always dumb. And then when it deviates from Yojimbo, I wonder what the hell Leone was thinking. It's pretty boring, actually. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, on the other hand....

[Edited on Jun 07, 2006 by TedKoppel]

Wikipedia(and other sources) aside, Last House on the Left is not a remake of the Virgin Spring so much as they both derive from the same source material, a Swedish folk ballad called Töres Dotter I Vange.

why would alaskans (canadians????) worship an european celtic diety????????


As for the remake is nothing sacred no more??? But if we get to see Nicolas Cage being burned alive, its a small reward.......

They're New Englanders, which explains a lot.

Okay, I've seen the original now. You folks are right. There's no way the remake can work as a remake. It may yet be a fine and disturbing horror movie, and I hope that turns out to be the case.

(It was an interesting watching experience for me, as an atheist. Because on the one hand, I didn't see anything especially untoward about the pagan ritual business. Oh, I don't believe it in any more than Christianity, but some of the side effects like Britt Eckland naked were rather nice. Whereas Sergeant Howie was just such an insufferable, righteous ass about the whole thing. Yet he was essentially the hero and the relatively benign villagers the villains. And yet...well, not to spoil the ending, but while I believed it to be morally wrong, what they did... it never would have happened if the person in question hadn't walked right into it of their own accord. Anyhoo.)