It was revealed in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly that Sony Screen Gems plans on remaking Tom DeSimone's 1981 horror-slasher Hell Night, which follows four college pledges who are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds. But here's the sad news, "If you are going to make a movie for a bunch of kids, you have to make it PG-13,” says Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper. “You try not to make a movie for an audience that is older than your protagonist.” More PG-13 coming your way in the near future. Yay....
Clint Culpepper desperatly needs to be ass raped. what a motherfucking douchebag. if i was a teenaged horror fan in this day and age, i would fucking kill myself with all of this watered down PG-13 HORSESHIT. FUCKING BRING ON THE F13 REMAKE AND PIRANAH 3-D AND FD4 3D AND FUCKING GIVE ME THE GOD DAMN BLOOD, GORE, ASS, TITS I CRAVE AND DESERVE TO SEE AS SOMEONE WHO CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THIS GENRE!!!!!
If god does exist and if your listening to me now please shut hollywood DOWN FOR GOOD please or just stop these god awful remakes of god awful movies... THANKS....
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't college age 18 in the US? Therefore the protagonists would be 18+ meaning an R rating. He's just gone and contradicted himself.
Yeah, but they could easily turn "Hell Night" into some kind of varsity cheerleading initiation rite. And if they do that, I'll sue them for taking my idea.
i hope Sony Screen Gems burns to the ground! Clint Culpepper, fuck off! what a fucking insult to any adult horror movie loving fan. hell night is one of my favorite movies that's going to be raped by Sony. fuck them.
I'm 15 and even I hate these piece of crap PG-13 movies, One missed call made me wont to blow my brains out, so did Pulse and pretty much all PG-13 horror movies with the exceptions of Disturbia and thats pretty much the only one.
see,that's the problem there "making a movie for a bunch of kids." i remember seeing Hell Night when it came out in '81 and i remember it was rated R.not for kiddies! i was 11 at the time and part of the excitement for me was sneaking into and seeing movies that were not meant for me. i mean,that's a big part of being a fucking kid yes?
I alreday knew about this anyways a remake could be PG-13 b/c the original isn't even bloody or gory. They just have to make the killers look scary and have a great atmosphere like the original.
I'm not saying a good PG-13 horror film is impossible, however, the good ones are far and few in between. 'Jaws' and 'The Others' are the only ones that come to mind. Usually, PG-13 horror is lacking in any scares and the material is usually and obviously watered down.
FUCK THAT PG-13 SHIT!!! That is the biggest load of shit I have ever heard...ummmmmm...don't make it "for kids"...the little bastards are gonna see it anyway...so fuck the PG-13 shit!
I'm sick sick SICK of the studios and their family friendly shit.
wow...
look at that honesty...not really too impressed with what he's saying...but wow...he didn't mention the money part...which it is of course about...
but woah
if i were a jew around ww2 i wouldn't wanna hide in this fuckass's house
Wait, so if a horror movie stars a kid, the movie will HAVE to be rated so kids around the age of the main kid can watch it? That's the most STUPIDEST thing I've EVER heard. If anything, Horror is not for kids. Or let me rephrase that, Horror is not for goody goody kids who, at the very least, don't have the gall to theater hop into an R-rated movie. If you are that goody-twoshoes, wait until you're 18. Just like coffee. Coffee's not for kids, but Starbucks wussied it down to sweet candy-like drinks for the kiddies. That's the same thing as horror. These companies are just wussing horror down for kiddies. And yeah, what's with this "for kids around the main characters's age"? College students > PG-13 audience.
Sony Screen Gems can lick my balls. I refuse to support this horseshit. How many more 80's fucking horror movies can be remade? Where are the orginal ideas? Where are the horror movies that scare the shit out you? You know where they go, straight to DVD and avoid the movie theater. Fuck these assholes and the directers/studios that promote this shit.
I've got no beef with PG-13 horror, but I do have an issue with this particular announcement. See, the plot of HELL NIGHT revolves around a COLLEGE INITIATION. This film, however, will obviously be about a Junior High School intiation, if Culpepper's "older than your protagonist" quip is to be taken literally. PROM NIGHT is one thing - it's about high school kids. But HELL NIGHT is about college students, and any film with that title which does not revolve around kids that age is not a remake of the original.
Hmmmm.... kid in the movie... make the movie for kids. Good thing they didnt follow this rule of thumb when The Shining was made. But seriously, I kinda like the original. Its a fun little drive in type flick. While not excessively gory, it did have a decapitation onscreen, a sycthe murder and a good head twist and an impalement. This film probably could have benefitted from a remake where they updated the effects and made it a gritty little horror flick, but PG-13?? Come on! Platnum dunes doesnt seem so bad now. At least they aint serving their drinks watered down.
"follows four college pledges"
"going to make a movie for a bunch of kids, you have to make it PG-13"
"You try not to make a movie for an audience that is older than your protagonist."
Hands down the most stupid thing I have ever read.
LOL Like they are really going to have 13 year old and under kids in college in this movie. And like if they did have a pre-teen only cast, they'd actually have them slaughtered by an inbred monster.
I SMELL BULLSHIT.
Hell Night remake = FAIL.
I just don't get it. "Kids" go see anything that looks remotley scary whether it has blood and guts or not, what in the heck is that bone head talking about?
and how freakin old is the protagnist? If the protagnist is 14 or 15, ok, but if they are sixteen or seventeen(which i am) how in the hell do that equal a pg-13?
I think what bothers me the most about this is by his way of thinking, Any successful horror film (think Classics like Nightmare on Elm St., Halloween, Dawn of the Dead and Friday the 13th) should have been failures because they werent aimed at a "young" audience.
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