In an interview with Shock, Race to Witch Mountain direct Andy Fickman revealed that Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday director Adam Marcus will be getting behind the helm of Twisted Pictures' remake of RKO's 1943 classic I Walked With a Zombie. In the original, a young Canadian nurse (Betsy) comes to the West Indies to care for Jessica, the wife of a plantation manager (Paul Holland). Jessica seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis as a result of fever. When she falls in love with Paul, Betsy determines to cure Jessica even if she needs to use a voodoo ceremony, to give Paul what she thinks he wants.
Adam Marcus SUCKS! Seriously, read the Crystal Lake Memories book. The guy is creatively bankrupt. He doesn't know what he's doing. Not only that, he sounds like an asshole in the interviews I've seen of him on the F13 DVDs.
I love the original so much . . . it's one of my fav movies from the decade, and it's hard for me to imagine a worse choice . . . unless he's become brilliant since directing Jason goes to hell . . . but serriously? have you seen his imdb page? He's done like 3 things and the friday movie is the biggest.
Pointless to remake such a classic movie in the first place, but to now further defile the memories of Tourneur and Lewton they hire an utterly dreadful director.
It's weird that I Walked with a Zombie was remade not that long ago. It's the third Tales from the Crypt movie Ritual. It says in the title screen that the movie is based on I Walked with a Zombie and the movie is made by RKO pictures. It wasn't a bad movie either.
So have you already taken a dump on the film that will be used? Or will you do that after the fact?
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