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Raimi Launches Spooky Pictures with 'The Substitute'
Friday, October 2, 2009


By: MrDisgusting
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Sam Raimi's genre label Ghost House is launching Spooky Pictures as a new banner that will produce thrillers for family audiences. First pic will be The Substitute, a remake of the Danish thriller that Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Day the Earth Stod Still) will helm and Columbia Pictures will co-finance and distribute through a first-look deal with Spooky.

Announcement follows a similar label launch by Disney, which is pairing up with Guillermo del Toro to make scary pics for family auds through Double Dare You (Daily Variety, Sept. 11), and signals the kind of thrillers Hollywood may soon be unspooling at the megaplex. Should the labels find an audience, the shift away from slasher fare and the like, often referred to as "gore porn," is likely.

Project revolves around a terrified sixth-grade class as the students race to reveal to their parents that their new substitute teacher is an evil alien being.

Derrickson is penning the script with Paul Harris Boardman, who co-wrote "Emily Rose" with Derrickson. The two also collaborated on the redo of Fox's "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

Ole Bornedal originally wrote and directed "The Substitute," which bowed in 2007.

Spooky will finance, develop and produce its own family fare under Ghost House, which has a deal with Mandate Pictures.

Raimi and Rob Tapert ("The Grudge" series and "30 Days of Night") will serve as producers of the "Substitute" remake through Spooky, while Russell Hollander and Nathan Kahane will serve as executive producers. Tendo Nagenda and J.R. Young will shepherd for Spooky.

Pic's original filmmakers, Bornedal and Michael Obel, will produce through their Thura Films banner. 

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Malcolm T Grindhouse
1:21am, October 2, 2009

Sounds awesome. The Substitute was such a twisted movie. The situational awkrandness made me cringe


PresidentObama
1:29am, October 2, 2009

Ghost House and Spooky Pictures, sounds like the same to me in the sense that Ghost House barely produced any decent movies (with a few exceptios) and Spooky Pictures is going to be a "PG-13 at max" label.


Jonny Horror
1:38am, October 2, 2009

FAMILY AUDIENCES !!!!! WTF !!!!! Now don't get me wrong, I'm not against having a few cutesy pics that the family can watch like Ghostbusters,Beetlejuice, Gremlins, etc. But I really like mt horror ADULT oriented, and your Sam Raimi, the creator of The EVIL DEAD. "SAM, What Happened" ???


ultrazilla2000
4:16am, October 2, 2009

Ummm...Jonny...nobody said R rated horror will stop. I'm pretty sure Spooky Pictures is a subdivision of Ghost House, not what Ghost House is being renamed into. And personally, if they keep making awesome movies like Drag Me To Hell, then I say go for it!


magnaderalpha
4:16am, October 2, 2009

I think this is awesome. There needs to be MORE family horror flicks, just like back in the old days. The territory the horror genre USED to cover back in the day was lost in the 90s. It's only fair that it should be reclaimed for horror as a whole. I mean, horror was so much more than just gore and boobs. All aspects of horror should make a return, even the family horror of the 70s and 80s.


HorrorChild
8:49am, October 2, 2009

I like this because, as only being 16, I grew up on Goosebumps movies. =) I think there needs to be more horror movies for kids so we can have some horror followers once they grow up.


horror_punk13
9:45am, October 2, 2009

I think Sam Raimi's actually going about this pretty well. If he can lure younger audiences into seeing B horror movies then that will create a younger fan base for more gruesome independent movies. It doesn't matter if he slaps Ghost House or Spooky Pictures on the front people will watch. I mean... wouldn't you wanna support the guy who brought us the Evil Dead trilogy? I do! Go Sam!


horrorchick81
11:11am, October 2, 2009

i agree with ya johnny


Reddeath09
11:50am, October 2, 2009

Yesss, Sam Raimi rocks. Bruce Campbell is awesome, him and Ted Raimi are certain to be in it-bring it on! :)


TheAgeOfTheFall
2:34pm, October 2, 2009

While I absolutely loved "The Evil Dead" films and "Drag Me To Hell", Sam Raimi should indeed stick to R-rated horror, not watered-down PG-13 horror. It doesn't matter whether it's scary, bloody,or suspenseful....BRING ON THE HORROR GENRE!!!!!


magnaderalpha
8:32pm, October 2, 2009

TheAgeOfTheFall, I couldn't disagree more. It DOES matter if it's scary, bloody or suspenseful. The whole attitude to shun those qualities is why the horror genre is in the rut is is right now. I'm not saying there shouldn't be films that are fun, gory, with sex, nudity and heavy swearing. I'm just saying that those shouldn't be the ONLY films within the horror franchise. Horror USED to be widely diverse. I would liken it to music, which is NOT just about rock, pop and hip hop. There are a great variety of music for everybody's tastes. Limiting diversity in horror would be like limiting music to only two genres(say just Modern Rock and Hip Hop) and not giving exposure to anything other than those two styles. People will start to think those two styles are the only ones that matter BECAUSE, what they don't know won't hurt them. I've aways believed that the options should be there, nonetheless. I mean, if people don't want to see sluts being killed by a psycho, there SHOULD be other options. Maybe they want to see mutant babies running rampant in a hospital or a family friendly horror flick to act as a gateway movie to get their kids set up for a future of horror love.


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