Re-Animator for the Tween Set?

[Alex Riviello]

http://chud.com/articles/articles/18382/1/RE-ANIMATOR-FOR-THE-TWEEN-SET/Page1.html

[Phil]

Fuck YOOOOOOOU.

[Alex Riviello]

It's hip AND edgy!

[HBarr]

All comes down to who is running the show (no points there) and who is doing the writing. Buffy did have pretty faces but was a well-written show. This could be the same but I'm inclined to doubt.

Edited to add: Intoducing H.P. Lovecraft to a new generation is also a plus. Depending on how it's done, of course.

[Judas Booth]

Unless they have a decapitated head in a silver pan performing cunnilingus on a hot blonde ('More passion!!!!'), I'll pass. This deserves a hard R treatment.

[Phil]

They're Buffying up Lovecraft's entire universe? It's a public domain bonanza! Cthulhu season finale cliffhanger?

[Russ Fischer]

Edited to add: Intoducing H.P. Lovecraft to a new generation is also a plus. Depending on how it's done, of course.

The best way to do that is like this:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/lovecraftian_school_board_member?utm_source=a-section

[stelios]

Jeffrey Combs is spinning in his grave.

[HBarr]

The best way to do that is like this:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/lovecraftian_school_board_member?utm_source=a-section

I'd watch that.

[Lima Oscar Lima]

He’s a teenage Dr. Frankenstein in a modern-day younger world, filled with sometimes terrifying scientific intrigue...

She's a chain-smoking French-Canadian barmaid with a flame-thrower... They fight crime!


Fuck this. I hope all involved die of scurvy.

[Alex Riviello]

Jeffrey Combs is spinning in his grave.

hahaha almost said the exact same line in my article.

It's funny, I just introduced a friend to Re-Animator last week. He'd somehow never hear of it (I know...) and was sold when I told him it starred "that cult nutball from The Frighteners". I think he's become a fan for life now- and really, how could you not?

The shoes may not be as big as Freddy or whatever but nailing West's tone and humor is going to be incredibly hard.

[DARKMITE8]

I think the premise is great (I would totally watch a "weird shit of the week" series in the HPL universe), but the demographic is terrible. And a remake of RE-ANIMATOR? They can remake any ol' slasher flick they want as far as I'm concerned (NOES, I have reservations), but now things are getting personal. You leave my splatstick classics alone!

[Phil]

The shoes may not be as big as Freddy or whatever but nailing West's tone and humor is going to be incredibly hard.

They're making him "sexy" and giving him girlfriends. They ain't filling shit; they went shoe-shopping.

[Arjen Rudd]

This is like a throwaway joke you see in the background of a real movie. But Cthulhu on TV?

[Judas Booth]

If they do an episode that covers 'From Beyond', I'll watch it.

[Mattioli]

Eh, skewing the series to a younger demographic doesn't necessarily equal crap. I direct your attention to "Buffy", "Angel and "Supernatural" as evidence of that proposition. Thus, I'm willing to give it a shot.

[DARKMITE8]

Eh, skewing the series to a younger demographic doesn't necessarily equal crap. I direct your attention to "Buffy", "Angel and "Supernatural" as evidence of that proposition. Thus, I'm willing to give it a shot.
Sure, I like those shows, but don't expect Whedon or Kripke quality in the slightest...

William Butler (producer of the second and third Gingerdead Man films and director of Furnace) is behind it

[Lima Oscar Lima]

The only thing that could possibly be worse than this, is a re-imaging of In The Mouth Of Madness starring Kirk Cameron, Amy Grant, and Willie Aames as Sutter Cane...

Scurvy...

Hope they get it.

[HBarr]

Sure, I like those shows, but don't expect Whedon or Kripke quality in the slightest...

No doubt; however, depending on who they get to script the show could turn this into a more interesting show (for example Jane Espenson).

[Alex Riviello]

He also wrote the last two Return of the Living Dead movies (Necropolis and Rave to the Grave).

But yeah, we'll see who they nab.

[Phil]

Eh, skewing the series to a younger demographic doesn't necessarily equal crap. I direct your attention to "Buffy", "Angel and "Supernatural" as evidence of that proposition.

Not helping.

[Mattioli]

Sure, I like those shows, but don't expect Whedon or Kripke quality in the slightest...
And who was Kripke before "Supernatural"? IMDB tells me that he was the mastermind behind such classics as "Boogeyman", "Boogeyman 2" and the "Tarzan" tv series. But, yeah, I'm not going to enter this new series with high expectations. I'm just willing to give it the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise.

[Sebastian OB]

Guys, it's just a proposal. Save your indignation for the pilot 'cause in all likelihood this going to die on some executive's desk.

[James May]

Can't say I really care what they do with this property. Did we all forget how abysmal Beyond Re-Animator was? I don't expect it to be good, and if it is thats a plus.

[Phil]

Beyond Re-Animator had a kung fu fight between a rat and a penis. It helped.

[nekkerbee]

Hardcore Lovecraft is too much a niche subgenre to ever have much appeal to the masses, so we'll probably never ever see an authentic, spiritually faithful Lovecraft tv show. However, given the quality of aforementioned shows like Buffy, etc., I'm receptive to the concept of a somewhat diluted, teen-friendly Lovecraft program (and it seems more like Miskatonic U - the Series than Re-Animator - the Series.) If it ever gets made it'll probably suck and die a quick death, but there's a small chance it will be good (or at least charming) enough to warrant some loyalty. Come for the hot chicks, stay for the shoggoths.

Besides, like many horror fans, Lovecraftophiles are well used to wading through piles of absolute dreck for the hope of uncovering a hidden gem.

[James May]

Oh yes, and can't forget about this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BnOUOkcr9c).

[Alex Riviello]

Beyond Re-Animator had a kung fu fight between a rat and a penis. It helped.

And a guy with no lower jaw drinking milk out of the carton. It definitely had its moments!

[Mattioli]

Not helping.
And that makes you wrong. Sorry, thanks for playing. :D

[Phil]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I don't want to be in the "grownups who like Buffy and Angel" club, so we're cool.

[Death Surge]

Don't feel alone Phil. Myself, along with most self-respecting professional horror aficionados, are all on the outside with you.



And there's not a single female in that line-up fit to fill Barbra Crampton's C-cups. For shame.

[Mattioli]

Don't feel alone Phil. Myself, along with most self-respecting professional horror aficionados, are all on the outside with you.
Damn it! I'm outnumbered here. Where's Dev the one time I need him?

[Judas Booth]

And there's not a single female in that line-up fit to fill Barbra Crampton's C-Cups. For shame.

Not that you'd see those C-Cups in this TV show.

[Dross]

Don't feel alone Phil. Myself, along with most self-respecting professional horror aficionados, are all on the outside with you.




I'm with you guys. Fuck those shows.

ETA: and this one.

[Abbott & Prospero]

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From left to right behind West: Dawn, Angel, Willow, Xander and Buffy? Fucking hell. Calling it now that Cthulhu will appear by mid-season as a hot female exchange student that Herbert falls for. Her eyes will glow a sickly green when his back is turned. The others will try to warn him that something seems off about her. But he won't listen. He won't listen. Because dammit she's hot and she understands him better than anyone else ever has.

[Alex Riviello]

I love the guy in leather's tough-guy pout. You can imagine him practicing that in front of the mirror. "You're mean! You're mean!"

[DARKMITE8]

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From left to right behind West: Dawn, Angel, Willow, Xander and Buffy? Fucking hell. Calling it now that Cthulhu will appear by mid-season as a hot female exchange student that Herbert falls for. Her eyes will glow a sickly green when his back is turned. The others will try to warn him that something seems off about her. But he won't listen. He won't listen. Because dammit she's hot and she understands him better than anyone else ever has.

That's funny right there. And true.

[Jake]

A&P's post somehow made me hate this less. I don't know how he did that.

[Doc Phibes]

Don't feel alone Phil. Myself, along with most self-respecting professional horror aficionados, are all on the outside with you.


Same here. I hate that crap. The only good one is where Doug Jones magically took away their ability to say that awful Whedon dialog.

Anyway, who's going to believe Buffy-ized Lovecraft? Get a job in a sideshow!

[Chap Saxon]

I have no problem with making West a bit younger. He was already a med student in the original. Making him sexy is a terrible idea because you lose the homoerotic undertones with Dan fighting his love for West to date women and stay normal. As for as Jeffrey Combs spinning in his grave... you have got to be fucking kidding. Combs could give a shit. He'd be happy to play the principal or Herbet's fucking dad in a cameo or reoccuring guest spot.

All this discussion is for naught. This show will never get made. Never.

[Sebastian OB]

Whoa whoa whoa...you guys don't think Jefferey Combs is sexy?

[Timothy225]

Well, if this does hit the screen, I'm hoping for episodes featuring the Drama club performing "The King in Yellow", and the madness that results soon after; a sorority fish-fry being interrupted by some horny Deep Ones; Shub-Niggurath and his Thousand Young coming out of the woods, spending Homecoming with the alumni; hundreds of students invoking Cthulhu accidentally as they pray for help in passing their mid-terms; and which pledges will be sacrificed to Azatoth during hell week.

Oh, and there best be copious amounts of bloodshed and gore. I'm expecting one of the cast to be devoured by invisible demons in a packed Student Lounge during lunch.

[Jake]

In these post-Obama days we can no longer refer to him as Shub-Niggurath.

[Lima Oscar Lima]

In these post-Obama days we can no longer refer to him as Shub-Niggurath.


So it's Shub-Personofcolorath?

[Phil]

So West won't have a pet cat named "Nigger" in honor of Lovecraft? Buuuuuullshiiiiit.

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Iove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a nigger.

[Alex Riviello]

Gotta love that psychotic, racist gynophobe.

[nekkerbee]

Well, if he wasn't so full of fear and hate he probably wouldn't have produced such terrific work. Reasonable tradeoff, IMO. I'd rather have the damaged people becoming artists instead of politicians and demagogues.

[Alex Riviello]

Agreed. I don't have to like or agree with a writer or artist to appreciate his work- I find it strange when people do. Hell, I don't even consider him much of a writer, either. But the imagination on that guy was unreal.

[Gabe Powers]

Gotta love that psychotic, racist gynophobe.

Honestly you really do. I love the way all these Lovecraft fans pretend the guy wasn't a raging racist. Love it.

[Phil]

Response from a friend:

“HERBERT WEST—RE-ANIMATOR is a fresh, contemporary take on all of H.P. Lovecraft’s immortal horror works.”

Almost every adaptation is a “fresh, contemporary take” on his work and, with few exceptions, they all suck C’ock.

[James Kimbell]

I was going to agree with the consensus. But now that you've insulted Buffy, I hope this show outlives you.

[BubWilliams]

It looks like fucking Degrassi: The Next Generation.

[Francis Wolcott]

Fuck YOOOOOOOU.

Yes.

And I actually like Buffy quite a bit.