Before she’s set to return to the unholiness known as the Meet The Fockers franchise, Teri Polo has signed onto Joe Dante’s upcoming The Hole, says the Hollywood Reporter. The film, written by Mark L. Smith (Vacancy), tells the story of a mother (Polo) who moves with her two teenage sons to a rural house that shows them their greatest fears when the family discovers a bottomless hole in the basement.
It would be truly lovely if this film could mark a return to real horror for Joe Dante, who’s been trolling the kid-friendly market the last decade or so, save for a stint on Masters of Horror. Joining Polo in the cast so far is Haley Bennett (The Haunting of Molly Hartley). This could be a departure for Polo, who has dabbled a little in horror, with appearances on Tales From the Crypt and the Peter Horton series, Brimstone, but has largely run in the drama and comedy circles.
The film will be shot in 3-D and begins production in December.
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Why do people think of Dante as a horror director? The only "real" horror movie that he directed was The Howling. Everything else he's done – including Gremlins – has always been geared towards kids or young teens.
Have you not seen Dante's masterpiece "Looney Tunes: Back in Action"? If that wasn't 90 minutes of pure horror and pain, I don't know what it was.
To the first poster: Pretty much everything the man has done has been horror-based. Not just the Howling, but Piranha, the Twilight Zone (the show and movie), his eps of Masters of Horror, the Gremlins movies (which were supposed to be much darker and more violent were it not for Spielberg) and even The burbs, a horror-comedy. He is a horror director, through and through.
He's influenced by horror, sure, but he's not made a "real" horror movie since 1981. The news story makes it sound like he's John Carpenter reduced to making Pokemon films. And Back In Action is a really good Looney Tunes movie. Fuck the haters.
CHUD exclusive exerpt of the script: White idiot #1: Honey? Did you notice that there's a bottomless pit in our basement? White idiot #2: Oh, yeah, the slimy one with the fetid steam and shreaks of the damned coming out of it? White idiot #1: Yeah, that's the one. White idiot #2: Yes, I did notice that. It frightened me to the very core of my being. YAWN! Ooh, I'm sleepy. Ready for beddy? White idiot #1: You betcha. I suppose we can call someone about the hellmouth in our basement tomorrow. (They exit, turning off the basment light. The unholy pit glows menacingly behind them, foreshadowing their doom and insulting the audience's intelligence – bottomlessly.)
Hence Glen's non-screenplay writing career.
According to Don Murphy, dante is fit to direct the traffic at the warner brothers lot.
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