The LA Times recently reported that Breck Eisner has parted ways with the Creature From the Black Lagoon remake and jumped ship to another remake- that of David Cronenberg’s The Brood. It isn’t the only remake that Eisner’s involved with, as he has the remake of George Romero’s The Crazies coming out next year. Two remakes of two lesser films from some of the best genre filmmakers!
If you’ve never seen the original, it’s a heartwarming story of a mother who asexually reproduces a race of monsterous, murderous children that go out and kill on her whim.
There have been a few scripts for the remake floating around but they’re going with one Cory Goodman for the remake. I love the original despite its flaws, and am just scratching my head
over whether they’ll keep that twisted, twisted ending (really, one of
the main elements that makes the film work) or not.
Fun fact! The antagonists of The Brood were named one of our Forgotten Monsters of Filmland, but perhaps this new film will reignite people’s memories.
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The Forgotten Monsters of Filmland article was my reason for checking out this gem. It's fantastic and absolutely absurd! I cannot fathom how this could be remade and polished up. The endings great, I just really hope they stick with the rainbow jumpers…
Can't WAIT for the CGI rage babies. Jesus Christ.
Half of the links to the Forgotten Monsters series are dead. Can they still be found anywhere? I'd love to check 'em out.
"An crazies"?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! this is the best of early Cronenberg, without a doubt. It'd be one thing is they remade Rabid or Scanners, but the payoff for the BROOD is just so epic, god damnit!
Hey Nathan, yeah, that's from the site revamp. I went back and fixed up the links in the archive- /articles/articles/12451/ Hope you enjoy it!
But who can possibly fill the shoes of Art Hindle?
I can only hope that I will not hate this.
Forget Art Hindle, who can can begin to fill the overflowing hipwaders of Oliver Reed?
Not only is this one of Cronenberg's best, it's one of his most personal films. What was cathartic for him will be a empty paycheck for this guy. I don't automatically hate remakes, but this is pointless unless someone has their own subtext to bring to it. If it's just a goofy horror cash grab, I'm out.
speaking of remakes of Cronenberg movies, what ever happened to the remake of Scanners? I watched the original for the first time in a decade or so, and man is that a great concept that could benefit from a revisit. The lead is that is a disaster. His stiff delivery makes Keanu Reeves look like Brando.
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