Yes, even updates to movie review websites can have sequels, and that sneaking sensation you have that you’ve read all this before is quite correct.
The Frozen Ghost (1944), in which there is not a ghost to be seen, frozen or otherwise, but Lon Chaney Jr. just might be able to kill people with his mind…
I Am Virgin (2010), on which basis I think even Anktastic will be able to agree that I Am Legend wasn’t nearly as bad as it might have been…
Let Me In (2010), in which a revived Hammer Film Productions does as good a job as we could ask for of remaking a movie that had no reason to be remade…
Pillow of Death (1945), in which the spooky house formula is clearly ready for the nursing home…
Strange Confession (1945), in which you never can tell what sort of person could be walking around at night with some other guy’s head in a bag…
and…
Toolbox Murders (2003), in which a different guy with a toolbox commits a different bunch of murders, apparently because doing so will help him live forever somehow.
#1 by Nathan Shumate on May 3, 2011 - 3:49 pm
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I Am Virgin is in my screener pile, but my screener pile is currently buried in a box. I am now in no hurry to get to it.
#2 by PB210 on May 3, 2011 - 4:39 pm
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With Hammer having resumed production, I find it interesting to note that
that Hammer actually produced few notable monsters or adventure heroes of their own.
Hammer tended to produce adaptations of public domain properties (Count Dracula, Carmilla, Ayesha, Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, etc.). They also did adaptations of other intellectual property owners’ characters (Dick Barton and Quatermass from the BBC, the Duke de Richlieu from Dennis Wheatley, Simon Templar (the Saint) from Leslie Charteris, as well as a few other previously extant properties I remain unsure about (Sherlock Holmes, Captain Clegg (Doctor Syn, the Scarecrow).
It seems Hammer will do a remake of Captain Kronos, whom they do own.
Interesting to compare Hammer to Universal Studios. Universal Studios produced, for the most part, for new properties, just the Ape Woman, the Wolfman, Imhotep and Kharis, the Werewolf of London, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Dracula, Mister Hyde (counting the King Baggott version somewhat out of place in the Universal list), Frankenstein’s Monster, the Phantom of the Opera, etc. came from literature. Flash Gordon came from a King Features Syndicate comic strip.