With the ’90s we’ve definitely hit the ongoing era of remakes and sequels. In fact, horror movies were ahead of the curve on that, given how many of them are low budget and direct to video (streaming now, I guess.)
Speaking of horror, back to work today! Oh, well, we still have a short work week. Meanwhile, Sandy and I are mostly done with the T-Fest line-up for the 21st this month. I hope to see some of you there!
(By the way, this is the year they made Witch Hunt, the sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell. Again, really, they couldn’t get Fred Ward back three years after the sequel? I think they really wanted to do the *yawwwnn* super super fresh McCarthy thing, and got the older Hopper because of the time jump. This despite the fact that Cast a Deadly Spell was popular enough to inspire HBO to make what was at the time their very first sequel movie.)
I guess I’ll go with Wolf. Hollywood was in the midst of a little boom of big budget, star-studden horror films (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula) and the best of the bunch, which isn’t saying much, is Wolf because it’s as much a satire of the publishing business as a horror film. Jack Nicholson’s minimalist werewolf make-up, reminiscent of Werewolf of London and presumably developed so as to not cover up their star’s face, looks more like a dry run for Wolverine than Larry Talbot. That said, I’m sure Wolf is quite a bit better than the awful looking Wolf Man remake they did a few years ago.
