LA Horror Presents: “Bunnyman 2” (coming soon)

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We received a tip from writer/director/producer Carl Lindbergh about his upcoming horror film “Bunnyman 2.”  We checked out the trailer and it looks ultra creepy and fun.  While the film is currently in post production, we got the inside scoop from Lindbergh about the film, as well as a little bit about him as an artist.

LAHorror:  Tell us about the story of “Bunnyman 2.”  What the fuck is up with this bunny?

Lindbergh:  As the trailer suggests, this is one very pissed off giant bunny. Obviously someone really upset him, and as a result, he takes out his frustration on any and everyone that crosses his path. “Bunnyman 2” follows the antagonist’s story line, and is about the title character and a crazy redneck trying to manage the stress of killing all these random people.

LAHorror:  Why should people see “Bunnyman 2?”  What type of horror are you striving for?  What makes it unique (besides the fact that it has a Bunnyman)?

Lindbergh:  Well the opening scene shows a giant Bunnyman slaughtering a bus full of kids. I would say that’s a pretty unique way to start a film!  I certainly haven’t seen it before and I watch a lot of horror films. The main thing I want to stress is that “Bunnyman 2” is not cheesy, it’s not campy. It has a dark sense of humor, but not “stupid” humor. I’m presenting a very absurd idea with a very serious tone. Most films of this type, from say Roger Corman or Troma would play this up as camp. This is a “unique” approach to something very bizarre, almost surreal in a way like a David Lynch film. I guess you could ask yourself, what would a film look like if David Lynch made a horror film for Roger Corman. Perhaps “Bunnyman 2” is the answer to the question?

LAHorror:  What are some of the inspirations behind this film?  Not necessarily other movies, but ideas/art/etc.?

Lindbergh:  The idea stems from taking something very innocent, say either a bunny suit or a school bus sign, and turning it on it’s head. Playing with the symbolic nature of seeing a school bus sign, but with blood on it. I believe it’s a striking image, and tells the viewer a lot with saying any words. It’s this contradictory nature that runs through the Bunnyman films. Another example, we’ll have someone die in a grotesque way however we’ll present it in a way, that the audience can’t help but laugh as it happens.

The cinematic influences on “Bunnyman 2” are a diverse range of films. Two two primarily influences I see in the film is the “Friday the 13th” series of films and Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life”. Talk about two complete different films. “Bunnyman 2” has the mood, feel, atmosphere of a Malick film such as “Days of Heaven” etc. however within that world we have a serial killer disposing of bodies as what you would see in a 80’s slasher film.

LAHorror:  What are the overall plans for “Bunnyman 2”?  Any screenings scheduled yet?

Lindbergh:  The primary goal is securing distribution. I’m not convinced it’s worth going the festival route as opposed to going straight to the distributors themselves.  If the eventual distributor decides to screen the film, I would of course support that decision.

LAHorror:  How was the cast/crew?  Cool people?  Small or large group?

Lindbergh:  I can’t speak highly enough about the cast. They put up with harsh conditions, 120 degree heat, meat eating bees etc. They went above and beyond what a filmmaker could ask from them. We had a small crew of about 12 people, i.e. a few amount of people doing multiple jobs.

LAHorror:  What are your favorite horror films/directors?

Lindbergh:  Obviously the horror classics such as the original “Nightmare on Elm Street”, “Halloween” and “The Evil Dead” series of films. I’m a big fan of more obscure horror films such as “Phantasm” and “Cemetery Man.” The directors that I’m truly inspired by are Ridley Scott and Tim Burton.

And in case you were wondering, “Bunnyman 2” is the sequel to “Bunnyman.”  Check out the trailer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOYZ6HZMqqY

Certainly seems like this bunny doesn’t CARROT all who gets in his way…stay tuned for reviews of both films!

Be sure to check out “Bunnyman 2” on Facebook!

Alien/Predator Marathon

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I grew up watching the “Aliens” movies.  I vividly remember being allowed to watch “Aliens” with my father when my mother was working late (he still made me close my eyes during some certain chest bursting scenes).  I was also no stranger to “Predator.”  In fact, I would argue that “Predator” may be Arnold’s true masterpiece, and without a doubt the ultimate guy movie.  Needless to say, when Crave Online‘s Brad Hansen and Athena Stamos invited us to their fifth Movie Marathon featuring every “Alien” and “Predator” movie watched in one day (including “Prometheus” the following day), we were…bursting…with excitement.

Their previous thons included a Star Wars Marathon, Star Trekathon, Batathon, and the insane full Bondathon (25 films, three days), however this was their first horror-thon, and hopefully not their last.  Just imagine a Freddy vs. Jasonthon or a Chuckython.  We’ll see…but in the meantime, here’s how the thon worked:

-Each movie was watched in order of release.

-Only theatrical versions were watched.

-Each movie was rated 1-10 and the averages were taken to choose an ultimate winner.

While we had to miss the Prometheus screening the following day, it was an absolute pleasure watching these favorites again in a 15 hour span.  Check out the time-lapse video created by these two crazy thoners and see just exactly how these movies panned out.

For the record, our ratings were:

“Alien” – 10

“Aliens” – 10

“Predator” – 9

“Predator 2” – 7

“Alien 3” – 4

“Alien Resurrection” – 8

“AVP” – 1

“AVP Requiem” – 5

“Predators” – 8

There you have it folks.  Much thanks to Brad and Athena for the invite – be sure to check out their article on the event on Crave Online here!

LA Horror Presents: Will Penny

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Cookies and milk.  Cream and sugar.  Jason and a machete.  Some things are just meant to go together, and Will Penny shows us exactly that in his ridiculous and hilarious comic strips titled “Sex and Monsters.”  We must warn you, fair reader, “Sex and Monsters” is by far the least frightening but potentially deadliest thing ever featured on this website.   Be careful to not die laughing…

Penny’s comic strips are full of, well, sex and monsters, two of every true horror fans favorite things.  He was the campus newspaper cartoonist in his college days, and though he works as a professional in law now, he uses his extra time to continue his passion for art and horror through his comic strips.

“I’m a big horror nerd.  I’m a comic book nerd, but actually I was a horror nerd first.  And I think that comes out of growing up on the old classic black and white Universal horror films,” Penny told LAHorror.com.  Yet, movies alone didn’t do it.  Penny was an avid horror comic book fan growing up and draws much of his inspiration from the comics that used to spook him.  “And of course anytime you mention comic books and horror you always have to drop in the EC comics, you know, the first and last name in horror comics.  So, of course, I was heavily influenced by ‘The Crypt Keeper,’ ‘The Vault Keeper’ and ‘The Old Witch.”

Other notable influences Penny taps into are “Cracked,” one of his favorite horror magazines as well as several writers/illustrators from Playboy.  Together, these pieces are put together in Penny’s “R” rated comics in a ghastly fashion.  (Speaking of which, “Sex and Monsters” was recently nominated for a Ghastly Award, which celebrates excellent up-and-coming horror comics).

Penny is not simply the writer of these strips, but also illustrates and colors each one in a process that can take over a week to complete.  But that is only the tip of the iceberg for “Sex and Monsters.”  Penny also creates hilarious “Crack-Ups,” montages of images from the very same horror movies he grew up watching with hilarious and unexpected punch lines.  Penny has successfully transformed so many once-horrifying characters into the butt-end of some zany humor.  Check out a couple of our favorites.

“Sex and Monsters” is without a doubt one of the silliest things we’ve had the pleasure of reviewing, but the true punch line of all of this is in how Penny came up with the idea for this strip.  You see, “Sex and Monsters” was created by accident in a strange way only just over a year ago.  Penny was trying to get tickets to last year’s San Diego Comic-Con, but they were all sold out.  Determined to attend, Penny got creative.

“I looked online [and thought], ‘What are other ways to get tickets,’ and one of the ways they said you could get into the show, the convention, is if you were an actual professional.  And you applied for a professional pass, but to do that you had to have an actual comic strip up on the web or a book published in your name.  I was like ‘crap, I only have a few months to get something started so I could get tickets to this show.’  That’s basically the genesis of ‘Sex and Monsters,’” Penny told us laughing.  For the record, it totally worked.

Check out Will Penny’s full collection of “Sex and Monsters” at www.SexandMonsters.com.

Why Do You Love Horror?

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Why do you love horror?

Is it for the blood?  The gore?  The violence?  The fear?  The terror?  The creatures?  The monsters?  The killers?  The rapists?  The victims?  The crying children?  The screaming mothers?  The missing little girl?  The broken lock?  The eye behind the door?  The mystery?  The carnage?  The discovery of the mass grave?  The hatred?  The psychopaths?  The grisly works of skeleton art?  The murder weapons?  The axe?  The machete?  The glove with knives?  The disgusting surgery?  The awkward laughs?  The sex?  The lust?  The naïve teenagers?  The chase?  The hunt?  The guts?  The mistaken identity?  The sinister music?  The sinister laughs?  The cheerleaders?  The slumber partiers?  The underage drinkers?  The happy campers?  The disease?  The infection?  The sickness?  The loose dirt over the shaking coffins?  The sound of dripping?  The sound of chomping?  The sound of death?  The urge to vomit?  The urge to cover your eyes?  The urge to keep watching?  The urge to want more?  The explosions?  The invasions?  The missions gone bad?  The betrayals?  How nothing is how it seems?  How there is nobody to trust? The look in her eye when she knows she’s going to die?  The sound in his voice when he shrieks?  How evil knows is found in every age, gender, species, time, object and world?  How no matter what, nobody is safe?  The beautiful death over and over again?

Why do you love horror?  Well, probably the same reasons that I do.

We can be sick together.

Thanks for visiting LAHorror.com!

LA Horror Review: “Bloody Wedding”

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Kate Murdoch and Brad Coffey fight for their lives in “Bloody Wedding”

Who doesn’t like a good wedding?  There’s the dinner, the free booze, delicious cake and memories that will last a lifetime. But in the case of “Bloody Wedding,” the new over-the-top slasher flick from Sharkey Films, that lifetime may be a lot shorter than you might expect…

The set up is simple.  Cindy (Kate Murdoch) is about to marry Pierce (Ryan Sulak), the handsome man of her dreams.  She goes through the typical problems that all brides face – getting the flowers ready, an occasionally grumpy fiancé, bitchy, nasty relatives and unwanted wedding guests.  Yet, all of those things seem trivial when the wedding party begins to get horrifically murdered.  The suspects are everywhere with a slew of potential motives, and as the body count rises, Cindy realizes that nobody can be trusted…not even the ones she loves dearest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h_g5sswTTM

“Bloody Wedding” lives up to its name – there is a wedding, and it is bloody.  But that’s not the only reason that it’s a terrific success.   The art of creating an enjoyable low budget horror film can be tricky, but “Bloody Wedding” kills it (pun intended).  This movie has everything horror enthusiasts could hope for – loads of blood, genuine laughs and, of course, plenty of beautiful women (and men) being killed in some brilliant ways.  While we don’t want to give away too much, one thing must be said:  “Bloody Wedding” has one of the most terrific sex-to-kill scenes since the original “Friday the 13th.”  Note from this reviewer:  LOOK UNDER THE BED BEFORE YOU HAVE SEX.

Tawny Amber Young finds herself in a rough spot.

Now, “Bloody Wedding” isn’t necessarily the scariest horror film ever made and that’s just fine.  It does utilize a number of slasher clichés, but they are easily forgivable due to the tongue-and-cheek nature of this movie.  It knows exactly what it is and doesn’t have to apologize for it.  “Bloody Wedding” is the sickest, sexiest and goriest wedding you’ll ever attend. Just one look at the remarkably attractive wedding party, and you’ll send in your RSVP faster than you can say, “I do.”

But while the actors are undoubtedly good-looking, don’t write them off as your typical “all beauty, no brains” horror cast. Each character is developed and interesting, and there really aren’t any sore thumb performances whatsoever.

Marguerite Insolia and Mike Pfaff put up with the crude antics of Jordan Bates

Most notably, Jordan Bates as the hilarious and crude best-buddy Jim Swim is the glue that holds this cast together.  His ridiculous (and often improvised) one-liners are seriously hysterical and over-the-top.  “I’d go to war for those rocket tits!” was our personal favorite.   Mike Pfaff plays Jackson, the groom’s brother, in a genuine and believable way, and the chemistry he shares with Ryan Sulak certainly has an insidious nature at times.  Bombshells Pason and Tawney Amber Young are terrific bitches and it’s truly a pleasure to root against them.  Lastly, Kate Murdoch and Brad Coffey (the brother of the bride) are the heart of this story, and they do an amazing job getting you invested in these characters and showing their humanity in an otherwise inhumane setting.  Along with a stellar supporting cast, these performers clearly had their hearts in this project and made it a most memorable experience – we wouldn’t be surprised to see any one of these actors blow up in a major way given the right opportunity.  After all, don’t all the greats start in horror?

Writer/producers Patty Sharkey and Mike Merickel and director Robert Hoover have a lot to be proud of with this piece.  They set out to make an enjoyable horror film and they did just that.  While “Bloody Wedding” may not get a massive theatrical release, it certainly has the potential to be a cult favorite in no time at all.  Do yourself a favor and send your RSVP to “Bloody Wedding.”  This is one wedding that people are dying to attend, so don’t miss it!

Please visit “Bloody Wedding” on Facebook.  Also take a peek at Sharkey Films first feature “Homeless Joe.”  Music for “Bloody Wedding” was provided by Old Man Markley.

LA Horror Presents: “The Funny Man”

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Anybody want to hear a joke?  What did the deranged, psychopathic masked murderer say to his helpless victim?

“Say something funny…”

Okay, that wasn’t a very funny joke, but it really isn’t intended to be because those are the last words that countless victims heard in writer/director Jake Barsha’s “The Funny Man,” a ten-episode horror web series produced by Daily Motion and Right Hook Films.

Originally, “The Funny Man” began as a feature length screenplay of the same title. “I had this idea for this story about a serial killer, kind of a comedian who is also a killer.  And that eventually became ‘The Funny Man,’” Barsha told LAHorror.com.  And though the title suggests it’s humorous, don’t be fooled.  This is a super gory horror show that isn’t afraid to pull any punches.  You’d be surprised how many people you can kill in just ten short episodes.

This was not Barsha’s first plunge into the macabre.  After directing his first feature film,“Eugene,” he went on to create a web-series entitled “Leidy’s New Boyfriend,” another creepy show about a psychopathic woman who meets the boy of her dreams. Naturally, she locks him up in her basement and keeps him as her captive.

It was then that the door opened for Barsha to make “The Funny Man.”  “Around 2010, I made a video content, like a web series, called “Leidy’s New Boyfriend,” and it was about a guy who gets kidnapped by a woman and held in the basement, and she basically captures him as her new boyfriend.  And this company called Daily Motion found “Leidy’s Boyfriend” on Youtube and asked if I would upload it on to Daily Motion…I did, and somehow, I think I put out a newsletter or something describing “The Funny Man” or what I was up to and somehow they got wind of it, and they contacted me and asked me if I wanted to make it into a web series…they were basically offering to finance it.”

After some creative re-writes and adaptation, Barsha took his feature film script and made it into an episodic format.  And with the help of Daily Motion, production for “The Funny Man” began.  In just three short weeks, Barsha and his crew shot and edited the entire series.  It premiered on line last fall during Halloween, and since then has garnished over 250,000 hits.  The series has also recently won five awards at the Los Angeles Web Festival, including Best Director and Best Horror Series.

“I’m super excited that it was received well, that people seem to like it a lot, and that’s really motivating because I really want to do some more stuff…I think that there’s a lot of horror material out there and there’s a lot of people making horror and doing stuff, but it’s such a dynamic genre to think creatively, you know, to really think about different ways to do something or different ways to make something scary…It’s a really exciting platform to lend your energy to,” Barsha said.

The energy that “The Funny Man” delivers is intense; it’s raw and its, well, not very funny.

Watch “The Funny Man.”  For more information on Jake Barsha and Right Hook Films, please visit their official website.  You can also connect with “The Funny Man” on Facebook as well as “The Funny Man” blog.  Please read LAHorror.com’s full review of “The Funny Man” here.

LA Horror Review: “The Funny Man” (web series)

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Lee (Ryan Reyes) is your average struggling comic.  He’s socially awkward and a recluse.  He has a hard time making relationships work.  He shows up to open mics and tells his best jokes— jokes that he may or may not have borrowed from other people…from recently murdered people, to be precise.

You see, Lee has a deep dark secret.  His twin brother is a murderous psychopath hell bent on hearing a good joke, and he isn’t afraid to kill to find it.  And that naturally causes a lot of problems for Lee, especially after he meets the beautiful and kind Rachel (Abby Wathen), who actually takes a liking to him.  Lee now must struggle to prevent her untimely demise at the hands of this masked killer, The Funny Man.

“The Funny Man” is a 10 episode horror web series written and directed by Jake Barsha and produced by Daily Motion, and it delivers.  Each episode ratchets up the body count and drives the story closer to its shocking conclusion.  It’s slick, gory and ultra creepy.  “The Funny Man” is no joke.

The series is led by actor Ryan Reyes who gives a subtle yet haunting performance as our disturbed comedian, Lee.  You’re not really sure what to make of him.  You like him, but you don’t want to.  You hate him, but you sympathize.  You want him to succeed, but fear what he’s going to do next.  It’s dynamite that will divide horror audiences into two factions: those who root for the victim and those who root for the killer.  And should it really be any other way?

Lee’s performance is complimented by a stellar ensemble cast of both up-and-coming actors as well as veterans of the genre alike.  Leslie Easterbrook (“The Devil’s Rejects,” “Halloween”) and David Fine add a wild card element to the series as the nosy neighbors, and, in near the end of the series, you can see exactly why these two have had such terrific careers so far in Hollywood. They really light it up when the time comes.  And while many of the other characters only survive for one or two episodes, you really get a feel for who each one is as a person.  “The Funny Man” looks like a web series, but plays like a feature film, creating characters you sincerely care about that all help drive the full story forward.  The body count in this show is high, but it never feels gratuitous.

Other notable successes of “The Funny Man” go to the stellar cinematography by Yuki Noguchi and the editing and directing by Jake Barsha.  It is masterfully lit and each frame carries a certain weight to it.  The editing is crisp and often adds to the scares, from quick flashes of horrific moments to long, dreadful sequences.  The overall pace of this show is quick, but thorough, enabling the viewer to see all of the bloody details.

At the end of the day, this is simply a terrific piece overall.  If you’re a fan of gory horror, watch this show.  If you’re a fan of psychological horror, watch this show.  If you’re a fan of horror in general, watch this show.  Who knows, you may even relate to “The Funny Man.”  After all, don’t we all like telling jokes?

Watch “The Funny Man”

LA Horror Presents: Timothy L. Raynor

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Timothy L. Raynor began his acting career as a fighter.  He started studying martial arts as a child and became a Master Level Instructor.  In the early 1980s, Raynor took the plunge into Hollywood, where he very quickly was able to put his skills into action.

“I got into live on stage fight scenes, you know, for demonstrations for Star Trek conventions and things like that— Sci-Fi conventions.  And a friend of mine said, ‘You know, why don’t you try your luck in Hollywood?'”  And that’s where Raynor met Jimmy Huston, the writer and director of the campus slasher, “Final Exam.”  Huston, looking for an actor with combat and weapons experience, asked Raynor to audition for the most important role in the film: the killer.

At the audition, Raynor immediately made an impact. “The night of the audition I come dressed in this three piece suit, this three pin striped suit, decked out.  And I’ve got all of my weapons,” Raynor told LAHorror.com.  And after showing the producers his skills, they only wanted more.

“I did everything I could, and Jimmy Huston comes up to me afterward and he goes, ‘Can you do anything else?’” Raynor recalled. “I also do a six-inch palm strike. I put up a telephone book up to some guys and I’ll do six-inch palm strike and knock em’ ten feet back. So that’s the only thing I could think of at the time.”

And Raynor demonstrated that strike on the largest guy in the room who, unknown to Raynor, just happened to be John Chambliss, one the films executive producers.  After the punishing blow to the chest that left Chambliss on the ground, the audition was over.  Two weeks later, Raynor got the part.

Aside from the camera time, Raynor choreographed each fight scene and murder, and after watching “Final Exam,” you can see a raw intensity in each kill.  In one scene, for instance, Raynor had to jump off a 14-foot plank onto his victim, a “groin busting” stunt that they luckily only had to do once.  In another, Raynor pulls a character out of a moving convertible top with one hand.  In one of the longer action sequences, Raynor battled actor Ralph Brown in the school gym that ended in Brown’s character’s death by weight machine strangulation.  That fight scene, which took only 20 minutes for Raynor to choreograph, received a standing ovation from the crew.  However it was during that scene that real death nearly crept onto the set of “Final Exam.”

The Killer strangles Wildman in "Final Exam"

“Well, there were some reporters there, that were from the local papers and that stuff–TV stations–and they were talking to me.  Jimmy wanted to do a close up of Ralph being thrown up against the machine…[Ralph] goes over; he wraps the chord around his throat himself.  He did it too many times.  He pulls himself out, they said “action,” he throws himself back against the weight machine and it tightens up–starts choking him…they think he’s acting!”

Luckily, Raynor noticed the unsupervised stunt in a nick of time, untied the unconscious actor and administered CPR.  Pretty nice move for a killer.

Now 30 years later, “Final Exam” has hit cult status and Raynor often receives autograph requests from horror enthusiasts (he signed our VHS copy himself).  And while Raynor is flattered by the attention, it is by no means his only claim to fame.  Raynor has appeared on multiple TV shows and films, including “The Sarah Conner Chronicles,”  “My Name Is Earl,” Animal Planet’s “Wildlife Wars” and played a different type of killer in the gangster film, “Drop Off.”  While auditioning for “Star Trek:  Enterprise,” Raynor met the love of his life and fellow actress, Tracey Kimball, who was working on the series.  They now frequent science fiction conventions and are currently in pre-production on two sci-fi series of their own.  Raynor most recently portrayed the character of Death in an upcoming short, “Deathwatch.”

Raynor as Death in "Deathwatch"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It seems that bringing death is just in his nature…

For more on Timothy L. Raynor, please visit his IMDB page.  You can also get a peek into his new Sci-Fi series, “Praetorian,” here.

Five Horror Films that Will Never (or Should Never) be Remade…

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For better or for worse, it seems that Hollywood studios are pumping out remakes at an unheard of pace.  Some of the most classic and beloved horror icons are being rehashed, remade and recycled for a newer and younger audience.  Some find this troublesome, others find it encouraging, but the truth is somewhere in between.  It’s a new age and new faces want to see new, bloodier takes on classic films.

While there really is no stopping this phenomenon, we at LAHorror.com would like to share our top five horror films that should not EVER be remade.

5.  “Jaws”

Of all of the films on this list, “Jaws” probably has the best chance of remaining untouched.  Could you imagine a “Jaws” remake?  Sheriff Brody (now played by Ryan Reynolds) is trying to close the beach much to the dismay of the thousands of Spring Breakers trying to host their bikini competition.  Hmmm…it actually sounds like it could be okay, but let’s not find out either way.

4.  “The Exorcist”

Remaking this one would seem almost like a joke on itself at this point.  Exorcism movies are popping up all of the time now, some of them are actually pretty good too, but they all strive to do what only The “Exorcist” could do.  Nobody will ever match Linda Blair’s performance as Reagan and nobody will create an exorcism film as raw and shocking.  “The Exorcist” (like “Jaws”) has transcended out of the horror genre entirely and is more of a staple of American cinema in general.  Trying to reboot it would be like playing with a Ouija board:  who knows what you’d summon but it probably wouldn’t be good.

3.  “Child’s Play”

There is buzz around a “Child’s Play” remake and there has been for some time.  If handled delicately a “Child’s Play” remake could be pretty good, however what worries me about this idea is what they would do with Chucky.  Would you create a new doll entirely?  And what of Brad Dourif, Chucky’s sinister voice?  We’ve seen what recasting can do to a horror remake and it’s often not pretty (i.e. “Nightmare on Elm Street”).  Could you imagine a new Chucky with a new voice?  Chucky is the killer doll in cinema.  He wasn’t the first, but he’s the biggest and he should stay that way, just as he is.

*Literally as this article was being written MGM announced two new “Child’s Play” films, one sequel and one re-make in pre-production.  The good news?  Brad Dourif is supposedly attached to both projects…for now…

2.  “The Evil Dead”

Yes, this film is being remade.  The good news is that Sam Raimi wrote the screenplay and Bruce Campbell is attached as a producer.  The bad news is it won’t be the same “Evil Dead.”  “The Evil Dead” is one of those movies that’s way better than it ever should have been.  It masterfully blends horror, extreme gore and black comedy into a zombie, demon and chainsaw filled bloodbath.  Every scene in The Evil Dead seems to outdo the previous one tenfold.  This remake has some big shoes to fill and is going to have to be absolutely bonkers if it expects to live up to the original.

1.  “Cannibal Holocaust”

You simply can’t remake this movie.  It can’t be done nor should it.  “Cannibal Holocaust” is arguably the most controversial and horrific film ever made, the release of it alone inspired arrest warrants for the filmmakers.  While director Ruggero Deodato has been trying (unsuccessfully) to make a companion piece, the original has remained in tact and always should.  Some films are just too horrific to recreate, and even if you somehow could match the ferocity and raw violence of the original, no theater in America would ever touch it.

Is there a chance that all of these will be remade eventually?  Of course, and time will tell if it was worth the effort.  In the mean time, what other horror films would you consider off-limits?