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Larry Cohen Plans Remakes of It's Alive, Black Caesar, and The Stuff
Perfectly good b-movies apparently need a fresh coat of paint...
by Scott Weinberg | July 20, 2007
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Long before he wrote movies like Phone Booth, Cellular, and (ugh) Captivity, filmmaker Larry Cohen was making horror movies about killer babies. And (guess what?) he just got done on the remake of his own 1974 horror flick It's Alive.

Production recently wrapped on the It's Alive remake, which will star Bijou Phillips as a woman dealing with killer mutant babies. (Hey, the original is actually quite a bit of schlocky fun!) Although he's still on board as writer and producer, Mr. Cohen has ceded the directorial reins to Josef Rusnak, whom some of you may remember from a movie called The Thirteenth Floor. Yeah, that one.

Cohen seems to have no problem joining in the remake parade: "Every movie's being remade, every old horror movie has been remade, usually so badly ... I hope [these] will be good ones," is what he told the MTV Movies Blog. Also on tap for remake duty: the 1973 blaxploitation flick Black Caesar and the "killer cool whip" satire The Stuff (which is a b-movie I've always loved.)

No word yet on if Mr. Cohen plans to remake the sequels It Lives Again (1978) and It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive (1987), but I wouldn't exactly hold my breath on that. But if Mr. Cohen wants a few suggestions, I sure wouldn't mind seeing some new (but still good) versions of God Told Me To (aka Demon) and Q: The Winged Serpent.

Source: MTV Movies Blog


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Elixor writes:
on Jul 20 2007 06:53 AM

The Stuff! LOL. That movie's premise was so over-the-top. Two guys stumble across some white goo oozing out of the ground, and what do they do? They decide to taste it of course!

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dracus writes:
on Jul 20 2007 07:12 AM

A remake of It's Alive? Someone please kill it.

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bustahwolf writes:
on Jul 20 2007 07:29 AM

This seems like a unique situation, you don't normally hear of a writer/director deciding to sit down and try to remake a sizable chunk of his own library. My first reaction to the news is negative, which probably comes from watching Lucas "remaster" the SW films over and over again.

But hey, if Cohen can bring the same sort of fun as he did the first time around, all power to him. I'd love to see how he'd make the Stuff now, lord knows there's enough to make fun of just from our current consumerism and obesity problems.


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Crenshaw writes:
on Jul 20 2007 07:30 AM

I think we need a 2 year hiatus on all horror movies. They need a time out.

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jmo2ski writes:
on Jul 20 2007 07:46 AM

Is hollywood getting so depsrerate that they have remake movies about killer mutant babies. This sucks.

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bobdebicker writes:
on Jul 20 2007 08:02 AM

i love The Stuff! i hope they wont take that movie too seriously.

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dagreenman18 writes:
on Jul 20 2007 10:25 AM

wait, this guy wrote Cellular? DIE YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!! It was terrible. it was one of thoes movies where you watch it and its the single stupidest things you will ever see. not even stupid funny, just stupid stupid. i want to kill this ****.

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Product_of_You writes:
on Jul 20 2007 10:54 AM

I was pleasantly suprised with Cellular. Thought it was gonna be horrible, but it was pretty good. Ugh, to Bijou Phillips starring in a movie though; girl can't act.

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okuonuora writes:
on Jul 20 2007 12:59 PM

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Couldn't be more stupid than you, though.

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Kollikodon writes:
on Jul 20 2007 01:25 PM

... Goddamn... cant wait to get drunk and watch the "Its alive" Remake...

pretty much the only way I enjoyed Home Alone 2 as well....


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knowingtoast85 writes:
on Jul 21 2007 12:05 PM

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My fond memories of HA2 were all but crushed when I saw it again recently. What a total letdown.

Larry Cohen's recent scripts are just being taken too seriously. "Phone Booth" could have been the next in his repertoire of great trash if they didn't feel the need to cast big, talented-but-ill-fitting stars or take a magical FX trip through a bunch of telephone wires. "The Stuff" is great on its own terms, let's not play at unecessarily legitimizing it.


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Matanuki writes:
on Jul 21 2007 01:04 PM

The Stuff???!!! Of all movies. lol. This idea sounds so bad that it might actually be good. I still laugh when I think of that movie.

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Matanuki writes:
on Jul 21 2007 01:04 PM

The Stuff???!!! Of all movies. lol. This idea sounds so bad that it might actually be good. I still laugh when I think of that movie.

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