Knight Rider Retreads the Revamp of the Revamp

 
I want to say, “Oh, Thank GOD!” but I’m not too sure that it would be accurate. This tidbit from The Hollywood Reporter kind of makes me want to clap my hands,say yeah, mainly because of these words:
 
KITT is getting a tune-up. NBC’s freshman drama “Knight Rider” is undergoing a major retooling, bringing it closer to [...]

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‘[REC]‘ and ‘Quarantine.’ Wait, Are These the Same Damn Film?

Jaume Balagueró’s [REC] is a fine example of mindless, fun terror set in a claustrophobic environment. It’s got it all: infected people who turn into ravenous monsters at the drop of a scene change, terrified, all but idiotic people contained in a tight environment dealing with a situation only a horror writer could think of. [...]

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Because Shannon Elizabeth and Edward Furlong Need to Resurrect Their Careers

ShockTillYouDrop is reporting, exclusively mind you (oh how exciting), on the new remake of the 80’s B movie, which most of you have either forgotten or never seen, Night of the Demons.  Among the film’s stars are notable D listers Shannon Elizabeth and Edward Furlong, because, well, damn it times are tough and you can’t [...]

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‘The Uninvited,’ or Typical Hollywood Formula for Horror Disaster

Horror these days sucks, plain and simple.  Perhaps we’re all just getting old here at Hey! Media, but the mediocrity of Hollywood horror films these days is something that really gets under our skin.  Such is the case with Hollywood’s latest attempt to make a quick buck, The Uninvited.  I won’t bore you with unnecessary [...]

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Mellville’s ‘Action-Adventure Revenge Tale’ to Get Reimagined by an Idiotic Hollywood

I Watch Stuff tells us that Hollywood has faded to absolute shamelessness. Quoting from an article on Variety, we find out from IWS that:
[Writers Adam Cooper and Bill Collage] revere Melville’s original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change the structure. Gone is the first-person narration by the young seaman Ishmael, who observes how [...]

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