Episode 51 Remaking Hardware (1990)
Richard Stanley's low budget science fiction, thriller brought some major themes of environmental collapse, over population, and more, disguised in survival horror. Starring Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, and John Lynch along with appearances by Lemmy and Iggy Pop! You can't stop progress, and you can't stop the Invasion of the Remake!
Episode 52 Invasion of the Retrospective: Remakes of the Future Part 1
Episode 52 Invasion of the Retrospective: Remakes of the Future Part 1
Part 1 of our 2-part special on all the remakes currently planned by Hollywood. We got behind enemy lines to get the skinny on over 100 remakes and reboots to make you, our devoted Invaders more prepared for the carpet bombing of films you may find familiar. Dramas, comedies, horror, science fiction, action movies and even cartoons to live action are all covered here. The birth of a new cinematic universe is also covered.
Be prepared and stand aware. The invasion is all too real!
Episode 53 Invasion of the Retrospective: Remakes of the Future Part 2
Part 2 of the Hollywood's invasion plans on our movie theaters. Invasion of the Remake snuck behind enemy lines and got Hollywood's remake battle plans and they plan to carpet bomb us so badly that we couldn't contain the news in just one podcast. Sam and Jason continue there coverage of the all the action, comedy, western, drama, horror and sci-fi remakes in the works. Back to normal next week. We promise.
Episode 54 Remaking One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975)
It has 5 Academy Awards and boat loads of critical acclaim. It is on more must watch lists than we can count. So of course attempt to do the impossible by remaking Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975). We might as well try to climb Mount Everest with our teeth. Who are we to think we can have a better cast than Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Brad Dourif, Sidney Lassick, and William Redfield? Maybe we should be committed for even trying.
More importantly than trying to remake the film is discussing it. It should be talked about. It is still relevant today and we have a frank discussion about the film, and mental illness. Don't worry, we have some fun as well. It's what we do.
Episode 55 Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Vs. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
You enter a small little flower shop on skid row. It's crowded with people and a large plant looking like a venus fly trap, but much larger, sits in a corner drawing most peoples attention. The faces in the crowd look familiar, people like Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles are on one side of the room with Roger Corman who looks puzzling across the room at Frank Oz who has a crowd behind him. People like Rick Morranis, Ellen Green, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Jim Belushi, and John Candy are staring back at Corman and his crew snapping there fingers and humming. It is all so odd. The plant looks your way and gives you a wry smile, almost winking despite having no eyes. You turn back out the door and decide to order your flowers online because this is just too weird!
Episode 56 Remaking Blind Fury (1989)
Rutger Hauer is again the subject to our discerning eye, or possibly wrath, it may be wrath. Phillip (Salt, Bone Collector) Noyce directs Blind Fury (1989), a film loosely based on Zatoichi. A Vietnam veteran blinded during the war comes to town to bury some ghosts of the past and gets drawn into a drug ring that has devastated his friend's family. Good thing he was trained by local villagers while he was missing in action to be a master swordsman. The bad guys will definitely pay in this action, comedy starring Rutger Hauer, Terry O'Quinn, Branden Call, Noble Willingham, Nick Cassavetes, Rick Overton, Randall "Tex" Cobb, and Sho Kosugi!
Episode 57 Ringu (1998) Vs. The Ring (2002)
The original Japanese Ring (1998) by Hidea Nakata and the American remake The Ring (2002) by Gore Verbinski started and coined the term J-horror. It was the first of many Japanese horror films to be remade for American audiences and became part of the essential horror film lexicon. Invasion of the Remake watched them and got the call. Seven days the caller on the other end said, we told them we only needed 2 hours. We looked into The Ring, and The Ring looked back in fear because it is October, and you know what that means...we have all the horror
Episode 58 Remaking Peeping Tom (1960)
Peeping Tom (1960) birthed a new genre, the cinematic slasher. Premiering only two months prior to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, director Michael Powell created a powerful piece of cinema that wouldn't be recognized for its achievements for another 30 years! On this episode Sam & Jason discuss a horror classic that destroyed a man's career and shocked the audiences of the 1960's. It is a film that you probably never heard of, but every cinema lover should see!
Episode 59 Halloween (1978) Vs. Halloween (2007)
Halloween (1978) ushered in a deluge of slasher films, but when John Carpenter created Michael Myers a horror icon was born that continues to terrify teenage babysitters to this day. Almost 30 years later a new, unique voice in horror in Rob Zombie would come along to remake Halloween (2007) for a brand new audience in his dark vision. Now Invasion of the Remake puts on there slightly soiled William Shatner masks and sees which version will be rule Halloween.
Episode 60 Remaking Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Possibly the first of its kind to blend genres, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) took a classic comedy duo and pitted them against Universal Picture's horror monsters Dracula, Wolfman and of course the Frankenstein Monster. There is even a cameo by the Invisible Man. Some of the most iconic actors to ever play the monsters return in this comedy/horror film like Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, and Lon Chaney Jr. Will a couple of comedy buffoons be a match against the devious plans of Count Dracula? How will Jason and Trish recreate this classic film and who might they cast in it?