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Roshiq- One major quibble right from the start though- in this day there would be no map with pins on it- it would all be computerized. If you can get past that, you have some excellent ideas.
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Damn! I thought of that at the very beginning just after my selection of IBTL for a remake; but somehow I totally forgot to write down the point. Anyway, I thought the map with the pins on a wall can still be shown in a way suppose that's a some sort of tradition which they are maintaining for years in that particular cemetery office (besides everything being computerized). And that's may be become a reason for Robert to 'reluctantly or accidentally' put the black pins on the wrong spots at the beginning.
Otherwise, we should go for a remake with the same time period of the original one.:D
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Originally Posted by neverending
There are some missteps at the end, IMO. Why not have some brief shots of zombie like creatures? They could be explained as Robert's visions, and could be very scary.
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yeah..that's actually sounds very nice and I'm sure anyone would love to see that. But the thing is why I didn't go for that is zombie & vampire are the least favorite segments of horror to me.:o Please don't get me wrong cause I'm not saying that I don't like zombie or vampire movies, that's only just a personal preference of mine after the sub-genre of psychological thriller, slasher and Ghost/Supernatural. So I completely agree...I should go with the idea of having some brief shots of the dead, it definitely add some more entertaining value to the horror of the film.
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Originally Posted by neverending
Too much explanation at the end. Just show the priest finding the black pin on Robert's location and end it there.
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Totally agree, that would be fine enough. And I know... I'm not good with the 'explanation' things. :(
Thanks to NE & Doc for your precise comments and suggestions and kudos to Chrono for come up with a pretty brave and great project.
Now just for fun I like to tell you the idea that I though at first after getting the challenge. :D
Though _V_ precisely mentioned to choose a movie from the 1950s, 60s or 70s, but I dared to outlined a film that consists 3 remakes of each decades. Something like Bava's
Black Sabbath but instead of having 3 independent short horror stories this film (which I even titled as
The Unusual) would have 3 short-length remakes of 3 different films of 50's, 60's and 70's.
Like from 50's there would be a short length remake of
I bury the Living, from 60's there would be a S.L. remake of
Diary of a Madman or
The Skull (I was bit confused to choose between this two) and finally from 70's there would be a remake of British horror
The Asphyx (a pretty interesting story). And these 3 tales would be told by an old man to his nephew regarding his personal favorite horror films of his time and as the nephew haven't seen those movies yet so he just visualized those stories with present day's scenario.
The selection of movies was primarily based on the synopsis that I have read on different movie sites.
Anyways, as I haven't seen before or have no chance to see right now the above selected movies from
60's & 70's so I didn't finally make myself convince enough to go for the remakes of such movies that I even haven't seen at all! Moreover, it would be 3 times more pressure for me to answering the challenge that way.
But luckily I found Albert Band's
I Bury the Living divided into 8 parts on youtube and loved it for a remake.:)