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A Couple of Media MentionsSeveral people alerted us to the story by The AV Club, which notes that AIP is at it again: Remaking some of their old movies, including some that were riffed by our beloved cowtown puppet show. Also, CNN Entertainment uses the upcoming “Friday Night Lights” feature film as the peg to do an item about TV shows that have become movies, and mentions, well, guess who? (Thanks to our pal Tom for the heads up.) 9 Replies to “A Couple of Media Mentions”Commenting at Satellite News
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AV Club link isn’t working, here’s a fixed link:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/a-whole-bunch-of-the-movies-mystery-science-theate%2C97368/
AIP and Crown International had some pretty good gems back in the day.
“… all of which were churned out on the cheap by AIP’s Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson in the 1950s, all based on the first focus groups ever held to determine that teenagers are morons.”
Ouch. I’d strike the word “teenagers” from that sentence and replace it with the term “focus group.” I don’t believe focus groups have changed. Only now their responses would be in Twitterspeak.
“I jst didnt thk it ws funny!!”
They’d probably put an emoticon in there, too.
Among the first MST3K-mocked AIP movies being readied for updates are The She-Creature, Teenage Caveman, Viking Women And The Sea Serpent, The Undead, and War Of The Colossal Beast…
How are you going to have WotCB without TACM?
Viking Women actually isn’t a bad little movie, for what it is. I watched The Last of the Vikings with Cameron Mitchell and Edmund Purdom (just before he entered the Richard III wing of the Royal Hospital for Over-Acting), and that was a dead snooze compared to Corman’s movie.
The Undead was actually a pretty good movie, with an interesting premise and some fun performances.
The She Creature is one of the most useless movies in existence — the movie is so dull and the lead is practically petrified. And yet the premise isn’t too bad; maybe a remake would not be a waste of time.
Didn’t they do this a few years ago on Showtime or something?
I remember titles like “Teenage Caveman,” and “Earth vs. the Spider” and even “she-creature” but the stories were totally different.
Dan Aykroyd, for example was in the Earth V Spider “remake” but it was not even a real spider. It was a boy who acted like a spider, or something.
And without the Corman magic, how can they ever hope to make a watchable film based on these premise?
RE: 5 — A watchable Corman film without the Corman magic? But we’ve already seen that. It’s called Zontar: The Creature From Venus [That Doesn’t Look Like a Pickle], starring a piece of plastic (and no, we’re NOT talking about the monster). Kind of like having the instruction manual on how to make a movie then refusing to look at the manual. In other words, typical Larry Buchanan.
Why hasn’t Cinematic Titanic shredded this film? :-)
As for the remake of Teenage Caveman – I never did understand that. If we KNOW they’re not prehistoric at the beginning of the film, then what’s the point?
Didn’t they do this a few years ago on Showtime or something?
I just stumbled across this tonight. Cinemax did it. They redid:
She Creature
Earth vs. the Spider
How to Make a Monster
The Day the World Ended
Teenage Caveman
But as R the L-F says, they weren’t remakes of the originals.
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