I'm torn between how interesting that could be if it was done well/responsibly and how absolutely exhausting the marketing and discourse around the release would be. Just an absolute deluge of videos and articles about how the radical left is cancelling beloved character actor robert zdar, from people who hadn't even heard of the originals a week before.
@@inklingofadream I hear ya. I've found my life has been better since I started deliberately avoiding the kind of media that would take such a BS controversy seriously. I hear far fewer reactionary / racist / sexist / fascist takes these days, except from people making fun of them. If you can do it - and I know not everyone can - I think it's worth a try. It's nice.
@@deathsecretary2055 Well it's certainly high camp, just on the drag king side of the spectrum. Much as the fashy element who partake in hobby, would hate to admit that...
Thought. Exactly. The. Same. Thing. I mean, he's almost describing that Faux / Fake software that made it look like Real Tom Cruise was saying / doing things he wasn't. Remember that... But he makes it sound almost exactly like _Unfriended_
My favorite horror remake was when they made the awful Gimlet media podcast "Scaredy Cats" into a really cool UA-cam channel with a way better host. Releasing the remake several months beforehand was a real stroke of genius.
I wish they'd remake the Shinning, don't care how it looks as long as the whole time they're filming Shelly Duval has an all paid vacation and Pina coladas daily
You mean The Shining. Although, a dark comedy with a slasher who takes a baseball bat to his victims shins to slow them down before slaughtering might be fun... 🤔
One of the kids in monster Squad junior is trans, and she almost feels bad for the monsters and relates to Twilight vampire due to feeling monstrous herself. She has a crush on Generic Cute Guy, but Twilight vampire is jealous, because he feels that she's one of the very few humans that understands and trusts him.
@@douglasphillips5870 I think having him start to act in a similar(not as extreme) way but get actual consequences and character growth could be a nice response to Twilight romanticizing that behavior tbh
or a movie about the production similar to Shadow of the Vampire - there was enough weird stuff going on while filming that you wouldn't need to change the events that much...
But he's also been infected by an alien plant that causes him to mutate and have plant powers. But also he's a ninja. But also a mad scientist gave him mad science prosthetics. Robo-mutant ninja undead zombie-wolfman (TM)
The plot that Matt puts forward for his remake of 'The Stuff' sounds actually terrifying. The kind of film that would leave me horrified for weeks afterward.
How about a 2 hour horror film, in which Matt pitches a huge list of horror film scenarios; each one cooler than the one before. And you leave the cinema knowing that none of them will ever get made.
Little shop of horror is one of my favorite remakes. I think we need more remakes that turn movies into musicals. We have a lot of stage show musical versions of popular horror movies, but horror movie musicals are just so charming. The fly and the thing I think make a good double feature
Favorite Horror Movie Remake List for Entergagement: • The Thing • The Fly • Little Shop of Horrors • 13 Ghosts (Don’t @ Me) • It Ch. 1 • Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2 • Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Only if there are more wet puppets and less dry cgi - can you imagine the same meddling production company that ruined The Thing getting hold of poor Audrey Junior?
You know what? Do a "Dracula's daughter" re-interpretation. The original movie draws pretty explicit parallels between Countess Maria's vampirism and her implied lesbianism. I feel like a new movie that could explore that even further would be fascinating. Have it be an atmospheric, misty period piece. Possibly, try to explore lesbian's experiences of comp-het by having Countess Maria try exceptionally hard not only to conceal her vampirism and control her "urges" but deny their existence and attempt to live a normal life. Who knows! The possibilities are endless. The lesbian vampire isn't even new- I'll order my copy of "Carmilla" any day now- but I feel like the character of Countess Maria is really interesting. She's just a little bundle of shame :'(
For engagements sake I will say I really liked watching the 13 Ghosts remake and it has a special place in my heart because I watched it when I was like 9 and the idea of the spooky glass house with lots of ghosts that are all creepy in their own way is just exactly the right blend of stupid and scary
The glass house in that movie is one of the most beautiful sets I've ever seen. I wish there was more on the Black Zodiac. At least we have the DVD extras.
I'm so happy for Bobby Duke to be able to work and develop musician skills after so much trauma. What an example to us all. (is the engagement god sated?)
The remake of The Hills Have Eyes was great in my opinion. Not an Oscar contender but it’s bloody and suspenseful and well done. The Wrong Turn “remake” was actually good. They take a totally different direction with it. I was surprised at how much I liked it
Except that the _Wrong Turn_ reboot wasn't _Wrong Turn_ whatsoever, it was Wrong Turn in name only. They took out everything that made Wrong Turn, Wrong Turn. It was more a movie of the show _Outsiders._ ¬_¬
You boiled down my feelings on the actual movie The Stuff so freaking well. It's a great concept and a terrible movie that's more fun to think about than actually watch.
I would 100% be a good little consumer and pay good money for any of these movies you described. Now I desperately want to create a movie studio called "Movies for Matt"
Movie studios should hire you to be like Cartman that time he pretended to be a robot and they got him to pitch movie ideas all day, but instead of them all being about Adam Sandler you could just be like “Hey, what if we re-did this movie but, you know, made it good?” 😂
Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man was a really good remake/reimagining that comes to mind. Bit more suspense than strictly horror but definitely has a lot of horror elements and is really well done in my opinion.
i did not know about The Monster Squad and it sounds lovely, will be watching that. Thank you for your jazz Mr. Dook also thanks scaredy matt for the video i guess
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I LOVE The Monster Squad! I've probably seen it a hundred times. There's a little non-profit theatre downtown that takes requests. This was one of mine and it sold so many tickets the first time that they now play it every Halloween. It's cool seeing all of the fans who grew up with The Monster Squad bringing their kids to see it now. Ahhh, nostalgia!
The Woodman's kids is adopted and a bigfoot hunter, because they think bigfoot is a relative of their parents and wants to be made into a werewolf like them.
I felt like 'The Stuff' was an allegory for cocaine - its70s/ 80s white turns ppl into monsters. I'd tots watch the stink mat version. Good remake =78s Invasion of the Body Snatchers
I’d like to see a reboot of The Babadook (2014) where the main character is an aging jazz musician who missed his big break and decides to drink himself to oblivion and then die behind the wheel. the catch is he wakes up as a Babadook and must somehow piece his life back together while suppressing his urge for carnage. call it “Duke-on Blues”
Have you heard of a Webtoon called Ghost Teller? It's about a bunch of ghosts tired of scary ghost stories and deciding to tell scary human stories instead. Like a woman who chose to have a life with two blessing and one tragedy, a nun who joins an orphanage where the children are dying of an unknown illness, or a comedian who realizes that people only laugh at him when he gets hurt. It's a fun read, and you might enjoy it.
The twist you recommend for a remake of the Stuff sounds a lot like the Immortal Hulk (the bit about Dario Agger). Combined with that short film about Yoghurt.
Whenever you find yourself in such a situation, just nod sagely and say, "Yes, I agree, this film does seem to share some superficial themes with Nome Inventato's 1969 horror opus, "Spettacolo Specioso"; the uncut version, of course."
I expected a list of *existing* remakes and I'm overwhelmingly delighted to discover this is your own ideas. I can't express how much I wish such movies were funded and made rather than the usual moneymaking crap. One can dream.
Bobby Duke rocking the Casio style blues sax. love it. Maybe it's because I got to see it at a horror convention with a rather insane crowd, but the remake of Maniac was pretty freaking awesome.
These are genuinely all incredible concepts! You're very imaginative and I really hope we get to see some of your creativity on the screen someday. I love the Political commentary for "The Stuff", it feels very layered and relevant. I really like the social (media) commentary for "Pulse", and I especially liked the idea of beginning the hauntings small-scale and personal, then ramping up to full blown Social horror (You could even begin the film focused on a family whose dead relatives account becomes active again and move on from there). And the Monster Squad film just sounds like amazing fun! Great video as always Scardey-Matt!
Can you please start pitching these ideas to whatever studio will listen, or at least start making story boards so there can be some sort of low budget collaboration among youtubers to make these happen.
I had the same experience with The Stuff. There’s potential for a sharp, funny movie in there somewhere, but the execution left me cold. I’d love to see it done well.
I love Little Shop of Horrors and that they made an American Psycho musical. The Stuff would be a really cool remake and would be relevant. I would love to see some of the Archie horror comics (like Vampironica) made into campy shows the same way the Riverdale writing is completely bonkers.
I would like to see a Dracula film done properly. In my opinion there hasn't been a Dracula film that really captures the horror of the novel. I would like something realistic and dark that takes the story seriously, imagine the tone and look of THE VVitch but the story of Dracula, that's what I want.
Bobby Duke's Jazz solo is the best thing I've heard all day, keeps bringing a smile. Here's my Monster Squad story. I watched and loved monster squad as a kid, and decided to watch it again. My husband had never seen or heard of it, and asked me how scary it was! :-) That was a lovely introduction to get to make!
I'm excited for the Candyman remake/sequel/whatever it is, whenever it finally comes out. It looks like an exciting combination of actors/director/writers I've enjoyed elsewhere, and even though the original is pretty well known among horror fans, I don't think it's well known enough for the studio to think interesting stuff in risky the way they might for like, Halloween. I mean, Nia DaCosta's good enough that I enjoyed Little Woods, even though it's outside the kind of stuff I usually enjoy, was waaayyy too depressing to watch in late March 2020, and I was initially only there for Tessa Thompson, so I have high hopes. Monster Squad Jr sounds rad, but also when you started talking about the original monsters also having kids I was stricken with visions of it being taken in the same direction as Disney's Descendants movies... which I guess is just already Monster High. oof there's a lotta "classic characters but they have kids now" media...
I couldn't get through Monster Squad. The kids were just so comfortable dropping the f-slur. It made me way too uncomfortable, especially as I was bullied relentlessly with that particular word in junior high. Also, seeing you put pronouns up for both you and Bobby Duke warms my heart.
I kinda liked the Poltergeist remake but mainly for the memory of taking my daughter to the movies for the first time after escaping from an abusive ex. So probably not as good as I remember but still holds a special place in my heart.
Mildo, (I'm sorry, but I will never not smile at Bobby Duke.) you need to write horror movies. I would watch and enjoy all of those remakes. Those ideas are so well crafted and interesting takes on existing stories.
I was a kid when The Stuff was released and the TV commercials for it and for Motel Hell freaked me the hell out...and then I saw them on cable (still too young but it was the 80's...) and, yeah, kudos to whoever did the commercials because they made those movies look way scarier then they were.
Hey these remakes sound eerily familiar-- On that note, while it's be a hell of a challenge to top Carpenter, I'd love a They Live! remake with the Scardey Cats treatment. It wouldn't even be that hard! The original does half the work for you.
I'd like a _They Live_ sequel, that should obviously be titled _We Sleep_ My pitch for a sequel - well, sort of sequel - is: after the events of _They Live_ the aliens were able to bring the signal online and brainwash the population again. This time they had to also brainwash everyone into forgetting that one time they've been exposed. And they succeed in that, mostly. But a few people can't completely forget it. So those people get brainwashed into believing that it was something they once saw in a movie. They also had to produce a movie like that so those who can't forget can find it and calm down. So this would not actually be a sequel. Instead _They Live_ exists as an in-universe movie in _We Sleep_ which is only based on the real events that the general population has witnessed - the ghouls and the hidden commands. But everything else in it is made up as purposeful deception. There are no underground tunnels. They just want you to believe that, in case you ever wake up and realise that it wasn't just a movie you saw. There is no intergalactic travel portal. They just want you to think they were aliens. The signal isn't tied to television. They wouldn't make you rich and powerful if you became their ally. They just want you to think along those lines, in case you ever wake up. You see, there's a reason why in the last scene of _They Live_ the guy in the TV show mentions John Carpenter. They want you to believe that the reveal was just something you once saw in a movie. That movie is supposed to be by John Carpenter. But at the time that happened some of you might have been in some situation like looking for John Carpenter films in the video store or watching a wrestling match of Roddy Piper. So for those who can't forget they put that little thing in there at the end, so they can go, _oh, I knew there was something like that,_ instead of being driven insane by the inconsistency with their vague memory remnant. Sorry, I don't have any seed for an actual story for _We Sleep,_ only this idea for how to link it to _They Live_ in a way that creates a lot of freedom for the author to go in different directions.
My friend and I were just talking about how Lovecraft Country needs a spin-off anthology series. The show was at its best when it was telling stand-alone stories, like Hippolyta's journey or the Kumiho's tale. I would subscribe to a new streaming service just to see a whole series of such stories.
I'm on the fence about The Stuff because I love the original. It's so random with just a dash of body horror. You're right it could be written better. I think it's just one of those films that would have a special place in my heart because of how very of its time it is.
Good remake: "Mother!" (the Aronofsky film) was a remake of "The Begotten" only with a narrative that was easy to follow and understand and it was pretty good.
Engagement! You got a knack for coming up with interesting specific pitches. Yes to cultivating the social commentary potential always in horror movies. I love to see it. ✨
The Suspiria remake is phenomenal. I wasn't sure what to expect but I didn't quite expect to walk away thinking it was one of the best movies of that year.
Evil Dead and Fright Night are some of my favorite horror remakes. But to this day Ive been BEGGING for a lawnmower man remake from a good director as an exploration of the intersection of technology and the "curing" of mental illness as a concept
The Stuff remake sounds like Sorry to Bother You in so many ways. But that's okay because Sorry to Bother You is awesome and this The Stuff remake sounds like a good plan as well. ETA: Entergagement!
All the rubes thought Bobby was playing a song called 'The Like & Subscribe Blues', but in actuality it was a mystical earworm titled 'The Lycan Subscribe Blues'. The hypnotic power contained within this eldritch song forced literally every single lycanthrope on Earth to subscribe to both of Matt's channels, increasing the subscriber count of each by 4.
My favorite remake is Tom Savini’s “Night of the Living Dead”. It’s basically the same story, but with some much-needed updates, it was still penned by Romero, etc. So to me it’s like the perfect combo of “old and familiar” and “exciting and new”.
Maniac cop needs a remake from a black director and screenwriter such as Jordan Peele
I'm torn between how interesting that could be if it was done well/responsibly and how absolutely exhausting the marketing and discourse around the release would be. Just an absolute deluge of videos and articles about how the radical left is cancelling beloved character actor robert zdar, from people who hadn't even heard of the originals a week before.
@@inklingofadream I hear ya. I've found my life has been better since I started deliberately avoiding the kind of media that would take such a BS controversy seriously. I hear far fewer reactionary / racist / sexist / fascist takes these days, except from people making fun of them.
If you can do it - and I know not everyone can - I think it's worth a try. It's nice.
You could just call it Cop
Just make a documentary about american/brazilian police
Better yet just watch Dredd or Tropa de elite/elite squad
Nicolas Winding Refn has been trying to get his remake off the ground for a while now. I "think" it's still happening?
Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne, comments for the algorithm!
The algorithm cares not from whence the likes flow; only that they flow!
I hate you both, my brother and all of the Chaos Gods because I know what you're talking about.
@@deathsecretary2055 I'd say it's safe to say, that the majority of people watching this video know what they're talking about.
@@lolly9804 I keep forgetting how many people actually play Warhammer.
@@deathsecretary2055 Well it's certainly high camp, just on the drag king side of the spectrum. Much as the fashy element who partake in hobby, would hate to admit that...
Bobby Duke playing jazz is the twist I didn't know I needed.
he gets it from his old man, Robbert Duke Ellington
I'm glad people like it. It's not for me.
Intellectual Dark Wave: "We didn't donate that."
They don't call 'em Bobby Duke Ellington for nothing...
Wait, do they actually call them Bobby Duke Ellington?
totally needed it!🤣
Your remake of "The Stuff" sounds a lot like like Sorry to Bother You, I'd love to see it!
BOOTS!
Reminded me of The Feed tbh.
i'd watch the hell out of it that's for sure. Esp if boots directed
I was about to say!
Or little Shop of Horrors.
My favorite remake was when they remade Thought Slime as Scaredy Cats.
"imagine if social media was ghosts" is just the plot of Unfriended
Well yeah, but what if it didn't suck.
Unfriended had a handful of good moments in it, which just makes how mediocre it was all the more disappointing
@@vivianviolet I've heard good things about the sequel.
Thought. Exactly. The. Same. Thing. I mean, he's almost describing that Faux / Fake software that made it look like Real Tom Cruise was saying / doing things he wasn't. Remember that... But he makes it sound almost exactly like _Unfriended_
@@LupineShadowOmega the sequel is really fun because of the way it takes the basic premise of the first in a wildly different direction
Um, actually, it's Kaiju's Monster. Dr. Kaiju was his creator.
Six hours and so far no victims. Color me surprised.
Okay, Dr. Frankenstein
Dr. Kaiju was the real monster, didn’t you read the manga?
@@andrewmartin2321 I'm only up to the Ocean Bubblegum Saxophone arc, no spoilers.
@@fruitygarlic3601 I only saw the bootleg fan-translation on laserdisk. It didn't even have the iconic bobby-duke musical number in the credits.
My favorite horror remake was when they made the awful Gimlet media podcast "Scaredy Cats" into a really cool UA-cam channel with a way better host. Releasing the remake several months beforehand was a real stroke of genius.
I wish they'd remake the Shinning, don't care how it looks as long as the whole time they're filming Shelly Duval has an all paid vacation and Pina coladas daily
"Shelly, just your daily reminder, Stanley Kubrick is still dead and will no longer be fucking with you. Here's another pina colada."
You mean The Shining. Although, a dark comedy with a slasher who takes a baseball bat to his victims shins to slow them down before slaughtering might be fun... 🤔
@@skellymom The Shinning is what Groundskeeper Willie had
One of the kids in monster Squad junior is trans, and she almost feels bad for the monsters and relates to Twilight vampire due to feeling monstrous herself. She has a crush on Generic Cute Guy, but Twilight vampire is jealous, because he feels that she's one of the very few humans that understands and trusts him.
This is a really nice idea and I really like it!
Hmm, nice idea, but we're starting to introduce too many plot lines. This would be great to turn it into a series.
@@deathsecretary2055 yes please, I want this more than Stranger Things
Just don't let twilight vampire be a controling stalker this time
@@douglasphillips5870 I think having him start to act in a similar(not as extreme) way but get actual consequences and character growth could be a nice response to Twilight romanticizing that behavior tbh
"Oh thanks matty I contain multitudes" is such a baller line it caught me so off guard
you put out a video every week and yet somehow every tuseday I'm like "oh a Scaredy Cats video I haven't seen yet"
Was gonna comment this same thing.
Manos: The Hands of Fate could actually make a decent movie in the hands of a competent crew and cast
or a movie about the production similar to Shadow of the Vampire - there was enough weird stuff going on while filming that you wouldn't need to change the events that much...
Only if they bring back the original actor to play Torgo. LOL.
@@greenhowie that would be brilliant too, a tragicomedy when you consider the fates of most of the principal cast
@@vagabondarcade7633 that would be extremely difficult for obvious reasons but I assume you know that
I could see it being remade in kind of a neo-Giallo style, lots of strange colored lighting and artistic camera angles.
Holy shit. That take on a remake of The Stuff was f***ing amazing.
I want a horror movie about insufferable idiots doing something harmful, and just doubling down when told they shouldn't.
@@caucasoidape8838 A movie about Republicans?
@@PoeInTheDitch Yeah, I'm sure it would go right over their heads, and they would claim the movie supports their views.
Wolfman dying just means we need an undead Zombie-Wolfman(tm) that procreates by infection and may only be defeated by a silver bullet to the head!
But he's also been infected by an alien plant that causes him to mutate and have plant powers. But also he's a ninja. But also a mad scientist gave him mad science prosthetics.
Robo-mutant ninja undead zombie-wolfman (TM)
CYBORG WOLFMAN!
"Oh sweet, he's mentioned The Stuff! I love that movie... ... ... Oh..."
Mood
The plot that Matt puts forward for his remake of 'The Stuff' sounds actually terrifying. The kind of film that would leave me horrified for weeks afterward.
I want to watch every single one of these hypothetical films and I'm angry that they don't yet exist
How about a 2 hour horror film, in which Matt pitches a huge list of horror film scenarios; each one cooler than the one before. And you leave the cinema knowing that none of them will ever get made.
ME TOOOOO
I will pay money for a spin-off series about Bobby Duke's crazy misadventures.
Little shop of horror is one of my favorite remakes. I think we need more remakes that turn movies into musicals. We have a lot of stage show musical versions of popular horror movies, but horror movie musicals are just so charming. The fly and the thing I think make a good double feature
Favorite Horror Movie Remake List for Entergagement:
• The Thing
• The Fly
• Little Shop of Horrors
• 13 Ghosts (Don’t @ Me)
• It Ch. 1
• Evil Dead/Evil Dead 2
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Thirteen ghosts is amazing and you shouldn't apologise- I mean Matthew Lillard? Come on!
@@jalix9574 I wouldn’t go that far, but it’s definitely a guilty pleasure. And yes, Lillard is as eminently enjoyable as always.
Ohh, that is a good Dracula.
Susperia was pretty great
Only if there are more wet puppets and less dry cgi - can you imagine the same meddling production company that ruined The Thing getting hold of poor Audrey Junior?
Am I the only one who looks forward Bobby Dook as much as the video itself? Bobby Dook is my favorite horror movie character remake.
You know what? Do a "Dracula's daughter" re-interpretation. The original movie draws pretty explicit parallels between Countess Maria's vampirism and her implied lesbianism. I feel like a new movie that could explore that even further would be fascinating. Have it be an atmospheric, misty period piece. Possibly, try to explore lesbian's experiences of comp-het by having Countess Maria try exceptionally hard not only to conceal her vampirism and control her "urges" but deny their existence and attempt to live a normal life. Who knows! The possibilities are endless. The lesbian vampire isn't even new- I'll order my copy of "Carmilla" any day now- but I feel like the character of Countess Maria is really interesting. She's just a little bundle of shame :'(
For engagements sake I will say I really liked watching the 13 Ghosts remake and it has a special place in my heart because I watched it when I was like 9 and the idea of the spooky glass house with lots of ghosts that are all creepy in their own way is just exactly the right blend of stupid and scary
I unironically love that movie
That movie rules
The glass house in that movie is one of the most beautiful sets I've ever seen. I wish there was more on the Black Zodiac. At least we have the DVD extras.
13 ghosts is good af
When will Covid finally end, so I can go to my favourite Jazz musician Bobby Duke's live concerts
I am engaging with this content
Verily.
good stuff
@@joshuabohnert1891 Beware engaging in content - stare too long, and the content engages with you.
Mood
I will never stop posting
I'm so happy for Bobby Duke to be able to work and develop musician skills after so much trauma. What an example to us all. (is the engagement god sated?)
The remake of The Hills Have Eyes was great in my opinion. Not an Oscar contender but it’s bloody and suspenseful and well done.
The Wrong Turn “remake” was actually good. They take a totally different direction with it. I was surprised at how much I liked it
Except that the _Wrong Turn_ reboot wasn't _Wrong Turn_ whatsoever, it was Wrong Turn in name only. They took out everything that made Wrong Turn, Wrong Turn. It was more a movie of the show _Outsiders._ ¬_¬
Yeah I liked it a lot, I just wish wes craven could write a movie without a wholly unnecessary sexual assault in it!
Apparently, it's closer to what the screen writer wanted the original to be, before they made it about cannibal mutants living in the woods.
regarding horror movie remakes, i can't wait to see what peele does of candyman, i'm very hyped. also bobby duke keeps being a delight every week
That’s the film that I’m most irritated by Covid delay. I’ve been jonesing for it since it was announced.
The new _Candyman_ movie isn't Candyman, it's barely even horror, it's just a drama about race and inequality.
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z damn did you come from the future where you've already seen it to say this with such authority?
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z "A drama about race and inequality"
You know you are describing old Candyman right?
You boiled down my feelings on the actual movie The Stuff so freaking well. It's a great concept and a terrible movie that's more fun to think about than actually watch.
I would 100% be a good little consumer and pay good money for any of these movies you described.
Now I desperately want to create a movie studio called "Movies for Matt"
Welcome to movies for Matt, im Scaredycat.
Movie studios should hire you to be like Cartman that time he pretended to be a robot and they got him to pitch movie ideas all day, but instead of them all being about Adam Sandler you could just be like “Hey, what if we re-did this movie but, you know, made it good?” 😂
Your Monster Squad pitch almost sounds like it would be as a good video game as a movie
I was thinking 2-3 seasons 13 shows a season. The 3rd season finale in the Frankenstein robot Kaiju fight. Also, it needs a samurai
Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man was a really good remake/reimagining that comes to mind. Bit more suspense than strictly horror but definitely has a lot of horror elements and is really well done in my opinion.
i did not know about The Monster Squad and it sounds lovely, will be watching that. Thank you for your jazz Mr. Dook
also thanks scaredy matt for the video i guess
When Scaredy Matt wants to feel fancy he likes to be called Frightened Matthew.
Unfortunately I don't have any opinions on horror movies because I'm too skiddish to actually watch horror movies but I do love watching review and discussion videos on them so I'm leaving a comment to provide engagement to this nice channel
Bobby being an accomplishhed jazz musician brought me more joy than anything else ive experienced in the last five years
Was anyone else totally blown away by Matt's absolute genius on remake idea of The Stuff? Who do we send this video to in order to make this happen?
I would watch the hell out of a remake of THEM! The way the kid screams when she smells the ant pheromone is chilling.
Very entergaging, thank you Matt Cat
i really enjoy the fact that evil dead 2 just tells the firsts story again but just in like 2 mins, i just think its neat.
I LOVE The Monster Squad! I've probably seen it a hundred times. There's a little non-profit theatre downtown that takes requests. This was one of mine and it sold so many tickets the first time that they now play it every Halloween. It's cool seeing all of the fans who grew up with The Monster Squad bringing their kids to see it now. Ahhh, nostalgia!
The Woodman's kids is adopted and a bigfoot hunter, because they think bigfoot is a relative of their parents and wants to be made into a werewolf like them.
I felt like 'The Stuff' was an allegory for cocaine - its70s/ 80s white turns ppl into monsters. I'd tots watch the stink mat version.
Good remake =78s Invasion of the Body Snatchers
I’d like to see a reboot of The Babadook (2014) where the main character is an aging jazz musician who missed his big break and decides to drink himself to oblivion and then die behind the wheel. the catch is he wakes up as a Babadook and must somehow piece his life back together while suppressing his urge for carnage. call it “Duke-on Blues”
I like the idea of a The Stuff remake. But, I also kind of think it'd be the kind of film I couldn't stomach.
I am very into "what if social media was ghosts" because honestly, that would make more sense than what we currently have.
Have you heard of a Webtoon called Ghost Teller? It's about a bunch of ghosts tired of scary ghost stories and deciding to tell scary human stories instead. Like a woman who chose to have a life with two blessing and one tragedy, a nun who joins an orphanage where the children are dying of an unknown illness, or a comedian who realizes that people only laugh at him when he gets hurt.
It's a fun read, and you might enjoy it.
The twist you recommend for a remake of the Stuff sounds a lot like the Immortal Hulk (the bit about Dario Agger). Combined with that short film about Yoghurt.
Which was inspired by Ayn Rand! But in an "Ayn Rand was dumb" way.
Wanted to make a metaphor about the world being an ongoing topical horror remake, but I don't know enough horror to make a clever film reference.
Whenever you find yourself in such a situation, just nod sagely and say, "Yes, I agree, this film does seem to share some superficial themes with Nome Inventato's 1969 horror opus, "Spettacolo Specioso"; the uncut version, of course."
Sometimes with jazz it's about the notes you don't play, loved those ones Bobby.
Holy Hell, I need your sequel of Monster Squad in my life.
I have elected to share nothing from my horror remake wish list. Take that, Scaredy Matt!
I expected a list of *existing* remakes and I'm overwhelmingly delighted to discover this is your own ideas. I can't express how much I wish such movies were funded and made rather than the usual moneymaking crap. One can dream.
Bobby Duke rocking the Casio style blues sax. love it. Maybe it's because I got to see it at a horror convention with a rather insane crowd, but the remake of Maniac was pretty freaking awesome.
These are genuinely all incredible concepts! You're very imaginative and I really hope we get to see some of your creativity on the screen someday. I love the Political commentary for "The Stuff", it feels very layered and relevant. I really like the social (media) commentary for "Pulse", and I especially liked the idea of beginning the hauntings small-scale and personal, then ramping up to full blown Social horror (You could even begin the film focused on a family whose dead relatives account becomes active again and move on from there). And the Monster Squad film just sounds like amazing fun! Great video as always Scardey-Matt!
Can you please start pitching these ideas to whatever studio will listen, or at least start making story boards so there can be some sort of low budget collaboration among youtubers to make these happen.
I had the same experience with The Stuff. There’s potential for a sharp, funny movie in there somewhere, but the execution left me cold. I’d love to see it done well.
‘Monster Squad - They’re back and they’re upping the Stakes!’ - because their fighting draculas’ and things......
I was wondering if the trauma to Wolfman's nards would be addressed.
I love Little Shop of Horrors and that they made an American Psycho musical.
The Stuff would be a really cool remake and would be relevant.
I would love to see some of the Archie horror comics (like Vampironica) made into campy shows the same way the Riverdale writing is completely bonkers.
There's an American Psycho musical???
@@aurafluff Yeah :] , it first performed in 2013. It's based on the book and the events are different from the movie and the book.
I would like to see a Dracula film done properly. In my opinion there hasn't been a Dracula film that really captures the horror of the novel. I would like something realistic and dark that takes the story seriously, imagine the tone and look of THE VVitch but the story of Dracula, that's what I want.
Bobby Duke's Jazz solo is the best thing I've heard all day, keeps bringing a smile. Here's my Monster Squad story. I watched and loved monster squad as a kid, and decided to watch it again. My husband had never seen or heard of it, and asked me how scary it was! :-) That was a lovely introduction to get to make!
I'm excited for the Candyman remake/sequel/whatever it is, whenever it finally comes out. It looks like an exciting combination of actors/director/writers I've enjoyed elsewhere, and even though the original is pretty well known among horror fans, I don't think it's well known enough for the studio to think interesting stuff in risky the way they might for like, Halloween. I mean, Nia DaCosta's good enough that I enjoyed Little Woods, even though it's outside the kind of stuff I usually enjoy, was waaayyy too depressing to watch in late March 2020, and I was initially only there for Tessa Thompson, so I have high hopes.
Monster Squad Jr sounds rad, but also when you started talking about the original monsters also having kids I was stricken with visions of it being taken in the same direction as Disney's Descendants movies... which I guess is just already Monster High. oof there's a lotta "classic characters but they have kids now" media...
I couldn't get through Monster Squad. The kids were just so comfortable dropping the f-slur. It made me way too uncomfortable, especially as I was bullied relentlessly with that particular word in junior high.
Also, seeing you put pronouns up for both you and Bobby Duke warms my heart.
I've been convinced Matt would be a great writer/director. And apparently GarageBand jazz musician as well.
I kinda liked the Poltergeist remake but mainly for the memory of taking my daughter to the movies for the first time after escaping from an abusive ex. So probably not as good as I remember but still holds a special place in my heart.
My favourite horror movie is *this comment is for the purpose of increasing engagement*
important question for bobby duke: is is "the like and subscribe blues" or "the _lycan_ subscribe blues"?
Asking the important questions here
Mildo, (I'm sorry, but I will never not smile at Bobby Duke.) you need to write horror movies. I would watch and enjoy all of those remakes. Those ideas are so well crafted and interesting takes on existing stories.
I was a kid when The Stuff was released and the TV commercials for it and for Motel Hell freaked me the hell out...and then I saw them on cable (still too young but it was the 80's...) and, yeah, kudos to whoever did the commercials because they made those movies look way scarier then they were.
Hey these remakes sound eerily familiar--
On that note, while it's be a hell of a challenge to top Carpenter, I'd love a They Live! remake with the Scardey Cats treatment. It wouldn't even be that hard! The original does half the work for you.
Genius
I'd like a _They Live_ sequel, that should obviously be titled _We Sleep_
My pitch for a sequel - well, sort of sequel - is: after the events of _They Live_ the aliens were able to bring the signal online and brainwash the population again. This time they had to also brainwash everyone into forgetting that one time they've been exposed. And they succeed in that, mostly. But a few people can't completely forget it. So those people get brainwashed into believing that it was something they once saw in a movie. They also had to produce a movie like that so those who can't forget can find it and calm down.
So this would not actually be a sequel. Instead _They Live_ exists as an in-universe movie in _We Sleep_ which is only based on the real events that the general population has witnessed - the ghouls and the hidden commands. But everything else in it is made up as purposeful deception.
There are no underground tunnels. They just want you to believe that, in case you ever wake up and realise that it wasn't just a movie you saw. There is no intergalactic travel portal. They just want you to think they were aliens. The signal isn't tied to television. They wouldn't make you rich and powerful if you became their ally. They just want you to think along those lines, in case you ever wake up.
You see, there's a reason why in the last scene of _They Live_ the guy in the TV show mentions John Carpenter. They want you to believe that the reveal was just something you once saw in a movie. That movie is supposed to be by John Carpenter. But at the time that happened some of you might have been in some situation like looking for John Carpenter films in the video store or watching a wrestling match of Roddy Piper. So for those who can't forget they put that little thing in there at the end, so they can go, _oh, I knew there was something like that,_ instead of being driven insane by the inconsistency with their vague memory remnant.
Sorry, I don't have any seed for an actual story for _We Sleep,_ only this idea for how to link it to _They Live_ in a way that creates a lot of freedom for the author to go in different directions.
The "Remake" of the house on the hill, the "The Haunting of Hill House" series on the netflix was a fantastic reimagination of the original story.
Your remake idea for the Stuff is awesome. If it ever gets remade, that's exactly the way I hope they go with it. Thanks for that!
My friend and I were just talking about how Lovecraft Country needs a spin-off anthology series. The show was at its best when it was telling stand-alone stories, like Hippolyta's journey or the Kumiho's tale. I would subscribe to a new streaming service just to see a whole series of such stories.
I am literally engaged right now. I am engaged a.f. I am seriously just engaged af for the algorythfim
Hurray! New video
I'm on the fence about The Stuff because I love the original. It's so random with just a dash of body horror. You're right it could be written better. I think it's just one of those films that would have a special place in my heart because of how very of its time it is.
I knew that Bobby Dook was a virtuoso, but making cymbal sounds come out of a saxophone??? I mean, WOW!!!!
Have you seen the folks at the Weekly Planet mentioning/recommending you?
See, now I'm just angry that those movies you just described don't exist and I can't watch them. Especially The Stuff one.
something about "i contain multitudes" in that voice by that character had me in tears
Good remake:
"Mother!" (the Aronofsky film) was a remake of "The Begotten" only with a narrative that was easy to follow and understand and it was pretty good.
There are movies that are remakes that I like. For the sake of engagement I am making this comment. I am engaged.
Also, your description of a social media ghost story is terrifying and gave me the chills.
Engagement! You got a knack for coming up with interesting specific pitches. Yes to cultivating the social commentary potential always in horror movies. I love to see it. ✨
Pretty good horror remakes also include: The Crazies, The Last House on the Left, Let Me In, Dark Water.
The Suspiria remake is phenomenal. I wasn't sure what to expect but I didn't quite expect to walk away thinking it was one of the best movies of that year.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I'd like it if they finally let Richard Stanley do his psychotic remake of the Island of Dr Moreau.
"but this time it's because of ghosts, instead of the normal reasons" lmao
"I CONTAIN MULTATOODS" Walt Whitmadook
Here for the engagement:
Remake the Notebook and the dangerous of psychological and emotional abuse to get someone to be with you
Dammit Matt. I want all of these movies to be a thing.
Also, I just wanted to say that Bobby Duke is absolutely awesome.
Evil Dead and Fright Night are some of my favorite horror remakes.
But to this day Ive been BEGGING for a lawnmower man remake from a good director as an exploration of the intersection of technology and the "curing" of mental illness as a concept
Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne, comments for the grumbletums!
The Stuff remake sounds like Sorry to Bother You in so many ways.
But that's okay because Sorry to Bother You is awesome and this The Stuff remake sounds like a good plan as well.
ETA: Entergagement!
'I really liked the Fright Night remake, for David Tennant alone already', I type as an offering to the Algorithm.
All the rubes thought Bobby was playing a song called 'The Like & Subscribe Blues', but in actuality it was a mystical earworm titled 'The Lycan Subscribe Blues'. The hypnotic power contained within this eldritch song forced literally every single lycanthrope on Earth to subscribe to both of Matt's channels, increasing the subscriber count of each by 4.
My favorite remake is Tom Savini’s “Night of the Living Dead”. It’s basically the same story, but with some much-needed updates, it was still penned by Romero, etc. So to me it’s like the perfect combo of “old and familiar” and “exciting and new”.
This is definitely one of your best SC videos! The Stuff pitch especially sounds fucking amazing.