Attack On Sitges

Titan

It was great to have The Godfather of Sitges, Santiago, back at the festival last year and if there’s one thing that has a chance of enticing him once more it’s got to be the “giant-humanoids-eating-little-humans-for-no-good-reason” mayhem that is ATTACK ON TITAN. We’re not too keen on the live-action film version but the Anime TV series was amazing so we’re made up that the festival has decided to present a “redux for cinema” version of the same.

MR NOBODY was a personal Sitges favourite back in 2010 so it’s great to see director Jaco Van Dormael back this year with LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT. And it will be interesting to see how the Goetz brothers handle the remake of MARTYRS (something originally touted back in 2010), a film that caused a ruckus in the Corridorstyle camp back at Sitges 2008.

Head over here to the festival website to see what else they’re lining up. There’s already so much to get excited about and this is just the first wave of films for the program

Somebody should be crucified for this

Following similar gripes about planned remakes of OLDBOY (Sitges 2004 – thankfully still on the drawing board) and LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Sitges 2008 – we played mardy and refused to watch the remake LET ME IN screened at this year’s festival), we’re to be reminded once more that we, as speakers of the English language, are just not that into foreign language films and the only thing for it is to repackage them without those annoying subtitle-type-thingys at the bottom of the screen.

The LA Times have a piece (HERE) on how Pascal Laugier’s MARTYRS (Sitges 2008 – Colin loved it, Shaun didn’t. Get the wine in) is to be remade for American audiences with Daniel Stamm (THE LAST EXORCISM) at the helm.

The opinion we voiced previously was nothing new for those opposed to these kinds of remakes but we’re going to bleat it out again anyway as we’re firmly in the camp that believe the original films have far more to offer before Hollywood breaks out the make-up.