Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

[quote] We are Huntington Action Films; a Long Island based independent film/video Production Company. We are considering for our next film, a “remakeâ€

A no-budget Rodan remake, huh?

Plot: "Lynell, an international con woman, becomes worshipped by a
dangerous cult that is protected by a fearsome flying monster."

SYNOPSIS: A group of people live as "Homesteaders" in an abandoned Long Island asylum.
One of the homesteaders is found dead in the cellar, torn to pieces. A few other homesteaders
were with him, and they are missing. The three men making up the search party in the cellar are
also mysteriously killed. At this point, the police are called in. While social workers round up the
homesteaders, the killer emerges. It's a large eight foot long cockroach like creature with a human
skull head.
Lynell, a resourceful young woman, who lived at the abandoned asylum, leads police to the cellar.
She knows the place inside and out. They find the body of one of the victims, as well as two of the
monsters. The police shoot heavy weapons at the creatures. Because of the building's failing
condition, the building collapses, killing the monsters and seeming crushing Lynell.
Lynell is found a few days later, badly injured, and suffering shock. Meanwhile, news reports from
all over the world come in about a mysterious high speed object that attacks aircraft. Lynell is
visited in the hospital by the ghost of ex-patient who created a demon cult in the asylum years ago.
He informs her that she how she is now involved in his still active cult.
A movie crew shooting a low budget Treasure of the Sierra Madre remake in the desert is killed off
by the monster from the sky. Their camera captures a brief glimpse of the gigantic attacker... a
large flying squid like creature (
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Uh.... What? uh... I don't know. I guess I'll see it, but I'm not hoping for anything fantastic. It sounds pretty bad. The budget is apparently $210,000. The guy says he's looking for clearance from Toho, but it appears that the movie has already started filming. I doubt they had the money to buy the rights to a remake, so it looks like they just went ahead and started making it anyway, which rubs me the wrong way since that makes the movie dissolve from a remake into a rip off that doesn't credit the original film or its creators. I'm curious to see what Toho will think of this and if it will even make it anywhere other than straight to DVD or sci-fi original. Hell they'll be lucky if it can even make it THAT far.

gotta love people who damn original movies with faint praise, promising theirs will honor the intent but be way better.

that sounds vaguely familiar to me...

David

The Meganurons seriously creeped me out as a kid.

He says he's remaking it for 2 reasons:

1. "Sometimes unconvincing" effects (uhhh, ok... it was 1956! and looked fine for that time... besides that's just an opinion)

2. A "horribly disjointed 2nd half"- well, that's also his opinion, because I dont think the 2nd half is disjointed at all.

And both of those are the dumbest excuses to make a remake that I've ever heard.

I think if another movie is to be made involving Toho kaiju, fans should vote for the staff and director like American Idol.