Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

[quote]Signifying our society’s maturing from the sarcastic negativity that defined the ’90s, into the cheerily positive attitude toward brand exploitation that is the more modern form of cynicism, remakes are now in the works for 10 titles from American International Pictures—the B-movie studio perhaps best known as one of the top suppliers of terrible films to Mystery Science Theater 3000. 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, 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.

Arkoff and Nicholson used the responses they gathered from those focus groups to create their movies, first devising the kind of eye-catching titles that could briefly distract 1950s kids from obsessing over milkshakes and brassieres, then throwing together a plot and filming it. That same these-stupid-kids-will-see-anything attitude is behind the remakes, this time with social media acting as the focus groups of today. Or, as Arkoff’s son Lou puts it, “We are now using that independent spirit and our library of classic titles to create something brand-new for the modern media model, with a coordinated social effort to accelerate interest in these properties.â€

That press release felt like an Onion article or an April Fools joke... Seriously?

Honestly, I'd much, MUCH rather see a remake of a movie whose premise has potential, but is a garbage film than a remake of a good movie.

It's like you set yourself up for failure when you remake a classic. When you remake a POS, you have nowhere to go but up.

They already remade all these a few years back. What the hell...