There’s been plenty of dormant horror franchises that’ve been revived prior to now few years—your Alien, Halloween, Strangers, and so forth. (Sorry, Jason.) A number of of those have come courtesy of Blumhouse, and it’s now working to resurrect one other outdated film: My Bloody Valentine.
Per Bloody Disgusting, the horror studio is within the early levels of creating a brand new movie. For the time being, that is the solely piece of details about the movie: it’s not clear if this’ll be one other remake, or a legacy sequel to both of the earlier variations. It’s additionally not recognized who’s behind it, or if unique director George Mihalka can have any sort of involvement.
The unique My Bloody Valentine launched in 1981, and focuses on a gaggle of younger adults whose Valentine’s Day party takes a flip for the grim when a killer in mining gear begins selecting them off. It landed a blended reception at first, however within the many years since, has discovered a cult viewers and made $5.7 million worldwide. Lionsgate took to remaking it again in 2009, which was notably the primary R-rated flick to get the 3D remedy. Just like the remake total, the 3D know-how didn’t absolutely go over nicely with critics, although it ended up making $100.7 million.
Valentine’s remake ended with a sequel tease that co-writer Todd Farmer and director Patrick Lussier meant to make. In line with Farmer in 2020, the would-be comply with up would’ve been a extra psychological film, and seen a number of the survivors from the remake come again. However after the film’s muted reception, Lionsgate stated “no thanks,” and no studio’s touched the pseudo-franchise since. Followers gave the unique film a legacy sequel of its personal final 12 months with the Valentine Bluffs fan film set 40 years later and centered on a brand new killer taking over the miner mantle.
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