In a quiet news week, what are horror entertainment journalists to do? Dig something up, of course, and they've done that since Sunday, with varying results.
ShockTillYouDrop published a smart and exclusive interview with "Child's Play" producer David Kirschner and writer Don Mancini.
The two are at work on a remake of the 1988 original. As with most reboots, in the 2000s, this take will be darker and more realistic than its initial camp/consumer-culture infused iteration.
Mania's Jarrod Sarafin thought well of Ryan Rotten's interview. He repackaged STYD's coup with a consumer-note lead that the original "Child's Play" is available in its 20th-anniversary edition this week. Sarafin apparently assumes buyers know new DVDs tend to drop on Tuesdays, so he doesn't include the date of the release. It's today, Sept. 9.
And that's not all he leaves out. Sarafin moseys through the rest of this unfortunately typical Mania half-assery by dropping a quote from the STYD interview into his news item, but he forgoes any kind of attribution. We don't know who is talking, or how they might be related to "Child's Play." It's writer Mancini in Sarafin's piece, talking about the movie.
Bloody-Disgusting.com skips the "Child's Play" item entirely, but rounds up some minor casting news from in-production projects ("Killing Jar," an untitled Twisted Pictures project, and "Butterfly Effect: Revelation" [although what that film is doing on a horror cinema Web site is an open question]).
Mr. Digusting could have skipped the clunker from 2007, however. Shoreline Entertainment (producers of "The Signal") has listed on its Web site for some time that something called "From Beyond," a reworking of H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name, is in preproduction. But it's certainly not news. No cast. No director. The company has not listed "From Beyond" with IMDB.com.
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