Impending Remake Movie Night

Here's an updated list of the movies we've watched for Bad Movie Night that have remakes:

Red Sonja
Death Race 2000
Black Devil Doll From Hell
The Last Dragon
The Unborn
Motel Hell
Black Christmas
Nightmare on Elm Street
My Bloody Valentine
April Fool's Day
Teen Witch
The Warriors
The Hidden
Rock n Roll High School
Evil Dead 2
Red Dawn
Hellraiser
The Thing
Phantom of the Paradise
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
It's Alive
Night of the Demons
Last House on the Left

Some are still in progress and may become failed remake attempts. Remakes of Dolemite, Superfly and They Live were talked about at some point but never got off the ground. I suspect this is what may happen to Escape From New York.

It may not be needed anyway. EFNY is the movie that launched a thousand Italian rip-offs. We watched two of them, 1990: The Bronx Warriors and 2019: The Fall of New York. EFNY chose 1997 for their dystopian future date so only 2019 has a chance to be prescient. The plot to that movie has a guy taking the last known pregnant woman to safety after mankind stops being able to reproduce. So at least it predicted the movie Children of Men.

Escape From New York is our fifth John Carpenter movie after They Live, Big Trouble in Little China, Assault on Precinct 13 and The Thing. He doesn't have too many left worth watching so I see a day where Godfrey Ho takes over that record. But EFNY has entered popular culture. There's a pizza place:



The Snake Plissken Memorial Playground in Kosovo:



and it seems like I need a third thing here.

I know vampires are in right now but they bore me. That may explain the near absence of them from Bad Movie Night. There was The Lost Boys, which we probably wouldn't have watched if Corey Haim hadn't died. Dracula was just one character in The Monster Squad. There were vampires in Lifeforce but those were naked SPACE vampires. From outer pace. I think that's it. It's getting harder and harder to look through the list quickly. But now we have Fright Night. Directed by the guy who wrote Cloak & Dagger. That movie is great!

Here's what happened last week:



Also, this is amazing: