2019-11-25 - Horrorfying Text Spat

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : Cleaning graffiti off one of the mausoleums... may be late. heart emoji Bet I can stump you again on trivia.

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : How are Jackie Earl Haley and David Englund connected, in horror films? <3

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : Whoop... Sorry. Robert Englund... Name I was cleaning... got mixed with my thoughts.

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : How is Keanu Reeves connected to The Lost Boys?

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : Another easy one. Through Alex Winter of course! He played Bill S. Preston, Esquire on Bill & Ted, and also played Marko on The Lost Boys!

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : <3 -- What are Sissy Spacek's Stephen King credits?

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : Carrie White and Ruth Deaver, of course. <3

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : Dexter Holland was scalped in what schlock horror comedy?

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : Mmmmmmmmmm... I know he was in two schlock horror comedies... but I'm betting it was Idle Hands he was scalped in. Sharknado tends to just decapitate people.

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : Correct <3 So if you keep getting these right, what do you want for a prize?

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : Oooooooo... what kind of prize were you thinking?

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : I thought I'd give lady's choice for the prize.

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : What original film, remade by John Carpenter, is shown in Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : Oooooo.. ANY prize? 😃

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : Any prize. 😃

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : Village of the Damned!

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : It was The Thing That Came From Outer Space. The kids were watching it when Michael entered their home

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : That's a trick question then. The Thing was loosely based on TWO movies, one of which was The Thing That Came From Outer Space, the other being The Thing From Another World. It was not actually a remake at all.

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : Carpenter specifically remade The Thing That Came from Outer Space though, because it was the one that followed, more closely, the novel Who's There? And Zombie specifically featured it in his re-make of a John Carpenter film, a humorous nod.

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : You can't say he remade it when the movie he made was based off BOTh previous movies. That's not a remake, that's jut a general nod to a movie that came before. And The Thing From Another World was actually the movie more closely based off the Who Goes There? novel, not The Thing That Came From Outer Space.

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : ...are we having our first fight as a couple over which 50s movie more inspired John Carpenter? Because that is like... somehow turning me on.

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : It could be. Yes. And if I am misplacing my Howard Hawks titles you could be slightly more right than I am.

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : 1951 Howard Hawks, The Thing from Another World. 😉

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : So I had my director/movie swapped. :p But you still didn't guess the movie they were watching in the Rob Zombie Halloween. :p :p

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : But it's acknowledged as both a remake of the Howard Hawks film, and an adaptation of the original novel. I had the title wrong. But it is acknowledged as a remake. I promise you.

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : The film studios and Carpenter himself who was worried it would be difficult to surpass the original Hawks

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : If Universal acquired re-make rights, and brought him in to direct. Does that not make it a remake by John Carpenter?

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : And like I said before. Carpenter himself was worried that his remake would not surpass the original Harry Hawks

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : Universal also acquired the adaptation rights from the original book, but I notice you aren't calling in an adaptation, despite the fact that both Carpenter and Lancaster wanted the movie to be based more directly on the -source material- for the 1951 movie.. aka the novella Who Goes There?, not the 1951 movie itself. Chances are good they legally HAD to acquire the rights to remake the film if they were going to do an adaptation since once had already been done two decades ago. Carpenter was reluctant to even take on the film int he first place because he believed the 1951 movie would be difficult to surpass, that was not a commentary on it being a remake but rather a competing film.

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : Fine. It's not fun anymore. The Thing From Another World was still the film in the Rob Zombie Halloween. Not Children of the Damned. I'll see you when I'm home.

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : I'm sorry Thew... its the research bug. Gets under my skin sometimes and I have trouble letting go.

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : It's fine.

(TXT to Jade) Thewlis : <3

(TXT to Thewlis) Jade : <3