Invasion of the Remake

The 99% becomes the 1% and the 1% becomes the 99% in a comedy classic about seeing how the other half lives. Trading Places (1983) stars Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Paul Gleason and yes, fits our holiday theme criteria because we like to stay festive here on the Mothership. Join the Invasion of the Remake Podcast in discussing the financial themed co...

When you make a Christmas film whose message is against the commercialization of Christmas, the one thing you shouldn't do is fill it with a bunch of gratuitous advertising. Also, if you are trying to right a ship that has gone very wrong with Superman III and Supergirl, you may not want to hire the same director as one of those flops for your next big budget idea. Sadly, that's exactly what Alexa...

'Tis the season to be stabby, fa la la la la la la la. Killing sorority girls in there jammies, fa la la la la la la la. Somebody put that tune in the next remake! This week we focus on Canadian horror classic Black Christmas (1974) directed by Bob Clark of Porky's fame and starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon, Marian Waldman, and Andrea Martin. Does the 2006 remake by Gl...

House (1986) is a childhood favorite among the hosts of Invasion of the Remake podcast here in the mothership. Starring William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt, and Richard Moll this comedy, horror made an impact on us, but now it seems a distant memory failing to achieve the cult status that many of its contemporaries had. Well we think it's time for a new audience to discover House and impart our s...

With yet another remake in the planning Invasion of the Remake decided to go back in time to compare and contrast the two films based on the Roald Dahl novel. Willy Wonka and the Chocalate Factory (1971) starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, and Peter Ostrum is now considered a childhood favorite by many given the benefit of time, but wasn't a big success in the box office. Thirty-four years later...

In salute to the late, great Gene Wilder we present to you, our loyal Invaders, the first of two episodes saluting the comic genius that was Gene Wilder. This week we take a look at Haunted Honeymoon (1986), Gene's least successful film marking his the only time he would take the director's chair. What went wrong? What went right? How can we resurrect this dark house horror comedy for a new genera...

One podcast, three hosts, and 93 horror films watched over 31 days that each host had never seen before. That's a lot of movies to talk about, get comfy cause this one is going to get weird. Trish's horror movie marathon: The Boy (2016), Hatchet 2, House of the Devil, The Gate, The Entity, Lake Mungo, Hausu, The Host, Darkness, Dead End, The Devil's Pass, Dead Silence, The Changeling, Stage Fright...

The Mummy (1932) by Universal Pictures starring Boris Karloff, hot off of Frankenstein, took a world that had already caught Egyptian fever when Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922 by storm. It was a massive box office success that spawned several sequels at Universal and inspired many more films from other studios such as Hammer films. Stephen Sommers remade that iconic film in 1999 with stars Bre...

Possibly the first of its kind to blend genres, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) took a classic comedy duo and pitted them against Universal Picture's horror monsters Dracula, Wolfman and of course the Frankenstein Monster. There is even a cameo by the Invisible Man. Some of the most iconic actors to ever play the monsters return in this comedy/horror film like Bela Lugosi, Gle...

Halloween (1978) ushered in a deluge of slasher films, but when John Carpenter created Michael Myers a horror icon was born that continues to terrify teenage babysitters to this day. Almost 30 years later a new, unique voice in horror in Rob Zombie would come along to remake Halloween (2007) for a brand new audience in his dark vision. Now Invasion of the Remake puts on there slightly soiled Willi...

Peeping Tom (1960) birthed a new genre, the cinematic slasher. Premiering only two months prior to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, director Michael Powell created a powerful piece of cinema that wouldn't be recognized for its achievements for another 30 years! On this episode Sam & Jason discuss a horror classic that destroyed a man's career and shocked the audiences of the 1960's. It is a film that yo...

The original Japanese Ring (1998) by Hidea Nakata and the American remake The Ring (2002) by Gore Verbinski started and coined the term J-horror. It was the first of many Japanese horror films to be remade for American audiences and became part of the essential horror film lexicon. Invasion of the Remake watched them and got the call. Seven days the caller on the other end said, we told them we on...

Rutger Hauer is again the subject to our discerning eye, or possibly wrath, it may be wrath. Phillip (Salt, Bone Collector) Noyce directs Blind Fury (1989), a film loosely based on Zatoichi. A Vietnam veteran blinded during the war comes to town to bury some ghosts of the past and gets drawn into a drug ring that has devastated his friend's family. Good thing he was trained by local villagers whil...

You enter a small little flower shop on skid row. It's crowded with people and a large plant looking like a venus fly trap, but much larger, sits in a corner drawing most peoples attention. The faces in the crowd look familiar, people like Dick Miller, Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles are on one side of the room with Roger Corman who looks puzzling across the room at Frank...

It has 5 Academy Awards and boat loads of critical acclaim. It is on more must watch lists than we can count. So of course attempt to do the impossible by remaking Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975). We might as well try to climb Mount Everest with our teeth. Who are we to think we can have a better cast than Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Brad...

Part 2 of the Hollywood's invasion plans on our movie theaters. Invasion of the Remake snuck behind enemy lines and got Hollywood's remake battle plans and they plan to carpet bomb us so badly that we couldn't contain the news in just one podcast. Sam and Jason continue there coverage of the all the action, comedy, western, drama, horror and sci-fi remakes in the works. Back to normal next week. W...

Part 1 of our 2-part special on all the remakes currently planned by Hollywood. We got behind enemy lines to get the skinny on over 100 remakes and reboots to make you, our devoted Invaders more prepared for the carpet bombing of films you may find familiar. Dramas, comedies, horror, science fiction, action movies and even cartoons to live action are all covered here. The birth of a new cinematic...

Who are you going to call when the remakes attack? Who are you going to call when Hollywood forces movies you don't want to see down your throats? Jason, Trish, and Sam are here to defend you against the Invasion of the Remake! Celebrating our first year of the Invasion, we tackle one of the most controversial remakes / reboots ever! The 2016 remake of Ghostbusters by Paul Feig blew up the interne...

Hey wait...what happened to episode 50? Well we wanted to do a big movie that had been remade and it didn't fall into the schedule quite right. So being that we are on the frontline of the Invasion of the Remake we can also get creative with the order of the universe or at least our little corner of it. Next week will be episode #50 but for now we present to you our remaking of Hardware (1990)! Ri...

Invasion of the Remake travels to Sin City, Las Vegas, to learn how to rob a casino from the greatest of the greats. Lesson #1 comes from Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean and his Ocean's 11 Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Richard Conte, Joey Bishop, Henry Silva, Buddy Lester, Richard Benedict, Norman Fell, and Clem Harvey. Lesson #2 comes from George Clooney as (you guessed it) Danny Ocea...

A young man named Alex Rogan is desperate to escape his small little world in the Starlight Starbright trailer park. His only escape is in the one arcade game at the trailer park, Starfighter. Alex had no idea this game would be the gateway to another life among the stars as a reluctant hero. Invasion of the Remake goes back to a childhood favorite in The Last Starfighter (1984) rethinking it as a...

Left alone to defend and ungrateful people, two men battle against the clock and the odds to prove there own self worth in two very different but thematically similar movies. Gary Cooper leads an all-star cast alongside Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, Lee Van Cleef, and Lon Chaney Jr. in the Oscar winning western High Noon (1952). While Sean Connery heads to the third moon of Jupiter, Io, with Frances...

Proving we are completely and utterly insane, we took on our very first Fan Challenge. The challenge was to just watch Hard Rock Zombies (1985) but since we are mad as hatters, we had to remake this low budget schlock fest. Cause that is how we roll. We went into this film with no preparation, we watched it, and hit record. This is the result. Little did we know what we would be in for. Wheelchair...

"Welcome to Fright Night!" That's right, we're taking on the 80's vampire horror comedy classic Fright Night (1985) versus the Fright Night (2011) remake! Tom Holland's original has retro sentimentality as well as Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell on his side. But Craig Gillespie brought an an all star cast in Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Imogen Poots, and David (Doctor Who) Tennant! This is goin...

Invasion of the Remake goes on the run! In a world where you can not live past the age of 30, Logan must pursue those who run from the sacrificial rite called Carousel only to be ordered to find a rebel group that has escaped the city for a mythical place called Sanctuary.  To find it Logan has to now go on a run, or be exterminated by his fellow Sandmen. This week the Invaders try to remake the s...