Cotton now rolling
Eli Roth (soon to be seen in Inglourious Basterds) opened up to genre journalist Alan Jones about a number of projects the Hostel helmer has in the works. The one that made this writer raise an eyebrow is a remake of Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse.
About two weeks ago, one of our sources was raising some noise that Universal was kicking around the idea of dusting the property off. Yeah, that’s true, and Roth is the one holding the Swiffer. He tells Fango that he’s in talks with the studio to develop a remake under his newly-formed Arcade banner which he operates with producer Eric Newman.
“It should be about the kids getting killed in horrible ways, put in different contraptions in the funhouse and the final girl being strapped into the ride and sent into the tunnels to be confronted by terrifying tableaux of her dead friends,” Roth says. “A smart remake could be so much fun. Kill the kids in fabulous ways and continually reuse the bodies by making them freaks in the freak museum, sew their eyes shut, waxworks… That’s the stuff I want to do in a remake of The Funhouse.”
He also says Cotton, the exorcism film directed by Daniel Stamm, is now rolling in Louisiana with a cast of unknowns. The plot sounds clever (a preacher sets out to debunk his exorcism rituals and faces a real possession). Applied with the documentary format, we could be in for a wild trip. Read more about that film here and a potential Andrew Kevin Walker/Roth team-up picture called Psycho Killer, a film that’s told from the point of view of a slasher.
Source: Fangoria
