Last month I ran an article talking about the Anchor Bay DVDs being featured on RopeofSilicon, and one of them was a German film, Night of the Living Dorks. I praised the film because it truly is funny as hell, and now The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Warner Independent Picturs is set to remake the movie with Chris Bishop set to pen the script.
Unfortunately I can see an American filmmaker turning it into something the original wasn’t. This is a perfect example of a movie that does not need to be remade. The original has gore, nudity, jokes and hot chicks. What else is needed and what can you change?
Instead of writing a new description I will just give you what I originally wrote about the film:
The film features Philip and his best friends Konrad and Weener. These three are the largest geeks at Frederich Nietzsche High. Philip has a crush on the school “hottie†Uschi (she ain’t that hot) and wants to ask her to the school dance. However, every time he does he gets his ass kicked. Weener wants to hook up with one of his teachers and Konrad is the most dysfunctional of the group as he keeps his diary of everyone that picked on him throughout his life. In his desire to hook-up with Uschi, Philip employs a group of goth kids, one of which is hot, hot, hot played by Collien Fernandes (see her here and save to hard drive), and he and his three friends take part in a amateur ceremony that ends much different than originally planned.
On the way home the three crash into a tree and die only to be reborn as zombies in the local morgue. Konrad goes flesh crazy, Weener takes advantage of his new strength and drinking skills and Philip tries to hit on Uschi, find an anecdote and stay out of trouble. As Konrad is eating his teachers time runs short and hilarity ensues, trust me, it is corny but very entertaining.
If you want to check out the original for yourself and be the judge click here.
