This remake will drive you insane! GASLIGHT is next up on the remake block!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a bit of news that hit last night's Variety. Austin has a great vintage theater resting a stone's throw from the capital building on Congress Avenue... one of those old time movie palaces with the large balcony. Every summer they sweep out the plays and dance shows to run a classic film series. I went to see a double bill of GASLIGHT and KEY LARGO three or four years ago. I hadn't seen either I was really there to see KEY LARGO, a film I knew I need to see. I didn't even know what GASLIGHT was.

I was shocked when, after seeing and enjoying both movies, that I preferred GASLIGHT, a story starring the beautiful Ingrid Bergman as a woman whose husband, played by Charles Boyer, is trying to drive her insane. It's a beautifully shot film and even features a scary appearance by Angela Lansbury, who is young and hot, which is what made things scary for me. I could still see the Angela Lansbury I know... the wrinkly one... but she was still hot!

Now it seems that the honchos Warner Bros have decided to remake this classic... I can see their logic... it's a great story, a great concept, but a title that the mainstream doesn't know and even film fans might not be familiar with. I'd be really against this if they hadn't hired a really interesting director... Joe Wright directed last year's surprisingly good PRIDE & PREJUDICE and is attached to direct the GASLIGHT remake. He did a great job with PRIDE and I'm interested in seeing what he has in store for this story.