Alright everyone. I went back, and took a second look at THE MUMMY with a Saturday Night Audience that just ate that film up. And you know what I started thinking? Real live HORROR films with a large scope and big budgets could very well be the wave of the future. Gone are the Teen Slasher films, and now... Real Horror is in. Horror/Adventure films are in. (And you know what Hollywood? I've been telling you this for 3 damn years now!)
There are a couple of projects that just scream to be made now. Strangely... Three of them are in the hands of Guillermo Del Toro... MEPHISTO'S BRIDGE, LIST OF SEVEN and HELLBOY. I've had the privilege to be allowed to read these three scripts and... folks if you liked THE MUMMY... heh... You ain't seen nothing yet. Just watching the effects in THE MUMMY and how that would translate in the vastly superior script of LIST OF SEVEN scares me. I mean... Jesus, this film is a grand period Horror Adventure film just SCREAMING TO BE MADE! You folks that have read the novel know what I'm talking about. I'm just praying that Hollywood doesn't think that the reason THE MUMMY made $44.7 million is because of Brendan Fraser... A guy I like, but FOLKS.... The Mummy is why THE MUMMY made so much damn money! The fact that an A-Budget was spent on the film, and that the movie wasn't shorted in any areas (although arguably the script is up for discussion).
Another film is I AM LEGEND... An utterly amazing script by Mark Protosevich, a film that could have been out already had Warners not scattered in terror.
And lastly.... There is the big daddy for me. Stuart Gordon's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH. Here.... Take a look at these images from some back issues of FANGORIA magazine and an old Full Moon calendar. This is quite possibly the greatest Horror film never made. WAKE UP HOLLYWOOD! Big Budget Fantasy/Horror/Adventure is here! Get up and open the door. Trust your horror filmmakers. Give them the budgets to make our nightmares a reality. These nightmares don't shoot guns, instead they become slippery monsters.... Something that noone can allegedly emulate! Bring it on!!!!
