Variety<\/a> reports that Clever Creature has optioned remake rights to 1992\u2019s The Haunting, 1989\u2019s The Terror Within, and 2001\u2019s Battle Queen 2020 through its sister company, Fast Motion Films.<\/p>\nThe recently launched Toronto-based distribution outfit is planning both traditional 2D theatrical releases and immersive formats for each movie.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese films embody the spirit of Roger and Julie Corman: daring, inventive, and unapologetically bold,\u201d said Clever Creature principal Michaelangelo Masangkay. \u201cWe are not just remaking them \u2013 we\u2019re reimagining them for an era where audiences crave both the communal experience of the theatre and the deeply personal immersion of new media platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n
The remakes will prioritize contemporary storytelling, elevated production values, and fresh creative voices while maintaining the raw energy of the originals. The immersive versions are being designed to transport audiences into gothic horror, post-apocalyptic survival, and futuristic rebellion settings.<\/p>\n
The Haunting is a re-edit of 1963\u2019s The Terror, directed by Corman and written by Leo Gordon (The Wasp Woman) and Jack Hill (Spider Baby).<\/p>\n
In the Gothic horror film, a young French soldier cut off from his unit is beguiled by a mysterious woman, whom he learns is the wife of the local Baron \u2014 and that she seemingly died 20 years earlier.<\/p>\n
The Terror Within was directed by Thierry Notz (Watchers II) and written by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver.<\/p>\n
In the post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror film, when chemical warfare leaves the world barren and filled with mutated monsters, a band of survivors in an underground complex battle one of the creatures that was able to break in.<\/p>\n
Battle Queen 2020 was directed by Daniel D\u2019Or and written by Michael B. Druxman, Billy Hulkower, William D. Bostjancic, and Caron Nightingale.<\/p>\n
In the post-apocalyptic sci-fi action film, after a civilization is all but wiped out by a comet, evil forces take advantage of the weak. A powerful woman fights back for the sake of the vulnerable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three titles from the Roger & Julie Corman library are getting the remake treatment. Variety reports that Clever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,120822,134,344,59927,120823,120824,120825],"class_list":{"0":"post-190733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-battle-queen-2020","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-roger-corman","14":"tag-the-haunting","15":"tag-the-terror","16":"tag-the-terror-within"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}