Hollywood has been serving up its fair share of horror remakes over the last few years, reintroducing classic villains to new audiences. But there now seems to be a trend of updating these stories so 🐟that they cross over into the comedy genre, too.
Shane Black’s 2018 addition to the Predator franchise pretty much has
a joke locked and loaded in every scene, as we follow a group of PTSD-suffering military men who team up to take down the titular menace (and let’s face it, most of those jokes didn’t land). With Black on directing and writing duties, there was no doubt his trademark wit would be built into the script, but 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Predator seemed so far removed from the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:1987 original, in terms ofജ tone, actual scares and carefully deployed humour, that it’s hard to accept they exist in the same series.
Likewise, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Halloween reboot pushed horror into rib-tickl𝕴ing t🧜erritory courtesy of writers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. The film is a legacy sequel to the original movie and sees Jamie Lee Curtis return as Laurie Strode, but despite Green and McBride making a point of not cracking any jokes until after the first kill, as soon as they are introduced, the tension fizzles right out.
Then there’s Lars Klevberg’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Child’s Play, which was always going to be mirthful (I mean, we’re dealing with a kill🍸er doll), but while the original film’s laughs were more unintentional, the 2019 remake’s punchlines – written by Tyler Burton Smith – were cynically deliberate. As was the decision to retcon the supernatural backstory of Chucky and give Andy a troop of friends to go on Goonies-like adventures with, which only made the film seem more innocent, not more creepy, than the 1988 version.
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