A sequel to the Eighties cult movie Spookies is within the works, and the author says Spookies 2 is a love letter to the followers
The Eighties horror movie Spookies was a notoriously troubled manufacturing. Filming started in 1984 with Brendan Faulkner and Thomas Doran on the helm… however then inventive and authorized points arose throughout post-production, in order that model of the movie (which was going by the title Twisted Souls) was by no means accomplished. As an alternative, an investor employed Eugenie Joseph to shoot new footage – involving a distinct solid and much more monsters – that was then combined along with the footage left over from Faulkner and Doran. This mish-mash was launched beneath the title Spookies in 1987, and over the many years it has developed a cult following. And that cult is now so massive, Spookies producer/co-writer Frank Farel is shifting forward with Spookies 2!
Farel dropped the sequel information into an interview with The Barrens Hideout Podcast on the Darkish Arts Competition in Lincoln, Rhode Island final weekend. He mentioned (with because of our buddies at Bloody Disgusting for the transcription), “Remarkably, [Spookies] has accomplished nicely sufficient in its revival that I’m initially of elevating financing for a sequel. I’m hoping to get a few title horror actors into it. I’m additionally trying to make a movie that’s nearly an anti-sequel. I don’t simply wish to rehash what was accomplished the primary time. I don’t wish to even make a typical sequel. I wish to make one thing that’s an animal of its personal. It’s totally different in so some ways. The way in which I’m doing it, it’s nearly meant as a mockery of what occurred to our unique movie.“
Farel admitted that he hated the unique Spookies as a result of “it was not our film. It was sort of taken apart and reassembled. It was just not the film we had made. We did not like anything about what was done to it.” Regardless of that, the script for Spookies 2 is “a love letter to the followers who’ve made it doable to make one other Spookies film just because they responded so positively to the primary one.“
The primary Spookies (which, by the best way, was proven on a memorable episode of The Final Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs just a few years in the past) has the next synopsis: After their automobile breaks down, a bunch of vacationers finds themselves stranded in a distant a part of New England. Once they take shelter in a spooky previous mansion, full with a graveyard, they uncover a Ouija board and determine to spend the night time trying to summon some spirits. However the group quickly learns that enjoying with the forces of black magic isn’t enjoyable and video games, and it’s not lengthy earlier than they’re head-to-head with all types of demonic creatures, shapeshifters, and different types of evil, all of whom are more than pleased to choose them off in essentially the most ugly of the way.
Peter Dain, Peter Iasillo, Joan Ellen Delaney, Soo Paek, Nick Gionta, Anthony J Valbiro, Lisa Friede, Kim Merrill, Charlotte Alexandra, Al Magliochetti, Felix Ward, Alec Nemser, and Maria Pechukas star.
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