Sarcazmo recasts the 2011 Fright Night remake.

1985's Fright Night told the tale of a teenage boy who comes to realize his new next door neighbor is a vampire. After trying to convince the police and his friends to help him to no avail, he asks a local TV star to help him out.

Fright Night is one of the top 5 horror movies of the 1980's. What it lacks in budget and effects, it makes up with acting and script. For the money they had, the cast they got was solid. Next year this movie will be remade. Its pretty much certain it wont hold a candle to the original, but I'm enticed none the less.



Now that the official cast has been announced, Caz thought he would pick his dream cast if he was in charge. So I will list the original character, the remake choice, and Sarcazmo's choices. Here we go.

Amy Peterson played by Amanda Bearse. Best known for her role on the TV sitcom Married with Children. Bearse's character is a sweet, innocent, virgin who loves her boyfriend. Late in the movie she gets bitten and turns into this.....

A big mouthed, in heat, bad eye make-upped, SHE-VAMP.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Who will play her in the 2011 remake? Imogen Poots.WHO?? IMDB says she was in V for Vendetta and 28 Weeks Later. She looks like an innocent little tike so we shall see.





 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 

Who would Sarcazmo have cast? 100% convinced a pre- drugs/crime/lesbian/jail/coke Lindsay "you don't mess with the" Lohan would be the perfect choice. I would have beaten Robert Rodriguez to the punch and cast her in Fright Night before he got her for Machete. She can do cookie cutter virginal school girl better than anyone on the market. Just watch Mean Girls, she could totally do this character, and she definitely has the "goods" to be a sexy she-vamp.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charley Brewster played by William Ragsdale. Ragsdale went on to do some TV, but he'll never be remembered for anything but this performance. His performance is quality through and through. He is just the right mix of sissy mamas boy meets wannabe/never will be hard ass.

 
 
 
 
 

Who will play him in the 2011 remake? Anton Yelchin. As long as he doesn't have that Star Trek accent, I guess I can live with this. I'm not really a fan of this guy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who would Sarcazmo have cast? Who can play pretty boy that tries to be tough but never will be...oh yeah, its Shia "Shangri La" Beouf. The bad news is he would have been too busy to do this film and his asking price is too much for a medium budgeted horror production. The good news is he was already in a Fright Night remake...2007's Disturbia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Stephen Geoffreys as 'Evil Ed' Thompson. Stephen made the huge mistake of passing on playing Evil Ed again in Fright Night 2. He instead made the immortal 976-Evil...which grossed

$2,955,917 worldwide. Fright Night 2 grossed $2,983,784, so in the short term it didn't really matter.  In the long tern he ended up doing gay porn and not much else. Had he done the sequel, he could at least have made some chump change on the horror festival convention tour.

 

 

 

 

Who will play him in the 2011 remake....Mclovin. Christopher Mintz "heroin is so" Plasse. This just has epic fail written all over it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who would Sarcazmo have cast. Easy choice here, my man Ben "Australian for beer" Foster. Ben can play dork, loser dork, sad dork, scared dork, weird dork, and then scary vampire dork. I mean is there anybody else, this should be his role.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jonathan Stark as Billy Cole. Billy Cole is Jerry Dandridges right hand thing. Kind of a cocky, high school bully type. He guards him while he sleeps. What he is exactly remains a mystery. Some have said he is a mummy, others say he is a half vampire. Its never made clear in the film.

Who's playing him in the movie.............................no one. Apparently his character has been written out. What a dick move. He could of been awesome. Give him all kinds of strengths and powers. Make him a real a-hole,  You need an extra bad guy for fight scenes.

Who would Sarcazmo have cast? A slew of capable actors to choose from. Ashton Kutcher can do a-hole with the best of them. Kevin Bacon could be a more menacing guardian. Liev Schreiber could be a creepier deadlier Billy Cole. My choice though can do all of those things.  

Timothy Olyphant would be my choice. He can do creepy, bully, and tough. I can just see him catching Charley Brewster snooping around..."hey kid, what are you doing".

Jerry Dandridge played by Chris Sarandon. Sarandon is nails in this movie. This is Sarandons finest career moment. Hes charming, but bad ass when he needs to be. A tragic figure, didn't have a choice when he was bitten.

     Who's playing him in the 2011 remake. Colin Farrell. I like this choice, I like Colin as a bad guy here. I think he is going to do fine.

    Who would Sarcazmo have cast? George Clooney. He has the suave, debonair demeanor. Can do tragic. Not usually a bully tough guy, but he would pull it off.

     Roddy Mcdowall as Peter Vincent. Pretty much steals the movie. What a fantastically written character in a movie filled with them. Peter Vincent is a cable access horror movie host who is asked by Charley Brewster to help him kill a vampire. You need the right mix of thespian, sissy-boy and camp to play this role, and Roddy has it down pat.

Who is playing him in the 2011 remake? David Tennant. Best known as Dr.Who from the TV show Dr.Who. Caz doesn't do too much TV, so this choice is baffling. There are so many other actors out there who could play the character. Oh and in this remake Peter Vincent is a magician, not a TV show host....weak.

Who would Sarcazmo have cast? My first choice was Ian Mckellan, but after I watched Inglourius Basterds, I'm 50/50. Christoph Waltz looks and acts so much like Roddy Mcdowall its not even funny. Mckellan could so do an old washed up horror movie actor who longs for  the days of yesteryear. Either choice is fine with me, but I would give Mckellan the edge because he is one of my favs.

Bonus blog. Kim Cattrall as Charleys mom..."dinner is in the oven".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV4-dHF6Fn0

Predators, what went wrong.

     As Sarcazmo looked over 2010's slate of movies, the disappointment dug in like an Alabama tick.  He looked at Jan-April...not much. Surely the summer is gonna be loaded, it wasn't. Fall is looking just as bleak. Theres not much left, Caz  has already seen The Expendables...and its just what it looks like, a big budget straight to dvd action movie. Maybe Paranormal 2 will be decent.

     The only movie that really stuck out to me was Predators. So Caz eagerly awaited 6 months hoping that this could erase the aftertaste that was the AVP movies....well it didn't, it was a huge letdown.
     Lets face it, nothing will be better than the original Predator. It was just one of those movies in history where everything clicked...the cast, director, Arnold, plot, finale, etc. When you watch Predator for the first time, you have no idea what the creature is. So its an event at the end of the movie when it shows itself.  Predators tried to mimic Predator in every way but in the end did more bad than good.


                                  So here we go 7 random things that were wrong with Predators.

                                                                        7. This...

                                                                   does not equal...

                                                                            this.

  

     Predator's cast was not chock full of star power. Schwarzenegger and Carl Weathers were the only two name actors.  The guys they got though were tough, charismatic,built, and you would feel safe around them if you were in a fight. Predators cast doesn't have one likable character...the Russian comes close and Laurence Fishburnes character had potential, but he must have had another film to go make.  Adrian Brody is tough and you feel he can fight, but he lacks Arnold's charisma.

      6. The  sword fight. 1987...in a rumored cut scene, Billy, shown left, takes a final stand against the Predator with just a sword as his weapon.    Why wasn't it shown? It would have taken away from Arnold's mano-a-mano duel...it would have been redundant. Also, it would have looked silly.

Predator 2: Wearing one of the worst costume shop wigs in a movie featuring a killer alien ever, King Willy shown left, decides to take a stand against the Predator with only a sword as his weapon. Why wasn't it shown? The director didn't know how to film it... they didn't want to show the predator yet... it would have been too one sided... or the correct answer, it would have looked silly.

                                                                                     

Predators: Sporting many a tattoo and completely barefoot, Hanzo, shown left, decides to take a stand against the predator, with only a sword as his weapon. Why wasn't it shown?...Oh wait, this time, it was, and IT LOOKED SILLY. If the picture isn't enough proof, watch the film. A predator is at least 5 times stronger then a man. They fight aliens with one hand tied behind their back. So they should take out a human no sweat. Arnold couldn't even beat one..he got lucky with a phantom tree stump. It just doesn't work having a ninja fight a predator. The only way a fight like that   works is if A: He charges the predator, and the predator destroys him in one swing or B: He takes a bunch of huge swings to no effect, getting blocked every time, and eventually tires out and accepts his fate, praying while the predator slices him dead...that's an honorable death.

     5. The obligatory action scene to show the soldiers can fight. You have to have an early scene showing the soldiers ability to fight. Predator's (1987) was solid, Predators (2010) was not. 1987's Predator shootout accomplished two things. One, it showed each member of the team kicking ass, it proved they could handle themselves in combat. Two, it actually developed characters. Jesse Venturas line "I ain't got time to bleed," furthered his characters bad ass development, so when he got offed, it was a mild surprise.

    

Predators obligatory action scene featured predator dogs...yes dogs. These dogs were actually HARDER TO KILL then the  predators! Each character used their unique weapons and acted tough, but it wasn't that entertaining. They should of come off as more bad ass. They should have destroyed the predator dogs easily. One character unloads about 500  rounds from a mini-gun into one of the dogs before it dies...stupid. He should of killed like 5 dogs at once with a gun that big. A scene like this should display the soldiers strengths, instead it makes them come off as inept.

  

4. The mini gun. Such a boss weapon, a ridiculous gun. In Predator it was used correctly, every last bullet was consumed, then the gun was worthless and dumped. It served its purpose, which was to show us something we hadn't seen before. 

     

In Predators, it should have been taken to the next level, but it wasn't. First off the gun should annihilate anything it hits, yet it had a hard time killing a dog. Every time the gun is shot, it's cool and entertaining. They should have exploited it more.
    
One scene I wanted in Predators was a predator getting completely splattered by the gun. A scene should have played out like this....4 predators in trees shooting down at the soldiers, soldiers taking heavy fire and in a state of panic.  Then all of a sudden, the Russian gets fed up with hiding, stands up, and  just opens up a can of bad ass into the trees and shatters one of the predators instantly....green blood everywhere, the predators retreat. If you don't think that would have the audiences screaming and cheering,  then you don't like movies.

3. Laurence Fishburne. Wasted, enough said.

2. Misuse of a couple great ideas. At one point in the film, an unknown alien species makes an appearance, then is not heard from or mentioned again. The producers dropped the ball here. The unknown alien species could of been a dark horse in the fight scenes. They could of attacked both predators and humans.

     Topher Graces character in the movie is part of a clever twist...a clever twist that unfortunately gets shat on by the producers. SPOILERS...............The whole movie you wonder why he is there amongst the killers. You come to find out, hes a serial killer.

     This is were they royally screwed up. There  should have been a brain-over-brawn scene where Topher kills a predator. He should've gone nuts stabbing a predator over and over throwing its guts around, drinking its green blood, etc. Or the other option was to have Adrian Brodys and Tophers characters the last two alive, and in an epic twist , Topher should have killed Brody's character, and been the lone survivor. Its only a twist if something shocking happens, and nothing shocking happened.

1. Predators is too similar to Predator. More or less the same movie, copies way too many scenes, not nearly as effective.   Predators should have taken it to the next level, the next level being, the humans know what their up against earlier in the movie. The whole movie could have been a strategic war between humans and predators with the unknown alien race mixed in...a 3-way.

      I cant believe I 'm saying this, but  Predators is too long. The pacing is off. Too many long stretches of the crew walking thru the woods. Gets very cliche when they go to Laurence Fishburnes  hideout. The end fight is vanilla....nothing new or exciting.

 BONUS BLOG: The good news is Predators turned a profit, so sequels will be green lit. Where can they go next? They've gone to the city, to the snow, to the woods, to another planet. Here's a few of Sarcazmo's  ideas for sequel.

1. Predator hunts during a current war. Imagine a predator running around during the Gulf War or Iraq War. That's really the only place they haven't taken the Predator to...the desert.

2. Take the predator back in time. Go back to when they had muzzle loaders and flint locks. You still get  shooting action, but then it would become more strategy.  Tell the tale of the flintlock pistol  labeled "Raphael Adolini 1715"  from Predator 2.

3. Have a rogue group of  predators try to assassinate a political leader...Governor, President, etc.  Yeah it may sound cheesy at first, but think about the action possibilities. Chase scenes while under heavy predator fire, tons of secret service going down. Government calls in their "best man", to kick ass.

4. Have an FBI training class on an tropical island....then the predator shows up.

5. Have the predators go to an entirely different planet of an entirely  different species.

6. Have the predator terrorize a bunch of forest rangers in the Colorado Mountains.

7. Predators in Alaska. More difficult because they would leave tracks in the snow. The prey would realize sooner what is going on.

If Sarcazmo ran a studio... 7 random horror/sci-fi remakes he would greenlight. Part 2: Over $25 million budget.

We continue with the next batch of 7 random (horror, sci-fi) movies Sarcazmo would produce if he had the backing power of a movie studio. This next batch would require a bigger budget...bigger budget equals bigger gamble, so I would have to do each movie right. I always say worry about making a good movie first and foremost, if it fails at the box office and is quality, the audience will find it on dvd and blu-ray. It it fails at the box office and is schlocky, you're doomed. Never underestimate the power of the dvd. So I'm gonna make me some quality movies.

DVD - Average Wholesale Price = $16

Marketing - $2.75
Duplication - $1.00
Packaging - $0.90
Distribution - $0.80
Total - $5.45
Gross Profit per Unit = $10.55

So now 7 random big budget movies Sarcazmo would role the dice on.

7. Something Wicked This way Comes. 1983. The story of a traveling dark carnival that promises to fulfill your childhood desires, only to lead you to your doom. One of Disney's darkest movies ever, there was a power struggle during filming between the author of the book the movie was based on (Ray Bradbury) and the cookie eater studio Disney. Surprise, surprise, Disney wanted to make it more family friendly, and Bradbury wanted it true to the book. The movie was a disappointment.

      This movie needs to be remade, and the right way, by that I mean children getting eliminated by a super creepy dark carnival leader. There needs to be a BUNCH of creepy henchmen and disturbing freaks, a genuine sense of dread. Need about $50 million or so to make this one...you need a huge carnival set, an A-list bad guy, and a small town.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7KHbJTmoo

6. The Hidden. 1987. Made for under $5 million in 1987, The Hidden could be a huge action hit if done right. The Hidden is about an alien who jumps body to body using up its hosts while having a good time. The alien likes to drive fancy cars, listen to loud music, drive at reckless speeds, take multiple gunshot wounds....and kill people. Two cops are hot on its tail and one of the cops is an alien.

     Make this a huge monster on the loose in a big city (New York). Get two A-listers and a great action director (Mctiernan). Great action scene possibilities, as the alien can take multiple gunshots and keep fighting. Have the alien steal super fast cars...(the Fast and  the Furious crowd would eat it up), have it blasting music, stealing the coolest automatic weapons, and be a threat to national security. Big time money needed here $75 to 110 million depending on which city you shoot in.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjCpE-nb0HU

     5. Class of 1984. 1982. Think Dangerous Minds meets Grease meets 187 meets Escape From New York meets The Warriors meets The Substitute meets The Principal meets Lean on Me....whew. I love a good tale of a tough teacher taking a teaching job in a riot scene of a school. Its always entertaining watching a teacher beat up punk students. Get a bad ass action star (Bruce Willis), coming into a punk ridden school to clean house. You gotta have punks with masks, punks with tattoos, punks with makeup, punks that can fight, and sexy girl punks not afraid to mix it up.
     I want scenes of the craziest looking punks getting in Bruce Willis's face and he doesn't blink. Scenes of punks crashing partys and destroying everything. Scenes of a punks harassing preppy girls. Scenes of a punk concert at the school talent show. Scenes of bad punks in class actually proving to be very intelligent, answering difficult questions with big answers. When asked why dont they join the debate team, the punks say drug dealing is way too lucrative. The huge finale would be during THE PROM,(so epic, man I gotta write movies), with the teacher and his staff taking on the gangs of punks.
     Throw as much money as you can to get a bankable star who can play a teacher and a tough guy....Bruce Willis would be my top choice here, followed by Hugh Jackman, Clive Owen, and Daniel Craig. Get a huge desolete city and school, a strong female lead to play the principal of the school, and you're good to go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRTwc68O6b8

4. Waxwork. 1988. Waxwork is a great little horror movie about a wax museum that if you cross the guardrail into the display you actually are teleported to the scene. If you die in the scene, you die in real life, and your body becomes part of the exhibit. For a low budget movie it got a lot done. The sets were good, the acting ok, the cheese was so  thick you could put it on nachos. This is ready for a redoing I say. Set it in a big downtown LA wax museum with multiple levels. Have a field trip sized group of teens enter the museum and slaughter away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ4FlHowFOc

3. Masters of the Universe. This movie has been in developement hell for awhile, the reason...... it could be  the most difficult movie to remake ever? How does one go about this? Masters is difficult for a plethora of reasons. The main reason..... how much do you spend on the NUMEROUS CGI effects the movie would require. Entire characters would have to be CGI...how else would you do Tri-Klops, Beast-Man, Man-E-Faces, Orko, Battle Cat, Roboto, and you have to have Trap-Jaw and Whiplash. Yes they did some of these characters in the first He-Man, but the audience of today expects more, more effects, more epic, more wow factor. They didnt even attempt, let along know how, to do Trap-Jaw or Tri-Klops, two villains you MUST have in the movie.

     The problem here is how much are you willing to spend. If you go realistic "Nolan" style with the characters, can you make this movie for $90 to 120 million...which is about as high as you can go because you have to ask yourself, will people remember He-Man? If you go full fantasy mode, you're looking at $200 million easy, and I dont know if He-Man has the worldwide recognition to justify that budget. The potential for villains though is ridiculous for any new movie or sequel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyuT5Lge_-Y

     2. Dreamscape. 1984. Before Inception and A Nightmare on Elm Street, there was Dreamscape. Dreamscape is about a psychic who is tricked into  using his mind to attempt to assassinate people. Along the way he befriends a little boy whose nightmares are so severe that  they caused a previous psychic to lose his mind.
     Great chance to make some really creepy dream sequences, big budget dream sequences. This could be The Cell meets Inception, meets A Nightmare on Elm Street meets The Matrix.

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCrtOAC-wsE

     1. Night of the Comet. 1984. Sarcazmo loves last people on earth movies. The closest Hollywood has ever gotten to getting one right though is The Omega Man. The Omega Man  had serious problems....namely its lack of action. Night of the Comet is in the same vein...two girls survive a comet and have an entire city to roam free, only theres the occasional half zombie running aorund out there that tries to kill anything in its path.  Its a great fun idea, except for the fact that they stay in a boring radio station for a large part of the movie...this was probably due to budget. 

      Caz would remake this with the big budget it deserves. Numerous shots of desolete abandoned city. Loads of half zombies. Many a scene of the girls having fun in the city (shopping, games, golf, bowling, drinking, driving fast cars). Said girls would be armed with many guns and know how to shoot them...they could be ex cops. When the goverment baddies show up, I would stage a HUGE chase scene racing thru the city, then thru stores, then thru a mall, then on foot...epic.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_sJDW19UZA

If Sarcazmo ran a studio... 7 random horror remakes he would greenlight. Part 1 under $25 million budget.

     October 17th, 2003. A very important date in horror movie history. That was the day of a resurgence. The rebirth of the  remake of the horror movie.  New Line Cinema took a small $9.5 million dollar gamble on a remake of the 1974 movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It paid off big...$107,071,655 big, and set in motion a series of movie studios trying to secure the remake  rights to every and any 1960-1980's horror movie that they could get their buttery little digits on.  

     This is mostly bad news, it probably put alot of quality screenplays on the shelf. It made men like Michael Bay even richer...he could sit on a beach drinking non-alcohol strawberry margaritas while someone in LA uses his name to promote the next schlocky remake. It put men like Robert Englund on the backburner, as he would sit on the sidelines while Freddy vs Jason 2 was scrapped, and a new Fred Krueger was created for a remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Some good came out of the remake craze though...The Hills Have Eyes, My Bloody Valentine, and House of Wax to name a few.
     So if Sarcazmo was a studio chief, and had some petty cash to spend.... like say under $25 million each, heres 7 random movies he would greenlight, and the reasons for doing so. Please note, these arent in any order, their just 7 RANDOM movies I would try to remake.

     7. Dolls. 1987.  Straight to VHS in 1987, straight to # 3 at the box office in 2013, with a 69% drop in week 2, but its all about the opening weekend anyway. Any day now there is going to be a revival of killer doll/puppet/stuffed animal/ventriloquist movies. In my dream studio, I would beat everyone to the toy aisle and greenlight this below average killer doll flick.
    
Dolls is about a group of people stranded in a mansion, they soon take fire from a slew of killer dolls. Said dolls are possessed by spirits of dead evil doers. You could make this really creepy...have some really intricate dolls do some serious killing. It could be made cheap, you just need a fancy mansion with tons of detailed doll decor. In a twist at the end, the house itself is actually a dollhouse, the victims are stuck in a giant dollhouse...brilliant.

6. Terror Train. 1980. Lets get one thing straight, Sarcazmo is flat out obsessed with Halloween. So ANY movie that involves Halloween will peak Caz's interest. Terror Train is about 200 or so college kids on Halloween, on a train, in costumes, partying like its 1989. One of them is a killer. A killer who wears the costumes of the people he/she kills. Surprise twist I didnt see coming in the end, but I wasn't the "twist master" yet.                  This would be an easy, quick, and fun movie to make. Just add 200 extras, some elaborate costumes, and a bunch of  sets that look like train cars. The only real money you need is to hire a quality lead actress, as Jamie Lee Curtis was the star in the original. So throw $2 million at some Bplus level talent, get some cool costumes and you're good to go. Huge opening weekend here... like $18 to $35 million, then the drop off, then the unrated 2 disk "green-ray" with alternate endings. I got this studio thing down pat.

5. Stripped to Kill. 1987. A detective goes undercover to investigate a murderer who kills strippers.  No one makes good T and A flicks anymore. The last good one was Hostel 1 or 2 I believe.                         I would make this my first epic straight to Blu-ray production. I would have TONS of hot girls, I mean the hottest I could get. Hooters, Hawaiian Tropic, Playboy, etc. They would be naked alot.  I would have loads of backstage tension between the strippers. Also gotta have lots of what goes on backstage..the business side. You cant just have a killer killing every 10 minutes... make it fun, give the strippers personality...show them complaining about tips, fighting over songs etc. Then make the killer vicious, Christian Bale in American Psycho vicious. His whole deal could be he wanted to be a woman, so he takes his rage out on born beautiful women.

                                                                     4. Demons. 1985. Demons running wild on opening night in a movie theater...do you really need anything else? This is an easy production. Give me a theater, some victims, some scary demon makeup, and a couple of guns. I would set the movie in a fairly populated town that has the worlds only gimmick theater. A theater where the movies are made to interact with the film goers. What happens on screen, happens in the aisles.  Electric shocks on chairs, blood sprayed into the crowd during a death scene, stuff falling from the ceiling, actors in costumes, etc.  So when the actual demons start running amok, the moviegoers think its part of the act. The key here is to really make the theater fun, the popcorn, the ushers, etc. It would be a big theater too, one theater could be 3-d...the demons could attack multiple theaters. You could even have a movie screening with an A-list star doing a Q and A segment, then all of a sudden the demons attack. You could get  name actors playing themselves.

 3. Clownhouse. 1989. Clownhouse was a little seen low budget horror movie directed by Victor Salva. Who is Victor Salva? He is a horror movie director. What did Victor Salva  do to a 12 year old boy during the filming of this movie???...oral copulation while he videotaped it. He served 15 months and was back making Disney movies in no time (Powder). Clownhouse should still be remade and remade scary. Creepy clowns chasing kids thru the woods would inspire many a nightmare.

2. The Monster Squad. 1987. A group of kids battle 4 famous monsters and some vampire women in this 82 minute 1987 horror film. Huge following, wasn't available on dvd for the longest time. This would be the most difficult movie to remake because how do you do it? Do you go camp with dumb monsters, or do you have violent scary monsters. Who's your target audience.....10 year olds? I would probably have a bunch of 12 to 16 year olds who worship Dungeons and Dragons, watch horror movies, play games, surf the web, etc. Not picked on at school, but not popular. Picking on kids at school doesn't happen that way anymore, so I wouldn't have them getting beat up...they'd be outsiders though. You could have vampires and a were-wolf, but a mummy and swamp thing would be hard to pull off. Having kids with guns would be very taboo in todays world....it sucks that the world got so violent.

1. House. 1986. House 1 and 2 are forgotten big time. One of the few franchises, along with The Evil Dead series, to mix horror and comedy successfully. House is about an author who moves into a house to begin writing a novel, he soon realizes its  plagued by ghosts and monsters. Robert Downey Jr would be perfect for the lead here. You just need a huge old house, and some great effects.