As every repulsion fan is well aware , we ’re gettinga newfangled Halloween moviethis fall that willignore all the sequel , find fault up with O.G. Final Girl Laurie Strode decade after the upshot of the first plastic film . It seems like a very effective way of life to breathe young life into an quondam franchise . So why halt with Halloween ?
Many , many repulsion films from the seventies and 1980s have already been rebooted and/or remade , with mixed results — including , of course , Halloween , which has already brought Jamie Lee Curtis back as an older interlingual rendition of her iconic atomic number 82 lineament . ( Twice . ) Still , we ’re very excited to see a sweet take that merely imagines Laurie ’s been biding her time since 1978 , waiting for a replay with Michael Myers .
And as it find , there are other horror characters from the 1970s and ’ 80s that we ’d lie with to meet again . Some have already been brought back to biography in completely comforting way of life ; Geena Davis play a suitably haunted grownup version of the formerly possessed Regan MacNeil in the goggle box version of The exorciser . And we have some more to look forth to , like The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep , whichwill update us on Danny Torrance . But what about …
1) Nancy, A Nightmare on Elm Street
A wholesome high schooler in the first Nightmare picture show , Nancy Thompson returned for the third sequel , Dream Warriors . Then , the actor who portray her , Heather Langenkamp , played a fictionalized version of herself in the seventh Nightmare film , Wes Craven ’s New Nightmare . Putting the enfranchisement ’s many sequel aside — and discounting all the Freddy Krueger lore that ’s been built up over the years — would be a monumental task , peculiarly since series creator Craven die in 2015 . But the right team could take the story back to present - Clarence Day Springwood , Ohio , and find a Nancy who ’s around the same geezerhood as Laurie Strode , and has somehow avoided having a nightmare since 1984 … until now , that is .
2) Damien, The Omen
A few geezerhood back , there was a short - live on TV show called Damien that purported to explore what Satan ’s spawn had been up to since 1976 . Though it hold fast to the Halloween playbook , ignoring all the Omen sequels and its remaking , the show was unfortunately terrible , with a boring lead actor and a premise that involved Damien first forgetting he was the Antichrist , and then taste to get away his black destiny . Dude , no . We need a do - over that showcases a grown - up version of that spooky schoolboy who grinned his way through his parent ’ joint funeral . Learn from the television receiver show ’s fuckup . As the Antichrist , Damien is sort of one - note by innovation , so do n’t make him the main lineament — and for the erotic love of Beelzebub , do n’t endeavor to give him too much nuance . He needs to be evil , and legitimately scary , albeit in an Angel Heart way of life , not a Little Nicky style .
3) and 4) Michael and Sean Brody, Jaws
Talk about characters in need of a serious do - over . The Brody kid have really appeared in every single Jaws continuation , including 1983 ’s campy Jaws 3 - D , in which Michael is portrayed by a young and hungry Dennis Quaid . But imagine if we ’d never seen the brothers working at an aquatic theme Mungo Park , or being chased by a shark in the Caribbean . They go through a lot of shit in the first pic — Michael sees a guy get attack right in front of him — and it would be interesting to see how that early hurt shaped them as adult . You got ta assume that Michael , at least , would have aged into a Quint - type figure of speech , the kind of guy cable who knows the best way to quieten an emotional gang is by scraping one ’s nails across a blackboard . young buddy Sean , who would barely be able-bodied to recall much about that shitty summertime of 1975 , is even more of a wild card . You could in spades write a book that works in some Laurie Stode - trend survivalism and revenge . And , it goes without saying , shark movies never go out of way … have you seenthe trailer for The Meg ?
5) Sally, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Somehow , there are eight films in this serial , though only the first two — the one direct by Tobe Hooper — are any good , and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is more of a pitch - black comedy than a lawful revulsion film . The original film , which arrive out in 1974 , still stands as one of the most hide - crawlingly ossify movies ever . There are a lot of reasons for that ( the film ’s general atmosphere of travail and dread ; that damned meat - sweetener skewering ; the farmhouse ’s DIY man-eater decor ) , but one of them is the last scene , which see solitary survivor Sally Hardesty escaping a chainsaw - wielding Leatherface by the skin of her tooth , scream - laughing in such a fashion that you have it away she ’s totter on the verge of total insanity . Hooperpassed away last year , so sadly he ’s not around to offer stimulant on what Sally ’s life might ’ve been like in the aftermath of her ordeal . But she ’s definitely been a character we ’ve wonder about — and worried about — since we first check her flee her Texas incubus . Could a mortal ever recover from something like that ?
6) Carol Anne, Poltergeist
While we ’re on the subject of Tobe Hooper movies — although Poltergeist suffer the strong stamp of producer / co - writer Steven Spielberg — it ’s a disgrace that the much - loved supernatural classic get an underwhelming remake instead of a more urge on , fresh approach . ( As followers of morbid Hollywood small beer well live , child actor Heather O’Rourke , who played Carol Anne in the first three movies , diedafter enteral surgical procedure when she was just 12 . ) To do it right , a new Poltergeist would have to snub the sequels ( though Poltergeist II : The Other Side does havea hell of a scoundrel ) and take in up with Carol Anne , who ’d be in her former XL and probably still very in touch with the spirit kingdom , for dependable and/or uncollectible . You ’d have to question if “ the TV mass ” would try reaching out through her laptop computer this clip around , though .
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