{"id":168,"date":"2009-10-03T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/10\/family-friendly-horror-movies\/"},"modified":"2009-10-03T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T13:59:00","slug":"family-friendly-horror-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2009\/10\/family-friendly-horror-movies.html","title":{"rendered":"Family-friendly horror movies?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Will family-friendly horror movies take the place of slasher films and the like? Variety<\/i> magazine seems to think that that is a possibility \u2014 and at least one of the filmmakers leading the charge just happens to be a Christian.<\/p>\n

The trade paper reports<\/a> that Scott Derrickson, who has discussed his faith and filmmaking with CT Movies a couple<\/a> of times<\/a>, has signed on to direct a remake of the Danish grade-school thriller The Substitute<\/a><\/i> for Spooky Pictures, a brand-new outfit set up by Sam Raimi and Columbia Pictures.<\/p>\n

Derrickson has plenty of experience as a maker of horror movies for grown-ups \u2014 among other things, he directed the R-rated Hellraiser: Inferno<\/i> and the PG-13 The Exorcism of Emily Rose<\/a><\/i> (which is also available on DVD in an \u201cunrated\u201d edition) \u2014 but this new venture, according to Variety<\/i>, is aimed at \u201cfamily audiences\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Substitute<\/i> itself will concern \u201ca terrified sixth-grade class as the students race to reveal to their parents that their new substitute teacher is an evil alien being.\u201d<\/p>\n

Variety<\/i> notes that Spooky Pictures is not the first family-oriented scary-movie brand to be created in recent months. Three weeks ago<\/a>, the Disney studio announced that it had struck a deal with horror maestro Guillermo Del Toro (Pan\u2019s Labyrinth<\/i>, etc.) to create \u2018Disney Double Dare You<\/a>\u2018, a new production label that will make \u201canimated films full of chills and thrills for audiences of all ages\u201d.<\/p>\n

Variety<\/i> writer Marc Graser writes that the rise of these labels \u201csignals the kind of thrillers Hollywood may soon be unspooling at the megaplex,\u201d and speculates: \u201cShould the labels find an audience, the shift away from slasher fare and the like, often referred to as \u2018gore porn,\u2019 is likely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Derrickson, for his part, has a number of other projects in development at the moment, including adaptations of John Milton\u2019s epic poem Paradise Lost<\/a><\/i> and Dan Simmons\u2019s Hugo-winning sci-fi novel Hyperion Cantos<\/a><\/i>; it remains to be seen which of these movies will get the green light first. His last film was the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/a><\/i>, starring Keanu Reeves.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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