Last year's Last House on the Left was yet another entry in the recent trend of remaking old horror schlock classics with a bigger budget, but at least it was one of the better ones-- our review called it "less a fright fest of ghosts in the shadows and more a creepy, disturbing battle of savage wills." And the director, Dennis Iliadis, is taking that warmish critical response on to something that should make horror fans truly happy: an original horror movie.
According to The LA Times, Iliadis is in negotiations to direct The Demonologists, a script by Ghost Whisperer writer Teddy Tenenbaum. The story is about a family of experienced ghost hunters who get called in for a job that becomes much more difficult when they realize they're actually after demons. Hilariously, the movie is being compared to House, the 1977 Japanese horror classic recently shown to me by David Ehrlich, the author of the brand-new Criterion Corner at Cinematical. He describes it as "one of the craziest things to ever happen in the universe," and I agree with him, and if Iliadis is planning a movie even remotely like it, we are all in for a weird treat.
