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That Clock Tower Movie Is Actually Happening, Apparently

KeithDaboot — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:13:42 MDT

The good news is that Harvey Weinstein is the guy who pioneered the scissor killer in American cinema by way of a little known horror gem called "The Burning". If his company is handling the remake (which it apparently is), I'd be very surprised to see the Scissorman get the shaft.

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str8raz0r — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:16:39 MDT

Damn, and I wanted Jorge Olguin to direct. He's only done a few movies, but the two that I saw (Sangre Eterna and Angel Negro) were incredibly well done, especially on the micro-budget that Olguin works within.

Of course, I have very little trust in Capcom doling out rights to their properties after the Resident Evil trilogy and Street Fighter came out the way that they did.

Color me disappointed.

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Takamoto — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:18:48 MDT

I know wiki isnt too reliable a source at times but it says here its supposedly going to be based of Clock Tower 2 (second ps1 game)

[en.wikipedia.org]

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superevilcube — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:07:57 MDT

Being stuck in a clock tower with a killer who rapes his victims with scissors and then kills them. Now THAT is scare as shit. In fact, that'd be too scary and disgusting for me too see, so I hope they just do the killing.

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Demaar — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:50:51 MDT

Could be totally awesome.

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Dopeski — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:08:28 MDT

What scary box art.

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KM91 — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:53:08 MDT

It might be decent. Just think of it, being stuck in a tower with a killer who uses a giant pair of scissors to kill his victims. Sounds a bit scary, doesn't it?

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verrius — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:05:33 MDT

@excaliburps: Spielberg at one point expressed interest, though there hasn't been much news on that front lately...

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Jeff Paine — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:53:57 MDT

As long as it's not based on Clock Tower 3 like the first movie was supposed to be

What I'd love to see is a combination of Clock Tower 1+2 (that would be First Fear+Clock Tower 1 for us Americans), because Clock Tower 1 doesn't really have enough story to make a decent-length film, but Clock Tower 2 is a direct sequel to that so it would make sense to include Clock Tower 1, at least in flashbacks

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Vidril — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:30:10 MDT

@ttocs:

Can't be all that bad... at least its not Uwe boll (yes, it had to be said)

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MURDERFACE — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:23:21 MDT

KAHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oops i mean HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

once again you fuck up the things i love. oh well time to go see Iron Man in a few hours.................. D'oh

P.S. When A Stranger Calls sucked ass!

I bet you the Clock Tower movie going to be a PG-13 crapfest.

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excaliburps — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:03:38 MDT

Wow! No idea they were still considering this. I like the Clock Tower games to be honest. Sure they're not that interactive but the premise is good enough.

Just don't overdo the CGI. That's what I hate about horror movies nowadays. Either it's a gorefest like Saw or a horror movie gone wrong because it's peppered with too much CGI. CGI is 90% distinguishable and not scary enough.

Still the scariest game for me would be Fatal Frame...that series rocked! Hmm is there any chance they'd make a movie out of it? =)

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M00P2OOO — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:27:44 MDT

His name is actually "Jake" Wade Wall and not Jason Wade Wall.

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KirbySS — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:24:01 MDT

What was the name of that big huge baby thing in the first one? Was it Danny? Good Lord he gave me the willies.

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Bicro — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:59:28 MDT

@bbzz: His NAME is BOBBY BARROWS. Amateur.

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Absent Blue — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:52:46 MDT

I only played the beginning of the second one and being super freaked out by it at the time (I think I was like 13 or so). Then they got the third one which was scary at first but got redundant.

If they can get the tone down and not go for the cheap thrills it'll be great. Otherwise I'll stay here on my fence...

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bbzz — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:24:54 MDT

that game was super freaky...scissor man is the best and would make a kick-ass horror movie. please let it happen

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Baramos — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:23:47 MDT

Wow, way to give it to a bunch of lame gore-flick creators. At least the Chilean director would be a different face even if it turned out horrible. Now it's just going to turn out horrible and be produced by people known for producing horrible movies already.

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el_rezzo — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:11:30 MDT

@ChimDeathmonkey: I found it to be rather educational. How to make decent/good actors put in a shit performance using a crap script and even worse editing and directing.

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Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:07:54 MDT

@ceredonia:
Ah. Cheers. Will change.

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cordsie — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:07:10 MDT

'Scrapped' is like wot Rocky and Apollo did, or what happened to 'Auto Assault'. 'Scraped' is what might have happened to well-flattened roadkill, or is something that might have been done during an intrusive medical procedure.

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MelodyKitn — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:06:57 MDT

Alright, have no idea what happened to my initial comment... so if this is a double post, I apologize.

But although I'm interested in seeing this just because it's CTower (and CTower 3 had some of the creepiest cinematics (acid bath and bloody piano girl..) to watch), but where's the Fatal Frame movie Dreamworks promised us over four years ago?!

On a side note.. Ashcraft. get some sleep man!.. or at least a nice cup of cocoa to sweeten the long night.

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ceredonia — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:04:38 MDT

@Brian Ashcraft: It should be "scrapped." You missed a "p". :D

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manashima — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:00:52 MDT

Clock tower is the shit, they better get it right...Silent hill does it for me now, but Clock tower did it for me in the snes era

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Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:53:35 MDT

@Balius:
Maybe I haven't been sleeping, maybe I'm stressed out. That's a typo? 0_o

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Balius — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:47:49 MDT

@ Brian Ashcraft I just love the accidental phrase you used due to a simple typo.

"Well, all that's been scraped it seems."
It's so...graphic...compared to the "actual" saying.

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ChimDeathmonkey — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:34:11 MDT

@Salen:
I watched "In the name of the king" this week, cause I was bored. I will never get those 2 hours back in my life.

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WildWon — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:30:13 MDT

I dunno. I enjoyed the Silent Hill movie.... not from the game, but as a movie. Never played Clock Tower but if its done in a similar vein, i'm in for it.

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ttocs — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:22:02 MDT

haha, Uwe Boll...I signed the pledge!

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Salen — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:17:36 MDT

As long as Uwe Boll isn't directing it, there's a slim chance the movie might be decent.

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ttocs — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:10:38 MDT

If they did it straight horror, yeah, it could be. But you know they will try to get that big name actor who has nothing to lend to the story. Then they will throw in a whole bunch of CGI that will just turn it into one big ball of junk.

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RYAMATSU — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:10:29 MDT

Who will make it out of the game(movie) alive? CLOCK TOWER!

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Bicro — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:08:46 MDT

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Best....horror...game....ever.....
The first fear, I mean, the one for Super Famicon, not the PS1 game.

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eastx — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:08:15 MDT

If they do it as a straight horror movie, it could be cool.

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ttocs — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:07:41 MDT

Oh, yay. Another video game being made into a movie...

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