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First we have Freddy vs. Jason, then Aliens vs. Predator can this be true....Rumours of Dimension films remaking Halloween with Carpenter directing seem to be false.
What maybe in the off is Micheal Myers verses Pinhead!!!!!!
Dimension are said to have offered this to John Carpenter with Clive Barker writing the scipt.
Bad idea of the year or what?

If this *is* true, it looks like the success of FVsJ might be kicking off a mini-trend.

Pinhead was one of the better horror characters to emerge in the 80s, and I'll be really disappointed if he's whored out even more.

Sounds like an appaling idea.
Pinhead is a great character, well, he is in the first couple (and if I'm feeling generous the third) of movies.
The Hellraiser Vs Nightbreed comic of many years ago is about as far as you could take it, I think.

And where will this madness end? Will we see remakes of the old Frankenstein Vs the Wolfman type movies?

Can some kind of "League of 80s Fangaoria pin-ups" be far behind?

The Krankies vs the Thing!

"It's cold here, so it is... fantabidozie... ssssss"

>>The Krankies vs the Thing!



Now, that I would go and see.

The Krankies vs the Thing!

Hell anthing involving the Krankies is a winner in my book! Bring back the Krankies! The campaign starts here!

Did you catch their blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in Teachers? One of the few funny moments in the series so far.

I'm convinced it's Jimmy Krankie piloting the ship that gets blown up at the start of Phantom Menace (the one that brings Obi-Wan and his boss to the negotiations). Can't find any evidence on imdb but it looks and sounds like her...

Don't know about that, but I remember her appearing in a French & Saunders Phantom Menace special as "Anadin" :-)

"I'm convinced it's Jimmy Krankie piloting the ship that gets blown up at the start of Phantom Menace (the one that brings Obi-Wan and his boss to the negotiations). "

I can't remember her name, but she is an actress from Derry/Londonderry. She was also in The Commitments and Pulp Fiction.

Very bad idea.  But as money is the marker of success in hollywood, then for the movie studios, probably a good move.

I have a feeling that a certain type of movie, the franchise, has become cheap enough to make with a guarentee of a financial reward.  I recently heard there was not one but two more hellraiser movies than I had previously thought (I gave up on three when I saw CD-head).

You have a great movie like halloween, which for a few bucks is progressively cheapened and lobotomised until it becomes a cartoon parody of itself.  

You can say the same about a whole bunch of horror movies, that end up with people cheering for the rapist/child molester/serial killer instead of the young people being butchered on the screen.  Still, probably sells a lot of model kits.

The crossover has nothing to do with imagination, creativity, a good story or even a goood idea, it's just the simple economic fact that if you have two mildy succesful products and stick them together you'll shift more units collectively than on their own.

I can't think of any horror sequals off the top of my head that I think are good movies.  Some are fun (E.g. Jason X) but rarely in the same league as the original movie.

Back onto the original point (at last).  I don't give a toss about this movie, I don't find it exciting that Pinhead and Myers will be in a film together, if they could make a movie as good as Halloween (or even Hellraiser) then THAT might be interesting.

**The crossover has nothing to do with imagination, creativity, a good story or even a goood idea, it's just the simple economic fact that if you have two mildy succesful products and stick them together you'll shift more units collectively than on their own.**

You mean like Dredd/Batman or Dredd/Alien or Dredd/Preditor or Dredd/Batman (again) or Dredd/Batman (again, again) or Dredd/Batman (again, again, again).....  I see your point.

Yeah, pretty much.

You missed out Dredd Lobo, and more incestuously, Friday and Johnny Alpha.

I don't know, all of these Dredd crossovers have been at the very least well written (though I haven't read Predator).  I think Dredd has a teflon coating with these things, I mean, he's come against much stranger and more interesting perps and aliens in Mega City than in crossovers, and the D-Jump allows pretty much anything to crossover.  I mean batman, predator, aliens and the joker?  Pah!

I think the Batman ones could have been better, they were at times more showcases for the kooky back catalogue of villains for both series than great stories.  The riddler one (great art from Critchlow) sticks in my mind as probably the best story.

Funnily enough I like the Alpha ones best, but even more bizarre I actually think Wagner did a great job of the rather silly idea of having Dredd meet Friday (whom Sir, I loathe).

Anyway, I think Dredd's been pretty well handled in these uncomfortable situations.  I think with horror movies though, these series have often lost a lot of respect before they get to the depertate situation of a crossover.  

And... Back on topic.   Breathe out.

Bah, I'm still annoyed that Dredd Vs Aliens missed the oportunity of having the Grand Hall of Justice sinking itno a lake of alien acid...