Zemeckis Turns Macabre

After such lofty projects as Contact and the forthcoming What Lies Beneath Robert Zemeckis is to switch into pure pulp Horror mode with Macabre. It’s a $15-20m re-make of the 1958 William Castle schlocker from Dark Castle Entertainment, the new company formed by Zemeckis and Joel (Matrix) Silver to develop low-to-medium budget contemporary versions of William Castle’s library.

The first endeavour was the successful House on Haunted Hill. Zemeckis will reportedly forfeit his usual effects-dominated technique and use hand-held cameras and naturalistic settings for Macabre. It tells the story of a doctor whose daughter has been kidnapped and possibly buried alive. The 1950s version came with a trademark Castle gimmick, namely that all viewers were insured by Lloyds of London should they die of fright while watching the movie.

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