This week, we discovered that director F. Javier Gutiérrez is working on a remake of the 1987 horror film Anguish, which was directed by Bigas Luna and stars Zelda Rubinstein and Michael Lerner.
According to the press statement, Kiko Martnez and Antonio Pérez have purchased the rights to adapt the vintage horror film into a mainstream horror flick. Sam Raimi’s production house, Ghost House Pictures, had already considered a remake in 2009.
In a statement released last week, Gutiérrez said that bringing the classic by Bigas Luna, one of Spain’s most personal and cherished authors, back to the big screen is both a dream and a responsibility. Anguish left an indelible stamp on his life. He says that the movie was unique and daring, fascinating and brutal, yet it’s also a love letter to movies and theatres.
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Anguish is a complicated and disturbing picture with a contemporary twist: it’s an ode to theatres in the midst of the trend of streaming entertainment at home. Film within cinema, a terrifying “Freudian” parallelism between reality and fiction concerned with the viewer’s gaze.
A controlling mother utilises psychic talents to send her middle-aged son on a murderous spree in the 1987 original. It is a thriller about two teenage girls who are among a small group of people scared in a movie theatre by a killer while viewing a horror film about a murderous optometrist stalking his victims in a movie theatre. matt-282 is the author of this piece. A movie within a movie, was one of the first of its kind and a mind-bending horror of this sort was exceptional.
We can’t wait to find out how Gutiérrez has adapted this cult classic. The official trailer for that film is out now!