The slasher Unhinged (not to be confused with the Russell Crowe thriller) isn’t a movie you hear referenced very often, but the 1982 release definitely seems to have captured the imagination of filmmakers Scott Jeffrey, Rebecca J. Matthews, and Louisa Warren. Jeffrey just wrote and, with Matthews and Warren, produced a remake of Unhinged back in 2017 – and now our friends at Bloody Disgusting have broken the news that a second remake of Unhinged is now in the works, with Jeffrey, Matthews, and Warren producing again.
These Unhinged remakes are a collaboration between Jeffrey and Matthews’ company Proportion Productions and Warren’s company ChampDog Films.
Directed by Don Gronquist, who wrote the screenplay with Reagan Ramsey, the 1982 version of Unhinged had the following synopsis: Three college girls on their way to a jazz festival crash their car in the isolated woods during a rainstorm and are taken in by a mysterious family in an old mansion. Little do the girls know, the family has a dark, murderous secret.
Jeffrey told Bloody Disgusting that the new take on the concept will be a “very close remake, but sprinkling in a modern setting.”
The 2017 version of Unhinged told the following story: Melissa and her three American bridesmaids, who decide to take the English back roads whilst travelling to her wedding in the countryside. On the way, a deadly secret forces the girls to be stranded in the woods. They discover a house, occupied by Miss Perkins, who promises to look after them until they find help. Little do the girls know, a dark evil lurks in and around the grounds of the house. Only when the girls come face to face with ‘it’ will they truly discover what real horror is…
The 1982 film is best known for ending up on the “video nasties” list in the UK. The movie was shot in Oregon on a budget of $100,000, and future Oscar nominated director Gus Van Sant was a location scout on the production.
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