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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:33:50 EST
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- From: Gayle Gleason <ST402486@BROWNVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Old movie recasting
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- >On the other hand, I'm inclined to give more leeway to remaking older,
- >more obscure films that had good potential but weren't well executed or even
- >quirkily enough executed to gain a cult of some kind. (No, I don't think
- >I can name one at the moment, though.) Jeff Clark
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- How about _Cat People_? The original was a B-type flick with no money
- for special effects, whereas the `new' one (came out in 1982?) had really
- cool tranformation effects (akin to American Werewolf in London).
- --Gayle Gleason
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