The Grudge’s Takashi Shimizu to Direct American Horror Movie
Horror Movie News, Untitled Shimizu American Horror Movie — By Nix on August 19, 2009
Japanese wunderkind director Takashi Shimizu is looking to move past the borders of Japanese horror movies and American remakes of his original Japanese horror movies and finally directing an original English-language horror film for the first time. The director, who has already wrapped production on Japan’s first 3D horror movie “The Shock Labyrinth” mere months after it was announced (they work fast over there), has been attached to direct an untitled thriller about a haunted song for Phoenix Pictures.
According to Variety, Phoenix Pictures has assigned writer Chris Philpott to adapt an original idea by producer Taka Ichise and Shimizu. The film, which doesn’t currently have a title, will center around a haunted song that drives its listeners to suicide.
If you’re keeping track, that’s a haunted song. Asia has produced some pretty wacky haunted inanimate items in the past, from shoes to cellos to videotapes to sofas, but a song? Okay, I haven’t seen the movie about the haunted sofa yet, but I’m sure it’s coming, mark my words.
In any case, I got fifty bucks that says a woman with long hair shows up at one point. Call it a hunch.
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Not to burst anyones bubble but Japan did make a movie back in 2007 called The Suicide Song,
and it was about a song the made people commit suicide, so I don’t think this new movie, if they make it will be a totally original idea!
You got me hyped up for a movie about a killer sofa!
The idea of a haunted song isn’t so new. Burst-a-Bubble mentioned a suicide song, and there actually is “Gloomy Sunday” which is also nicknamed the Suicide Song. I’ll wait for Korea to make a horror film about fan death.