This year’s Vacancy was a horror film that a lot of people missed out on due to the fact it opened right before all the big blockbuster summer hits this year, and due to it’s A-list comedic star, Luke Wilson who many thought didn’t belong in a horror film. (Although, I felt he did a great job in ‘Vacancy’ as the heroic and average joe blow husband)
Recently Sony has released another production company called ‘Stage 6,’ and will be producing a prequel for the under-seen horror flick as well as other films.
ShockTillYouDrop gives us this:
Titles currently on the slab include a Vacancy prequel, Alex Turner’s The Stone House, Thomas Jane’s Dark Country, The Lodger (now starring Alfred Molina) and a third Starship Troopers film with Casper Van Dien and Jolene Blaylock. Stage 6 with shepherd about ten to fifteen flicks a year budgeted between $1-10 million.
Although, I really liked ‘Vacancy,’ I think a prequel for the film is as pointless as last year’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Everybody is going to know what happens. Obviously everybody in the prequel has to die, because the antagonists in the first film didn’t perish until the end of the movie. I remember sitting in the theatre last year for TCM:The Beginning and feeling really bad and dirty. I kept thinking to myself, ‘Why the f*ck am I here watching this morbid sh*t? Obviously, everyone is going to die in this movie, and I’m sitting here watching everybody get tortured for entertainment?!’
I think they should leave this film alone. It’s a stand alone film and that’s how it should stay.
