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Title: Fantasy Island's Reboot Is A Horror Movie - Here's Why
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 22, 2019, 07:07:23 PM

Fantasy Island's Reboot Is A Horror Movie - Here's Why (https://screenrant.com/fantasy-reboot-movie-reboot-horror-explained/)

This article compares the old TV version to DS, which, as far as I'm concerned, is an insult to DS. But maybe that's just me...

Title: Re: Fantasy Island's Reboot Is A Horror Movie - Here's Why
Post by: Gothick on November 22, 2019, 09:59:52 PM

Never watched it. It's not from "the same era" as Dark Shadows--the mid to late Seventies was a very different time from the late Sixties, and a filmed weekly primetime series is a very different type of animal from a daily daytime gothic serial.

The "author" of that puff-piece probably never saw a single episode of any of the shows referenced in this PR.

And if the Banana Splits can be "re-booted" as a chainsaw splatter film, why not Fantasy Island--I think it is very unlikely that fans of the original show will bother going to see the film, in any event.

G.