Hollywood remake of ‘Tomie’ has its writers

From Bloody Disgusting comes word that the Dimension Films remake of Ataru Oikawa’s Tomie now has its writers in place: Phil Wen, Vince Di Meglio, and Tim Rasmussen. These names pretty much mean nothing to me, and after perusing their respective filmographies at IMDb they mean even less.

Tomie is based on a Junji Ito manga series about an evil girl who embodies lust and jealousy and repeatedly returns from death to cause trouble for a new set of young people who invariably end up killing her in various brutal ways. The original movie adaptation spawned 7 sequels, the latest being Tomohiro Kubo’s Tomie vs Tomie in 2007. The repetitiveness of the series combined with sheer number of sequels has probably given it a bad name over the years—possibly making it a poster child for the perceived decline of J-horror. A few of them were actually kind of creepy and atmospheric though, including the first. Unfortunately the things that make the original version creepy and atmospheric—such as methodical pacing and a strange-but-effective vocoder soundtrack—are exactly the sort of things that Hollywood remakes typically tend to strip out for the sake of mass consumption. Personally I wouldn’t bank on this one being any exception, but it never hurts to keep an open mind.

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