Alexander Aja & Wes Craven a Team for 'The Waiting'.

Here's something that's only just on my radar, another Craven / Aja project thats been openly discussed in the past week in some quarters, and it's one of those things again that's a bit 'work in progress' so take it as something that could fall apart, but hopefully remains something that will come through for its scheduled 2007 release. Craven and Aja have discussed working together on something following Craven's positive reaction to Aja's remake of his 'The Hills Have Eyes' which opens in America on March 10th 2006. Craven has managed a solid but not particularly fresh career for decades, Aja is still up and coming, and potentially the pairing could be very interesting indeed.

Fine, Aja did a top job of 'Haute Tension', one of the best films I saw last year in many respects - particularly for its modern look, old-fashioned genre story and great special effects - something not entirely new but which showed enough promise, and I was amongst those saying 'pfff... yeah, nice choice' sarcasticly in my head when Aja opted for a remake - something essentially to likely to be even less original that another genre movie like 'Haute Tension'. Anyway, remakes can be fresh too I suppose, and 'The Hills Have Eyes' remake trailer is just lovely, and it remains one film I want to see more than most this year.

'The Waiting' is a ghost story revolving around a relocating family, and is said to potentially both be a remake (of sorts) of 'Last House on the Left' (like it, prefer Aldo Lado's version of that tale in 'Night Train Murders' - a great Blue Underground disc of that out in America) and something in the same vein as 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Don't Look Now'. So potential in there for something with that Gothic Horror edge, the feel of 'Omen', 'Carrie', 'Halloween' and many things out of Italy during that decade too. They seem to have scoured scripts that contain the basic elements of a story they can add their edge and touch to, and I hope that such a meeting of minds comes up with something lovely. [Source : Sci-Fi Wire].

'The Hills Have Eyes' by Alexander Aja (2005) Trailer at Apple.com, Embedded Quicktime.