As you may or may not even recall, we had reported *seven years ago* that Dante Tomaselli (Torture Chamber) was working on a remake of the 1976 horror film Alice, Sweet Alice, which was directed by Alfred Sole; Tomaselli, it’s interesting to note, is actually Sole’s cousin. Early casting had begun about a year later, but then the project seemed to disappear completely.
Well, in a new chat with Arrow this week, Tomaselli lets it be known that the remake is very much still in development. “My cousin and I still have a remake in the cards,” he says.
Tomaselli also told the site, “Be on the look out for my cousin’s film, Alice, Sweet Alice. It’s coming out on Blu-ray in August through Arrow Video and I witnessed exclusive clips of the restoration print – it looks incredible! We’re in talks about releasing official Alice, Sweet Alice Halloween masks with Trick or Treat’s Justin Mabry.”
In the original, “Paula Sheppard is Alice, a pouty, petulant problem child at that awkward age living with her precocious little sister Karen (Brooke Shields) and single mom. When Karen is murdered during her first communion and Alice takes her place in line, suspicion immediately falls on her. Then a diminutive killer in a yellow slicker and opaque mask continues the reign of terror, and Alice’s estranged father takes up the investigation to prove her innocence.“