We learned earlier this year that Cinestate, the company behind the resurgence of Fangoria as well as the upcoming Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, is developing a remake of Full Moon’s Stuart Gordon-directed Castle Freak, with original star Barbara Crampton producing. Speaking with Daily Dead, the horror icon just teased the approach of the remake.
“The script is being written right now, and we’re looking to shoot sometime later this year, beginning of next year,” Crampton told the site. “All the elements for that are coming together really well, and it’s going to be an updated version of the old [film] and have a fresher start and some different characters, with more of the Freak and his backstory.”
She continued, “Also, our goal is to enhance a lot of the Lovecraft elements in the movie to just bring the Lovecraft universe a little bit more to life and a little bit more in the forefront. I’m really excited to read the final version, but we’ve all been working with the writer on the story elements and it’s looking really good. So I’m very excited about that as well.”
In the ’95 film, a man struggles to save his family from the strange and deadly occurrences in the castle they’ve inherited.
Castle Freak will be directed by SFX guru Tate Steinsiek with Dallas Sonnier, Amanda Presmyk and Full Moon’s Charles Band also producing.
