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‘Suffer Little Children’ – ‘Who Can Kill a Child?’ Remake On the Way As Paramount Renews Deal with Walter Hamada
After joining forces with Walter Hamada to oversee their horror branch three years ago, Paramount Pictures has renewed its multi-year production deal, per Variety, and their upcoming slate includes Who Can Kill a Child? remake Suffer Little Children.
The deal renewal arrives on the heels of the trailer launch for Paramount and Hamada’s 18Hz Productions’ Primate.
Suffer Little Children, a remake of the 1976 Spanish horror film by director Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, will be written and directed by Rodrigue Huart.
Plot details for the remake are under wraps, but the original film was based on the novel El Juego De Los Niños by Juan José Plans. It follows a British couple who travel to a remote island for vacation, but they soon realize that all the adults on the island have been killed by crazed children. Serrador’s film favored psychological horror, instilling palpable dread in this killer kid flick.
Huart won the Midnight Short Jury Award at SXSW 2024 for his modern vampire story Transylvanie and has previously helmed horror movies Trigger and Real.
Also part of Paramount and 18Hz’s upcoming horror slate is Paramount’s untitled horror movie from The Autopsy of Jane Doe director André Øvredal, and Familiar from The Coffee Table director Caye Casas and writer Julien Magnat. While plot details are under wraps on Ovredal’s latest, the latter follows a single mother who inadvertently invites an evil entity into her home.
It’s a packed slate ahead for Paramount and Hamada, one that’s keeping them very busy in horror.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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