Timing is not my forte. But I'd like to see Hitchcock's take on the Alien franchise. I consider it a mistake to take outlandish filmmakers ŕ la Caro or Jeunet or Gilliam or Lynch or whatever to make a film about this nightmarish creature's intrusion in our world, because its impact comes from the contrast between its horror and our tight environment, and a more sober, clinical cinematography in a more grounded scifi world should reflect that. The ideal approach to Alien is hitchcockian in my eyes, a clean life machinery thrown out of whack by the unexpected. Ridley Scott did it great. The franchise could have gone that way, instead of diluting the alien in fantasy self-indulgence.
That would be interesting and I'd love to see Hitch, back from the grave, taking on some of the FX monster stuff.
The last 30 years has been such an arms race with FX and spatters and non-stop action that my brain gets into "whatever" mode about 15 minutes into these sort of movies and, by the end, my main interest is in how long it goes on. A more subtle Hitchcockian approach would actually be a novelty in the current movie world.
What I suspect, however, is that we have 30 years of people whose whole concept of movies is faster, louder and bloodier so, for them, the slow moving, methodical approach of a guy like Hitchcock just would not work, or maybe it would, but the investors might end up calling the shots on this and they seem to be all-in with faster, louder, thrill ride movies.
It's worth noting that when Psycho was released, the hype and press about it was whether audiences could stand it, kids were banned, and theaters posted warnings. Granted, a lot of that was intended to draw people in, but the fact that a 30 second shower scene with its shrieking music was considered horrifying seems downright quaint today.
So, how about Frank Capra, taking on Freddie Kruger, with James Stewart as Freddie. That would be quite a post-mortem matchup.
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