Next Year’s Big Halloween Movie Will Be About a Haunted Wine Box
With "Saw 3D" closing the book on that long-running series and there no word yet about a "Paranormal Activity 3," next Halloween is looking for a new horror movie to bring in fright fans. Director Sam Raimi thinks he has the answer: The man behind the "Spider-Man" and "Evil Dead" franchises is producing a supernatural film that's scheduled to come out October 28, 2011. But will enough people be terrified by a movie called "Dibbuk Box"?
Raimi's Ghost House Pictures will be overseeing Danish director Ole Bornedal's horror movie about a haunted box that terrorizes a family that takes possession of it. The film was inspired by a 2004 Los Angeles Times article concerning a small wooden wine box that gave each of its owners nothing but problems. (One of them, a 20-something college student, sold it on eBay, although not without including this dire warning: "We have definitely seen a tidal wave of 'bad luck.' ... Most disturbingly, last Tuesday, my hair began to fall out.") Soon it was believed that the box was cursed by a "dibbuk" (or "dybbuk"), a malicious spirit from Jewish folklore. (Remember that non-sequitur opening to "A Serious Man" with the married couple and that weird old man? He was a dybbuk.)
We don't know much about the film, but its barebones plot description makes it sound a bit like "The Ring," the Japanese horror movie about a passed-around videotape that brought about the death of all those who watched it. You may remember that the 2002 American remake jump-started Hollywood's obsession with adapting every available Asian horror film, with Raimi's Ghost House playing their part by producing "The Grudge" and its sequel. With "Dibbuk Box," Raimi seems to be again chasing trends, crossbreeding "The Ring"'s "scary everyday object" horror with "Paranormal Activity"'s "Is that a ghost?" spookiness. So even though next Halloween will feature a fresh, new horror entry, in certain ways it'll be awfully similar to what's come before.
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