Deep Red

So the latest assignment on my film course was to pick an existing foreign language film, then write about how we would remake it in a contemporary American setting. We were also required to edit together a 2 minute trailer for the remake using existing footage of the actors we had chosen to appear in the film.

I chose Deep Red, a cult 70's horror from Italian Giallo master Dario Argento. The original film is regarded as a bit of a cult classic, with a murder-mystery element playing alongside the onslaught of brutal, and (for the time) extremely violent murders as a British jazz pianist traverses Rome with his journalist love interest to try and unmask an insane murderer. My American bastardized remake was to star David Duchovney, Zach Braff and Chloe Sevingy (among others), and would take the tale to LA and the hills of Hollywood.

I did the entire project in just over a week, and the trailer turned out ok. I think it tails off towards the end though.. I used clips from American Psycho, The X Files - I Want to Believe, Mr Brooks, Zodiac, Garden State, Friday The 13th (remake), and a few others I can't remember - as well as a few clips of the original Deep Red of course.

Here is the final package that I handed in:

And here is the trailer itself:

Deep Red Remake Trailer from Aidan Hornsby on Vimeo.