When it comes to remakes, isn’t it better to start with esoteric material that might not have been great in the first place?
That’s apparently what Spitfire Pictures is doing — according to B-D, they’re removing the stake from the 1974 action-horror combo platter LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES and giving it renewed life with a modern treatment.
The deliriously kooky original (a cheesy personal fave) was a Hammer Films/Shaw Brothers collaboration, featuring monster-killing icon Peter Cushing as (yet again) Prof. Van Helsing fighting alongside kung fu vampire hunters.