Horrible Re-imaginings: First 'Hellraiser' Then 'Halloween'

Does two well-received turns deserve another? They do, according to the Weinstein Company.

According to MTV, once director Patrick Lussier and writer Todd Farmer complete their Clive Barker-backed "Hellraiser" remake, they could very well be picking up where musician/director Rob Zombie left off and continuing his re-imagining of John Carpenter's "Halloween."

Farmer has allegedly already completed a script and brought it before excited Weinstein executives.

"We would love it to go through," Lussier said. "We would make that the second somebody said, 'Yes, go make it,' because it's a script that we love and a script we're really passionate about and it's an amazing character and an incredible franchise, and it would just be a great experience for us to go back to the roots."

Farmer also claims his vision will meld John Carpenter's original concept with Zombie's updated take.

"'Halloween' is one of the movies that made us what we are today," he said. "Without cheating and with what [was] created in Zombie's, we'd continue the story and do so in a way that sort of brings us back to the tone of Carpenter that we started with."

Zombie's first 2007 remake overcame dismal reviews and earned $80.2 million worldwide. In 2009, "Halloween II" received even worse reviews but still made $39.3 million.

The forecast for "Halloween 3" could be much, much worse. The third movie made after the first two successful installments in John Carpenter's original franchise didn't involve Carpenter at all. It was 1982's "Halloween III: Season Of The Witch," it had absolutely nothing to do with Michael Myers or the first two movies at all, and it's still widely regarded as one of the single worst movies ever made.