Why remake 'American Werewolf in London'? WHY?

Here we thought the cake had been taken by word that John Carpenter’s remake of The Thing was again being remade, but get this: Dimension Films is set to butcher the 1981 John Landis awesomefest An American Werewolf in London. That’s the silver bullet to make us swear off movies forever.

Of course, Landis is signed on as executive producer to oversee how his David Naughton-Griffin Dunne vehicle is warmed over. the good news is that Dimension says it plans to keep it campy, but that’s a dangerous chemistry set to go playing with. At least we’ll have Rob Zombie’s remake of Halloween II ready in August to keep us angry until this and the remake of Hellraiser get off the ground.