The Horror!

We were the most surprised but the first to admit that Gore Verbinski did a bang-up job remaking Hideo Nakata's Japanese horror, The Ring, for Western audiences. It may not have been as truly terrifying as its forbear but the film certainly gave us the wiggins for a good few days every time the phone rang or someone put on a video. The proposed sequel, The Ring 2, inspired less confidence, however, as it planned to depart from the Japanese source and chart its own course through horror country. Proposed director Noam Murro dropped out of the project earlier this week though and Hideo Nakata himself is in talks to fill the void. The remade Ring 2 would be Nakata's first US project and we can't think of anyone we'd rather see steering the sequel to our screens. And speaking of horror remakes, Stephen King's Pet Sematary is clearly overdue for one and Face/Off scribes Mike Werb and Michael Colleary are scripting the project. Resurrecting (sorry) King's story of a family whose local animal graveyard is built on an ancient Indian burial ground, the film follows the premise that anything buried there will come back to life. But don