Recent Retro Reboots

Director: Eli Roth
Writers: Jeff Rendell, Eli Roth
Stars: Mark Bakunas, Vendula Bednarova, Chris Briggs

Plot: Parody of holiday slasher movie trailers.

Rebooted: Thanksgiving, open in theaters on November 17, 2023 (USA).

Director: Rob Minkoff
Writer: David Berenbaum
Stars: Eddie Murphy, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly

Plot: A realtor and his wife and children are summoned to a mansion, which they soon discover is haunted, and while they attempt to escape, he learns an important lesson about the family he has neglected.

Rebooted: Haunted Mansion, open in theaters on July 26, 2023 (USA).

Director: Bernard Deyriès
Writers:  Ruth Handler, Martha Moran
Stars: Sharon Lewis, Debbie Lick, Viktoria Langton

Plot: Rock sensation Barbie and her band The Rockers, beloved by everyone all around the world, decide to do something no band has ever done before – preform a charity rock concert in outer space.

Rebooted: Barbie: The Imax Experience, open in theaters on September 22, 2023 (USA).

Stars: Sam Waterston, John Carson, Christopher Muncke

Plot: Biography of the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, only to find himself suspected as a security risk in the 1950s because of his increasing ambivalence about the effect of his life’s work.

Rebooted: Oppenheimer, open in theaters on July 21, 2023 (USA).

Stars: Ted Knight, Ray Owens, Tommy Cook

Plot: Barry Allen is a police scientist that gains the ability to run at super speed and uses this power to fight crime as the costumed superhero known as the Flash. The Flash is joined by his nephew Wally West, known as the superhero Kid Flash, who also has super speed.

Rebooted: The Flash, open in theaters on June 16, 2023 (USA).

Directors: Jeff Schiro
Writers: Stephen King, Jeff Schiro
Stars: Michael Earl Reid, Bert Linder, Terence Brandy, Mindy Silverman

Plot: A man tries to explain to his psychiatrist that the Boogeyman is real and has been killing his children.

Rebooted: The Boogeyman, open in theaters on June 2, 2023 (USA).

Stars: Hideyuki TanakaTôru,  FuruyaRyô Horikawa

Plot: A group of young warriors known as ‘Saints’, each in possession of a ‘cloth’ guarded by a different constellation, must protect the reincarnation of the goddess Athena as she attempts to keep the Earth from being destroyed by evil forces.

Rebooted: Knights of the Zodiac, open in theaters on May 12, 2023 (USA).