Peter Collinson
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This slick production under the helm of James Mangold is Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians" mixed with Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."
Have you ever seen one of the many versions of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," in which a group of strangers are brought together in an out-of-the-way location and terrorized by an unseen murderer?
A clever combination of opposing sensibilities Agatha Christie ( Ten Little Indians ) and Friday the 13th Identity is the kind of B-movie that Hollywood cant make enough of these days, and its a darned shame.
Although "Identity" boasts a talented cast that fleshes out its characters to an uncommon degree for what is ostensibly just a fancy slasher flick, screenwriter Michael Cooney (scribe of the "Jack Frost" cult-horror pictures) lifts the motel part of the plot almost wholesale from Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians."
That, of course, would be Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," which has provided the template for hundreds of secret-killer movies good and bad.
In a dangerous gambit, screenwriter Michael Cooney actually has one of the characters mention the resemblance of this situation to Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians" (the movie adaptation, of course, not the novel).
But regardless of how the muted kudos is parceled out, the end result is a moderately entertaining tale that borrows Christie’s Ten Little Indians template of putting a group of strangers together and having them get picked off one by one.
At least, that's what he spends his time doing in Devil, a pocket-size supernatural thriller that plays a bit like Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians retold by an unstable Sunday School teacher.
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
influenced by And Then There Were None (1974)
Plot
Tarantino's latest, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Jennifer Jason Leigh, is a twisted combination of John Ford's 'Stagecoach,' Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little Indians' and Jean-Paul Sartre's 'No Exit.'
“The Hateful Eight,” the customary Quentin Tarantino mashup of influences high and low is, at the very least, an admixture of the gamesmanship of Agatha Christie’s “Ten Little Indians” (first published under the piquant title, “Ten Little N—–s”), the role reversals of “In the Heat of the Night” and the setting and explosive jolts of John Carpenter’s “The Thing.”
The Hateful Eight is to some extent a mystery along the lines of Agatha Christie’s “Ten Little Indians” but far less genteel.
The plot of "The Hateful Eight" comes straight from Christie's most famous novel, filmed numerous times as "And Then There Were None" and "Ten Little Indians."
The film’s plot is a variation on Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, set in an elite DEA unit.
Instead, with its tired “Ten Little Indians” ideals, this thriller fails to excite.
Directed by David Ayer, who’s pretty much become Hollywood’s go-to guy for gritty cop films, this modern-day twist on Agatha Christie’s “Ten Little Indians” shares the same basic premise used for one of Schwarzenegger’s biggest hits, “Predator.”
The film, handily directed by Adam Robitel (“Insidious: The Last Key”), contains its share of cliff-hanging, race-the-clock action bits that test the players’ wits, guts, integrity and loyalty as the story evokes elements of the “Saw” and “Final Destination” franchises as well as a high-tech version of Agatha Christie’s “Ten Little Indians” (minus four, that is) and the old board game-turned-comedy film, “Clue.”
Not exactly a remake per se, but based on the concept of the original 1969 film starring Michael Caine, “The Italian Job” is a fun popcorn action flick.
But do yourself a favor and resist The Italian Job, a lazy and in-name-only remake of 1969's G-rated Michael Caine heist pic.
It's the equally apropos tagline of The Italian Job, a slick, star-studded remake of the 1969 caper about a gang of jewel thieves out to avenge the death of their double-crossed accomplice, and while they're at it, steal back $35 million in ill-gotten gold bullion.
If The Italian Job seems familiar, it's not simply because it's a remake of a 1969 British caper flick.
Crisp, uncluttered and wildly playful, the new film The Italian Job -- a remake of the 1969 film -- sweeps along like Buster Keaton's The General.
The Italian Job is an update of the 1969 classic of the same name but unlike recent remakes it is fresh and thoroughly entertaining.
Resident Evil (2002)
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
influenced by And Then There Were None (1974)
Plot
Sure, it is derivative of many other flicks from the obvious "Night of the Living Dead" and "Aliens" to things more obscure, like "Ghosts of Mars" and Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians," but, even so, this modern horror/monster movie stands on its own as a sci-fi actioner.
Most likely René Clair’s “And Then There Were None,” adapted from Agatha Christie’s quintessential “Ten Little Indians.”
Bad Kids of Crestview Academy (2017)
Directed by Ben Browder
influenced by And Then There Were None (1974)
Plot
When you try to cross The Breakfast Club with Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, there’s always some hope you’ll end up with something darkly comic like the 1988 classic Heathers .
Thus, the film becomes an Agatha Christie "And Then There Were None" or "Ten Little Indians" kind of story, with the monster killing off each of the humans one by one and duplicating them in turn.
A semi-variation on Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians" with an extraterrestrial twist, the film not only proves masterfully foreboding, but orchestrates a plot trajectory that fast spins delectably out of control.
Cinema has been dabbling with this idea from time to time whether it’s Walter Hill’s The Driver, Richard C. Sarafian’s Vanishing Point or Peter Collinson’s The Italian Job.