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After mentioning (yesterday's post) Eric Valette's Maléfique being his ticket to The Show, I considered checking it out on DVD, but there's no U.S. release yet. Presumably this will be remedied when the remake comes along in 2009.

By then, it probably won't resemble itself too much. I can see some changes to the premise – four criminals locked in a cell find a book of black magic and use it to escape? Sounds a little direct-to-video for a U.S. release. In any case, it'll start with a title change. Maléfique sure doesn't work, and neither does the English translation "malefic," a direct-to-video title if I've ever heard one. Come to think of it, there was a Steve Sessions direct-to-video horror flick called Malefic, dated 2003 to Maléfique's 2002. It's about – hmm – four criminals in a cabin who find a ouija board.

The 2009 release is in early stages, with a script by John Pogue, whose was writing the universally respected Rollerball remake when Valette was making Maléfique. No director or cast, though T.I. – sorry, I guess that's "Tip Harris" since American Gangster – is rumored to star. One can only hope!