Remakes, particularly those of films that were a success the first time around, are rarely greeted with cheers. At least with Grave Hill, which will serve as a new take on Derek Nguyen's 2016 horror romance The Housemaid, isn't going the shot-for-shot route.
Instead, ever-busy Black And Blue director Deon Taylor, is overseeing a version that will be set in the American South during the turbulent Reconstruction era following the Civil War. It'll mirror the themes of Nguyen's original, which saw an orphaned Vietnamese girl hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina who unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.
"I truly believe Grave Hill is a special elevated thriller that will speak to social themes we are dealing with today and simultaneously push audiences to the edge of their seats just like the original version did," says Taylor, who will be hoping that audiences embrace his movie.