Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the Spanish director last seen scaring the bejesus out of us with 28 Weeks Later, looks like he might be at it again, after signing on to develop a remake of the cult classic chiller, X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes.
The 1963 original, directed by Roger Corman, starred Ray Milland as a scientist who uses himself as a guinea pig for a formula for X-ray vision. A formula that, as it turns out, works rather too well. Creepy, garish and lurid, the film is perhaps most memorable for its chilling final scenes in which Milland… well, we won’t say.
The potential for a remake is vast – Lord knows what visual delights Fresnadillo could cook up nowadays, so this is one redo that we’re fully endorsing. MGM will produce the new version, with a writer expected to be announced pretty darn soon.