After a three-decade silence, Britain's famed Hammer Films–which made distinctively arch gothic horror films like Curse Of Frankenstein and Dracula A.D. 1972 from the '50s through the '70–is set to resume making movies, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Hammer's The Wake Wood will star the A.V. Club-approved Timothy Spall and involves "grieving parents who are given the opportunity to spend three more days with their only daughter after she is killed by a savage dog," which doesn't sound all that Hammer-y.
David Keating directs and co-writes the movie. He's best known for Last Of The High Kings (a.k.a. Summer Fling), a film our own Nathan Rabin called "pleasant, unpretentious, ultimately uninvolving film that hews so closely to the conventions of the coming-of-age film that it verges on self-parody." Maybe Hammer fans should adopt a wait-and-see attitude. In the meantime, someone should alert the studio that both Christopher Lee and Michael Gough are alive and employable.