George A. Romero's The Crazies from 1973 (I was three!) is being remade. Now that alone didn't capture me either until I realised what film it was. It is showing at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year, and a scene from the film has stuck in my mind from the very first time I saw the film.

I remember distinctly a scene where an old woman rams a knitting needle into a man's eye. The man is dressed in a white bio hazard suit and he's wearing a gas mask. Now I had that image in my head for years, and just when I read the blurb of The Crazies on the EIFF schedule it leapt forward and I remembered it clearly.

So I had a little look on IMDB and lo and behold, there's two entries, and one for this year. Looking it up it's fair to say that's very optimistic since there's no director signed on, and the last IMDB update was 11th April 2005, but still, there's potentially a script from Scott Kosar.

Kosar rewrote The Amytiville Horror and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, so quite frankly this doesn't look good at all.