Ask most children of the 80’s, and they’ll tell you this haunting tale of child abuse and incest had them reading until the wee hours and stays with them to this day. The 1987 big-screen version redefined the word lame, removing the most shocking elements of the story and ending with the death of a character crucial to the sequel. We’d love to see someone give this story the sprawling treatment it deserves. Air ATTIC in November… and the sequel, PETALS ON THE WIND in February!
It’s beyond time that somebody remade this classic trashfest. The big question is… who should get to utter the infamous line, “Which one of you bitches is my mother?” Our vote: GOSSIP GIRL Leighton Meester.
Okay, I haven’t actually seen this 1980 sci-fi flick, but my best friend described it thusly: “John-Boy from THE WALTONS has to save a peaceful planet called Earth, where NEWHART’s Julia Duffy lives. Oh, and Sybil Danning is a space Valkyrie who mentors Darlanne Fluegel in the ways of… well, you be the judge. “I would recharge his capacitators, stimulate his solinoid. Tingle dingle dangle his transistors… ” Either she wanted to sex him up or fix his radio. In either case, a big, splashy, multi-night remake seems in order!
One of the coolest little movies you’ve probably never heard of, SHEILA was a 1973 mystery about a group of Hollywood “friends” invited to spend a weekend on a private yacht and play a nasty little game which revealed each of their secrets. Sex, lies and — of course — murder followed.
They don’t come much more epic that this billion-or-so page novel by Diana Gabaldon about Claire Randall, a woman who is mysteriously transported from 1946 to 1746 only to fall in love with sexy Scottsman Jamie Fraser and live the adventure of a lifetime. 
Richard M. Simms is the executive editor of Soaps In Depth magazine.