The Remakes Thread
 

So Hollywood keep churning out the old remakes.Might as well ask you all which one's do you like?:rolleyes:

Dawn Of The Dead. It was not going to be any where near as good as the original, but it's still entertaining.

Of those on the list, the "Hills" remake is the winner for me, but I also liked the "TCM", "Friday" and "Halloween" reduxes and still have to catch up with "My Bloody Valentine"'s "reimagination".;)
I'm not too kenn on Asian horror remakes myself, but as those are a lot easier to watch with my missus, I should give the "Ring" remake some credit too.:o

God! I love A Bay Of Blood and would actually be delighted if anybody remade it for the 21.st century...with some neat variations! That ending is prizeless.:cool:

To be honest I didn't like any of them. :ack:

I was surprised how good the Night of the Living Dead Re-Make was.

hills have eyes.best of a bad bunch

The Hills Have Eyes remake was as good as the original I thought.
Also enjoyed Day of the Dead but was never a fan of the original anyway.

Psycho was the worst of the ones that I have seen there.

I enjoyed Savini's Night of the Living Dead, Amityville and Assault on Precinct 13.

Yet to see My Bloody Valentine 3D though I think I'll like it.Night Of The Living Dead & Dawn Of The Dead were outstanding remakes & the Hills Have Eyes remake was also excellent.The Omen was watchable but the absence of Goldsmith's classic score harmed the film a great deal.The worst Psycho,The Haunting & the disgraceful remake of The Fog.

I never liked the Hilss Have Eyes remake.

The US remake of THE RING was also surprisingly good & I also enjoyed House Of Wax.

The Hills Have Eyes I thought was better than the original.
My Bloody Valentine, not seen the original but the 3D one is stupid trash.
Dawn of the Dead I found was quite good.
Psycho I saw before the original and thought it was quite good, but when I saw the original I knew everything that was going to happen and didn't think it was that good.

I only clicked on the ones that I really like and those are:

The Hills Have Eyes
Halloween
My Bloody Valentine
Night Of The Living Dead
House Of Wax

I could take or leave the following:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Amityville Horror (worked better in the cinema)
Dawn Of The Dead
Psycho

These were turds:

The Wicker Man ("STEP AWAY FROM THE BIKE")
The Fog
The Haunting

These were turds to begin with:

The Grudge
The Ring

And the rest I haven't seen.

No arguments here with those choices !

Whoever wrote the dialogue for The Wicker Man '06 obviously wasn't the smartest peanut in the turd!

I can't bring myself to even look at the box for The Wicker Man remake

Please tell me it is that bad and blasphemous :o

Personally I thought Hills have Eyes was better than the original aswell. I also liked House of Wax, Friday the 13th (much better than I expected), Night of the Living Dead (I know its down right blasphemy but I'd take Savini's remake over the original anyday :D), Psycho and I thought Amityville Horror and The Grudge were pretty effective. They were great in the cinema, gotta admit, they both put the shits up me when I went to see them :p.

The Wicker Man and Dark Water are two of the worst films Ive ever seen, let alone remakes. I'm a big fan of the original Dark Water and thought the remake was absolutely dire. I Thought the Omen remake was pretty pointless really, it was pretty much a scene for scene redoing of the original and seemed to serve no purpose other than to cash in on its release date :rolleyes:

i wonder wot last house on the left remake will be like?any 1 checked t out yet?

Must've been a five year old....a frigging insult to a classic original.:mad:

I don't want to get controversial here, but the redux doesn't fare THAT bad with non-British audiences, who for the most part didn't even know that the original "Wicker Man" movie existed.
I DO however understand your pain, though I've heard a couple of movie-lines far worse than the "bike" bit in my film watching lifetime.:p

BTW: I didn't even know that a "House on Sorority Row" remake was on its way...:D:

http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=9966


As far as I'm concerned, why not? I'm always a sucker for the good, ol' slasher routine:o

Fair comment Peter,but stack them up against one another.......:eek:

It's no question of the redux being the inferior film, it's just a lot easier to bear for the audiences, who didn't grew up with the original.:D:)

Did you vote for it Peter?

I see "null points" :cool:

Errrr...no:jest:
To me, it was a mediocre mainstream horror viewing experience, so the vote went to Aja's "Hills" redux instead.:p

Hills remake for me,even the sequel was pretty good,and a lot better than cravens lame 80's effort.

Also enjoyed the halloween remake and tcm,and to a lesser extent the friday and mbv ones.
Dunno if any of you have seen quarantine,the american remake of the excellent rec. Its not bad,but a lot of the backstory from the original is missing,which kinda spoils it somewhat. But for downright shit your pants scenes,rec wins hands down.

With the consensus on the fog and the wicker man being the worst,although the recent prom night remake/re-imagining beats em all,hands down. Utter garbage!!:ack:

Jesus,must be bad then.....I ain't even opened that one yet.....:(

Be afraid..be very,very afraid.
This flick has some of the biggest plotholes and dumbest actions i've seen in a long time.A chore to sit through,it has to be said.
Enjoy!:D

Me personally i hate remakes :ack:

The prob with remakes is they lack what the originals had, Tension atmosphere compasion etc etc
I quite only quite enjoyed tcm remake but the original is 1 of my all time fav

If u can make a film that praticaly has no violence gore etc etc and yet be so controversol then that to me is a good piece of film making

I didnt real get into the wicker man so not interested in watching the remake (also cos i cant take to nicholas cage) not saying he rubbish tho

Over the yrs some films have been violent gory etc etc and yet no 1s batted a eye lid

Look at how many remake hollywood has made of the jap r korean horrors yet every 1 is pure shite

I just come back from my hols and on the flight was the remake of day the earth stood still, to me it was a film of just special effects and with famous actors nothing else. a total bore

I heard there making a basket case remake lol pmsl thatl be interesting to see how shit thatl be

The Halloween remake is shit.

Modern remakes are pretty appalling I agree. Must admit to enjoying the 80's remakes of The Thing and The Blob though, and even Cat People had its moments (despite chronic overlength).

I prefer the remakes of The Blob and The Thing over the originals.

Like many of you, I like Aja's Hills Have Eyes a lot, even more than the original. I also had a great time watching Dawn of the Dead. It's for me a totally different movie than Romero's version, so I didn't even bother comparing them.

House of Wax was also fun.

The US Dark Water failed to reproduce the atmosphere and the tension of Hideo Nakata's masterpiece, but it was still an interesting drama. Jenifer Connelly is amazing in it.

The worse remake in this list is for me Psycho. It's a perfect example of a stupid useless remake that doesn't bring anything new. It's remaking for the sake of remaking.

I also thought House of Wax was fun.

any word of the remake of the last house on the left?

Yes last house on left remake is due out around now it look like a dif movie than a remake from the previews trailers etc

Re- Last House

I wonder if the violence will be on par with the original, because the violence in some recent films has been very strong, and Presumably the film was cut for the R.

i would'nt think it will be as raw and cold as the original.