remakes
 

opinions please what is your favourite remake ever made
My personal one is the thing

I really, very much, strongly disagree with most remakes...but I liked The Amityville Horror and Dawn of the Dead remakes...

Amityville. Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, The Thing, House On Haunted Hill, Cape Fear, Texas Chainsaw Massacre are not too bad

I guess it depends on how good the original fairs by todays standards

The Thing: Probably the best remake of any Genre that I can think of.

Phantom of the Opera: The original with Lon Chaney Sr. is and always will be the best, however, I did like Herbert Loms version of it very much.

Dracula: Bela's a classic, but Christopher Lee runs circles around all others.

Ther are others, but I'm on a tight schedule.

I won't state my opinion on remakes because I have already ad nauseam, but I like several. Cronenberg's remake of The Fly is one of my favorites, if not my absolute favorite. I also really enjoyed the Dawn of the Dead remake, I couldn't believe how much I liked that movie. Cape Fear was a good one. I'm sure there are several more, but I can't seem to think right now.

Typos!:mad:

The Thing and Night of the Living Dead are my favourites, Dawn of the Dead was decent but in MY OPINION The Amityville Horror is the worst ever. It makes the original look like an Oscar nominated movie.

Definatley Carpenter's The Thing. I really like Tobe Hooper's Invaders From Mars and Scorcese's Cape Fear.

FUCK!!! totally forgot about Cronenberg's remake of The Fly. Awesome remake totally up there with The Thing.

i have not heard of this tobe hooper movie, how old is it and what did you like about it

tobe trying to prove himself after poltergeist

It came out about 1986. Its more of a kids movie really. I really liked the 50s comic book style of it plus it had some great characters played by Karen Black (as the kids evil teacher) and Jim Karen (from Return Of The Living Dead). Also had some great effects by Stan Winston. Its kinda similar in plot to Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. Great homage to the 1950s Sci-Fi B-Movies.

http://www.filmposterworld.co.uk/mov...s/invaders.jpg

Loved it as a kid and it still stands the test of time today.

Watch out !!!
Looks like everything is gonna get a makeover.

It certainly is good news for the DVD industry which loves selling & raking up previously Dead and buried movies in 'new dvd format' to the young and curious of us .

i thought he proved himself WITH poltergeist !

i'm not a fan of it but it was his biggest commercial success (kiss of death for the hard core horror fan i guess)


his Invaders from Mars was brilliant - a ton of fun .. great performances - James Karen is the best ! You could tell the whole cast was devoted to the spirit of the film ..

and it was suprisingly faithful to the origional ..

after poltergeist, some people started putting the success down to mr spielberg

really ? i never realized it - i always thought of it as a Tobe Hooper film ... but i had been following his films ever since TCM ...

the general public probably didnt and could identify much more closely with the name of spielberg ..

there was even one rumour that spielberg himself had shot some of the movie, imagine how galling that must have been for tobe after the film's success

he's made himself into a bit of a high-end corman hasnt he ...
bringing along up and coming filmmakers ..

joe Dante ... and others ..

but his name always overshadows theirs

well dante started under corman...

true

and continued under speilberg

(he had a hell of a time getting his plane off the gound !)


richard donner has been overshadowed by the speilberg name as well ...

everyone thinks of the Goonies as a spielberg film ... it wasnt ..

Remakes are starting to piss me off. Sure, I have nothing against the idea of them, I even have 1 on the Best Horror Movies list in my sig [The Fly]. But the thing that pisses me off is that theres so damn many nowadays. No originality left, so they take the easy way out. Almost gaurnteed money, and not as much work as coming up with your own idea.

I do enjoy most remakes that Ive seen however, and the 99 version of House on Haunted Hill is one of my favourite movies ever. Dawn of the Dead was O.K.... and Amittyville was pure garbage.

house on haunted hill was good as was 13 ghosts. I believe the same company that remade them remade ghostship, what the hell happened there(although the opening was world class) do you know of any other projects from this company

I fucking hate Speilberg (granted I love his early work like Duel, Jaws, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind) almost as much as a hate Ron Howard...... burn in hell Ritchie Cunningham.

Why did everyone hate the Amityville remake? It gave me the smae feeling the original did, except added more scares. I loved it. Did ANYONE else?!

must agree i thought amityville was a pure frightfest from start to finish

Studios could also just re-release the classic for next to nothing and reap straight profit instead of bank rolling new movies. That's the more respectful way to do it anyway. It's win-win. The studio gets a shitload of money on an old investment, and we fans get to see original horror classics on the big screen.

I hate remakes. And I won't support them. Grow some balls and write something original.

So you just don't like anything mainstream, am I right?

I liked parts of House on Haunted Hill (the remake, I mean) but didn't care for the ending. I love the original.

13 Ghosts is okay; I love the make-up and it really is a fun film. Trite and completely ridiculous as it is....LOL....and the original was actually worse....I never thought I would feel that way. But the original was just so bad it was hilarious.....:p

No I'm just sick of the old industry dinosaurs putting out the same movies all the time..... I like a bunch of films that are considered mainstream.