[Stingy Jack]

I agree with your opinion about the TCM remake. I watched it, and it was fun for a little while. But I got bored with it pretty quick, and wondered why the hell it was made to begin with. If you're going to remake a classic like TCM, then you had better try your hardest to make it good (like the Dawn of the Dead remake was). As it is, it falls so far short of the original that it isn't even funny. The original was, as you said, "intense." It was a pure exercise in claustrophobic terror and insanity. The remake is just another slasher. And a lot of people thought that it was good in that it took the most grisly scene from the original (the meathook), and made it even grislier. But, I didn't like that too much. I don't like to get obscene with the things I appreciate. Take a dessert, for example. I like thin slice of chocolate cake, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. But a lot of people will take a HUGE fuckin' slab of chocolate cake, glop on the icing like it was spackle, pile on some chocolate sprinkles, scoop two big whoppin' scoops of fudge brownie ice cream in the bowl, and drench the whole thing in chocolate syrup before applying a mountain of whipped cream. I mean --- that's just obscene. You know? That's how I felt about the meathook scene in the remake.