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My favorite horror remakes:
The Thing
House on Haunted Hill
13 Ghosts
Evil Dead 2 (it's a remake)
Night of the Living Dead
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1972)
TCM 2003 (I never understood how Psycho and TCM were based on the same serial killer until this version)
The Fly
The Blob
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Village of the dammed
Most hated remakes:
Psycho
Lost in Space
The Mummy
TCM: The Next Generation
Cat People
The Haunting
King Kong
What is a remake anyway? Part 2, 3, 4, 5 those are remakes or just regurgitated versions of the original. Take Demons and Demons 2 for example - Demons 2 is the exact same story with the only difference being the Demon come out of a TV instead of a movie screen and the people are trapped in an apartment instead of a theater. It's really just a remake or rehash of the same story.
Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of unofficial remakes and rip-offs like:
ID4=War of the Worlds
Eight Legged Freaks = Any giant spider movie from the 50's
Alien = Creature
Night of the Living Dead = All zombie movies
Link = Monkey Shines
The Werewolf - The Howling
People have been stealing ideas and story lines from movies, books, comics, Games, history etc. What is original these days anyway (even in Asia - maybe if we lived there we might know where those "original" stories have been stolen from too - And Asian movies steal from other countries too - The Séance was taken from Séance on a Rainy Day - I guess people think the grass is always greener on the other side).
I have no problem with remakes as long as they are well done. If it's not good, then it's just another crappy movie. Some I like, while other I hate. I just take it one at a time and for what it is.
Just my .02
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