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Remakes do appear to serve a purpose for quite a few people. With me being over 30 I generally like the originals of Texas Chainsaw, Dawn of the Dead and Hills Have Eyes but several people I know who are teenagers or in their early 20's think these films are a bit dated and naff and really like the remakes.
I can see their point in a way but personally disagree. When I first watched most of these films it was on a tenth genearation copy, bad sound and sometimes nearly impossible to see. Nowadays this seems riduculous with advances with such things as DVD, but at the time it was the only way to see a lot of these films as they were banned over here in the UK, but apart from knowing you were watching something that wasn't generally available you could tell there was something damn good about the films. Now you can pick them up in the high street and have surround sound, audio comentries and all the other extras they feel are necessary to put on any old film nowadays. ( I feel I am slightly straying away from the point here and rambling:confused: , so I'll try to get back to my point.)
Yes some of the old films do not have the best special effects or any actors that made it big but that have a unique quality to them. Most of the classic old films were made on a shoestring budget(compared to their mainsteam counterparts) but were made by people who were passinate about what they were doing and I feel this comes across in the final film.
There is also a genration of people now who have not seen the original film and with the remakes coming out it does get some of them to find the original andf watch them too.
So I feel remakes do have a place but at the moment it does appear that is the only thing major films companies are interested in at the moment and don't what to make something new. I'm sure the trend will pass, horror will step back from the mainstream again and hopefully some good films will start to appear again.
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