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Originally Posted by Disastermind
I don't think that the horror genre is in trouble at all. I think that the classic horror genre is in trouble being remade every ten seconds. But if you think about it, we are actually helping the old genre of horror. By remaking it people want to see the original, and by making remakes the youth like myself are seeing them so that they actually never die.
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Very good point. My points made above at my anger at most remakes aside (which I wrote this morning with a slight hangover), this is a very good point that I considered, but thought was maybe too idealistic. I suppose, since you make a very good point, I was partly wrong.
The flipside though (as a journalist, I know there is always 2 sides, so bear with me) crappy remakes may make newer viewers think the original sucked just as much, if not worse than the remake. While this is rarely the case, a lot of kids these days, who are weened on "big special CGI effects and nonstop action", may already believe that if its older, it sucks.
But remake after remake of good films, if one wants to take it far into the future, may turn into the film industry version of "telephone". You said remaking classics essentially makes them immortal, but remakes are known to significantly alter the formula/message of the original. Like with a game of "telephone", more retellings distort the original message. Just some food for thought.