[kyl3thund3r]

Most Hollywood remakes of foreign horror films. Usually Asian horror, but more recently they have been branching out. The remake of "let the right one in" was mentioned earlier in this thread. The original was astounding, and the remake was just, bland. It sucked all of the soul out of the film, and made really unnecessary changes to the relationship of the two kids. The recent reboots of classics have been pretty terrible too, especially NOES. Then there's The Ring and The Grudge etc etc etc ad infinitum. I'm really glad Steven Spielberg and Will Smith decided against remaking Oldboy.

But to save this being a rant about remakes, I'm not liking a lot of the possession movies that have been made recently. The most recent being Insidious. That film was f*cking awful. It started out really promising, and then just fell inside its own ass hole. <spoiler alert> The bit where they go inside the darkness, or the kids head, or whatever it was supposed to be. And they find that demon that looks like the produce of Darth Maul hooking up with Captain Spaulding.... why? Just, why?

The last exorcism was also pretty poor after starting out quite well. It did combine two genres I consider to be overdone though. Possession movies and found footage movies. Then end of that film just gave me the rage though. <Spoiler alert> why did they have to make it cult related? Why couldn't they just keep it as an unknown evil which is massively more terrifying than something a cult could have conjured up?