As long as good, solid quality horror movies are still coming...I say the genre is pretty much safe. But the fans need to show their loyalty towards such flicks. I am with Rod there.
For example,
Grindhouse. Last year it brought something fresh and novel to the screens. But it bit the dust at the box office. We have PG 13 horror such as
1408 and
The Mist doing decent business, and many critically acclaimed ones to boot, which came and hit the screens...and disappeared.
My question is...where are the audiences?
You, as a viewer, cant stop your curiosity value for a remake. Ergo, remakes are being made left, right and centre. How could Rob Zombie's
Halloween do so well at the box-office, when it was just a
paler version of Carpenter's brilliant 70s epic? It only goes to show that viewers love remakes, and they will pay money to see it. Originality, by way of the box office, is out.
I dare anybody out there to come out and say Zombie made a better
Halloween than JC! But, Zombie made more money. Try as you may, the trend of making remakes is in...because now producers have found a cash cow and will milk it till its boobs shrivel and hang down.
Keep paying for remakes, they will feed you remakes. Pay for a good, original and solid horror movie...and they will be challenged to bring those out. Its not about brilliance anymore...its viewer's choice and viewer's money, which counts.
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Now, there have been some GOOD remakes. I very much enjoyed Dawn of the Dead, The Amityville Horror, and The Hills Have Eyes... I think we can all agree that those were very solid remakes, that perhaps surpassed their originals.
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Hmm...did I read that right? Amityville Horror's remake was good?!
And about the rest, they might be good remakes, but they will NEVER
EVER be better than the originals.
Because of that word itself.
ORIGINAL. That word in itself distinguishes it from a Remake.
An
Original is an ORIGINAL. A
Remake is a RE-MAKE.