Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead is one of the best splatter films made in the last few decades and easily one of the best remakes from any genre ever.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark produced by Guillermo del Toro had the creepy atmosphere but wasn't as scary as the original. Still I found it enjoyable.
The Marcus Nispel remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was decent and I was glad to see R. Lee Ermey cast as the sheriff.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers 78
The Thing 82
The Fly 86
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These are more re-adaptations of the same source material than they are remakes of the previous films.
Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers adapts the novel
The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney but also has some great homages to 1956 film. My favorite being the car scene with Kevin McCarthy and the rest of the casting is phenomenal.
John Carpenter's The Thing also has some great homages to
The Thing from Another World but it's a far more accurate adaption of the John W. Campbell short story
Who Goes There?.
David Cronenberg's The Fly re-imagines the George Langelaan short story and the Chris Walas' special effect makeups are incredible.