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Originally Posted by Art School Dropout
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.
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.
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True, there's a technical difference between remake and re-interpretation, but I didn't get the sense the OP (original poster) was making that distinction. Using that distinction, I really have little, to no, interest in ever seeing a remake. I don't see any sense in making anything but re-interpretation films.
I agree with most everything you mention on the re-interpretation films, except for one. I most decidedly did not think much of Evil Dead 2013. I've seen all three versions. I've posted a review of film already, I don't really want to go into it now, but looking at the mass reviews (such as Rottentomatoes Critics 62% and Audience 64%), I think my assessment of it has a whole lot of company. But I am glad you liked it. I wished I liked it that much.