Best/Worst remakes

[RZR666]

I liked the Friday the 13th Reboot, nice nods to the previous movies whilst upping the body count and gratuitous nudity! :)

Whereas the Nightmare on Elm Street remake fell apart in the first 5 minutes for me, I mean really, who falls asleep at a funeral? ha

[The Villain]

Originally Posted by RZR666

I liked the Friday the 13th Reboot, nice nods to the previous movies whilst upping the body count and gratuitous nudity! :)

Whereas the Nightmare on Elm Street remake fell apart in the first 5 minutes for me, I mean really, who falls asleep at a funeral? ha

I agree with you. I think most people didnt like the Friday the 13th Reboot/Remake/Sequel? whatever. I for one enjoyed it but hated the Nightmare remake. I didnt even bother finishing it.

[leezuki]

Originally Posted by The Villain

I agree with you. I think most people didnt like the Friday the 13th Reboot/Remake/Sequel? whatever. I for one enjoyed it but hated the Nightmare remake. I didnt even bother finishing it.

i thought friday 13th remake good, better than all the other follow ups i thought.

[Elvis_Christ]

The two remakes that stand out as the worst for me would be The Omen and Last House On The Left. Both were insultingly SHIT. I always read people having a cry about the Halloween remake but come on these two flicks were infinitely worse.

Originally Posted by ZombieDrone

I always keep hearing about the potential for a Suspiria remake starring Natalie Portman (although now Black Swan comparisons are almost inevitable)

I really hope this never happens. I couldn't stand Black Swan. Any remake of an Argento film is sheer idiocy. Didn't they learn from the Psycho remake? Some directors have to much of a unique stlye that can be replicated, "improved on" or modernised. Although in the case of Hitchcock I've always thought De Palma's early work was a pretty decent riff on his style.

[neverending]

Originally Posted by RZR666

Whereas the Nightmare on Elm Street remake fell apart in the first 5 minutes for me, I mean really, who falls asleep at a funeral? ha

I've done it. You're in this hot, stuffy church, you're emotionally drained from the event, and some religious figure is droning on and on and on.... zzzzzzzzz

[The Villain]

Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ

The two remakes that stand out as the worst for me would be The Omen and Last House On The Left. Both were insultingly SHIT. I always read people having a cry about the Halloween remake but come on these two flicks were infinitely worse.

I agree with you on Omen. I feel asleep during that.

As for Last House, i agree with you except on one thing that the remake did differently which always bugged me about the original

SPOILERS

In the original when the girl dies in the lake and the parents find out, they instantly run out to where her body is and find her. How they hell did they know she was there? I liked how in the remake she lived because it made sense how they found everything out.

The rape scene though was way too over the top for me. I still prefer the original. That detail i just liked better even though i still think it works better with the daughter dieing. Also the microwave scene at the end was cool but you can't beat the chainsaw through the chair.

END OF SPOILERS

[are_you_sad]

I always thought the TCM (2003) remake with Jessica Biel was horrible. It is depressing, dark, and rainy the whole film.

In fact, Jessica Biel is my main reason to even watch that one. ;)

[Rela1024]

I haven't watched a remake that I thought was better or just as good as the original but then again I don't watch that many remakes but the ones I have seen I didn't like them:

Friday the 13th-it seemed really rushed to see me and the teens were very annoying to me
NOES -was so frustrating and.....idk it was something about it drove me crazy and it was the first twenty minutes I couldn't take no more
Fright Night- I didn't even bother to watch it reminded me of Twilight from the previews I could tell it wasn't gonna give me the same scrae factor as the original

[fortunato]

I thought TCM, Halloween, and The Last House on the Left were all terrible. Especially TCM and Halloween; what really pissed me off about those two in particular was that instead of trying to innovate or put a fresh spin on the originals, they just added lots of the same tired conventions of contemporary, blockbuster horror. Really irritating and total wastes of time and money, in my opinion. The Last House on the Left remake was just pointless nonsense. I hadn't been that bored by a horror movie in a while.

[are_you_sad]

Yeah, I agree. The 2003 remake of TCM was frankly depressing (and not in a good way). The whole film had this MTV modern quality to it that sucked. Totally ruined the flow although it WAS a dark movie.