It seems to be the latest trend. Now they have My Bloody Valentine and Friday the 13th. Hellraiser is another one to be released soon.


I think it's interesting to see other directors take on these, but I would also love to see more ORIGINAL horror films. It seems like they are ALL nothing but remakes lately. Whether it be the classics from the 80's or the americanized version of an asian horror film.

The sad thing is, I (or anyone), could write a good ORIGINAL screenplay for a horror movie, and Hollywood would never read it and decide on what classic film to be remade next. I'm losing my faith in american horror cinema.

Well, Dawn of the Dead was an incredible remake. Some remakes have been disappointments (like The Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and I don't mind having the remakes dones. I just like to see creativity from the director, along with using some of the old stuff from the original film. Rob Zombie took Halloween and basically did his take on it, and I liked it.

But you are right. Their is no creativity when it comes to making another good horror film.

I hated Rob Zombie's Halloween, i thought it was one of the worst movies to come out O_O It sucks that people have to "remake" everything because they can't think of anything better to do.

I really enjoyed Snyder's take on Romero's Dawn Of The Dead. The "fast" zombies were a nice touch. This is my favorite horror remake to date. And I was stoked to hear he did the upcoming Watchmen film. Can't wait for that!



I really liked Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses, and The Devil's Rejects, but was dissapointed with Halloween.

man its been happening for over 10 years now. thats just how hollywood is. in the late 40's and 50's hollywood took classic and made musicals and big blockbuster style pix out of them.

in the 80's they did it with cults from the 60's.

then.. started the horror remake phase. which was also followed by the romantic comedy remake phase.

its how life is man.

starving screenwriters are always going to complain about why their amazing original **** isn't created... just like starving designers are going ot ask why Versace won't buy their designs or why starving bands wonder why the record companies won't pick them up.

such as the artists life man.

take it from a writer who's facing that crappy challenge or finding not only a freakin agent.. but a publisher and hopefully an editor with that publisher.

The reason for the gadzilliions of remakes is simple-

The studios already own the rights to films in question, so all they need to do is hire some chimp to type out a hackneyed (they call it "updated") script and hire some unknown twenty-something myspace sluts and metrosexuals to star in the waste of film. In the end, it's no different from "reality TV"... it costs them almost nothing to make, and no one has to expel any real thought as to how to get the thing done.

The worst part is that people are dumb enough to watch those remakes, as if they're gonna learn something that they didn't get by watching the original (and MUCH better-produced) movie.

See, Snyder is one of the best and brightest directors in Hollywood right now. The guy just has this great imagination. I mean, what he did with 300 was just awesome. Yeah, it might not have been the most historically, accurate take on that battle, but Snyder was making a film for entertainment purposes....and he succeeded. Can't wait for Watchmen.

Zombie's take on Halloween is hated for one reason....Carpenter basically made a classic that many felt should never have been touched. But you have to admire Zombie for tackiling it, trying to add his own take to it. I admit...it wasn't the greatest...but I did like that he did not do a shoot for shoot remake.

I think it's sad that Hollywood remakes so many fantastic Japanese horror films - Ring, Ju-On (The Grudge), Dark Water, etc.

They seem to believe that the average moviegoer can't be bothered to read subtitles. The truly horrifying thing is, they're probably right.

This reminds me of Michael Haneke's "Funny Games". He made the same exact film...shot for shot. One German (with subtitles), and one American.

Pretty pointless if you ask me.


I actually prefer subtitles sometimes. Especially British films, where their accents are so thick I have a hard time understanding them.

How about the shot-for-shot remake of Psycho?
There's a waste of money if I ever saw one!

Yeah...that was pretty bad. At least they were done by two different directors though.


The one I was referring to, "Funny Games"....both were done by the SAME director. Why????? I don't understand why someone would redo their own film. Except for the subtitle thing. He wanted to give illiterate americans a chance to view it.

Dawn of the Dead...
The original was awsome,
I've never seen the remake, but I've heard... things.

Dawn of the Dead remake was worthwhile because they left it long enough after the original that a lot of people hadn't seen it before, plus obviously the special effects were a lot better.

Remaking foreign films is a still a good idea as it lets new viewers see them... in other cases a lot of the time a remake is made for the sake of it

Yeah, and if alot of people hadn't seen it then maybe alot of people should go BUY THE ORIGINAL!

Alot of people haven't seen videos of my birth either, but that doesn't mean I go remaking them.

What I meant was that it opens the film up to a broader audience. A lot of japanese/french/spanish/whatever films are totally unheard of in the mainstream US or UK until remakes are announced by Hollywood.

Obviously people interested in the specific genres will search out foreign films before they're even heard of outside their country of origin, but a great deal more people will get the chance to see it with an A-list star in. That is not to say that the remake is necessarily better in any way.

They should do what they did with those Japanese horror movies and get some of those by the Spanish director whose name I forget and remake them with an America atmosphere.

Guillermo del Toro?

He's filming "The Hobbit".

How bout a spanish movie directed by an asian and set in an american atmosphere.

Pan's labrynth, directed by Ang Lee, the asshole who messed up the Hulk

Its not just the horror movies theyre remaking it seems to be everything else aswell. Hollywood has lost the plot.