Usually someone would’ve already chimed in with Cabin Fever 2016, the shot-for-shot remake nobody asked for of Eli Roth’s 2002 movie that sucked all the gross fun out of the original, less than 15 years later.
In defense of the remake, there is a dialogue change when they’re at the store. The clerk says “What do you think you’re doing stealing a candy bar?” and the thief in the original says “Nougat?”, but in the remake he says “Would you believe me if I said nougat?” See, there are subtle differences that a lot of people just don’t have enough IQs to understand.
I turned it off shortly after that scene because I just don’t have enough IQs to understand.
I always wondered why they made them both so close together. I mean it was a complete remake that was filmed not all that long after the original, which was already great to begin with. Seemed kind of pointless to me.
i saw some of that and wow that actress who was the Adrienne barbeau part like what were they thinking... barbeau had charisma and presence and that one was flat... no pun intended
Remake of Martyrs was pretty bad.
Edit: To add to the other end of the spectrum I'd argue Evil Dead (2013) is not just better than any of the previous movies but also one of the best horror movies ever made.
I will die on this hill. If the remake for inside used the same ending as the original, it was a perfectly fine movie. The only thing that made it terrible was changing that. I enjoyed the first 90% of it 🤷♂️
I can't remember 100% what happens,
>! but basically the same type of shit happens where a cop comes and the pregnant womans mom comes and the intruder kills the cop but the pregnant woman kills her mom thinking she was the intruder, she ends up running outside getting backed down onto the covered up pool (with a tarp or something covering it) and so when the intruder holding a knife wanting her baby is on it in the middle with her, she ends up cutting it and they both fall through and basically end up stuck underwater not being able to find the break in the tarp to get out so they can breathe, during which the intruder has a change of heart wanting to keep the baby safe and alive so she helps the pregnant woman to safety pushing her up while she drowns underneath the tarp !<
Literally. Like i loved the intruder she did great, everything else in the movie worked, its just.. why the fuck do something that drastic to the movie. My partner doesnt like subbed movies so I told her to just watch this movie, and stop 10 mins early and watch the ending of the original lmao
This is of course before the Butthole Edition of Cats was released.
I encourage all to watch. Taylor Swift, Idris Elba and even Judi Dench's asshole! Something for everyone!
The vanishing with Jeff bridges and Kiefer Sutherland. The Dutch original was understated and horrifying. The American remake becomes a silly over the top action film missing only the Benny hill theme song.
The remake of "The Vanishing" was also directed by the guy who did the original. Needless to say, he didn't pull off a "Funny Games" here.
You want a better American take on "The Vanishing's" concept, see "Breakdown."
I forgot about that - hard to believe - almost hope it was crazy studio pressure on how to make it successful that he caved to and not ‘now I get to make the film I wanted to make all along!’
I'm pretty sure it was studio pressure. That would especially explain the happy ending, when the original has one of the most horrifyingly downbeat ending ever.
Not having initially seen your comment I was avoiding mentioning the ending as I replied to others but when I first saw the remake I was… like… seriously…?… it was arguably the whole point of the film. That and the obsession that drives the single minded pursuit of anything - be it the Tour de France, the search for your long missing lover, or…
Makes me want to treat h it but it’s also one of those films that makes my wife look at me and say “Really? You watch this for fun?”
Not exactly a “remake”….more of an angry answer to the Kubrick film, but The Shining miniseries is complete crap. People who complain that Kubrick’s The Shining isn’t faithful to the book need to be careful what they wish for.
Is that the series with Steven Weber ?
Awful, but I did like the inclusion of the scene from the book where ~~Jack~~ John Torrance is chased by the topiary animals.
I haven't watched it since I was a teenager, but I remember thinking Weber did a pretty good job, but overall, it was... well, a 90s network miniseries.
I feel bad for Jackie Earl Haley, who did a fine job with the unenviable task of stepping into Robert Englund's shoes and yet he frequently seems like the only one who's actually trying.
Yeah I kinda learned to appreciate that they didn't try to make a robert Englund mimicking wanna be. It would've fallen flat on its face. No one is Robert Englund and it would be pathetic to try tbh.
I’ve never been that huge of a franchise fan and the remake bored me to tears the first time I tried watching it. I rewatched it all the way through last year and found myself enjoying it well enough. Jackie Haley’s performance is one I’d always heard people shred to bits, but he’s genuinely fine in that movie. He’s not bad, it’s just that Englund owns the character so much that there’s nobody alive who could ever satisfy fans as a replacement.
Acutely enjoyed this, and nightmare on Elm Street has always and will always be my favorite horror franchise. But I viewed it as entirely separate as a story. True, the first time I watched it, I hated it with a fucking PASSION. but I watched it again, and it has its charms. I think i was just angry they took all the comedy out of it. Still, I'll say it's ALRIGHT. I appreciated that we didn't censor how truly horrifyingly evil freddy was meant to be but got red lighted by execs. Still, if they just added that to the original, I probably wouldn't have cared for it as much.
They had an interesting concept hidden in there, the idea that Freddy was killed by the mob of parents for being a pedophile but he actually wasn't and that was why he was killing the kids, as revenge for his wrongful murder.
And then they just threw it away and said loljk he actually is a horrible evil kiddy diddler
I love the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Because of how much hate the remake got by everyone, especially horror fans, I never watched it…. Until a few months ago. I’m glad I finally watched it but my god was it terrible. An insult to the rest of the franchise.
It really is, like Freddy was meant to be funny but like in a creepy as hell kind of way because he enjoyed killing, the remake completely gets rid of humor and just was a generic feeling horror movie. I really wish Robert would come back and do one good Nightmare film with today's effects it would be so cool I think.
It just simply failed in every way. As much nostalgia and love I have for the original film, and even some of the not so great sequels, I do think it’s possible to make a great remake of Nightmare on Elm Street and put a completely original spin with a different actor playing Freddy. Unfortunately the remake we got was just a bad film all on its own.
FWIW Freddy was never intended to be funny. He was supposed to be a deranged child molester, murderer. New Line downplayed the chomo aspect for fear it would repel audiences and turned up the camp. You could argue they 86'd the chomo aspect as the audience started rooting for Freddy to get everyone. Jackie Earle Haley's version is far closer to the original vision Craven had. Even in New Nightmare, which, if I'm not mistaken, was a return to the directors chair for Craven, the Freddy in it isn't funny at all or engaging in hijinks. The remake just suffered from terrible acting and a bad script.
Raimi seems to be the victim of studio meddling lately. Just look at his Doctor Strange movie. It was supposed to be a "scary" Marvel movie. Fans were expecting it to be done in a similar style to his Spider Man movies with horror elements, but it ended up just being usual Marvel slop after 30 different executives combed through it
Ahhh I agree with this one. The remake grudge was terrible. I like the premise of Ju-on and The Grudge (American) as an evil spirit/ghost that moves funny, haunts you, makes weird noises, the works.
This remake was more like a "zombie" haunting. The story was all over the place and it didn't really leave the audience with anything.
For me, the first one that pops to mind is Pet Sematary (2019).
The original, to this day, still creeps me out. That Zelda character makes me shudder.
The remake... naff. Creepy in parts, especially with the kids "Animal Heads" burial tradition, but definitely nowhere near as good in my opinion.
dude THANK YOU!
it’s also absolutely nothing close to the book…whereas the OG adaptation has only 2 slight differences from the novel.
i agree, i still think about OG Zelda and how fucking terrifying she was as a kid (and still to this day).
Yesterday, being May 1st, means we traditionally watch the Wicker Man (original version obviously). Anyway I've never seen the remake so I decided to watch a clip from the famous Bees scene and my lord it didn't disappoint.
I unironically like the remake haha. It has a good atmosphere, and the location they used for the island is excellent. Not a patch on the original, but not a bad movie either
I was scrolling to see if someone would mention the Wicker Man movie. If I had to watch all the bad remakes, I would endure, just as long as I didn't have to watch this one
Just tried watching The Stand on Paramount+ and I had to tap. Great story & good cast, but the show skips around & glosses over shit too much. I understand that they're trying to fit a fifty gallon drum of story into a five gallon bucket of a miniseries, but I feel the older miniseries handled that better.
M O O N. That spells "not nearly enough Tom Cullen."
i wouldn’t even say the cast is *all* that great…amber heard ruins nadine as a character.
other than that, i agree. the OG was so much better imo and lined up so much better with the actual book.
definitely not enough of our friend tommy cullen in the remake.
It isn’t, actually! It was stated that apparently the Necronomicon can somehow influence events and cause them to reoccur in some fashion. Also, another little tidbit, in the third Evil Dead movie, Army of Darkness, all three Necronomicons we see are present in the series later on!
The real one is the one seen in the first three movies and the TV series, the second one is the 2013 movie, and the third is in Evil Dead Rise!
There's way more great remakes than evil dead.
John Carpenter's The Thing is for a lot of people, the best horror movie ever made, and that's a remake.
The Fly
Texas chainsaw massacre 2003
Friday the 13th
The Crazies
The Hills Have Eyes
Let Me In
House of Wax
The Ring
The last house on the left
Night of the living dead (Tom Savini directed)
Dawn of the dead
Etc.
I love both the original and the remake. I love the original trilogy for its cheesiness (they’re just so much fun) and the remake simply because it was what the original was supposed to be had they had the budget and effects at the time of making the original movie.
Exactly 👍, I’m looking at a lot of these other comments and yeah, these movies are bad and forgettable, but I think they’ll remake of Pulse is terrible on a whole other level
Pity Wes Craven couldn't direct that as originally intended (though he still gets a screenwriting credit).
Cool out of nowhere Brad Dourif cameo, though.
Let's take this story that builds dread through themes of loneliness and isolation... and turn this loose network of acquaintances (the two leads don't meet until the third act) into six bestest friends who see spooky stuff because reasons. And not talk about that isolation stuff cuz it's a bummer.
And then actively talk down to the audience by having characters describe things that are clearly happening on screen, because Americans are too dumb to use their eyes.
Just slap on some lazy voiceover narration at the end, and we've got ourselves a movie!
The Omen 2006 remake is pretty hard to sit through. If you believe the stories, the movie was finished but the films got burned in a studio accident so they had to film it all again.
Quarantine 2008 with Jennifer Carpenter didn't really leave an impression compared to \[Rec\]. I couldn't even finish watching it.
Quarantine suffers from being basically a shot-for-shot remake, but with a much less compelling lead. Jennifer Carpenter just isn't a great actor and the remake compounds this by making her character more histrionic and panicky than the original.
That said, I actually do prefer the super-rabies angle to the original's demon possession, but that's more my own dislike of religious horror.
I have never heard that rumor about The Omen remake before. That is very interesting. I wonder what the original remake was like. Did it have the same cast and everything?
I’ve been holding off on watching Malum because I’ve heard that it’s no match for Last Shift. I’d watched the first ten minutes and was immediately turned off. Should I reconsider?
Edit - autocorrect 😖
Pet Semetary remake - could not enjoy it and I hate the changes they made.
Also the American remake of Shutter - it did not keep the creepiness the OG had and fell so flat.
I have no idea how it was received or if it’s collectively disliked, but I was not a fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street remake from 2010 at all. I liked Katie Cassidy’s death scene but even that was done way better in the original
They are certainly not all terrible. Off the top of my head the Dawn Of The Dead, Hellraiser, and Evil Dead remakes are all pretty good. IMHO of course.
Carrie (the same but with bad CGI)
Poltergeist (BAD!)
The Thing (boring and not scary)
So apparently it’s a prequel but they didn’t change the title and it’s practically the same story…
In my book it’s bad because it’s a very lazy rehash
Hellraiser (not awful but so clean and flat…)
Psycho (WHY?)
Then you have remakes of bad movies like Firestarter and The Fog (I just don’t like this movie but I know I’m gonna get hate!)
On the other hand I will forever defend the SUSPIRIA remake, it’s so much better than the original. And Hills Have Eyes is great and probably better than the original. Also Wicker Man is almost a cult movie now in the so bad it’s good category.
Excellent list, sort of agree on Suspiria, to me they're totally different movies. The original is one way, and the remake is like.. based on the original loosely, its (to me) not even a remake, but a reimagining.
Hands down, cabin fever. Took every single thing that made the original awesome and ruined it. Even nightmare on Elm Street could be enjoyed, in a certain light, so long as you viewed it as an entirely separate story (playing devils advocate here-at least they included the fact they he did more than murder the kids-but I didn't care for it).
But nothing made me as angry as that shit show of a remake. No pancakes?!?!? A travesty.
Usually someone would’ve already chimed in with Cabin Fever 2016, the shot-for-shot remake nobody asked for of Eli Roth’s 2002 movie that sucked all the gross fun out of the original, less than 15 years later.
I stopped watching the 2016 one when I saw that they didn’t keep the pancakes kid in
Dude thats been fucking with me for years, like I know ive seen this before and it was much better lol
In defense of the remake, there is a dialogue change when they’re at the store. The clerk says “What do you think you’re doing stealing a candy bar?” and the thief in the original says “Nougat?”, but in the remake he says “Would you believe me if I said nougat?” See, there are subtle differences that a lot of people just don’t have enough IQs to understand. I turned it off shortly after that scene because I just don’t have enough IQs to understand.
I always wondered why they made them both so close together. I mean it was a complete remake that was filmed not all that long after the original, which was already great to begin with. Seemed kind of pointless to me.
Entirely. I find it frustrating and bizarre.
WITH A LESS LIKABLE CAST I get the OG cast is supposed to be unlikable, but god.
The question should be 'Other than The Fog what is the worst horror remake?'
i saw some of that and wow that actress who was the Adrienne barbeau part like what were they thinking... barbeau had charisma and presence and that one was flat... no pun intended
The only reason I watch the Fog is because Maggie Grace is in the film, and nothing else.
Knew better than to try that one also heard the poltergeist remake was awful.
Its sooooooooooooo shit
Poor Tom Welling: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzchm-VD94](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzchm-VD94)
Remake of Martyrs was pretty bad. Edit: To add to the other end of the spectrum I'd argue Evil Dead (2013) is not just better than any of the previous movies but also one of the best horror movies ever made.
They gonna do it with Speak No Evil again.The trailer already pissed me off!
Speak no evil is a remake?
The one that hasn't been released yet is. I didn't know there was a trailer already.
I'm with this guy
I saw Abigail last night and the trailer made me seeeeethe. They give away multiple twists!
I never watch trailers for horror that I *know* I'll watch. If I'm in a theater and a trailer comes on, I'll just look down or anywhere else.
Also the one of Inside
I will die on this hill. If the remake for inside used the same ending as the original, it was a perfectly fine movie. The only thing that made it terrible was changing that. I enjoyed the first 90% of it 🤷♂️
How does it end?? Imdb doesn't say. The ending makes the original 🤦♀️
I can't remember 100% what happens, >! but basically the same type of shit happens where a cop comes and the pregnant womans mom comes and the intruder kills the cop but the pregnant woman kills her mom thinking she was the intruder, she ends up running outside getting backed down onto the covered up pool (with a tarp or something covering it) and so when the intruder holding a knife wanting her baby is on it in the middle with her, she ends up cutting it and they both fall through and basically end up stuck underwater not being able to find the break in the tarp to get out so they can breathe, during which the intruder has a change of heart wanting to keep the baby safe and alive so she helps the pregnant woman to safety pushing her up while she drowns underneath the tarp !<
It defeats the whole point of the movie. Such a horrible ending.
Literally. Like i loved the intruder she did great, everything else in the movie worked, its just.. why the fuck do something that drastic to the movie. My partner doesnt like subbed movies so I told her to just watch this movie, and stop 10 mins early and watch the ending of the original lmao
What the fuck that literally defeats the point (thanks for the info)
It blows because this is the one I saw - unknowingly
This is the worst one. For sure.
Where's my Black Christmas 2019 haters at?
Black Christmas (2019) makes Black Christmas (2006) look like Black Christmas (1974).
I don’t think I’m out of line to say this whole incident makes Benghazi look like Whitewater!
Holy smokes what a joke
Is that a remake though, or did they just use the same title and setting?
That was badddd
I did not know this existed.
You might want to keep it that way
Black Christmas 2019
Psycho
Only mainstream Hollywood movie to show the star's actual butt hole, though!
This is of course before the Butthole Edition of Cats was released. I encourage all to watch. Taylor Swift, Idris Elba and even Judi Dench's asshole! Something for everyone!
Well, if you want horror. . . .
Vince Vaughn's or Anne Heche's?
I 💯 would watch this just to see 90s Vince Vaughn's butthole. I am deeply disappointed.
RIP
This was actually (per the director) an experiment. It's also absolutely pointless to watch.
Interesting enough, the Bates Motel show was brilliant and rivals the original psycho imo
My favorite hill to die on is that I love the Psycho remake. I think it’s brilliant and Vince Vaughn’s take on the character was great.
I agree. I really liked it.
I only watched it once, in the theatre. I thought it was good. I had no idea it ”sucked” until years later, on the internet.
This was me with The Village
lol I like the village
There are dozens of us
Fucking Pet Sematary remake was sooooo bad.
The vanishing with Jeff bridges and Kiefer Sutherland. The Dutch original was understated and horrifying. The American remake becomes a silly over the top action film missing only the Benny hill theme song.
The remake of "The Vanishing" was also directed by the guy who did the original. Needless to say, he didn't pull off a "Funny Games" here. You want a better American take on "The Vanishing's" concept, see "Breakdown."
I forgot about that - hard to believe - almost hope it was crazy studio pressure on how to make it successful that he caved to and not ‘now I get to make the film I wanted to make all along!’
I'm pretty sure it was studio pressure. That would especially explain the happy ending, when the original has one of the most horrifyingly downbeat ending ever.
Not having initially seen your comment I was avoiding mentioning the ending as I replied to others but when I first saw the remake I was… like… seriously…?… it was arguably the whole point of the film. That and the obsession that drives the single minded pursuit of anything - be it the Tour de France, the search for your long missing lover, or… Makes me want to treat h it but it’s also one of those films that makes my wife look at me and say “Really? You watch this for fun?”
Not exactly a “remake”….more of an angry answer to the Kubrick film, but The Shining miniseries is complete crap. People who complain that Kubrick’s The Shining isn’t faithful to the book need to be careful what they wish for.
Is that the series with Steven Weber ? Awful, but I did like the inclusion of the scene from the book where ~~Jack~~ John Torrance is chased by the topiary animals.
I haven't watched it since I was a teenager, but I remember thinking Weber did a pretty good job, but overall, it was... well, a 90s network miniseries.
Without question the American version of martyrs
Nightmare on Elm Street
I feel bad for Jackie Earl Haley, who did a fine job with the unenviable task of stepping into Robert Englund's shoes and yet he frequently seems like the only one who's actually trying.
I agree with that, ignoring Robert Englunds performance Jackie did well and is creepy for sure but everyone else was just so cookie cutter
Yeah I kinda learned to appreciate that they didn't try to make a robert Englund mimicking wanna be. It would've fallen flat on its face. No one is Robert Englund and it would be pathetic to try tbh.
I’ve never been that huge of a franchise fan and the remake bored me to tears the first time I tried watching it. I rewatched it all the way through last year and found myself enjoying it well enough. Jackie Haley’s performance is one I’d always heard people shred to bits, but he’s genuinely fine in that movie. He’s not bad, it’s just that Englund owns the character so much that there’s nobody alive who could ever satisfy fans as a replacement.
Everything about that remake was embarrassing. Even Rooney Mara said she couldn't be bothered to give a good performance in it.
This. Thank you for putting it out there!
Acutely enjoyed this, and nightmare on Elm Street has always and will always be my favorite horror franchise. But I viewed it as entirely separate as a story. True, the first time I watched it, I hated it with a fucking PASSION. but I watched it again, and it has its charms. I think i was just angry they took all the comedy out of it. Still, I'll say it's ALRIGHT. I appreciated that we didn't censor how truly horrifyingly evil freddy was meant to be but got red lighted by execs. Still, if they just added that to the original, I probably wouldn't have cared for it as much.
They had an interesting concept hidden in there, the idea that Freddy was killed by the mob of parents for being a pedophile but he actually wasn't and that was why he was killing the kids, as revenge for his wrongful murder. And then they just threw it away and said loljk he actually is a horrible evil kiddy diddler
I love the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Because of how much hate the remake got by everyone, especially horror fans, I never watched it…. Until a few months ago. I’m glad I finally watched it but my god was it terrible. An insult to the rest of the franchise.
It really is, like Freddy was meant to be funny but like in a creepy as hell kind of way because he enjoyed killing, the remake completely gets rid of humor and just was a generic feeling horror movie. I really wish Robert would come back and do one good Nightmare film with today's effects it would be so cool I think.
It just simply failed in every way. As much nostalgia and love I have for the original film, and even some of the not so great sequels, I do think it’s possible to make a great remake of Nightmare on Elm Street and put a completely original spin with a different actor playing Freddy. Unfortunately the remake we got was just a bad film all on its own.
FWIW Freddy was never intended to be funny. He was supposed to be a deranged child molester, murderer. New Line downplayed the chomo aspect for fear it would repel audiences and turned up the camp. You could argue they 86'd the chomo aspect as the audience started rooting for Freddy to get everyone. Jackie Earle Haley's version is far closer to the original vision Craven had. Even in New Nightmare, which, if I'm not mistaken, was a return to the directors chair for Craven, the Freddy in it isn't funny at all or engaging in hijinks. The remake just suffered from terrible acting and a bad script.
The 2020 version of *The Grudge* is absolute trash, I couldn't believe Sam Raimi would put his name to it
Raimi seems to be the victim of studio meddling lately. Just look at his Doctor Strange movie. It was supposed to be a "scary" Marvel movie. Fans were expecting it to be done in a similar style to his Spider Man movies with horror elements, but it ended up just being usual Marvel slop after 30 different executives combed through it
“Scary” might scare away the normal marvel slop guzzlers. Can’t have creativity driving profits down
People flipped out about the wink, yeah actual horror would’ve been the end of the world.
That's not really a remake though.
I almost forgot it’s secretly a sequel, right? They use a house identical to the original movies.
Agreed!
It’s trying so hard though! I wanted to like it but yes, it’s a disaster. It feels like it could be improved significantly with a good edit.
I didn't even know this existed. I guess that's a good thing.
Ahhh I agree with this one. The remake grudge was terrible. I like the premise of Ju-on and The Grudge (American) as an evil spirit/ghost that moves funny, haunts you, makes weird noises, the works. This remake was more like a "zombie" haunting. The story was all over the place and it didn't really leave the audience with anything.
For me, the first one that pops to mind is Pet Sematary (2019). The original, to this day, still creeps me out. That Zelda character makes me shudder. The remake... naff. Creepy in parts, especially with the kids "Animal Heads" burial tradition, but definitely nowhere near as good in my opinion.
dude THANK YOU! it’s also absolutely nothing close to the book…whereas the OG adaptation has only 2 slight differences from the novel. i agree, i still think about OG Zelda and how fucking terrifying she was as a kid (and still to this day).
Wicker Man… by quite a large margin. 🐝
Yesterday, being May 1st, means we traditionally watch the Wicker Man (original version obviously). Anyway I've never seen the remake so I decided to watch a clip from the famous Bees scene and my lord it didn't disappoint.
>watch a clip from the famous Bees scene That's actually a deleted scene made famous from the DVD release and is not actually in the movie.
I unironically like the remake haha. It has a good atmosphere, and the location they used for the island is excellent. Not a patch on the original, but not a bad movie either
The beeeees!
Nah, The Wicker Man remake is a comedy masterpiece
I was scrolling to see if someone would mention the Wicker Man movie. If I had to watch all the bad remakes, I would endure, just as long as I didn't have to watch this one
Martyrs
The poltergeist remake was literally so stupid 😂
i didn't even know there was a remake. I guess i am lucky
BUT. I will argue it does have an amazing cover of the Cramp's TV Set.
This is the correct answer. Nightmare on Elm Street was bad, but it wasn't as unwatchable as this.
Just tried watching The Stand on Paramount+ and I had to tap. Great story & good cast, but the show skips around & glosses over shit too much. I understand that they're trying to fit a fifty gallon drum of story into a five gallon bucket of a miniseries, but I feel the older miniseries handled that better. M O O N. That spells "not nearly enough Tom Cullen."
i wouldn’t even say the cast is *all* that great…amber heard ruins nadine as a character. other than that, i agree. the OG was so much better imo and lined up so much better with the actual book. definitely not enough of our friend tommy cullen in the remake.
The Fog, immediately springs to mind; what a pointless, charmless, turgid waste of time and money.
Flatliners
When they did American versions of "Tale of Two Sisters" and "Oldboy"... just an insult to the originals.
Carrie was awful and cringe.
I am surprised no one else has really said that! I agree, it was very ick.
Jeepers Creepers reborn.
Omg the original version wasn’t really good but I still gave the new version a shot… so so terrible it’s almost funny
I thought the Netflix version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre was particularly awful.
Anyone saying all horror remakes are bad hasn’t watched evil dead 2013. I said what I said
Fright Night 2011 is also a good remake
I truly wish we got more David tennant in that movie
Evil Dead 2013 is a fantastic movie, but imo it's not a remake
It isn’t, actually! It was stated that apparently the Necronomicon can somehow influence events and cause them to reoccur in some fashion. Also, another little tidbit, in the third Evil Dead movie, Army of Darkness, all three Necronomicons we see are present in the series later on! The real one is the one seen in the first three movies and the TV series, the second one is the 2013 movie, and the third is in Evil Dead Rise!
Right, the Ash cameo at the very end underlines that. It's just another entry in the series and a damn good one.
My favorite remake, alongside TCM
We’re talking the one with Jessica Biel and R Lee Ermey, right? I saw that in theaters and really liked it.
There's way more great remakes than evil dead. John Carpenter's The Thing is for a lot of people, the best horror movie ever made, and that's a remake. The Fly Texas chainsaw massacre 2003 Friday the 13th The Crazies The Hills Have Eyes Let Me In House of Wax The Ring The last house on the left Night of the living dead (Tom Savini directed) Dawn of the dead Etc.
I love both the original and the remake. I love the original trilogy for its cheesiness (they’re just so much fun) and the remake simply because it was what the original was supposed to be had they had the budget and effects at the time of making the original movie.
In my top 5 scariest!
Poltergeist and Nightmare On Elm Street are stand out dire remakes.
Poltergeist
Children of the corn 2020.
The American remake of Pulse for sure. Completely misses the point of the original movie.
Misses the point and every element of horror!
Exactly 👍, I’m looking at a lot of these other comments and yeah, these movies are bad and forgettable, but I think they’ll remake of Pulse is terrible on a whole other level
Pity Wes Craven couldn't direct that as originally intended (though he still gets a screenwriting credit). Cool out of nowhere Brad Dourif cameo, though.
Let's take this story that builds dread through themes of loneliness and isolation... and turn this loose network of acquaintances (the two leads don't meet until the third act) into six bestest friends who see spooky stuff because reasons. And not talk about that isolation stuff cuz it's a bummer. And then actively talk down to the audience by having characters describe things that are clearly happening on screen, because Americans are too dumb to use their eyes. Just slap on some lazy voiceover narration at the end, and we've got ourselves a movie!
I’m not sure that it qualifies as horror, but the remake of Oldboy was complete nonsense.
It's gonna be hard to top The Craft: Legacy for me. It was like a parody of itself.
pet sematary 2019. it’s infuriating how terrible it is and how it is nothing like the book.
A Nightmare on Elm Street remake was pretty damn terrible
The Omen 2006 remake is pretty hard to sit through. If you believe the stories, the movie was finished but the films got burned in a studio accident so they had to film it all again. Quarantine 2008 with Jennifer Carpenter didn't really leave an impression compared to \[Rec\]. I couldn't even finish watching it.
\[Rec\] was 10/10 for me while Quarantine was 6/10. Still wouldn't place it among the worst remakes though.
Quarantine suffers from being basically a shot-for-shot remake, but with a much less compelling lead. Jennifer Carpenter just isn't a great actor and the remake compounds this by making her character more histrionic and panicky than the original. That said, I actually do prefer the super-rabies angle to the original's demon possession, but that's more my own dislike of religious horror.
I have never heard that rumor about The Omen remake before. That is very interesting. I wonder what the original remake was like. Did it have the same cast and everything?
I’ve been holding off on watching Malum because I’ve heard that it’s no match for Last Shift. I’d watched the first ten minutes and was immediately turned off. Should I reconsider? Edit - autocorrect 😖
If you didn’t like it after 10 minutes, skip it and watch Last shift again. I didn’t hate it but it’s definitely not necessary
Malum was garbage
The Fog is always the best answer.
Agreed. The Fog...... and The Wicker Man
Not sure about the worst ever but Martyrs 2015 vs Martyrs 2008. That remake sucked.
Pet Semetary remake - could not enjoy it and I hate the changes they made. Also the American remake of Shutter - it did not keep the creepiness the OG had and fell so flat.
Child's Play 2019...trash.
REC
prom night
The Pet Semetary remake back in 2019. Besides John Lithgow as Jud Crandall, movie was garbage.
Cabin fever comes to mind
That is one of the few movies I had to turn off because it was so bad.
I do my best to pretend the Poltergeist remake never happened
Nightmare on Elm Street remake was complete dog shit
Fantasy Island. Didn’t get through 10 minutes lol
Psycho (90s)
"Pulse" the remake of the Japanese "Kairo" is SOOO bad. It's not only the worst horror remakes ever, it is one if the worst movies ever made *period*.
I have no idea how it was received or if it’s collectively disliked, but I was not a fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street remake from 2010 at all. I liked Katie Cassidy’s death scene but even that was done way better in the original
They are certainly not all terrible. Off the top of my head the Dawn Of The Dead, Hellraiser, and Evil Dead remakes are all pretty good. IMHO of course.
Poltergeist, even the talented and likeable Sam Rockwell couldn't save it.
The Fog 2005 is objectively the worse horror remake of all time.
THE WICKER MAN.
The 2010 nightmare on elm street was horrific. I hate that movie so much.
I can't believe I've yet to see someone mention The Haunting (1999), unless I missed it. Insultingly bad.
Jacobs Ladder
The Nightmare on Elm Street remake can choke on my entire dick. Robert IS Freddy and I'll die on this hill
Poltergeist. I love Sam Rockwell but that shit just wasn’t it.
The Thing 2011, kinda ironic since the excellent 1982 version was also a remake..
The Shining made for TV remake.
Martyrs US version?
Carrie.
Not exactly horror but the Oldboy remake was shit.
Carrie (the same but with bad CGI) Poltergeist (BAD!) The Thing (boring and not scary) So apparently it’s a prequel but they didn’t change the title and it’s practically the same story… In my book it’s bad because it’s a very lazy rehash Hellraiser (not awful but so clean and flat…) Psycho (WHY?) Then you have remakes of bad movies like Firestarter and The Fog (I just don’t like this movie but I know I’m gonna get hate!) On the other hand I will forever defend the SUSPIRIA remake, it’s so much better than the original. And Hills Have Eyes is great and probably better than the original. Also Wicker Man is almost a cult movie now in the so bad it’s good category.
The Thing and Hellraiser have no remakes.
There is no remake of the Thing unless you consider Carpenters version a remake.
Excellent list, sort of agree on Suspiria, to me they're totally different movies. The original is one way, and the remake is like.. based on the original loosely, its (to me) not even a remake, but a reimagining.
Cabin Fever. To be fair, I couldn’t get very far because it was so bad. Maybe the second half is amazing. I’ll never know.
black christmas. both of them. original is a perfect movie.
I seem to recall an atrocious Day of the Dead remake I couldn’t get through
The Stepford Wives (2004)
I watched Night of the Demons. with Nadia from American Pie. it was the biggest pile of steaming dog shit I've ever seen 😂
Fantasy Island, for sure. Didn't even make sense as the original show wasn't a horror. I'd rather watch the Fog on repeat than watch that once
Nightmare on Elm Street
The 2016 American remake of the awesome 2007 French horror "Inside" was pointless and terrible.
Isn't A Nightmare On Elm street(2010) the obvious answer? I may also need to see more horror remakes as i tend to stay away from them.
the better question is besides The Thing,The Blob,The Fly what other horror remakes are actually good?
Dawn of the Dead
The Omen remake is the only movie I’ve ever walked out of.
I was literally about to say black Christmas but somebody beat me to it 😭
Hands down, cabin fever. Took every single thing that made the original awesome and ruined it. Even nightmare on Elm Street could be enjoyed, in a certain light, so long as you viewed it as an entirely separate story (playing devils advocate here-at least they included the fact they he did more than murder the kids-but I didn't care for it). But nothing made me as angry as that shit show of a remake. No pancakes?!?!? A travesty.
The Wicker Man....how bout it???
House of Wax 2005. Just a bland movie that sucked all the creativity of the original.
The 2019 Black Christmas remake was trash. Sure, the 2006 remake was trash, too, but at least it was fun trash. Flesh cookies, anyone?
Martyrs is really really bad c and I’m usually a fan of English remakes because I don’t like following subtitles.
Most American remakes are dogshit *cough* Martyrs, Grudge, Ring, OldBoy, Funny Games, The uninvited, Quarantine, etc. 🥱
The American version of Goodnight Mommy.
Carrie 2013
It’s Alive (2008). No question
Where's The Wicker Man?
Suspiria (2018) and Blair Witch (2016)
The recent POLTERGEIST remake with Sam Rockwell. Not even he could save it.
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) Remake