I still like the Frank Langela remake of Dracula that John "Blue Thunder" Badham made in '79, which was like a big budget Hammer remake since it still had the gothic British feel that I didn't really get from Copolla's version.
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I still like the Frank Langela remake of Dracula that John "Blue Thunder" Badham made in '79, which was like a big budget Hammer remake since it still had the gothic British feel that I didn't really get from Copolla's version.
Agreed. It was awful. All that effort and money was spent trying to make it relevant and more serious than the original but all it did was make it less interesting and bloated. As a remake I can honestly say it was a better effort than Carpenter's own attempt with Ghosts of Mars, but I couldn't bring myself to watch this again any easier. Just the thought of it makes me rather do a double-shot of Nyquil and spend a few hours in a coma instead.
The Hills Have Eyes
The Ring
The Mechanic
I Spit On Your Grave
The Last House On The Left
The Hitcher
Cape Fear
War Of The Worlds
Star Trek
Let The Right One In
True Grit
The Fly
TCM '03
Dawn Of The Dead
The Thing (80's)
The Blob
The Hitcher was good. The thread is "good remakes" not "award winning remakes". Hitcher was solid. Sean Bean kicks ass and Sophia Bush is hotttt.
It was awful. Sean Bean isn't even a poor man's Rutger Hauer. He's bizarro Liam Neesen.
My favorite horror remakes:
Rob zombie's Halloween
The hills have eyes
Last house on the left
I can't remember what the American title is..but the remake of a tale of two sisters was good...I actually like it more than the original..easier for my American mind to follow. ;0p
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Melissa
I've been thinking about good remakes.. while I do bitch about remakes, there's a lot of remakes I do enjoy even more so than the original (even though 99% of the time I still respect the original). However, there's some popular remakes I just can't stand (IE: The Ring, Dawn of the Dead, Let Me In, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, etc). The Ring particularly - I hate that movie with a passion, yet it's on almost every list of the greatest horror films of all time. :facepalm:
The greatest remakes (IMO):
The Thing (more of a re-adaptation than a remake, though)
The Blob (only thing I don't like is the government subplot)
Willard (surpasses the original)
The Fly and The Fly 2 (great update of 50s classics)
Village of the Damned (I enjoy this more than the original)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (I actually prefer the original, but this is a worthy remake)
Fright Night 2 (except for the lame ending, I wholly prefer this to the original sequel to Fright Night)
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Cat People
House of Wax (the Vincent Price version, not the shitty one with Paris Hilton)
Maniac
There are plenty of bad remakes, but the worst of all time is The Wicker Man (IMO).