Horrible horror remakes (12 titles)
For those who were wondering if they should watch the remake. Here are the ones to avoid.
57.6% from 4 members
Dark Water
The director here somehow thought angst and gloom could improve creepyness and shock and decided to replace the horror with personal tragedy. The point wasn't so much missed as actively avoided.
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Dark Water
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Walter Salles
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Based on a story by Japanese novelist Koji Suzuki and a film by Hideo Nakata (THE RING), DARK WATER is a thrilling exercise in psychological terror. Jennifer Connelly stars as Dahlia, a troubled woman who is battling her husband, Kyle (Dougray Scott), for custody of their young daughter, Ceci (..read more »
52%
from 22,702 members
Halloween
A lesson learnt that promising directors don't always come good. The original here is butchered (pun intented) to produce a very amateurish flick. It's not even close - don't go there.
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Halloween
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Daeg Faerch
Director: Rob Zombie
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After murdering his older sister, her boyfriend, and his mother's boyfriend, disturbed ten year old Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) is committed to a psychiatric facility. Seventeen years later, a now adult Myers (Tyler Mane) escapes and immediately returns to his home town of Haddonfield in order to ..read more »
62%
from 9,667 members
The Amityville Horror
Although loyal to the original the poor editing and ham acting make this a very dull film. Somehow the horror of the first seemed to be replaced by anger and special effects. Not the greatest of combinations when done badly.
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The Amityville Horror
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Philip Baker Hall
Director: Andrew Douglas
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A family is terrorised by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
59%
from 20,977 members
The Ring Two
When nervous about emulating the first Ring 2 (if that makes sense) somebody decided the best tactic was simply to avoid the original alltogether and go for a completely different script. It's that sort of arrogance that produces a stinker like this.
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The Ring Two
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, Elizabeth Perkins
Director: Hideo Nakata
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Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
54%
from 25,823 members
Pulse
A sepier filter and a tonne of CGI are not necessarilly the hallmark of a great horror especially if the original was meant to be subtle.
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Pulse
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jonathan Tucker, Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder
Director: Jim Sonzero
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Techno-thriller in which a mysterious computer program appears to infect whoever comes into contact with it. When Josh (Jonathan Tucker), a student hacker, accidentally taps into the wrong kind of wireless signal, an evil is unleashed into this world that cannot be contained. Now it seems the virus ..read more »
51%
from 6,751 members
The Haunting
Stars and special effects were the alternative to horror in this blockbuster turkey.
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The Haunting
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta Jones, Lili Taylor
Director: Jan De Bont
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Hill House was built one hundred and thirty years ago and is filled with tales of tragedy but has the house really been left uninhabited? A century later Dr David Morrow brings three people to Hill House and soon the ghosts of the past manifest themselves in terrifying visitations. Was this the ..read more »
54%
from 3,044 members
Psycho
This unknown remake thankfully remained unknown. It's made like a TV drama and one to avoid.
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Psycho
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Marion Crane is a Phoenix, Arizona working girl fed up with having to sneak away during lunch breaks to meet her lover, Sam Loomis, who cannot get married because most of his money goes towards alimony. One Friday, Marion's employer asks her to take $400,000 in cash to a local bank for deposit. ..read more »
52%
from 1,295 member
The Wicker Man
I'm convinced that Mr Cages look of confusion throughout this film must be him wondering how he ended in such an absolute howler.
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The Wicker Man
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Parker
Director: Neil LaBute
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Neil LaBute's THE WICKER MAN stars Nicholas Cage as Edward Malus, a policeman thrust into some dangerous detective work by a series of strange events that begin with a horrific car crash. This incident leaves the cop haunted, with images of the accident replaying in his heavily medicated mind. ..read more »
47%
from 25,392 members
Black Christmas
To be fair the director clearly knows this is an poor remake and never raises their ambition to anything other than an average B-movie.
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Black Christmas
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Kristen Cloke
Director: Glen Morgan
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A group of sorority sisters find themselves being harassed by a stranger with menacing phone-calls and begin to die, one by one on Christmas Break. A remake of the 1974 horror movie, Black Christmas.
47%
from 9,839 members
The Omen
Just like the original but without the style, suspense or fear.
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The Omen
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow
Director: John Moore
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Liev Schreiber (EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED) plays Robert Thorn--a wealthy American official living in Rome--whose wife Kate (Julia Stiles, MONA LISA SMILE) has just lost her first child. At the behest of a strange priest, Robert substitutes an orphaned child for his own without Kate's knowledge, and ..read more »
56%
from 19,016 members
Average rating for this collection:
57.6% from 4 members
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