10 Best Horror Movie Remakes Of All Time

10. Dawn Of The Dead (2004)

George A. Romero's original 1978 film is a cult classic that works because of the auteur's unique strengths of character building and suspense. To try and replicate anything from Romero's career would be foolish, so the creators of the remake wisely chose to stray from the source material.

The 2004 version is directed by a very-early-in-his-career Zack Snyder, and the result is a film much more in-tune with Snyder's strengths as a director. Namely: intensity. Everything is cranked up to eleven in the name of making a more visceral experience. The once slow-moving flesh eaters can now run. Where the original only had four characters, the remake has nearly a dozen. And instead of building suspense, Snyder goes for the more immediate option every time, resulting in a lot more jump scares but also a lot more overt tension.

The zombie genre as a whole owes a LOT to Romero, but it is often underestimated just how much the current wave of zombie entertainment owes to Snyder's remake. Screenwriter James Gunn took the bones of the original Romero films and forged a solid and politically relevant narrative for post-9/11 audiences, and Snyder took Gunn's ideas and ran with them.