10 Horror Movie Remakes Better Than You Remember

10. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Alexandre Aja made a name for himself in the early 2000s, embraced as a member of the New French Extremity movement thanks to his hugely popular slasher film, High Tension.

Unsurprisingly, Hollywood were quick to snap him up, and he was given the chance to remake Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes, a fun-going movie about a vacationing family who find themselves under siege by a family of mutated humans.

Now, there's nothing at all about this remake that's subtle. It's absolutely relentless in terms of its violence and Aja goes nuts pushing the gruesome set-pieces as far as they can go.

Hell, the only thing Aja wasn't allowed to do was put a cat in a blender with some milk - a 'kitten shake' he called it - and have one of the mutants drink it. This is the kind of movie and director we're dealing with here.

Still, this first remake is far better crafted than its abysmal sequel, which retroactively gave both of these modern takes a bad name. It's gory, it's thrilling, and more than lives up to the exploitation legacy of its original counterpart.