10 Horror Movie Remakes That Pissed Off Audiences

2. The Dissociating Killer Strikes Again - Silent House (2011)

One of the lesser-known properties on this list is Silent House, based on the Uruguayan film La Casa Muda, and remade by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau in 2011, just a year after the release of the original. 

The film stars Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah, a young woman helping her father and uncle do up the family's dilapidated, Victorian, countryside home ready to be sold. After a young woman appears at the door claiming to know Sarah, the trio are beaten, hunted and terrorised by mysterious forces. 

Using a "real time" footage effect that strings together the film's shots in a seemingly single, continuous long take, we follow the action beat by beat until the big reveal: Sarah, who was abused by her family as a child, is also the villain. 

Audiences were enraged by this twist not because it is unfaithful to the original movie but because, even before the film this was based on, this was a hackneyed idea. Identity, High Tension, Shrooms - you name 'em - the protagonist-as-dissociating-killer bit has been done to death. Audiences know it well, and it's not getting any fresher.