10 Horror Movie Remakes That Pissed Off Audiences

10. Ruined The Old, Failed At The New - Carrie (2013)

When you go about remaking an already half-decent horror movie, you need to have a good idea of how you're going to change things - doubly so if you're remaking Brian De Palma's classic Stephen King adaptation Carrie. So while director Kimberly Peirce had some sense of where she wanted to take the property, it wasn't nearly far enough for fans, and often in totally the wrong direction. 

Like the original, the film situates its titular shy teenager (here played by Chloe Grace Moretz) in an average high school in Maine. Here, she is picked on, bullied and ridiculed - only this time the internet is involved. Fair enough. But the fans who thought they were really in for something new were sorely mistaken.

Peirce then spends the bulk of the film going in hard on Carrie's telekinetic powers, and the injury, blood and gore that comes as a result of them, without doing nearly enough with her characters or updated setting. This comes to a head in the once-iconic prom gymnasium scene, when rather than focusing on Carrie as a character, we are treated to a bombardment of digital effects-laden, slow-mo deaths, each as grimly "creative" as the next, while Moretz cackles and waves her hands like an X-Man. 

It's all spectacle no substance, and somehow manages to make the most important scene from the original film look like the party from 1999's abominable Carrie 2.