10 Horror Movie Remakes That Were TOTALLY Different

10. House Of Wax (2005)

You'd be forgiven for assuming that 2005's House of Wax was a straight-up remake of the Vincent Price-starring 1953 horror of the same name, in which Price plays a deranged sculptor who kills people and then coats them in wax to repopulate his destroyed wax museum.

But ultimately this is extremely close to being a remake in name only, as it actually has far more in common with the 1979 slasher Tourist Trap, where a group of youngsters stumble upon a roadside attraction and are consequently stalked by a killer residing there.

In interviews, director Jaume Collet-Serra even admitted himself that the film is about as loose as remakes get, with Warner Bros. simply wanting to mine the brand name for some easy box office moolah.

Though House of Wax was panned alongside the many classic horror remakes released around the same time, if you can accept how minimally it follows in the original's footsteps, it's actually a relatively well-crafted, nasty slice of self-aware horror.