15 Things Horror Remakes Did Better Than The Original

15. Black Christmas (2006) - Claire's Relative

This is an interesting one, since Black Christmas (2006) is one of the worst horror remakes ever made and is an unscary, cringe-worthy and completely dire butchering of the excellent 1974 original, yet it does manage to do something better than the original film. It's a small thing, but still.

In both films, Claire (played by Lynne Griffin in the original and Leela Savasta in the remake) is one of the first of the luckless sorority girls being stalked by a killer to bite the dust and in both cases a relative shows up looking for her.

In the original, a fairly uninteresting father character turns up but in the remake, instead it's Leigh (Kristen Cloke, who horror fans might recognise as Val Lewton in Final Destination), Claire's half-sister.

Leigh is a surprisingly entertaining character and Cloke gives a good performance too. Alongside the reasonably solid protagonist Kelli Presley (Katie Cassidy), she's definitely one of the best elements of this otherwise useless train-wreck of a horror film and the inclusion of this character was a very smart move indeed, since it's one of the only things in the movie that's actually fun.