10 Bandwagons Hollywood Couldn't Resist Jumping On

8. Remaking Every Known Horror Movie

At the tail end of the 20th Century, Gus Van Sant's shot-for-shot remake of Psycho and Jan de Bont's big-budget update of The Haunting were met with a general mixture of apathy and derision, mostly due to the fact that these new versions of classic horror movies weren't very good. Had they come along just a few years later they would have been in much better company, because suddenly Hollywood's latest trend saw the studios giving the remake treatment to almost every recognizable horror movie under the sun. Michael Bay's production company Platinum Dunes have a lot to answer for, as the craze was kick-started when The Texas Chainsaw Massacre earned $107m on a budget of less than $10m back in 2003. As well as that movie getting a prequel, Platinum Dunes are also responsible for remakes of The Amityville Horror, The Hitcher, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street, all of which turned a profit at the box office despite generally negative reviews. Things have gotten so bad that another Friday the 13th reboot is already in development, despite the remake only hitting theaters five years ago. The Evil Dead, Halloween, The Crazies, Carrie, The Fog, The Hills Have Eyes and The Omen are just a very small few of the recognizable horror movies that have been given the remake treatment in the last decade, and while the overwhelming majority of these offerings have ranged from the mediocre to the downright awful, the trend continues to this day with a new version of Poltergeist set for release next year.