10 Best Horror Movie Remakes Of All Time
7. The Blob (1988)
Originally, The Blob was a fifties horror film in the vein of The Beast of 20,000 Fathoms or Howard Hawke's The Thing From Another World. It was a creature feature that starred Steve McQueen as a teenager and a gelatinous mass that just kept expanding and oozing over everything.
It was admittedly a pretty goofy concept that wound up just featuring a whole lot of shots of a slow movie piece of Jell-O. So when the remake rolled around, audiences who were expecting more of the same were in for a big surprise.
The 1988 film takes more cues from body horror genre films than it does from creature features and is all the more powerful for it. Here, The Blob is a force to be reckoned with. Not only will it ooze over its victims, it will fill every orifice and tear their skin and bones to shreds in the process. The result is a film that is much more thrilling than the original in just about every way.
The characters are more fleshed out than the cardboard cutouts of the original, the Blob is a more ferocious antagonist with greater motivations, and the film is smart enough to know when to show the Blob and when not to.