10 Best Slasher Horror Movie Remakes Of All Time
When iconic horror flicks have been stylishly revisited!
It was announced in 2022 that one of cinema’s most intriguing modern directors, Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse), will be remaking Nosferatu (1922), the movie that was one of the key horror films from the silent era which introduced the cinematic lore of the vampire.
Eggers’ version will of course be next in a long line of remakes of classic horrors, which we first saw in the 1950s and '60s when the Hammer production company revisited many of Universal Studio’s monster movies; remaking iconic films such as Dracula (1930), where we saw Christopher Lee take over the legacy from Bela Lugosi. Film studios have since continued to return to the classic tales of our nightmares, as the genre has always been one of the most lucrative forms of entertainment.
As a subgenre, the slasher flicks which rose to prominence over the last 40 or so years have provided us with some of the best-loved horror movies of all time.
In the 2000s we have seen a significant number of remakes and reboots of some of the finest slasher movies ever made, and here are the ten very best.
10. Sorority Row (2009)
A remake based on The House On Sorority Row (1982), which told the story of a group of sorority sisters whose prank on the owner of the house they live in goes horribly wrong, when she ends up dead. The girls decide to hide the body and cover up the disaster, only to be stalked and killed at their graduation party by someone who knows their secret.
Sorority Row (2009) was directed by Stewart Hendler (Whisper), and expands on the premise of the original with a new backstory and prank gone wrong that ends the same way, before time jumping eight months to the blood bath graduation party. The movie clearly takes influence from I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), although that film itself undoubtedly owes a lot to The House On Sorority Row. The nineties slasher influence of the Scream franchise is also prominent, with the killer dressed in a hooded black graduation robe, looking similar to the iconic Ghostface.
There is a trashy blend of the eighties and nineties eras to the movie, which unashamedly throws every sorority house cliché you can think of at the viewer. With plenty of sexual undertones, some pretty gruesome kills, and a whodunnit vibe to the narrative that keeps you wondering who or what the killer is through to the reveal of the final act, this all combines to make Sorority Row an enjoyable modern ‘popcorn slasher’.