10 Film Remakes That Are Better Than The Original

The Original

Taking inspiration from Kafka’s brilliantly dehumanising parable, The Metamorphosis, this is the story of a brilliant scientist whose teleportation experiment takes a major turn for the worse when he gets his genes all mixed up with that of a fly.

Tapping into the general paranoia of 1950s America and the burgeoning terror of the nuclear age, Kurt Neuman delivered a movie as melancholic as it was nightmarish as we witness the tragic transformation.

Remake

In re-making the film, director David Cronenburg shows why he was the grand-master of body horror. Ramping up the gruesomeness from the original, Cronenburg delivers an unsettling visceral experience, yet never losing the tragic soul that defined the first movie.

Jeff Goldblum is the beating heart of the film, as Seth Brundle, the eccentric scientist who makes Geena Davies afraid, very afraid. With iconic, shocking moments we witness the full, painfully slow transformation with an unblinking eye, always on the cusp of revulsion and sadness.