Remakes. A low budget, a quick profit - sometimes - and the ire of horror fans everywhere. Who, by the way, consistently turn up to see their favourite horror classics remade anyway, just on the off-chance that Hollywood finally produces a good one. There's at least a couple every year, although the fad appears to slowly be trailing off, since, y'know, most horror classics have now been remade already. Now we get stupid decisions like Eli Roth's Cabin Fever - only made in 2002, mind - being given the remake treatment already. From the trailer, it looks be a shot-for-shot redo. If anyone decides to reveal the point of that, please do pass the information along. The real point is, horror remakes, no matter how unnecessary you think they are, can actually - whisper it now - be good. Yet for every Dawn of the Dead, there's a Day of the Dead. And it's a damn shame, first, that original horror films get shown the door in lieu of established brands and characters/storylines that we've already seen and, second, that most of them are of absolute garbage-level quality. What's the point? For your benefit, if you ever contemplate treading down the horror remake path, here are ten of the worst to be avoided. Or watched at your own peril... just not in a good way.
Cinephile since 1993, aged 4, when he saw his very first film in the cinema - Jurassic Park - which is also evidence of damn fine parenting. World champion at Six Degrees of Separation. Lender of DVDs to cheap mates. Connoisseur of Marvel Comics and its Cinematic Universe.
