10 Horror Film Remakes To Avoid

2. Quarantine (2008)

The only reason the remake of Spanish-language horror exists is because Western audiences have no patience for subtitles. Sony, their eyes firmly on their profit margins, saw an opportunity to exploit the found footage 'zombie' (for lack of a better term, as they're not quite zombies) film, considering that most US audiences might not necessarily watch the original - and that's why we have a pretty much shot-for-shot English-language remake of . One of the more engrossing aspects of was its reveal that the origin of the virus was religious in nature, being more akin to possession than any man-made virus. Quarantine, for whatever reason, ditches that entire reasoning in favour of the old animal-testing malarkey. Even more baffling considering we've already seen the animal testing thing with 28 Days Later. Depriving Quarantine of the original's religiosity means a lot of its thematic subtext - and therefore reason for existing - disappears. Quarantine was never a necessary remake in the first place - and even less so once you remove that crucial element of its DNA.