10 Horror Movie Remakes That Pissed Off Audiences

For audiences unable or unwilling to watch subtitles, the US, English-language remake is a time-honoured tradition. The formula is simple: an American company acquires the rights to a successful foreign-language film (often arthouse, horror, or both), churns out a new version with all the nuances tweaked to the Hollywood standard, and makes a quick buck in the process. 

The Guard Brothers' The Uninvited is one such remake, scooping up Kim Jee-woon's psychological horror A Tale of Two Sisters, stuffing it with recognisable face such as Emily Browning and Elizabeth Banks, and slicing it down to a tidy 90 minutes. Like its predecessor, The Uninvited brings a young woman (Browning’s Anna) home after a considerable stay in a psychiatric facility, only to find her father engaged to an evil stepmother (Banks’ Rachel). Anna and her sister must do their best to investigate the circumstances surrounding their mother’s untimely death, to satiate her ghostly spirit. 

Rather than languish in the same slow-burn subtleties of the Korean original and the one-two punch of its reveals around the death of its protagonist's sister, this version planes all the edges off and has Anna turn out to be a schizophrenic killer - the kind horror cinema has seen way more than its fair share of. Fans of the original were aghast, and the uninitiated underwhelmed, leaving this one to fade into obscurity.