10 Horror Remakes So Bad They Never Got A Sequel

Probably gunning for Halloween’s sophisticated suspense, the makers of this needless reboot turn the killer into a barely seen psycho who’s a dab hand at finding hiding places and enjoys taunting people more than killing them. It’s also one of those movies where the cops say, “There’s nothing we can do” despite the mounting death toll and the screaming damsel in distress backs herself into a corner, shouting, “What do you want?”

Merry tales of psychotic child-killers don’t lend themselves to PG-13, so the filmmakers do away with all the nastiness from Fred Walton’s 1979 original as well as 86 of its 97 minutes, which leaves the opening sequence of a babysitter being informed by police that the malicious calls she’s been receiving have been coming from… inside the house!

Anyway, the attempt to stretch an eleven-minute sequence to feature length means that WASC often feels like a one-act play, with a single character on a single set reacting to shadows, strange noises, the sudden arrival of a stranger etc. This is apt because we’re watching a two-act movie, whose makers forgot to give it a rousing finale. The scene is set, the ‘tension’ is ratcheted up by false scares, then ten minutes before the credits roll, the killer puts in an appearance, gets captured by police and that’s all she wrote.

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