10 Horror Remakes So Bad They Never Got A Sequel

Directed by Danny and Oxide Pang, The Eye opened in Hong Kong in May 2002, four months after Mark Pellington’s The Mothman Prophecies was released in the US. Both movies feature a haunted protagonist who realises that they’re being warned about a forthcoming tragedy, but their similarities were written off as coincidental and The Eye went on to become a smash hit that led to three sequels.

By the time the remake reached American multiplexes in 2008, the story’s similarities to The Mothman Prophecies (not to mention The Sixth Sense) seemed less like coincidence than outright theft. What’s more, audiences had had enough of ghosts after What Lies Beneath, FearDotCom and Gothika, and they weren’t in the mood for another supernatural drama, certainly not one starring Jessica Alba.

After opening at #2 at the US box office, the movie crawled to a $31 million domestic haul before disappearing from multiplexes. A year later, Paranormal Activity opened and rewrote the rules for ghost stories, effectively destroying any interest in the franchise.