10 Most Polarising Horror Movies Of All Time

Remaking classic horror films is always a risk - more often than not they are considerably worse than the original on which they were based, all too often dismissed out of hand as a sullying of classic movies and widely seen as unnecessary cash-ins which stand on the shoulders of giants.

George A. Romero's seminal sequel Dawn Of The Dead remains to this day one of the best loved horror films of all time, so it was perhaps inevitable that any remake would have no trouble finding detractors. Indeed, fans of the original slated Zack Snyder's 2004 version, citing everything from the inclusion of running zombies (sacrilege!) to completely missing the satire which undercut Romero's original.

Yet by the same token, the Dawn Of The Dead remake is also one of the best received horror remakes of the 21st century. Younger audiences raised on films like 28 Days Later had no problem with fast moving zombies (observing fairly: "wouldn't they be much scarier in a real zombie apocalypse?") and lapped up the gore while claiming that it was satirizing the zombie genre.

For his part, the late, great George Romero was ambivalent about Snyder's remake, concluding in an interview with Simon Pegg that "nothing was going on underneath." At least fans of the original got to see a cameo from special effects maestro Tom Savini, responsible for the many gore effects in Romero's classic Dead Trilogy.