10 Movie Remakes That Are Actually Worth Watching

The Original: Starring Sondra Locke and Colleen Camp, 1977’s Death Game is your typical home invasion thriller where two young girls seduce and torture a businessman while his wife and daughter are on a trip. Both actors felt the movie was a missed opportunity and touted the idea of a remake, hence their executive producer credits on Knock Knock.

The Remake: Better shot, paced and directed than Death Game, Knock Knock was helmed by Eli Roth, who gets his first A-list leading man with Keanu Reeves. Cast against type as the helpless, hapless businessman, Keanu spends a portion of the film either tied up or otherwise immobilized, but a word of warning to anyone expecting him to break free and deliver some John Wick-style revenge: this is not that kind of movie.

The combination of Eli Roth and a dull 70s thriller most viewers will have never heard of probably sounds like a turn off, but this is Roth’s most atypical film to date as well as one of his most tightly controlled. It’s essentially the Roth film for people who hated Hostel and The Green Inferno, lighter on the gore and nudity (and stupidity) than you’d expect from this director.