10 Movie Remakes That Ripped Off Audiences
10. House Of Wax (2005)
When is a remake not actually a remake? When it steals its title from one film, takes its plot from another and shamelessly panders to the audience for a completely different movie. House Of Wax 05 has nothing to do with the 1953 film (itself a remake of Mystery Of The Wax Museum) and instead plays more like a slick rip-off of Tourist Trap (1979), an offbeat slasher movie about a museum whose dummies are strangely lifelike. But at least House knows who its audience is: the same people who paid to see the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake 2 years earlier.
Once again, a group of unsympathetic morons get stuck in the middle of nowhere with a group of homicidal hillbillies the only people around for miles. Naturally, they get picked off one by one. Naturally, the Final Girl manages to escape the killer. But you probably figured that out in the first 10 minutes.