10 Movies Nobody Wanted To Admit Were Actually Remakes

Anybody in their right mind can see the blatantly obvious similarities between Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic Rear Window and D.J. Caruso's 2007 teen thriller Disturbia, but despite being taken to court over copyright infringement, it was ruled that it most definitely wasn't a remake. Even though it totally was.

Disturbia stars Shia LaBouef as a man confined to his home, who out of boredom turns to spying on his neighbors, only to become convinced that one of them is a murderer before hatching a plan to unravel the mystery himself after his pleas to the authorities fall on deaf ears.

This, of course, is entirely different from Rear Window, which stars James Stewart as a man confined to his home, who out of boredom turns to spying on his neighbors, only to become convinced that one of them is a murderer before hatching a plan to unravel the mystery himself after his pleas to the authorities fall on deaf ears.

Incredibly, the copyright infringement was dismissed on the grounds that Disturbia had several sub-plots whereas Rear Window had none, and was also 'more dynamic, and peppered with humor and teen romance', which was surely to be expected of a movie that arrived over half a century later, and even replicated several of Hitchcock's shots to rub salt into the wounds.