12 Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Remakes Ever

It’s rare to see the name Chuck Russell amongst the best genre directors out there, but the helmer spent the eighties and nineties producing solid, often exceptional flicks to little fanfare, and many of his offerings have gone on to become fondly remembered cult classics in their own regard. Maybe he’s no Wes Craven, but there’s a case to be made that the man who brought us Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors and The Mask should be as well-remembered as say, Joe Dante—or at very least John Landis.

Just look at his gory, gruesome late eighties remake of infamous fifties vintage sci-fi The Blob. This R-rated body horror takes a corny original suitable for family viewing and stoned riffing and turns it into an ultraviolent, deeply creepy Cronenbergian horrorshow. Reimagining the eponymous Blob as a mass consuming the denizens of a small American suburb piece by painful piece, the film is a blatant influence on James Gunn’s later Slither, and remains criminally underrated amongst splatter flick aficionados.