5. Arachnophobia
I'm not saying we need another Eight-Legged Freaks, but a remake of this modern classic creature feature could actually work. The original story is great - that doesn't need changing too much. It's nice and simple as it should be for this B-Movie horror - a deadly spider is mistakenly transported from Venezuela to America, it mates with a native (spider) and the offspring turn out to be flying, jumpy, killing machines which hide-out under your toilet or in your cereal, waiting to pounce. In the original, Huntsman spiders were used, as well as articulated models for the large 'general' and 'queen' spiders. This worked well for the effects, especially for a release in 1990. But, if some well crafted, subtle CGI were used to create the spiders in a remake, the freedom this would give the filmmakers, and seeing what they could achieve, would be very interesting.
Who should direct: Anyone except Michael Bay
Who should star: Timothy Olyphant