8 Horror Movies So Awful They Were Pulled From The Cinema

Requels, remakes and reboots are the bread and butter of modern cinema, which is only a decade or two away from going full ouroboros in remaking its remakes and kerb-stomping creativity and artistic credibility for good. And this can go doubly so for horror films, as some writers, directors and producers love nothing more than to dig up an old intellectual property and go to town on it in whatever way they think will make the most money.

Cabin Fever is one such example. Eli Roth's 2002 debut was not exactly beloved by horror audiences, but it received a generally positive reception and gave Roth enough credibility to forge ahead with a career making only films that a mother – or Quentin Tarantino – could love.

Production designer Travis Z remade Cabin Fever in 2016, following the same plot of a group of young people fighting off a flesh-eating virus in a remote cabin in an almost shot-for-shot remake. The film was awful, critics revolted, and its theatrical run was cut short, only showing at 22 UK and 51 Argentinian cinemas for a fortnight, collecting a total box office revenue of $53,000.