8 Horror Remakes That Became Classics In Their Own Right

This reimagining of Don Siegel’s 1956 classic, which itself was an adaptation of a 1954 novel by Jack Finney, is multiple films in one. It is a noir mystery, a paranoid thriller, an invasion sci-fi and a body horror. All interwoven genres are balanced perfectly to create one of the best remakes of all time.

Donald Sutherland's health inspector discovers that alien plant seed pods are transforming people into dead-eyed replicas, leading to the distrusting of everyone and everything, from neighbours to the environment itself. What seems like a silly idea is executed seriously and with belief by a host of fantastic performances including Sutherland himself and a young Jeff Goldblum.

Director Philip Kaufman generates a creepy tone throughout with minimal special effects, relying on the ‘are they human?’ enigma to create its horror; a plot device that remains compelling right up until the final bleak scene in which we realise there may be no hope for the community or anyone in it.