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Best horror movie remakes

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mrjminer said:
Hellraiser 1-9 are currently on Netflix, at least in the US.

IMO eight is the worst. Nine is pretty bad, but is still better than eight. Seven is also not very good, but is still better than eight and nine.

My favorite is #5. This seems to also be the beginning of the 5-7 trend of the person already having opened the box and is experiencing an altered version of their normal life that gradually gets a little worse as the movie goes on.
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Hellraiser was the first movie that I felt they ruined by overdoing. Pinhead was brilliant in the first couple of movies because he wasn't over done. When he spoke it made you go "fuuuuuckk". Then the makers screwed it up by having him over talk, and even worse attempt to explain who and what he was. They would have been much better served letting Pinhead just be.
 
i never saw the originals of these 2, but the remakes are awesome so i'm assuming they are better than the originals

Last House on the Left
I Spit on Your Grave

both of those movies own

also i saw hellraiser for the first time about 2 years ago and thought it was so bad. no clue how that movie gets so much praise. pinhead is such an awesome looking villain too but damn that movie was so bad.
 
james1701 said:
What about the 70's version of I Spit on Your Grave. I did not care for the remake at all.
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wow i didn't see this before i made my post lol. i never saw the original but the remake was awesome. i can't believe they have sequels to it now too, i bet those are terrible though. i watched the trailer for part 3 and wow it looks so dumb.
 
purbeast0 said:
i never saw the originals of these 2, but the remakes are awesome so i'm assuming they are better than the originals

Last House on the Left
I Spit on Your Grave

both of those movies own

also i saw hellraiser for the first time about 2 years ago and thought it was so bad. no clue how that movie gets so much praise. pinhead is such an awesome looking villain too but damn that movie was so bad.
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Most of the movies that came out of that time period, and in those genres, were really quite awful.

Take Commando, for example: FUCKING RADICAL! at the time, right?

terrible, terrible...just horribly awful movie. 😀
 
purbeast0 said:
also i saw hellraiser for the first time about 2 years ago and thought it was so bad. no clue how that movie gets so much praise. pinhead is such an awesome looking villain too but damn that movie was so bad.
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Yea Hellraiser is one of those movies that if you didn't see it back then, probably doesn't hold up. At the time though, it was quite unnerving and original. Pinhead was not a main character in the first movie, and only sort of was in the 2nd. It wasn't until the 3rd he became the main focus - and only the first 2 movies had Clive Barker involved. And I would say all of them since 3 were bad. 3 and 4 are just OK, the rest are horrible.
 
Don Vito Corleone said:
Some good picks here. In particular, John Carpenter's The Thing and The Fly are vast improvements on their predecessors.

In terms of things that haven't been mentioned, I liked Quarantine, the American remake of REC, though the original is better. I also kind of liked Come Out and Play, also a remake of a Spanish film (Who Can Kill a Child). In terms of remakes of American films, I liked The Crazies (though I have never seen the original), and thought Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave and Bloody Valentine were worthy updates to their respective originals.
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Ooohh, forgot about The Crazies; the remake is waaaaaaayy better than the original. The original is a mess and actually pretty boring, plus it does not have Timothy Olyphant.

KT
 
ImpulsE69 said:
Yea Hellraiser is one of those movies that if you didn't see it back then, probably doesn't hold up. At the time though, it was quite unnerving and original. Pinhead was not a main character in the first movie, and only sort of was in the 2nd. It wasn't until the 3rd he became the main focus - and only the first 2 movies had Clive Barker involved. And I would say all of them since 3 were bad. 3 and 4 are just OK, the rest are horrible.
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Yeah, back in the day I found Hellraiser to be pretty disturbing. In fact, I have never watched it again.

Compared to some of the torture porn movies being released these days it probably feels like a kid's show. I have to guess because those just aren't my thing.
 
zinfamous said:
Most of the movies that came out of that time period, and in those genres, were really quite awful.

Take Commando, for example: FUCKING RADICAL! at the time, right?

terrible, terrible...just horribly awful movie. 😀
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you are crazy. commando owns to this day. it's hilarious.
 
ImpulsE69 said:
Is Predator the horror remake of Commando?
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So I watched The Thing (2011) last night and it wasn't too bad.

I know it is more of a horror flick than anything close to Sci-Fi, but something bothered me about this one and similar movies dealing with death dealing aliens in general:

How is it that these aliens are basically just primal creatures only interested in killing every living thing in site, yet somehow they were able to design, build and fly a space ship to a distant world? I sort of think the story falls apart a little bit compared to the 1982 movie because the space ship was a central plot point in this one.
 
DaveStall said:
So I watched The Thing (2011) last night and it wasn't too bad.

I know it is more of a horror flick than anything close to Sci-Fi, but something bothered me about this one and similar movies dealing with death dealing aliens in general:

How is it that these aliens are basically just primal creatures only interested in killing every living thing in site, yet somehow they were able to design, build and fly a space ship to a distant world? I sort of think the story falls apart a little bit compared to the 1982 movie because the space ship was a central plot point in this one.
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I think you may need to watch the 82 version again:
The ship was also primary to the story there as well. In the beginning a ship falls from space --- At first one assumes it belongs to another species that got attacked by the creature...however, later in the movie the creature WAS building a ship to escape in the generator house. The creature is intelligent. It's primary goal is to survive, it survives through replication and absorbtion...I assume it also absorbs knowledge of some sort. In fact that is what ties the 2 movies together, the first attempt was to escape via the crashed ship, but that was spoiled, so it tried to build a new escape pod ship in the 82 film. Basically the thing just wants off the planet. Because it is alien, we never really know what its true motive is. It could just be WTF scared (just woke up from being frozen) and wants to get home by any means necessary.
 
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