What horror movie do you WANT to see remade?

[Master Wayne]

No arguing the quality of those first two Hellraiser films though.

 

[Nando's_Room]

No doubt, "Phantasm"

 

[Shatterer of Dreams]

can i say none? i would prefer some new movies with new stories to be made. I'm tired of seeing movies that i've essentially already seen.

 

[CelticPredator]

^ There is no such thing as original ideas. That's a fact. Anything that hasnt been done, probably hasnt for a good reason.

 

[devilof76]

So where did all of these unoriginal ideas come from?

 

[EVILFACE]

Swamp Thing.

Not a remake of the original, but a proper adaption of the source material. The classic Wrightson/Wein horror stories or the Moore/Bissette/Totleben American Gothic series.

 

[Master Wayne]

A new Swamp Thing would be cool.

 

[thenammagazine]

Didn't they try that with ManThing and it bombed? I never saw that. I have a soft spot for the old cheesy Boobs Barbeau flicks, but the new one looked like ass.

 

[Shatterer of Dreams]

^ There is no such thing as original ideas. That's a fact. Anything that hasnt been done, probably hasnt for a good reason.

i don't know about fact, especially since i've seen pretty original ideas come out this summer (Inception, Scott Pilgrim) but i guess if we all thought like you we would just watch nothing but remakes; because in your fact based world everything has already been made so why bother trying to come up with something new or fresh.

 

[devilof76]

Hollywood regurgitating on itself like an ex-Disney crack princess who took a hit that was too big for her. Again. And again.

Horsefeathers. New ideas take hard ____ing work, and the film industry would rather wipe the puke off and pretend there's a kind of gum that can hide it so she can still close the deal with that screen legend she's going to blow in the VIP room. Why work at all when instant gratification only requires the effort it takes to suppress her gag reflex? She can be a star every night of the week so long as she doesn't run out of big names to swallow (and subsequently spit up the next time she goes for a hit).

I'm not opposed to remakes. Some are great. I think a good rule of thumb would be that if it can't match or surpass the original, it ought to stay out from under UV lighting. Creativity (that mythical place where new ideas come from) is not, never has been, and never will be a low-watt, coattail-riding, unoriginal slut.

 

[Shatterer of Dreams]

but he's got facts........

 

[cr0w]

London After Midnight. Since I'll never be able to see the original, I'd be fine with a remake. Though I guess Mark of the Vampire counts as a remake, sooo...I'd say Night of the Creeps. Just for fun.

 

[EVILFACE]

Didn't they try that with ManThing and it bombed? I never saw that. I have a soft spot for the old cheesy Boobs Barbeau flicks, but the new one looked like ass.

Nope. Man Thing was a straight to video junk movie. MT showed up in like the last 2 minutes of the movie.

Swamp Thing > Man-Thing

Forever in any medium.

 

[thenammagazine]

Nope. Man Thing was a straight to video junk movie. MT showed up in like the last 2 minutes of the movie.

Swamp Thing > Man-Thing

Forever in any medium.

Dodged that bullet then.

 

[Russell1982]

Swamp Thing.

Not a remake of the original, but a proper adaption of the source material. The classic Wrightson/Wein horror stories or the Moore/Bissette/Totleben American Gothic series.

I'd love to see a modern film based on the comics. While the original film holds a place in my heart for a nostalgic sense, despite it being really quite poor, i'd love to see something based around alan moore's run on swamp thing. Absolutely loved that stuff.

 

[CampCrystalLake13]

Critters! Or tremors

 

[ArmoredFoe]

lol, I like that comic of swampy there...he looks like hes getting ready to trip and fall, lol.

 

[thenammagazine]

lol, I like that comic of swampy there...he looks like hes getting ready to trip and fall, lol.

Or moonwalking?

 

[Russell1982]

Or trying to moonwalk...then tripping and falling. haha

 

[CelticPredator]

i don't know about fact, especially since i've seen pretty original ideas come out this summer (Inception, Scott Pilgrim) but i guess if we all thought like you we would just watch nothing but remakes; because in your fact based world everything has already been made so why bother trying to come up with something new or fresh.

One can tie Inception to the Matrix, and Scott Pilgram to Sin City (comic style movie)....I mean, sure taking an idea and expanding upon it...such as take the setting of Alien, and insted of Alien, it's a tiger who gets loose on the ship, which was being delivered to a zoo planet or something, may feel original...but it's not. I stole plots from Alien, Madagasgar, and Avatar (and every movie that was ripped off by it)...for the zoo planet.

And you asked why bother coming up with something new and fresh...that's different then being original. My Zoo planet idea (horrible as it is) could be a fresh take on Alien. People precive it as original...but it's not.


Dexter isn't even original. In theory, a killer killing bad people is basicly The Punisher...Dexter is that but mixed with Hannibal Lector....

The reason why people find it fresh is because of the way it's done. It could be 60 minutes of him hacking up people, but it's not. He copes with things we do, we view him as a human being. We look into him, not with him. That's what makes it fresh. It's like if we could understand what's going on in Lector's brain....or maybe Freddy Kruegar's.