Top Ten Tuesdays

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Top 10 Remakes.

Just to let some other non-Carpenter films into the mix, here's my full list in ranking order.

The Magnificent Seven (1960)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Insomnia (2002)
The Thing (1982)
My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
True Lies (1994)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
House Of Wax (2005)
King Kong (2005)
The Omega Man (1971)
Scarface (1983)
Death Race (2008)
Willard (2003)
True Grit (2010)
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)
The Last Round (1976)
Chloe (2009)
The Birdcage (1996)
The Wicked Lady (1983)
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Straw Dogs (2011)

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I know – I was just asking! Are there many, if any, which you do consider superior to the original films?

The ones highlighted i consider better than the originals.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The ones highlighted i consider better than the originals.

Is The Omega Man technically a remake? Surely it's just one of a number of adaptations of Richard Mathesons novel?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Interesting. I'll do something similar with my list, making it clear which, if any, I think are improvements. It is tough because something like The Thing (and just about every adaptation of Dracula, Frankenstein and other works of classic literature) isn't necessarily a remake if it is more a different adaptation of the source material than something like The Hills Have Eyes, which was an original screenplay in the first instance.

The more I think about it, the tougher this category is.

[keirarts]

I've done good remakes. This lot are universally abysmal shite of the highest order....

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by keirarts

I've done good remakes. This lot are universally abysmal shite of the highest order....

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I really like The Uninvited and Straw Dogs (It should have had a different name though)

I also enjoyed the Elm st remake but considering i don't rate the originals i'm not one to judge.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I really like The Uninvited and Straw Dogs (It should have had a different name though)

I also enjoyed the Elm st remake but considering i don't rate the originals i'm not one to judge.

I thought straw dogs was f*****g terrible. It entirely missed the point of the Peckinpah version and horribly miscast most of the cast.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by keirarts

I've done good remakes. This lot are universally abysmal shite of the highest order....

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I really like The Uninvited and Straw Dogs (It should have had a different name though)

I also enjoyed the Elm st remake but considering i don't rate the originals i'm not one to judge.

I thought there were some interesting ideas in the Nightmare on Elm Street remake, and Jackie Earle Haley is a terrific actor but, like the Platinum Dunes movies, it was distinctly lacking in subtlety and subtext.

Most of them would have benefited from different names, even though the Daniel Craig/Nicole Kidman vehicle Invasion flopped critically and commercially with 'of the Body Snatchers' excised from the title.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by keirarts

I thought straw dogs was f*****g terrible. It entirely missed the point of the Peckinpah version and horribly miscast most of the cast.

Ha'ha, fair enough. As a thriller i found it enjoyable but as i said it should have had a different name as it really wasn't the Peckinpah film.

I noticed you featured Prom Night as one of your worst. There were a lot that came out around that time that were PG13 watered down remake shite but one if i recall was okay, it's just i can't remember which one it was now. Sorority Row perhaps? I still own it so there's a chance that was the one.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Ha'I noticed you featured Prom Night as one of your worst. There were a lot that came out around that time that were PG13 watered down remake shite but one if i recall was okay, it's just i can't remember which one it was now. Sorority Row perhaps? I still own it so there's a chance that was the one.

One of the remakes I was reasonably impressed with was When a Stranger Calls, which I went into with rock bottom expectations, but it seemed to benefit from extending the first act (with the stranger in the house and no relocation) to make a fairly intense home invasion horror movie. I think it was Camille Belle's first film – I don't know what she's done since – and she was very good as a 'final girl'.

I don't know if it would make my list though.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

One of the remakes I was reasonably impressed with was When a Stranger Calls, which I went into with rock bottom expectations, but it seemed to benefit from extending the first act (with the stranger in the house and no relocation) to make a fairly intense home invasion horror movie. I think it was Camille Belle's first film – I don't know what she's done since – and she was very good as a 'final girl'.

I don't know if it would make my list though.

Yes, i really liked that too. Made no 24 / 25 for me.