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I think I have nearly come up with a list of every remake ever made. Please feel free to add more to the list and post thoughts on which ones you think are decent remakes and which ones are shit. I have only included remakes from 2008 that are official and have trailers.

The Thing (1982)
The Fly (1986)
The Blob (1988)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1990)
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Body Snatchers (1993)
Piranha (1995)
Village of the Damned (1995)
The Shining (1997)
Trucks (1997)
Carnival Of Souls (1998)
Psycho (1998)
The Mummy (1999)
The Haunting (1999)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
They Nest (2000)
Thirteen Ghosts (2001)
Carrie (2002)
Ring (2002)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
The Toolbox Murders (2003)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The Grudge (2004)
2001 Maniacs (2005)
The Fog (2005)
House of Wax (2005)
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Ring 2 (2005)
When A Stranger Calls (2006)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Wicker Man (2006)
The Omen (2006)
The Hitcher (2006)
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Pulse (2006)
Wizard of Gore (2007)
Black Christmas (2007)
Halloween (2007)
I Am Legend (2007)
Prom Night (2008)
April Fools Day (2008)
The Eye (2008)
Shutter (2008)
Funny Games (2008)
Quarantine (2008)
It's Alive (2008)
Mirrors (2008)
Long Weekend (2008)
Friday the 13th (2008)

The ones I think are decent are The Thing, The Blob, Dracula, The Mummy, House on Haunted Hill, 2001 Maniacs, and The Hills Have Eyes. The ones I think are just crap are Halloween, When A Stranger Calls, Prom Night, and April Fool's Day.

Things like House on Haunted Hill, and 13 Ghosts are fine, they are remakes of very old silly films and turned into darker and gorier films.

Out of your list, the ones I like:

The Thing (1982)
The Fly (1986)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Body Snatchers (1993)
The Mummy (1999)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Thirteen Ghosts (2001)
Ring (2002)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)


Add A Tale of Two Sisters, they have remade this Korean horror and will be out soon...

Friday the 13th is coming out in 2009

Around february time I believe.

Friday 13th february 2009 is the release date

That's just disgusting...

50 remakes...

With more on the way...

Hollywood is filled with hacks and plagiarists nowadays, so what do you expect, honestly?

I admit that I liked the re-makes of Dawn of the Dead, The Fly, The Thing, and The Hills have Eyes, but, in my opinion, Hollywood needs to come up with an original idea.

Originally posted by Bat Dude
That's just disgusting...

50 remakes...

With more on the way...

yet you have a sig of the dark night Batman? Where's adam west sporting the blue and grey? no Burt Ward? blasphemy! why must they remake classics like Batman? The 60s movie was good enough........no need for Burton's remake or the new ones.

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Originally posted by Evil Dead
yet you have a sig of the dark night Batman? Where's adam west sporting the blue and grey? no Burt Ward? blasphemy! why must they remake classics like Batman? The 60s movie was good enough........no need for Burton's remake or the new ones.

Originally posted by Evil Dead
yet you have a sig of the dark night Batman? Where's adam west sporting the blue and grey? no Burt Ward? blasphemy! why must they remake classics like Batman? The 60s movie was good enough........no need for Burton's remake or the new ones.

I miss the shark repellent

Originally posted by Evil Dead
yet you have a sig of the dark night Batman? Where's adam west sporting the blue and grey? no Burt Ward? blasphemy! why must they remake classics like Batman? The 60s movie was good enough........no need for Burton's remake or the new ones.

The 60s Batman wasn't really Batman... But this isn't the Batman Forum, so I won't go into that...

Anyway, when they're remaking good movies like Halloween and turning them into garbage, we know that Hollywood's gone down the crapper...

The 60s Batman? pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Thank god Burton came along, and then Nolan!

Anyway, back to Horror.

Halloween remake was better than the original. It has a, gasp, plot.


bullshit 60s batman isn't the real batman. Go back and look at your comics again (hell, google Batman #1 issue and check the cover), then watch Superfriends, then the 60s tv show and movie.

admit it, you think somebody remade a movie......a character, and did it better. You probably think both Nolan and Burton's remakes were better.........yet you post in this very thread about the blasphemy of remakes, calling them disgusting, without even the slightest forsight of irony.

Originally posted by Evil Dead
Halloween remake was better than the original. It has a, gasp, plot.


bullshit 60s batman isn't the real batman. Go back and look at your comics again (hell, google Batman #1 issue and check the cover), then watch Superfriends, then the 60s tv show and movie.

admit it, you think somebody remade a movie......a character, and did it better. You probably think both Nolan and Burton's remakes were better.........yet you post in this very thread about the blasphemy of remakes, calling them disgusting, without even the slightest forsight of irony.

When nearly ALL the mainstream horror films coming out are remakes, you know there is a problem... THAT'S what I hate... It's almost all the horror/slasher movies are, now... Saw and remakes...

Originally posted by Evil Dead

bullshit 60s batman isn't the real batman. Go back and look at your comics again (hell, google Batman #1 issue and check the cover), then watch Superfriends, then the 60s tv show and movie.

Yea his outfit was blue, Yellow and Grey, But yet you look at his first apperance it was Black and grey yellow.....oh no shock that looks almost like what he does with these newer movies and tim burtons one and theres no robin.

Humanoids from the Deep (1996)

The Vanishing (1993)

Cape Fear (1991)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Godzilla (1998)
Insomnia (2002)
Red Dragon (2002)
Dark Water (2005)
One Missed Call (2008)

I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic, but Halloween remake better than the original? Oh what a load of rubbish about the plot too. It had the SAME plot as the original but added a load of crap about how Myers became the killer he was, that was part of what was good about the original, we hardly knew anything about it. Remake spoilt that.


Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Anyway,

POLTERGEIST

According to THR, the writing duo of Stiles White and Juliet Snowden, both credited with creating the screenplay for the upcoming THE BIRDS remake, have been tapped pen the redo of Tobe Hooper's classic.

Night of the Demons

Here's the synopsis; Angela Feld is throwing the Halloween party to end all Halloween parties at the infamous Broussard Mansion in New Orleans, where dark events transpired almost a century ago. But when the packed party gets busted by the police, Angela and her friends Maddie, Lily, Suzanne, Colin, Dex and Jason are the only ones left behind. Soon Colin and Angela make a grisly discovery in the basement and inexplicable events start to take place. With the mansion gates mysteriously locked, the seven find themselves trapped for the night...and soon they're fighting ancient demons for their very souls .

Oh don't get me started on remakes that are due.

The Wolfman might be decent though.

That does look decent from the trailer actually. I wasn't big on the original anyway.

A trailer is out for the Wolf Man remake?

I saw a bootleg trailer from a comic convention that was up online a few weeks ago. Might be able to find it still.

Originally posted by MildPossession
I saw a bootleg trailer from a comic convention that was up online a few weeks ago. Might be able to find it still.
Yeah, I searched on Youtube and it seems all of the ones I found were taken down because of copyright issues.

The amount of classics that get remade or are getting remade is pathetic. I'm sorry but i don't believe remakes should happen there's no need and imo it's ruining the horror genre.

Some remakes are ok. Just think if we never had remakes, The Thing wouldn't of been made. Same with the better version of The Hills Have Eyes.

Or Hitchcock's classic The Man Who Knew Too Much!

Wow, did one of my posts just get deleted because I can't find it in the only two topics I replied to in here...

Halloween II


A few months ago it was announced that Dimension Films' Bob Weinstein was getting Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo to helm a follow-up to Rob Zombie's remake. Rue Morgue Magazine spoke to the pair who confirm "it's a proposition we couldn't refuse." Maury explains they're reverent of Zombie's re-imagining of Michael Myers and they're out to put their stamp on the character not copy what came before them. "Therefore, our vision will be done with upmost respect, with a continuity of Zombie's work but also a real evolution of the world he set in place."

At least they got good film makers this time around, the remake of Halloween was terrible. Inside creators making Halloween II, nice!!

As if they would bother.

Pardon?

As if they would bother making a shitty sequel to a shitty remake.

They made the nastiest new-age horror film to date and now they are making Halloween 2? Thats just wrong.

They could make it their own and make it fantastic. Doesn't mean they are doing something below themselves. Halloween 2, the original was not exactly a masterpiece in horror, so a new Halloween II could be good even if it's a sequel to the horrible remake version of Halloween.

Oh, Wolfman remake news, Danny Elfman will be doing the score music for the remake film. Can't wait, adore his music.

I wouldn't give a hoot if they remade a film in the states or even did a sequel to a film like The Strangers, but come on, to have their name have something to do with Rob Zombie's remake is a disgrace to both the Inside directors and the whole Horror genre. Zombie's remake is pure dreck and should be laughed at by all. I will be so dissapointed if they follow up his remake.

I know they could make a great film. But they should make a better film.

Well looks like they are, so let's just hope they can bring something new to it and make it a classic compared to Zombie's piece of rubbish. Or it falls through and they don't.

Nah they'll make a good film but man this just sucks, they could make a really good different film. Give them the Hellraiser remake I say.

That would be good! Funny you say that, they were actually going to write and direct it but are no longer doing Hellraiser. Unless that is what you meant. So the company gave them Halloween 2 to do apparently.

Yeah thats what I meant, how cool would that have been?

Like the Ils directors, they should maybe do a remake in the US. The Eye remake was decent.

If they don't direct this new Halloween, I won't bother seeing it. The first was pathetic.

Would have been fab.

Ils doesn't need a remake, and The Strangers more or less went there...

POLTERGEIST remake:

It's official, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures has signed Vadim Perelman (HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG) to direct POLTERGEIST. Juliet Snowden and Stiles White are writing the script for the studio.

HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the Summit Entertainment horror feature SORORITY ROW begins shooting in Western Pennsylvania October 6. The remake of the 1983 slasher film HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW will be directed by Stewart Hendler of the Josh Holloway-starring chiller WHISPER, and stars Briana Evigan (daughter of Greg, from FEAR ITSELF’s NEW YEARS DAY episode) and Rumer Willis (daughter of Bruce, from the upcoming FROM WITHIN). Casting for 20 speaking roles and over 500 extras (mostly college-age, natch) from the Pittsburgh area is currently underway by Nancy Mosser Casting.

Over at the blog of Josh Stolberg, who scripted SORORITY with Pete Goldfinger, the writer reports that after previous directives to pen the movie as a PG-13, “The good news is that three days ago, Summit changed their minds and we are full-steam ahead on the R-rated version. I can’t tell you what a relief this is from a creative sense. As I’ve mentioned before, we’re not out to make torture porn and this still isn’t going to be an explicit exploitation picture - but it's nice to be able to write a horror movie the way it should be.”


I don't think the original was that good actually, can't really remember it.

Originally posted by MildPossession
Halloween II


A few months ago it was announced that Dimension Films' Bob Weinstein was getting Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo to helm a follow-up to Rob Zombie's remake. Rue Morgue Magazine spoke to the pair who confirm "it's a proposition we couldn't refuse." Maury explains they're reverent of Zombie's re-imagining of Michael Myers and they're out to put their stamp on the character not copy what came before them. "Therefore, our vision will be done with upmost respect, with a continuity of Zombie's work but also a real evolution of the world he set in place."

At least they got good film makers this time around, the remake of Halloween was terrible. Inside creators making Halloween II, nice!!
It will probably be a sequel to the remake, not a remake of the sequel.

With the different ending in Halloween, the filmmakers will probably have to go down a new path.

The first official Friday the 13th remake trailer will be on the Saw V showings in American cinemas.

The official version of the trailer for Platinum Dunes, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.' remake will be out on October 24th with prints of Lionsgate's SAW V

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cal4l1acBM&feature=related

Can see one trailer for it at this link, it's not very clear since it's bootlegged. Don't know if this is the actual trailer they are going to put on before Saw V.

Looks action packed with a running Jason! That bit right at the end with him running towards that woman on the ground!! ARGHHHHHHHHHH. Unless he doesn't run and it's just some shitty friend playing a trick on the girl.

Dario Argento remake of THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE

Along with the SUSPIRIA remake that’s been being threatened for the last year or so, Argento told the interviewer that someone is looking to remake is original giallo classic, THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE . ”this is much more difficult to remake because there's a link to Italy in the 1970s, which is a little bit difficult to do.” he remarked, ”But if somebody wants to do that, okay (laughs).” Argento also revealed that the title for his latest film, GIALLO is more than likely going to be changing ”It's a title for us, so I'm sure now we will change that title” he told the site.


Also a MANIAC remake on the way too, I haven't seen the original, worth seeing?

Night of the Demons

Edward Furlong has joined the cast of NIGHT OF THE DEMONS, the remake of the classic '80s film where a group of teens end up at the Halloween party from hell. He joins Diora Baird (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE THE BEGINNING), Shannon Elizabeth (AMERICAN PIE), Monica Keena (FREDDY VS. JASON), Tiffany Shepis and more. The remake is being directed by Adam Gierasch from a script by both Gierasch and Jace Anderson.

Attack of the Giant Leeches is getting an indie remake.

The Crazies:

Overture Films will produce and distribute a remake of the 1973 George A. Romero film says Variety. THE CRAZIES revolves around people in a small Kansas town who are beset by a virus that causes insanity and death after a mysterious toxin contaminates the local water supply. Breck Eisner (SAHARA) will helm from a script by Ray Wright and Scott Kosar. Michael Aguilar and Dean Georgaris will produce, and Romero will serve as executive producer. Production is set to begin early next year.

Hellraiser director:

Friday the 13th:

Originally posted by MildPossession
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cal4l1acBM&feature=related

Can see one trailer for it at this link, it's not very clear since it's bootlegged. Don't know if this is the actual trailer they are going to put on before Saw V.

Looks action packed with a running Jason! That bit right at the end with him running towards that woman on the ground!! ARGHHHHHHHHHH. Unless he doesn't run and it's just some shitty friend playing a trick on the girl.

I'll be looking forward to a running Jason. The other one, slow, lumbering, doofwad... is ... eh... BORING.

There is an official HD teaser trailer out for the Friday the 13th remake.

http://www.myspace.com/trailerpark

You know, it doesn't look that bad...

The Birds:

According to IMDB and various other sources such as the Metro UK, George Clooney is set to topline the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1963 adaptation of the a short story by Daphne Du Maurier. Martin Campbell is attached to direct the film that is about increasingly vicious birds that terrorize a small town.

A Tale of Two Sisters

Fangoria got a chance to speak with ace Korean director Kim Ji-woon, whose latest movie, the oddball Western THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD, has garnered him some of the best reviews of his career. However, what we really wanted to know is whether he had any input on the upcoming U.S. remake of his acclaimed ghost story A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (the Hollywood version, opening January 30 from DreamWorks, has been rechristened THE UNINVITED - itself the name of a different Korean frightener from 2003!).

“I was never involved with THE UNINVITED,” he told Fangoria. “But I believe the overall mood will be much different from my TALE OF TWO SISTERS. My movie was a horror film, but it had a sort of sadness and subtle feeling from within. It was meant to be remembered as uniquely colorful, feminine and beautiful, and I don’t think you can expect those moods and tones from a Hollywood remake. My guess is the film will be a horror-thriller done in the Hollywood way, and I have heard that it is well-made. I haven’t seen it yet, but I hope that fans will think of the original and remake as two different movies.”

Hellraiser

French helmer Pascal Laugier (MARTYRS) is in final negotiations to write and direct Dimension's re-imagining of the HELLRAISER franchise says The Hollywood Reporter. The original 1987 feature, which director Clive Barker based on his own book "The Hellbound Heart", told the story of an unfaithful wife who attempts to assist her dead lover in his escape from hell.

More famously it introduced the demonic Cenobites and their leader Pinhead who became an enduring horror character. The creatures, made up of gory flesh-stretched make-up and rubber, appear in the story when summoned using an antique puzzle box. Laugier, who claims that he'll be very faithful to Barker's material, seems suited as MARTYRS is currently under much controversy due to its unrelenting violent nature.

Looks like he will be doing it now.

Just like the Inside directors, this will fall through, I bet.

Originally posted by MildPossession
A Tale of Two Sisters

Fangoria got a chance to speak with ace Korean director Kim Ji-woon, whose latest movie, the oddball Western THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD, has garnered him some of the best reviews of his career. However, what we really wanted to know is whether he had any input on the upcoming U.S. remake of his acclaimed ghost story A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (the Hollywood version, opening January 30 from DreamWorks, has been rechristened THE UNINVITED - itself the name of a different Korean frightener from 2003!).

“I was never involved with THE UNINVITED,” he told Fangoria. “But I believe the overall mood will be much different from my TALE OF TWO SISTERS. My movie was a horror film, but it had a sort of sadness and subtle feeling from within. It was meant to be remembered as uniquely colorful, feminine and beautiful, and I don’t think you can expect those moods and tones from a Hollywood remake. My guess is the film will be a horror-thriller done in the Hollywood way, and I have heard that it is well-made. I haven’t seen it yet, but I hope that fans will think of the original and remake as two different movies.”


Actually, when I saw the trailer I thought of something rather like Kim Ji-Woon just described. Something sad and lonely and potentially beautiful. I think the trailer is going to play up the horror elements as much as possible to try and appeal to the mainstream horror audience, but the bits and pieces we do see are quite lovely. I think it's going to be a good remake.

Halloween II, sequel to Halloween remake:

Its official: Rob Zombie's 2007 remake of HALLOWEEN is getting a sequel. Producer Malek Akkad was on hand in Pasadena over the weekend for the "Halloween: 30 Years of Terror" convention and he confirmed that a theatrical release is planned for a follow-up. Tyler Mane is encoring as Michael Myers with pre-production expected to begin this January. Shooting is scheduled to commence sometime in March. Akkad is still in negotiations with a potential director, and would not confirm that Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (INSIDE) were a lock for the job as some online outlets have reported.

Please don't let the Inside directors direct this.

Let the Martyrs director direct it for all I care, I haven't seen it and don't think it will be as good as Inside.

They are officially off the project now which is great news. I don't wanna hear of it again.

Yep, let's now hope the Martyrs guy isn't put on either. No official replacements yet.

I see Rob Zombie is actually going to direct Halloween II afterall?

Originally posted by MildPossession
I see Rob Zombie is actually going to direct Halloween II afterall? Was just about this say this.

He will be making another Halloween.

I still haven't seen the first one, and I plan on not too. From what I hear, Myers is too human, and the childhood story doesn't correspond with the original.

edit:

I can't believe they are remaking 'Let the Right One In'.

It just came out!

By the way, great Swedish film. Loved it.

Well I have no hope for the sequel, I thought the original was horrendous, carry on staying away from it.

I believe the Cloverfield guy is making Let The Right One In remake.

The Cloverfield guy is remaking it?

Doomed.

Yep, well last time I read about the remake he was.

They Live remake:

Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment are in negotiations to acquire the film rights to John Carpenter's 1988 cult feature THEY LIVE. The original sci-fi satire followed a construction worker (Roddy Piper) who discovers sunglasses that let him see aliens walking among us and controlling humanity.

Though there's some notable scenes, particular the film's hilarious final moment where the alien threat is revealed to humanity, it's mostly remembered for its brutal one-on-one fight scene between Piper and Keith David that goes on for five-and-a-half minutes. The film was a commercial flop but has since gained a strong cult following and critical appreciation. No writer is yet set for the remake.

Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce while Shep Gordon and Carpenter will serve as executive producers. The deal also includes rights to two other Carpenter cult films - PRINCE OF DARKNESS and VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED - while Strike is also in development of a remake of his signature science-fiction work - 1982's THE THING.

They Live is one of my favourite horror/sci-fi films and it doesn't really need a remake but a new version with updated effects would be cool.

Its like the 58 and 88 version of The Blob. The 58 is great, but the 88 is better.

Halloween II:

Rob Zombie will script and direct a sequel to his HALLOWEEN remake for Dimension Films. Titled H2, the movie will be out in time for Halloween 2009. Like 1981's HALLOWEEN II, Zombie’s follow-up will pick up directly where its predecessor left off, focusing once again on Laurie Strode after her brother Michael Myers’ killing spree. Other than that, Zombie promises, the two features will be nothing like. His main concern now is getting the screenplay ready to shoot by next March. “We’ll be hauling ass,” he tells the trade, “and that’s the problem making a movie called HALLOWEEN: If you come out November 1 or after, nobody cares. If it was called anything else, I’d be fine.” He adds, regarding his change of mind about the project: “I was so burned out. I took a long break, made a record and I got excited again.” Malek Akkad and Andy Gould will produce; there’s no word yet on whether Tyler Mane and Scout Taylor-Compton will reprise their Michael and Laurie roles. This announcement means that Zombie will be putting his biker epic TYRANNOSAURUS REX on the back burner till at least late next year.

Oh well, another crap movie.

Also, The Crow is getting a more realistic remake, and Blade is apparently getting a remake too...

That Crow movie is being done by the guy who did the first blade movie and The League of Extrodinary Gentleman movie adaptation.

That LOEG movie was horrendous.

Originally posted by MildPossession
Well I have no hope for the sequel, I thought the original was horrendous, carry on staying away from it.

I believe the Cloverfield guy is making Let The Right One In remake.

I don't even understand why they're making a remake of it, it was great!

Originally posted by MildPossession
That LOEG movie was horrendous.

They had problems from day one with that movie from a thing that i read on it.