Favorite horror movie remake of all time?

what remake is your favorite?

Of all time? You've only named movies that came out in the past few years.

What about The Thing?

How can you say of all time and then have a poll with only 4 movies?

I'll start by naming all the remakes I could find :

Amityville Horror (1979/2005)
The Blob (1958/1988)
Carrie (1976/2002)
Cat People (1942/1982)
Dark Water (2002/2005)
Dawn of the Dead (1978/2004)
The Eye (2002/2006)
The Fly (1958/1986)
The Fog (1980/2005)
The Grudge (2003/2004)
The Haunting (1963/1999)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977/2006)
House of Wax (1953/2005)
House on Haunted Hill (1959/1999)
Night of the Living Dead (1968/1990)
Nosferatu (1922/1979)
The Omen (1976/2006)
Piranha (1978/1995)
Psycho (1960/1998)
Pulse (2001/2006)
The Ring (1998/2002)
The Shining (1980/1997)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974/2003)
The Thing (1951/1982)
The Wicker Man (1973/2006)
Thirteen Ghosts (1960/2001)
When a Stranger Calls (1979/2006)

Also Village of the Damned, The Mummy, Godzilla.

Originally posted by deathbycorn
I'll start by naming all the remakes I could find :

Amityville Horror (1979/2005)
The Blob (1958/1988)
Carrie (1976/2002)
Cat People (1942/1982)
Dark Water (2002/2005)
[b]Dawn of the Dead (1978/2004)
The Eye (2002/2006)
The Fly (1958/1986)
The Fog (1980/2005)
The Grudge (2003/2004)
The Haunting (1963/1999)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977/2006)
House of Wax (1953/2005)
House on Haunted Hill (1959/1999)
Night of the Living Dead (1968/1990)
Nosferatu (1922/1979)
The Omen (1976/2006)
Piranha (1978/1995)
Psycho (1960/1998)
Pulse (2001/2006)
The Ring (1998/2002)
The Shining (1980/1997)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974/2003)
The Thing (1951/1982)
The Wicker Man (1973/2006)
Thirteen Ghosts (1960/2001)
When a Stranger Calls (1979/2006)

Also Village of the Damned, The Mummy, Godzilla. [/B]

Yep, good job but you missed a few....here's some more that you overlooked......

1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
2. Red Dragon (was a remake of "Manhunter"😉
3. Bram Stoker's Dracula
4. King Kong
5. War of the Worlds
6. The Toolbox Murders
7. 2001 Maniacs (was a remake of 2000 Maniacs)
8. Salem's Lot
9. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
10. The Dead Zone
11. Firestarter

A "Halloween" remake is on the way and I also hear that remakes of Friday the 13th, Evil Dead, Stephen King's IT, Pet Semetary, and The Changeling are also in the works........UGH!!! 🙁

As far as the greatest remakes of ALL TIME, hands down it's

1. The Thing
2. The Fly
3. The Blob

Halloween reboot of the series, with Rob Zombie behind the films, im sure he will screw this up too.

I personally enjoyed The Hills Have Eyes, felt is was a fairly solid remake.

Originally posted by Comicbook_kid
3. Bram Stoker's Dracula
9. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Originally posted by Comicbook_kid
4. King Kong
5. War of the Worlds

Originally posted by Comicbook_kid
10. The Dead Zone

Originally posted by Comicbook_kid

Yep, good job but you missed a few.. here's some more that you overlooked..

1. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
2. Red Dragon (was a remake of "Manhunter"😉
3. Bram Stoker's Dracula
4. King Kong
5. War of the Worlds
6. The Toolbox Murders
7. 2001 Maniacs (was a remake of 2000 Maniacs)
8. Salem's Lot
9. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
10. The Dead Zone
11. Firestarter

Cool, can't believe I forgot about Red Dragon & 2001 Maniacs.

Originally posted by Wolfie

Wasn't that a TV show?

The Shining was a mini-series too I think...

I never bothered to check either out so I wouldn't know.

Calling a TV show or mini-series a remake of a movie just sounds wrong to me. It seems like there should be a new word for movies remade from TV shows (Dukes of Hazzard, Mission: Impossible) and TV shows remade from movies (The Shining?).

Originally posted by Wolfie
Wasn't that a TV show?

Yes, but I think the 2 hr. pilot episode of the series was a remake of the original movie if I'm not mistaken. Also, the new "Shining" was a remake of the Stanley Kubrick version. It was a mini-series on TV...but it was still a remake. Stephen King wanted it done because it was a much more closer adaptation to the book than Kubrick's version was...

My personal favorite is John Carpenter's The Thing.

A very, very close second is Cronenberg's The Fly.

If you meant modern remakes, I enjoyed Dawn of the Dead and The Hills have Eyes.

Black Christmas (1974/2006)

Originally posted by deathbycorn
Black Christmas (1974/2006)

How did you see Black Christmas when the release date is Dec. 25th?

Torrents are like the best thing, buddy.

Originally posted by deathbycorn
Torrents are like the best thing, buddy.

Ah, yes. How could I forget those little torrents? 🙂

hehehe 😄

Was Black Christmas like the original, or did they take in a different kind of style/direction? I liked the original. What about shock value and gore?

It was not my kind of movie, they went Supernatural. Not much gore either. And not scary at all.

Here's the trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGfxPV6CWEk

Originally posted by deathbycorn
It was not my kind of movie, they went Supernatural. Not much gore either. And not scary at all.

So why list it as one of your favorite remakes?

Originally posted by Wolfie

Wasn't that a TV show?

Actually, the Dead Zone is a movie as well...not just a TV series...it's a damn good movie,too...Christopher Walken is awesome in it...I would have thought you movie buffs woulda known that.