remaked remake due for a remake

House of Wax
House on Haunted Hill
Thirteen Ghosts
Blob
The Thing
Night of the Living Dead

dumbass mutherfuckin' house of wax (you don't mind if I include my opinion of the film in the title, do you?)

I will be happy if Paris Hilton dies in the new film.

The Haunting
The Mummy
Invaders From Mars
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Body Snatchers
Pirahna
Salem's Lot
The Shining
The Dead Zone
The Omega Man
The Toolbox Murders
Village of the Damned

remakes = garbage most of the time

Personally, I cant help but wonder if the sheer amount of remakes in the last several years is a total reflection of Hollywood being simply out of ideas? Thus, the need to remake old classics, or at the very least keep churning out bad sequels from long-dead franchises. But thats just me.

Now, im not in any way saying some of these recent remakes werent good. Dawn and TCM were great. But then you have complete shit like Psycho...and from what im told, Amityville '05.

Now, they are in the midst of remaking The Fog----one of my all time favorite horror films, and a classic by all accounts. What are they going to remake next? Halloween? Nightmare on Elm St? The Changeling?

And just when I thought it couldnt get much worse, a remake of another one of my all time favorites----The Warriors---- is on its way in '06. Oh wait---it CAN get worse---the Warrirors remake is being done by fucking MTV of all assholes, and is set in PRESENT DAY New York and is supposed to be a kung-fu/Matrix style movie.

(yes, if your a die hard fan of the original Warriors like me, you may puke now).

MTV doing a modern-era Warriors. How pathetic and sad.

Sorry for this rant.

You'll love this. Here are most of the remakes currently filming or in development........

Dark Water
The Fog
The Crazies
The Hills Have Eyes
Black Christmas
Alice, Sweet Alice
The Eye
The Blob
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Fly
Scanners
Race with the Devil
The Bad Seed
When A Stranger Calls
When A Stranger Calls Back
I Am Legend
Pet Sematary
It
The Wicker Man
The Hitcher
Terror Train
Suspiria
The Evil Dead
The Changeling
Prom Night
The Night Stalker
Wait Until Dark
The Tingler
I Saw What You Did
Rosemary's Baby
Vertigo
Pulse


That's a whopping 32 so far. I'm sure there are a bunch of them that we are not aware of yet as well.

Diddnt ANYONE LEARN FROM PSYCHO??? DO NOT EVER EVER Remake a Hitchcock film!!!! It simply does not and will not ever work properly

And before that list was posted-----I was JOKING about how horrible it would be to remake The Changeling. Now its coming. OH LORD, help us all.

Classics are classics for a reason(s). Remaking them, is a travesty---especially when there is NO NEED, NO DESIRE and NO REASON to make them again. They were great once, and they always will be unless tarnished by a modern version (which conversely could and often does---make the original look twice as good...example: Amityville Horror).

I'm sorry, they are remaking The Changeling?

Bastards!

According to the list above that Plissken posted, if accurate, then the Changeling remake is in development. ISNT ENOUGH ENOUGH ALREADY? Its bad enough they are remaking The Fog and Phantasm, but at the very least the original creators of those films are having a hand in the production. (which is the only credence I can lend them. If Carpenter and Coscarelli werent involved in their films' remakes, I would never be interested).


But how or WHY would you touch a classic like the Changeling? How can you remake something like Suspiria? How can you remake When A Stranger calls? I could go on and on...

I mean, an integral part of why these films are the classics they are, is due to the ERA they were filmed in. Yea, modern settings/technology/effects are geat, etc. but even though films like these were filmed in a bygone era---they never get old. Know what I mean? (Its the same thing with The Warriors. A modern, present day remake of that movie---especially when made by MTV---wont work).

Sorry---I just cant get over all the remake bullshit. Some are good, but most are horrible. What really irks me---is that I bet there are thousands of screenplays out there which are full of good, original ideas that get shot down by film companies IN FAVOR of these remakes. Fuck that shit.

That somebody has the audacity to remake "Vertigo" is just another sign the apocapalyse is near....
Some of the films in the remake list are on their Third go around...I Am Legend has been made twice before, and a lot of people consider it to be a pricipal source for the Romero Zombie films as well.
The Fly has been made twice before as well...and it being made into an opera by Howard Shore, whcih should be intersting. I wonder what an aria for BUnderfly will sound like....

is the evil dead remake just a rumor or is it actually in production?

And It's the third time for "Body Snatchers" as well.
Not to mention that several of these film have had ripoffs films made which were remakes in all but name.

Info.....

- Evil Dead is official (even though they still plan on doing Evil Dead IV)

- The Changeling is being remade by the SAME director as the original.

- The new Phantasm films are technically not remakes. The first is will be half remake/half new (kind of a "catch-up" installment for newcomers), and the 2nd (which will be based on Phantasm's End) and 3rd will be full out sequels.

- Just in case someone tries to mention it as an upcoming prequel, the Thing miniseries that the Sci-Fi Channel is developing (not with UFO or Nu Image films, thankfully) is a sequel, not a remake.

There are countless Stepford remakes. Not just the shitty Frank Oz one but a bunch of asshole tv versions that are like brightly coloured shit
The Fly is the best of the bunch though and The Thing of course.

I almost fainted when I saw Evil Dead and Rosemary's Baby on this list, it's sacrilige. I know Hollywood is all about profit, but some of these movies are classics. Next thing you know someone will have the remake of Citizen Kane currently in development!!! I can't even see 1/3rd of these movies being filmed better than the original. When are they gonna get that you shouldn't have to remake great pictures, take a "bad" film and make it great, then you can call yourself doing something!

I'm not totally against remakes, but they are a crap shoot.
The Dawn of the Dead remake was great, truly worthwhile.
The Amityville remake was a waste of everybodies time.
As for forgotten remakes, anybody see Wes Craven's Carnival of Souls? I heard it was terrible.

I hate remakes, wasn`t impressed by the wave of recent ones but i`m actually intrigued by another take on The Fly i`ve heard about.