To Remake or Not To Remake

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers So, you know how I’ve said before that I wasn’t doing anymore remake articles that were based on books? Well, I find it rather interesting that these films are actually based on an essay by Thomas De Quincey from 1845. Now, the 2018 remake is considered to be “inspired” …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Originally, this article was supposed to be a 3 way comparison between the 1974 version, 2006 and 2019 remakes. However, and not through lack of trying, it has been impossible to find a copy of the 2019 film ANYWHERE! Anyway, back to the point and as we know from …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I’ll be completely honest with you, I had never seen the original Road House before writing this article but I still had reservations regarding Jake Gyllenhaal taking on the role. I’m just going to point out that this is a complete me-problem because I don’t rate him as much …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers This is actually the first time in recent history that I will be covering a remake of a film where the original was only made two years ago prior! I had been meaning to watch the Danish original for a while but the remake gave me that push (Thank …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Now, this article was supposed to comparing the 1953 and 2005 versions of House of Wax. However, I have since found out that the 1953 version isn’t actually the original film as there was The Mystery of the Wax Museum made back in the 1930s which the Vincent Price …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers As promised a couple of months ago, my second The Omen article. I was genuinely concerned when writing this that it was going to turn out that these films were actually based on a book (one I would consider reading mind) making the article pointless. However, this wasn’t the …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I mentioned in a previous article that I’d been waiting a while to watch the original of The Eye mainly because as all of you already know I love my foreign horror films, but also because I’ve been planning to write this article for a long time… Opening and …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I’ve mentioned this film previously in my A Mother’s Love article and believe I referenced the fact that more detail was incoming. Truthfully, when I saw the words ‘loosely based on’ I didn’t think this article was actually going to see that light of day but here it is! …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I don’t think anyone will understand quite how long I have been waiting to do this article! I covered the original in Chick-Flick Free Valentine’s but it was almost IMPOSSIBLE to find the remake. What I love is that in a weird way, the title works on two levels …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I have had the discussion a lot recently about films that really should be left alone – mainly because there’s been a lot of talk about one of my favourite films being remade. Now, I see Footloose as a modern classic and in my opinion, as you will more …