To Remake or Not To Remake

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was originally planned as a horror comedy and the early screenplay was named Monster Flick. Obviously, those of you who have seen this film know that it is no comedy. It was filmed under two different working titles during 1967 – …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Welcome to another addition of who did it better, the Japanese or the Americans. That sounds like a joke but it is very common for Japanese horror films to be remade by Hollywood and as you know this isn’t the first article on this subject (obviously a different film …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers OK, the title of this review may leave some of you wondering what the hell I’m on about. Well, Code Name: Trixie is actually another name for the original 1973 film The Crazies directed by George A. Romero (with the mention of that name some of you in the …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers As discussed before John Carpenter’s film The Thing, along with the 2011 prequel, were a remake of the 1951 film The Thing From Another Planet. Therefore all these are based on the novella Who Goes There? (hence the title of this review) by John W. Campbell Jr. I’m sure …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I have to give one hundred percent of the credit for the creation of this article to the Shudder streaming service. I had never heard of this film before let alone there being a remake of said film. So without further ado, let’s see which one is better. Honestly, …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers A book was once born out of the true story of the S.S Politician running aground on the rocks of the Island of Eriskay. From that book came a film in 1949 of the same name, Whisky Galore!. To me, it comes across as a rather strange style of …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers From the mind of Tom Holland (no, not that one) came the story of Charley Brewster and the vampire next door. It seems that when choosing to remake this film, Craig Gillespie believed that not enough death took place. So, here’s my opinion on who told the story better …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Interesting fact alert! The idea for the original Robocop film was conceived while one of the writers was working on the set of Blade Runner. How cool is that? However, with any good concept someone somewhere has to decide that they feel they could do it better – or …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Now, I have a little confession to make. The 1939 version of The Cat and the Canary is not the original film. It is actually based on a 1927 silent film, which in turn is based on a play from 1922 of the same name by John Willard. However, …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I’ve talked previously about not messing with the afterlife when I covered the Ouija films but actually putting yourself in a position to visit the other side is a complete different extreme to a simple board carved with letters. Today we follow two groups of med students on their …