WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers What I am about to say was originally going to be a paragraph of its own but I realised there wasn’t much more I could say than this: Disney didn’t make a frame by frame remake! That’s because it would be explained in more detail by the sections that …
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To Remake or Not To Remake
The Fog 1980 v 2005
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Here’s to another film from the mind of John Carpenter. This is may be the second time you’ve heard his name but I can promise you it won’t be the last as this isn’t the only one of his films that someone decided needed to be remade…. Use of …
Rear Window vs Disturbia
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I’m going to start this by being completely open with you all. I know I usually keep the personally opinion until the end but I went in to this already believing that Disturbia was never going to be as good as Rear Window and I wasn’t disappointed. No, this …
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Based on the children’s book by Dr Suess, a film was made back in 2000 starring one of my favourite actors. However, it seems that this is no longer suitable and a new version had to be made. Now, I don’t want to get into the debate on whether …
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers As with many of the remakes I cover on this blog, the Total Recall films are based a on novella. This time it is by the name of We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Phillip K Dick (again, hence the title…). Not having read this short story, …
Night of Anubis
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 – …
Ringu vs The Ring
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 …
Code Name: Trixie
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 …
Who Goes There?
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 …
Sisters 1972 v 2006
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, …