To Remake or Not To Remake

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 …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers Now, don’t get this confused with the TV series Sabrina: The Teenage Witch. This isn’t the Buffy scenario where a TV series emerged from a film. Actually, I think there may be an article in that idea… A Change in Time                 It might just be me, but there’s …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers OK, yes I said it before but then if I broke the promise once who’s to say I wasn’t going to break it again. However, I guess a short story doesn’t really count right? As you can guess, these films are based on the short story Farewell to the …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I promised myself that I was going to stop writing articles about remakes that are based on a novel (yes, I didn’t know this before but this was based on The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney) because they aren’t technically remakes, just different adaptations of the same book. Well, …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I originally used to think this was some sort of zombie film, however I was completely wrong and instead Eli Roth had much better idea than that. Such a good idea in fact that Travis Z felt it was worth remaking in the early 2010s. Frame for Frame                 …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers As I mentioned previously in my Austrian Horror article, there would be two remakes produced from it. Here is the first, and in my opinion this is a pretty simple, but rather twisted story. Thankfully I don’t need to go into much detail as I have already filled you …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I think the storyline to the films I am going to discuss is the epitome of elevated horror, before that term was ever even coined. Truthfully, for those who thought Midsommar was an original story, they clearly had never seen the original The Wicker Man. British vs American                 …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers When I first discussed Slumber Party Massacre in my ‘Death at the Party’ article, I honestly didn’t think I would be discussing it again. Low and behold, in 2022 it was decided that for some reason a remake was required – but at the moment what 70s or 80s …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers The following article involves two films based the true events experienced by the Lutz family in 1975 after moving into the house where Ronald DeFeo Jnr murdered his entire family. Interestingly, George Lutz claims he was unaware of, and had not given his permission, for the remake to be …

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers It has already been mentioned in a previous article, I don’t like dolls! Now, the original Child’s Play film freaked me out meaning that for a long time I avoided watching any of the sequels and was in no way inclined to watch the remake. However, for this article …