To Remake or Not To Remake

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers This article has actually been a long time coming, possibly middle of last year, but I hadn’t been able to get hold of the original film until now. I’ll be honest, I had big questions over Elijah Wood taking on a horror role but I’m happy to say that …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers As we all know, Disney have gone round making a whole bunch of their animations into live-action films. Well before they decided to do this in the 2010s with Lion King and so forth, they had already remade 101 Dalmatians back in the late 1990s. Obviously, this is one …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers So it’s that time of year already, and what better question to ask than – is Santa Claus real? Well, here are two films that ask this question in, for me anyway, very different ways. Rivalry and Reputation                 This, for me, is the biggest killer of the remake. …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers So here we are again, the proof of a lack of imagination in the noughties film industry meaning that they decided to remake old horror films. Today’s victim is straight from the 1970s and the mind of one Wes Craven’s (not for the first time and, I’m sure, probably …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers In case it hasn’t become apparent with a few of these articles, people have a habit of thinking that 80s films clearly weren’t good enough and decide to remake them. Now, 80s horrors are some of my favourite films and I will want to protect the ones I’ve seen …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I feel like I may have mentioned this before, but it is always harder to write articles about films that are based on books as I guess technically they are new adaptations of the written story instead of being remakes of the original film. Art of Comedy                                                       This …

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers I told you before that the name John Carpenter was going to come back and ‘haunt’ you in another article. Well, here he is – the director of Halloween. I’ll be honest, I actually ended up watching the Rob Zombie remake by accident when I wanted to watch the …

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 …

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 …

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 …