To Remake or Not To Remake

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers This is something I like to call a gender-swap remake, a little like Ghostbusters. Chris Addison has taken the original story, told it almost frame by frame, the only difference being that the lead characters are female instead of male (and about 20 minutes of run time). Let’s look …

WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers I’m going to start off by saying that neither of these films got this part of Greek mythology quite right but there is such a thing as creative licence and truthfully, that isn’t what we’re here to talk about. In 1981, Harry Hamlin took on the role of the demi-god …

WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers If you were locked in a room for nearly two decades with no explanation – what would you do? The following review will explain the comparisons between exactly this and the reactions of Oh Dae-Su and Joseph Doucett in each version of OldBoy. Reference to the Title                 It is …

WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers When robbery meets extreme sports, there’s no telling what could go wrong. In 1991, we hit the waves with Johnny Utah in his pursuit of ‘The Presidents’ but little did we know, he was to resurface in 2015 with the thrills turned up a notch. All Too Convenient                 Something …

WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers Let me take you on another journey into the dark mind of possibly my favourite author, Stephen King. We have ventured down this road before when looking at the adaptations of his coming-of-age tale, Carrie, but today we will enter into the story of the Creed family. Written in 1983, …

WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers One, two Freddie’s coming for you. Three, four better lock your door. Five, six grab a crucifix. Seven, eight gonna stay up late. Nine, ten never sleep again…..but what if you don’t know when you’re sleeping and when you’re awake? Prepare yourself for … A Nightmare on Elm Street. What …

WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers This article was originally supposed to look at the comparisons between Death Race 2000 and Death Race. However, from my recollection, Death Race is not a direct remake of the original film – whereas Death Race 2050 is exactly that. Based on the short story The Racer by Ib Melchior, …

WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers Two houses, both alike in criminality. Based on the screenplay Seven Sisters by Mark Rosman, two films have been made; The House on Sorority Row in 1983 (directed by Rosman himself) and its remake Sorority Row in 2009. The characters in each film were quick to learn that playing pranks …

WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers The topic covered in these films, to my knowledge, is a very rare storyline of horror films. In 1963, Blood Feast introduced us to Fuad Ramses, the exotic caterer and dedicated follower of the Egyptian goddess Ishtar. He makes a reappearance in 2016 when the film was directly remade, only …

WARNING: This Review Contains Spoilers Whilst in the midst of our very own global pandemic, I thought it would be apt to cover some films based around the same topic. Based on the 1954 novel ‘I am Legend’, I introduce to you The Last Man on Earth (1964) and its three latter iterations; Omega Man …