Thread: Classic horror films and todays remakes

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Originally Posted by osenator

Some remakes are good, that I can't deny, but what I hate is why is it so hard to make NEW GOOD horror. Being a child of the 80s, everything was fresh and new and so original. This included any medium, music, tv and especially movies. I just started to buy Fangora and Rue Morgue magazins recently and reading some articles want to make me cry. I amazed how directors and writers are so scard of trying new things today. I blame how society manage to killed today's imagination of what is now my would-be future generations became so lazy that just rehash old good horrors and make horrible remakes. I remember teaching teens and kids, even adults and it made me so depress to see how people today have little imaginations or original ideals. God, I need to write some scripts up like my wife keep telling me to do...

While I do think that the 80’s had very strong horror releases esp. from a studio stand point but it also suffered from plenty of unoriginality. Seems a bit nostalgic to say that everything was new and original. Sure the 80’s had great films but also remakes, Friday the 13th clones and tons of lame sequels. There is still good horror to be found in this day and age but you might not find it from a major studio or at the local multiplex.

I am talking not just the horror scene from the 80s. I look at the fact that most of my fav movies in my collection and I see most are from the 80s. Why? Because I love the 80s? No, because they were great movies... I must also point out the 70s also had great movies too.

Yes, there are some great movies today, but most are so bland and rehash ideals in my opinion. Why so many remakes is being done today is just the proof that today's Hoolywood's people have no more originality. Most are done for a quick buck I think...

I don't see THE STUFF being remade? It would be cool to see bad 80s movies remade, then, I would admire more today's directors and producers. Look at THE THING, was a remake, but so much better, now, I heard they want to make another remake of the remake.. WHY???
(I know.. money... to make just more money..).

You can't deny that 80s movies Ghost Buster, Indiana Jones, Hellraiser, etc... Most age well compared to today's CGI Craptical infested horror movies we have today.

Just the other day, I watched with my wife movies that she never seen before : Hellraiser 1 and Night Gallery (The cemetary) (the one with McDowall start seeing his dead uncle coming back from the grave for revenge in a protrait) . THat is horror for me! Creepy, disturbing, I can't barely recall lmany movies in the last 10 years giving me this feeling...

Jesus wep...

Originally Posted by osenator

Hellraiser.... damn.. remake being done...
Evil Dead..damn..remake being done..
Nightmare on Helm street...Damn..remake done..
The Thing... Damn ... remake being done...
... I sadly heard The Shining is being redone somewhere... not a joke...
Wow.... can you see a patern here??

Well said, those would be my choices too. Some things are just best left alone.