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How many excellent films have been cast out as garbage simply because they’re remakes? How many remakes are excellently crafted stand-alone films that would shatter box office records if their predecessors never existed? This is a consideration I want you to make as we take another look at Gus Van …

The Era of Hollywood’s Tried and True Formula The early 2000s saw so many remakes of wildly popular, highly successful Asian horror films. From The Ring to One Missed Call, and Pulse, there was a wave of remade films that got a lot of hate. Sometimes fairly justified. The originals …

It’s unbelievably difficult to acknowledge the film class of 2010 is turning 10 this year. Movies like Inception and The Social Network certainly don’t feel ten years old, but maybe that has more to do with my own unwillingness to accept being in my mid 30s than I’m ready to …

This is an article on Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley) as portrayed in Samuel Bayer’s 2010 reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street (read our retro review here). On that note, let me address the huge elephant in the room: This is not really a review of that movie, which is …

All of you classic horror fans are in luck, because in a wildly experimental and damn curious fervor, I watched both the Jacob’s Ladder movies back to back, the 1990 version starring Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption 1994), and the upcoming Jacob’s Ladder reboot starring Michael Ealy (Underworld Awakening 2012), Jesse …

One of the hottest debates amongst fans of cinema these days are whether or not remakes are a good thing. Sometimes, they are a good thing, and other times, they are completely unnecessary. A lot of movie fans feel that remakes are lazy money grabs or cut-and-paste jobs, while others …

It had been over a decade since the original French horror film, A l’interieur (Inside), was released upon the public in 2007. Captivating horror fans from around the world, the brutality of this film was unlike anything most had ever seen. Now, Miguel Angel Vivas has helmed the retelling of …

Maybe this is splitting hairs on terms and phrases. I keep seeing people posting things like, “Well, the new It was better/worse than the original.” Let’s not forget the outright internet rage when it was announced they’d be “remaking” It for the big screen. Here’s the thing. The film is …

Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 is tied with Halloween 3: Season of the Witch as the most reviled entry amongst fans of the Halloween franchise. While Season of the Witch has undergone a bit of critical revaluation as of late, both it and Zombie’s sequel still reside near the bottom of …

With Remake Fever in full swing, it was only a matter of time before studio execs got their grubby little hands on The Evil Dead, one of the best horror films ever made. Of course I was skeptical, especially after seeing the trailer, which looked like shit. But I decided …