Worst remakes

What are your worst remakes of all time?

Off the top of my head I can think of that are known to be pretty bad, like the 90s Godzilla film and the Nicholas Cage Wicker Man. But there aren't any films in my recent viewings that really come to mind here.

From the look of the upcoming Terminator film that one might end up making the cut, but it's too early to judge.

I rarely ever watch them, because for one, they seem to make more remakes than anything else, these day. Secondly, they seem to have forgotten how to do it sometime back in the 1990's.

Psycho 1998
The Fog 2005
Carrie 2013

I'm not saying that all remakes before the 90's were good, but still.

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I preferred Psycho (1998) to the original, it was in colour, colour films are much better (hehehehe)

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A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
The Wicker Man (2006)
Halloween (2007)

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I haven't seen it, but I heard that the remake of Rollerball is terrible.

Carrie (2013)
Godzilla (1998)
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Conan The Barbarian (2011)
The Wolfman (2010)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
The Karate Kid (2010)

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The original Psycho didn't scare me that much - maybe I'm just spoiled with modern gore and effects, but the famous knife scene looked pretty fake, and it felt like it relied on the screeching music for the scare factor

Haven't seen the 1998 version to compare.

Wicker Man!! ^^ Yeah, awful movie.


@GB: The original Rollerball was bad anyway, but yeah, the remake was gash.

The 2007 Rob Zombie remake of Halloween, really?

That was on of the few decent horror reboots I've seen. Heard the sequel to that was bad though.

I was joking about Psycho btw.


Imagine swapping Perkins for Vince Vaughn but Vaughn is doing his usual one-trick performance... however this time his performance contains no apparent "humour".
The 1998 is also a scene for scene remake. Totally pointless.

Agreed. The brilliance of Psycho wasn't the scares, really. I think the real strength comes from the acting, Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh in particular.

The 1998 version is complete ****. It's basically a shot for shot remake, with pointless additions and worse acting.

Yeah I thought it was a decent slasher flick. Kind of betrayed the point of Mike Myers by giving him a backstory though.

Agree with Elm Street remake as well.


I can see where it worked, but overall it's cack. It's one of the first movies I ever reviewed in my thread and I gave it a right kicking.

I refuse to watch those, and I'm honestly amazed I gave the three I listed a chance. I suppose it's because of people in the cast. I do like Jackie Earle Haley, but I love Robert Englund. I was annoyed that they told him no.

The Friday the 13th remake should be up there too

I actually quite liked the Halloween remake, now its sequel is another story

You should give the Halloween remake a chance.

The Nightmare on Elm Street remake though was meh. Only thing I like about it was Freddy's one-liners

Not totally a scene for scene remake. Perkins didn't get as excited, while he peeped through the hole in the wall, now did he!?!

At that moment, I stopped the trash . . . I mean film, and imagined Hitchcock rolling over in his grave, about a thousand f@cking times.

Oh honey, I love Halloween more than anyone on this site. Even you, sweetest Swan. There isn't enough duct tape on this planet to make me watch that film. I'd sooner watch every last remake on this planet, before watching that one. No *****!

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It won an Oscar so I doubt many will say it was a bad movie - an inferior remake of internal affairs maybe (but I haven't seen that film so I can't comment).