The WORST Hollywood Remakes!!!!

Quite possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and a horrible remake! Tom Welling was the only actor in the movie actually trying. But when the enemy is cgi fog, you just know it'll be crap.

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I didn't like the remake of Planet of the apes :/

I enjoyed the Dawn remake. It was pretty well made. It was more like an action movie, though. There's room for both, as far as I'm concerned.

I really hated the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.

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The Harry Potter franchise is a terrible remake of anything pre-1990, particularly Troll...

... and the works of properly esteemed writers like Tolkien, Barrie and Lewis and the like.


Even though Rowling has apparently never heard of any of those...

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The worst remake that I've actually seen is probably The Stepford Wives. Even worse than Rollerball, IMO. Of course, there's plenty that I've not seen, (NOEL, Get Carter, Prom Night, Alfie, The Wicker Man, etc) that could beat it.

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Wicker Man was hilarious.

The Constant remakes of the Horror Movie Killers like Freddy,Jason and Michael.

Bad News Bears (2005) It just utterly terrible

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I think the Karate Kid series (excluding the latest with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan) are the worse

YES ! The fact that Hellraiser is being redone gets me so upset- knowing that Hollywood has already ruined a multitude of the horror films of my childhood- Evil Dead (coming soon, but still), A Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday The 13th! I feel that they're getting bored /:

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Hellraiser could have been good if they stuck with the directors who were originally on board, think it was the French directors of the excellent Inside. But they got dropped a year or so back unfortunately.

Bad ones off the top of my head:

Carrie
Fright Night
A Nightmare on Elm St
Straw Dogs
The Thing
Last House on the Left
The Stepfather

I liked the Dawn of the Dead remake

The new Carrie adaptation out next year could be excellent going by the cast and director. Here's a special teaser that was made for next adaptation of the book:

It doesn't look good to me but I'd watch it if the reviews are good.

I don't mind remakes as much as most people, but one of my least favorites was Fright Night. The original (and the sequel) are some of my favorite movies. The remake was okay, but nowhere near as good as the originals.

Hollywood did a remake of A Tale of Two Sisters called The Uninvited, I think it takes the prize, in my humble opinion.

^ I thought that was decent actually and at least they tried to give their own angle on the twist compared to the original. The original is one of my favourite films from South Korea.

There are some pretty bad remakes such as The Nightmare on Elm Street, Poseidon and The Pink Panther but I don't get how some of you can say that they ruined the films from your childhood.
It makes no sense to me.
Those movies are still there for you to watch and enjoy and there's absolutely no-one but you that decides wether or not you're gonna watch a movie.
And even if you do decide to watch let's say the remake of Evil Dead and you end up hating it, why would that change anything about the original?

I don't have anything against remakes on a general basis although there are some aweful ones, but there are some decent ones as well.
I like the remake of Dawn of the Dead much more than the original but that's probably to do with my age.
I'm 29 and watched the original the night before I watched the remake when it came out in 2004.
I do believe I would've liked the original more if I had watched it now but I doubt I'd like it more than the remake.
The remake is just so much fun! Can't help but enjoy myself when I watch it.

I do agree that Hollywood has too few new ideas and make too much remakes, reboots, sequels and prequels for my taste but the way I see it those movies make them alot of money and allow them to continue to make movies and they can grant smaller and more daring movies to be made.
If the studio aren't making enough money they will be forced to make something they can almost guarentee will make them money such as a remake of something or yet another sequel to Paranormal Activity or Saw.

So all in all remakes doesn't bother me and doesn't affect how much I like the original.

These fall under the heading of blasphemy, rather than remake

Brideshead Revisited
Gone in 60 Seconds
Rollerball
The Mechanic
Point Of No Return
The Pink Panther

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The Green Hornet - The hokey juvenile 1940 original 12 chapter serial was way better than the idiotic recent remake.
The Time Machine
The Thing - New version, but I liked the way it worked into the John Carpenter version
King Kong - Both remakes
90 percent of the Frankenstein remakes
The latest Halloween movie

I'm shocked to admit that the new trailers for Evil Dead the remake actually look....decent. I am DYING to see a non pg-13 horror where actual horror happens, not "scary" moving sheets or endless shots of staircases. lol. Plus non cg blood and gore? bring it.

Newest worst remake? Red Dawn. It pretty much pees on the original, makes it more into a "War is cool" teen movie where despite the US taken over by a foreign army, nothing bad ever really happens and females are just there as love interests for the guys, unlike the original where they were fighting too.

Boo, Red Dawn 2012...you are bad and you should feel bad.

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