Frequent poster Paula nailed the new “Nightmare on Elm Street” remake – let’s hope she doesn’t start her own movie blog. WWTW doesn’t need any more competition!
To me, horror movies are the most pointless of remakes. How scary can a movie be if you already know what’s going to happen? It’s the unknown that is truly frightening.
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Thanks for the compliment, Mr. Toto, but adding occasionally snarky remarks to other people’s blogs is about the extent of my computer expertise.
That’s a relief!
Well-put, Paula. The only time horror remakes really work is when they find something new to do with the original premise.
I enjoyed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot because it added new scenes that didn’t exist in the original, and removed others. As a result, the film found new ways to scare me, or at least creep me out.
Van Sant’s exacting remake of Psycho, on the other hand, was the very definition of unnecessary.
True – but I imagine one piece of reasoning behind a horror film remake is the same of any other genre remake: reaching a “new” audience (that somehow has not screened the original on DVD, P-P-V, etc.)
D.