Top Ten Movie Remakes That Never Should Have Happened

[MykeHavoc]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Smith

Anything by Rob Zombie. He is a terrible terrible TERRIBLE filmmaker and his remake of Halloween completely ruined the original

The point of Mike Myers was he was suppose to be a normal kid from a normal family that one day just snapped for no reason. By making him come from a horrible trash family (the only kind of character Zombie seems capable of writing) he completely missed the point of what made the character scary

It amazes me that hacks like him are able to keep making movies and it amazes me more the sheep of the general public still see such awful movies

There in lies the problem. Halloween is my favorite horror film of all time, so needless to say, I was dreading the remake, but I was there opening day and found an alternate appreciation for the film. Not nearly as good or ground-breaking as Carpenter's, but I certainly didn't hate it. The issues fans of the original series (myself included) seemed to have were in the changes...but isn't that the point of a "re-imagining"? To do something different with the material? To take another look from a different perspective at something that would be otherwise familiar? I had a similar and more venomous reaction to his sequel. I hated it in the theater. Felt nothing like a Halloween film. But when the director's cut hit DVD, I liked it a tad bit more...then I watched the two films back to back many moons later, and isolated from the earlier series, I was struck with a sudden sense of dramatic sadness. Removing my old-school fanboyism from the equation allowed me to enjoy Zombie's vision a lot more then I ever had. Neither are perfect films, but I have a much deeper appreciation for them is the time since I first viewed them.

Zombie is completely capable of making terrific films. Devil's Rejects was far and away my favorite film the year it came out (along side Sin City).