Jun 25 2008
Remakes suck. But why?
Remakes suck. My question is why do they suck? Is it because of lack of originality? Is because there are no writers so that the Hollywood machine looks back to see what did work? Or are they quick and easy to churn out because they were already made before.
I viewed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, at a quaint Long Island movie theater. It was the first time I saw the film on the big screen. The film blew me away, Texas Chainsaw is the kind of film I could recite every bit of the sound effect track. The film was just so powerful that it actually made me pissed that Michael Bay’s production company produced two god-awful remakes. There’s nothing scarier than that film then it’s mastery of the unseen. The ending is bizarrely twisted and emotional that the ending seems to be not true to the film. I feel the end of that movie (happier ending) had to be made because if not the audience would’ve died of a heart attack due to the intensity. The remake was stale, uninspired, not scary, not cinematically memorable and just down right boring. It affirms to fact that sometimes, given a re-release, the same old-fashioned film can be just as scary. Another example, The Exorcist and Alien were both terrifying in their re-release.
So I implore you before sitting down to watch a horror movie, make sure it has validity and if it is a REMAKE, for pity’s sake watch the original.
