Tag: remake

Reckless is a slick Dutch remake of The Disappearance of Alice Creed. Director Joram Lürsen takes a stylish kidnapping scenario and then kinks it up with a few big …

The Crazies is safe. It has no grit, no guts, and no brains... except for those splattered by gunfire.

All of this leads to the impossibly perfect step dad turning into an impossibly clumsy serial killer in the finale, where yes, everyone is actually dumb enough to pass …

For the first half of this unneeded remake to Last House on the Left, it maintains the general gruesome feel of the original. It is the type of film …

In the latest of what will undoubtedly be a string of ‘80s horror movie remakes, Jason Voorhees walks again… for the first time. What is supposedly a reboot, Hollywood’s …

One Missed Call is a bad movie. It doesn’t deserve much more than that. As a remake of Asian horror film Chakushin ari, there’s not a lot to live …

For a while, especially within the first 30 minutes, My Bloody Valentine 3-D is the greatest homage to slasher movies ever made. The kills are priceless and ridiculously gory. …

For a movie as trashy as Death Race, it opens with a believable scenario. The economy has crumbled in 2012 (actually happening), people pay to watch inmates fight each …

If you’re going to steal $35 million worth of gold bars, where are you going to sell it? Surely someone will be on the look out for it, good …

Tarnishing classic films for a quick buck happens too often in Hollywood. It’s hard for remakes to succeed, but if they didn’t, studios wouldn’t keep pumping them out. If …

A remake of a solid 1965 survival movie, Flight of the Phoenix is a routine, dull, and standard drama. The characters are the expected stereotypes, the conflicts predictable, and …