What happens when one runs out of inspiration and any minute notional iota of originality?
Well, you start to rehash or loosely remake and insipidly retread the paths of those ideas which were great in the first place and thereby ruin the memories of them in the process by trying to achieve respect by association. Its all too common these days.
The original film is a Vincent Price classic, based on the Charles Belden story. Watch it instead.