Why do people remake classic horrors?

[Azred]

<font color = lightgreen>You're right--I meant "Night of the Living Dead", George Romero's 1964 classic. I rather liked that 2004 Dawn of the Dead since that was also his movie, just rehashed and updated for more modern societal mores. [img]graemlins/erm.gif[/img] He shouldn't have made Land of the Dead, though...or should have made it better. </font>

[timothy trotter]

sorry, i disagree about king kong. i loved the original, but the new one was poor in comparison.

[Timber Loftis]

Get over it, people. There are only 3 basic stories out there. Things are going to get remade.

Shakespeare recycled previous stories, we recycle Shakespeare. SSDD.

Just look at the movies that are playing in theatres (it doesn't matter the genre), and you'll see what I mean. And to be perfectly honest, I don't think these people remaking old movies really give a hoot one way or the other. It's easy money to them. If they cared about the movies they were making, they wouldn't be remaking them.

Disagree 100%. Any remake I have ever seen, if I flipped over to the interviews and "special features" I always found a central concern being that of paying homage to the original. These people do have jobs, and no one wants to be thought of as making a bad movie. Why do we presume writers and directors don't care about their jobs? Isn't that silly?

[Gemmel]

Timber - Its not the directors that fund the movies its the studios. They will only back things that will make money, just like any other business.

These re-makes are NOT artistically driven, they are market driven. People will go to see them and thus its a safe return on the studio's investment.

Not all remakes are crap, just most of them. They get quality people in to work on the movie they commission so they don't totally suck, but it's usually formulaic and lazy.

[timothy trotter]

thats right, the movies are remade because the studios see it as a way to make money off a previously sucessfull movie. They know people will want to go and see it, so they can compare it to the original. Even if people give it bad reviews, people will want to make their own decision about the movie. Hence lots of people will go and see it even if its a terrible re-make. This ensures that the studios come out on top, and still make a large profit from the movie.

[vesselle]

i've never been much of a fan of mainstream hollywood movies. altho, i would stay up late at nite, on sleep-overs with friends, watching old B&W horror flicks.

i much prefer to give my money to independent producers/directors and see something interesting... a movie with an actual plot. hollywood's action flicks with multi-million dollar explosions or a "comedy" with today's latest comics from SNL just don't do it for me.

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[JrKASperov]

"I love monster movies, I simply adore monster movies. And the cheaper they are, the better they are..."

I want to see "it conquered the world" remade.

[bubbe]

Didn't read much in this thread but I give the topic -question my answer:

"It's all about the money
It's all about the dum dum du du du dum"

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[Ziroc]

No Originality in Hollywood OR the Gaming Industry anymore.

Looking Glass Studios was Original. And Arcane Studios is!

[DrowArchmage]

Some movies needed to be remade:Serpant and the Rainbow, The Blob. I could make those totally awesome, without changing the storyline too much.It would be better because of the graphics.