IMO Children of the Corn (1984) should be remade because the concept is great but the movie itself is terrible. I assumed it was some sort of horror classic because it's so well-known and has an iconic poster, but then I actually watched it and, yeesh. feels like a bad TV movie
what are some other movies that deserve a remake because they have a good concept but bad execution?
Let Ryan Johnson remake the entire sequel trilogy as well. I'm going to run for cover rn.
Yes but also add in the stuff from Clone Wars as an additional 3 movies.
Blade
I saw it last week for the first time and it was great BUT the terrible visual effects took me out constantly from the experience. Is the worst case of computer effects are just not there yet that I have experienced because I really liked to movie
What if they just remade the computer effects on the original footage?
Hear me out, Children of the Korn. Remake it but with Korn.
What if we did remakes but only for terrible movies?
Eragon remake.
Biosome remake.
Master of Disguise remake.
Morbius remake.
The Room remake.
Ok you know what I'm sold. Give me an entire The Room Cinematic Universe in fact. Just a mountain of the worst slop occasionally made by people who aren't aware that it's supposed to be shit and try really hard to salvage it thereby just making it even worse.
Master of disguise is too dangerous to remake
Did you hear what Al Qaeda did to try to stop it the first time?
I have mixed feelings on Evil Dead 2013 but I do like that all the gore was done with practical effects like the original. The whole thing about the main character being a drug addict felt kind of unnecessary and not all that thematically relevant (they did the exact same thing in the recent Hellraiser remake, for some reason).
Event Horizon is a good suggestion, I love horror movies set in space but the movie is kinda mid. It deserved a better director than Paul W. S. Anderson lol.
Now that you mention him, a Resident Evil that was faithful to the games would be cool. Just copy off George Romero's script he was originally doing the movie for. STARS haunted mansion, zombies in the basement, classic horror tropes.
oh yeah it's wild to me that they adapted RE and did absolutely nothing with the spooky mansion. the underground research lab is a cool setting for a zombie movie too, but they shoulda saved that for the sequel or something
spooky mansion
Check out the japanese movie Sweet Home, it had a game too on the famicom. Resident Evil was heavily inspired by that movie and game.
nice, I haven't heard of that one. though there is a different Japanese haunted house movie that I love, House (1977)
It's in the vein of that but not nearly as camp, I think, I still have to see House.
oh yeah House is absolutely camp, in the best way possible. it's absolutely bonkers and one of my favorite movies of all time
You should also see the unrelated American film, House (1985)
It's a weird, almost slapstick horror movie where the villain of the piece is literally
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The Vietnam War
Remake the first Rambo with a black male lead, watch the chuds lose their shit
The Entity conceptually is terrifying but the execution is borderline bad. Could use a fresh look.
The Rocketeer deserves another shot.
Something Wicked This Way Comes comes to mind, as does the Black Hole. (Weird, 3 in a row that are Disney).
I dunno. A lot of films, the charm is in how bad or campy they are. Sort of a "be careful what you wish for" scenario when you start hoping a studio cranks out a reboot and then gives you more of all the things you think you want, and it ends up being 50 shades of terrible.
The Rocketeer deserves another shot.
Especially if it stays true to the comics in tone. And wardrobe.
Edit: There's no "Jenny" in the comics. There's instead a Bettie Page expy named "Bettie", complete with the outfits and occupation.
The Rocketeer deserves another shot.
They should remake the Shadow and the Phantom too, tbh. Loved those movies as a kid.
Warm-ish take: Idiocracy
It would be a fairly big change ideologically, but I think if you removed the eugenics and instead made the backstory about the privatisation of education and the need for politically illiterate workers, which gets resolved with faith in humanity and solidarity at the end. I think the corporate critique/regulatory capture lands really well, and would fit in with the premise and themes, as a comedy. It wouldn't actually change a huge amount of the overarching plot or even scenes and would be a lot more sympathetic to the future people, more poking fun at bureaucracy that delivers nothing and obsequious managers.
They made one in 2020 and it was crap https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Corn_(2020_film)
yeah and there was also one in 2009 but it was a Syfy original TV movie, so also crap. I'd like to see someone like Mike Flanagan remake it with an actual budget, he's done a couple decent Stephen King adaptations
I can't really recommend remakes because I know it'll just be handed to some fail-child fifth-rate joss whedon to make it cornier, more sociopathic, incomprehensible, and completely lose whatever charm the original even had, all this just to retain the IP, not to do anything good with it.
yeah maybe I should have phrased it as "what movie deserves a good remake", which is very unlikely to happen. but it has happened before, like with John Carpenter's The Thing and Werner Herzog's Nosferatu. And now Robert Eggers is remaking Nosferatu again, so that will probably be good as well.
The original Suicide Squad. I feel like the typical James Gunn comedic tone in The Suicide Squad was a real missed opportunity in a story that could have been filled with drama, especially through the characters of Deadshot and El Diablo, who were highlights in an otherwise poorly-written film. Also, give El Diablo fire guns like in the original Nitz/Hester comic run, I don't know why they made him just have fire hands, the guns would've been way cooler.
DC really has established a great grift where they keep making bad movies that leave their fans wanting constant remakes in the hope that someone finally gets it right.
And I didn't even get into the fact that The Suicide Squad scrapped El Diablo, one of the few bright spots of Latino representation in not just comic book movies but comic books as a whole, but kept Rick Flag, a burly white dude so generic that he could be replaced with any protagonist in a Call of Duty campaign and no one could tell the difference.
tbf blame that on the producers of the 2016 movie, el diablo survived in the original ayers cut but then they forced a cliche heroic death onto him
