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?
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
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