Remake

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Shutter

Movie Review | Ali | 21st May 2008

Another week, another crappy J-Horror remake. A Hollywood do-over of the 2004 Thai thriller of the same name, Shutter follows the divine formula cracked by Ringu all those years ago: preppy protagonists with a dark past are haunted by spooky looking Eastern girls via an instrument of technology. Despite countless horror remakes ...

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The Eye

Movie Review | Ali | 2nd May 2008

"I see dead people." Nine years after The Sixth Sense and people are still trying to pull the same old shit. As far as modern horror clich�s go, it's up there with "It was all a dream!" and "She's been dead for ten years!" Nonetheless, the old corpse-spotting hook has worked to varying effects over the years; some good (uh... g...

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Funny Games U.S.

Movie Review | Ali | 11th April 2008

"Why are you doing this to us?" asks Tim Roth's housebound hostage. "Why not?" says his tormentor. Why not indeed? Michael Haneke certainly needs no further excuse to repackage his 1997 thriller for American audiences - it is, after all, the audience the movie was originally aimed at. Shot in a near identical...

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Halloween

Movie Review | Ali | 14th October 2007

"I got a call from my agent and they asked me if I wanted to be involved in the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I said no fucking way! I feel it's the worst thing any filmmaker can do. Those movies are perfect - you're only going to make yourself look like an asshole by remaking them." Rob Zombie, 2002 Man......

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Why I Hate... Sequels And Remakes

Movie Feature | Mark | 9th October 2006

"Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking sequels on my motherfucking movie screens!" Sequels suck. Almost as much as remakes. Or, as they're known these days, "reimaginings." Or, in other words, "Taking all the good bits out and inserting CGI bees." Sequels are, for the most part, unoriginal, often boring, ...

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The Wicker Man

Movie Review | Ali | 7th September 2006

Remakes are such a common occurrence these days that it's almost futile debating their existence; perhaps the wisest thing would be to accept that they're always going to be around, and figure out exactly what it is that makes a good one. Now, I've not seen the original Wicker Man but understand that it's held in the highest re...

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Miami Vice

Movie Review | Ali | 8th August 2006

With the current climate of repackaging old TV shows for big-screen remakes, who better to helm a Miami Vice movie than one Michael Mann, executive producer of the original television series and a director well-known for shooting locations so lusciously, they're often more interesting than the characters placed within? While pa...

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King Kong

Movie Review | Ali | 2nd March 2006

We've become somewhat accustomed to having jolly fat bearded men bring us incredible gifts come Christmas time. Yes, Peter Jackson has become synonymous with fantastic festive films, and although his Hobbit-like rolls of flab have all but disappeared, a few vital things remain; his ability to create 3-hour plus epics of unimagi...

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The Dukes Of Hazzard

Movie Review | Ali | 2nd September 2005

Dukes of Hazzard is a film that used to be a TV show probably from before I was born, probably even before Big Brother even existed. There's two cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, and they drive their orange car around really fast, so the cops don't get them. They are trying to get their Uncle's special drink to all of his customers w...

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The Amityville Horror

Movie Review | Ali | 10th May 2005

Michael Bay's at it again, plucking another horror movie from the 1970's and giving it a 21st Century makeover. Following on from the passable reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror gets the remake treatment. But Amityville is a very different type of movie to Chainsaw - it's a slow-burner and a more psy...

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