Hey guys welcome back to Top 5 Scary videos, I’m your host Lucy McPhee, and I’m a HUGE
horror movie lover, from The Exorcist, to Black Christmas, to A Nightmare on Elm Street.
I love the classics, so, as you can imagine, when a few of these films were remade I was
personally insulted, as should you be.
So today we’re going to be counting down the Top 5 Worst Horror Movie Remakes!
Before we jump in though be sure to give this video a big thumbs up and leave us a comment
down below what your favourite horror movie is and I’ll be shouting some out in the
next video.
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Ok, let's do this.
5 Prom Night This film is just an insult.
10 years later and I’m still personally offended by this mess of a slasher.
We didn’t ask for it and we did NOT deserve it.
To backtrack the original is a 1980’s masterpiece starring the queen of slashers, Jamie Lee
Curtis.
It’s bloody and exciting.
However, the remake falls short right off the bat by opting for a PG-13 rating.
Excuse me?!
The film centers on Donna, aka, Brittany Snow, aka the most bland and uninteresting actress
that has the range of a sloth..but no offense.
After her high-school teachers murders her entire family, cos love, he’s sent to prison
but of course, he escapes because prison is easy.
And he hunts Donna and all her friends down one by one.
I’ve slated it, I know, but it does have one redeeming factor.
The beautiful, Idris Elba, who did not deserve to ever star in this mess.
Poor guy.
#MyJamesBond.
4 The Wicker Man Now the original 1973 Wicker Man is a cult
classic, and an absolute gem in British Horror history, so why have a remake, and WHY cast
Nicholas Cage in the title role?!
I have SO many questions.
So as most of us know The Wicker Man is about a Detective who must venture to an isolated
island in order to investigate the disappearance of his ex-fiance’s daughter.
He quickly discovers that she is being used in ritual being held by the island’s female
cult.
Fun plot, great times.
However, the execution was atrocious, their were too many elements, and it seems confused
as to what genre it is trying exist in.
Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Horror, Redemption Story?
I’m just as confused as everyone else.The film has its flaws, yes, but I think we can
all agree that the performance Nicolas Cage gave was nothing short of extraordinary...
I mean, just take a look,
3 Texas Chainsaw 3D After a handful of unsuccessful remakes, execs
should be wise enough to not touch The Texas Chainsaw Massacre EVER again.
Please.
Stop inflicting pain on us!
Now, let me just briefly explain the premise of the film to ya.
The film follows the events of the original film, the people of Newt Texas burn down the
farmhouse of the Sawyer clan in an act of justice, killing the entire clan.
However, an infant is found, Edith Rose Sawyer.
Years later, Heather discovers she was adopted, and her and a few friends travel to Newt to
collect her inheritance.
Can you guys guess where this is going?
Other shit goes down, and as the ending nears we learn through a birthmark that Heather
is apart of the Sawyer clan, aka, she is Edith and Leatherface is her cousin.
It’s weird.
It’s ALL really weird.
The film was such a failure it received 19% on Rotten Tomatoes and 3.4 out of 10 on IMDB.
IGN Editor Eric Goldman wrote “A few fun 3D-aided jump-scares aside, Texas Chainsaw
3D is a generic and laughable attempt to follow the original”.
Cutting.
2 Amityville Horror In 2005, the remake to a horror classic, The
Amityville Horror was released.
The story follows the Lutz family, a young couple with two kids who move into a new home
in Amityville New York, but, as always, the place is too good to be true.
They soon learn of the house’s sordid history, and the man that murdered his entire family
after becoming possessed by an evil entity.
First of all, let's address the elephant in the room, Ryan Reynolds.
Who was completely miscast for this film - horror is clearly, NOT his thing.
In my opinion Melissa George is the one saving grace of this wannabe-slick remake, that concocts
a bizarre history to a haunted house, that the original so subtlety explores.
Also, watching this now, I just can't get past seeing Deadpool and Hit Girl together
in a film.
Ok, so let's count down some of the worst things this movie has to offer:
To start, during a Ryan Reynolds/Melissa George sex scene, having a child in the room is not
something anyone wants, even if that child is a ghost.
There are about 50 pointless jumpscares, making this film even less scarier than it already
was.
ALSO, Ryan Reynolds is shirtless for about 90% of this film, not a criticism, just an
observation.
1 A Nightmare on Elm Street In 2010, one of the horror genres best, and
most adored films, suffered a nightmarish remake.
As we know, the 1984 version focuses on a group of teens, hunted by a scarred killer
wielding finger knives, slaying them in their dreams in the most horrific ways.
Freddy Krueger is an icon.
Sadly though, the 2010 remake did not do this icon killer any justice.
Firstly, it was produced by Michael Bay, which as we all know, is the biggest red flag if
we ever did see one.
But secondly, the cast was stacked, with stars such as Academy Award Nominee Rooney Mara,
Connie Britton, and Katie Cassidy.
I mean the latter is subpar at best, but I’m a fan, so let me have this.
The film itself was a sales movie, let's face it.
It relied on classic horror movie tropes, instead of hashing out new mythologies surrounding
Freddy Krueger.
The intentions were there, the pioneers behind it were hoping to draw on the themes of child
sexual abuse, exploring the darker elements of the killer that had yet to be explored,
but when you put that film in front of thousands of moviegoers, it likely won't land.
So, of course, they shied away from it, preferring to play it safe with the same overused themes
the original had to offer.
Refusing to draw on Freddy’s history, and what truly led him to the demonic “life”
he leads.
According to the OG Freddy, Robert Englund, the opening was reshot, and instead of allowing
us to see the happy lives of a group of teens, we saw only their tainted souls, and the demons
they harbour because of Freddy.
As Englund put it, “I think this was a miscalculation.
You need to see before and after so you can invest emotionally with the children”.
Englund truly hits the nail on the head, if we don’t care for the characters from the
get go, then why should we care when they’re killed off?
Personally, I was NOT a fan of this film, but let me know down below your thoughts on
it.
Well there we have it!
What did you guys think?
Did you hate these remakes as much as I did, or were you actually a fan of them?
Let me know all your thoughts and feeling in the comments down below, and I’ll be
shouting out some of the best ones in our next video.
Before I go though, I just want to read some of the comments from the Top 5 Scary Real
Life Horror Stories That Inspired A Movie.
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Thank you, I’m a big fan of pronouncing my T’s.
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I’m kind of sick of her to be honest.
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There will definitely be more to come.
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