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Ah, here we are again, back in the familiar territory of horror remakes. Receiving the remake treatment this time is Sean S Cunningham’s 1980 slasher flick Friday the 13th.
The first question would have to be “why?” – it was a good slasher flick for its day but was not really crying out to be remade. [...]
It is always an interesting experience watching the movie version of a treasured novel, although the end results are often not what we expect or hope for. The ideal scenario is that the director and producers have selected the right people for the characters we know so well, as well as capturing the same mood [...]
Prom Night is one of those movies that gives the horror genre a bad name. I am told it is a “re-imagining” rather than a remake. This only makes the experience worse because what that tells me is that those involved think they can do a better job than the people who brought us the [...]
Oh dear. What have we all done to deserve movies like this?
Clearly it is a form of punishment for us movie lovers. The only thing that is horror in Boogeyman is the fact that it got made and some poor people out there paid good money to go and see it. I, at least, have [...]