Remakes often carry with them a very negative connotation. Especially horror movie remakes. Sure, some of them can be very good, but more often than not, they are total failures that only serve to tarnish the legacy and name of the original.
We don't know what it is. Total laziness? Incompetent directors and writers? Greedy studios pushing profits over quality? The complete inability to measure up to the original? Either way, most of them are terrible. But these are the absolute worst of the worst. The dredges of the horror remake genre.
These are the ten worst horror movie remakes of the 2000s, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
10 Halloween - 26%
Halloween is one of those hallowed movies you just don't touch. Unfortunately, Rob Zombie touched it. His remake certainly has its defenders, but for the most part, his iteration of the classic was quickly wiped from the collective memory.
The issues were many - an over-reliance on brutal violence, blood, and gore, the hilarious attempt to humanize Michael Myers, the unsympathetic characters, and its general "trashiness." In other words, you could tell it was a Rob Zombie flick.
9 House Of Wax - 26%
Now THIS is a horror remake we can get behind! While Halloween is virtually untouchable, something like 1953's House of Wax is something more deserving of a remake - little known, old, and in desperate need of some modernizing.
Unfortunately, the Elisha Cuthbert vehicle was completely unredeemable. The great cast - Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Jared Padalecki - couldn't salvage the formulaic script and predictable scares. The presence of Paris Hilton certainly didn't help matters...
8 The Amityville Horror - 23%
The Amityville Horror is a contentious film. The original 1979 film isn't particularly well-regarded, but some consider it a staple of the "haunted house" genre. Movies like The Conjuring owe a lot to its existence. But the more controversial aspect of The Amityville Horror is the "real" story itself, which is often seen as a load of ol' baloney.
Regardless, they decided to remake the 1979 film in 2005, starring...Ryan Reynolds of all people. The movie was widely panned upon release, with many critics singling out its abundance of ghost story cliches and needlessly convoluted story.
7 The Invasion - 19%
The Invasion isn't a "remake" per se, but the fourth adaptation of Jack Finney's horror novel The Body Snatchers. The prior three movies are 1956's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the iconic 1978 remake starring Donald Sutherland, and a 1993 film simply titled Body Snatchers.
And The Invasion is easily the worst of the bunch. Sure, maybe we were expecting too much, considering the 1978 version is one of the best horror movies ever made. But regardless, The Invasion received particularly poor reviews due to its bombastic tendencies and muddled storytelling.
6 The Wicker Man - 15%
1973's The Wicker Man is one of the greatest and most influential horror films ever made. Like Halloween, it's just one of those movies you don't really touch. And you certainly don't remake it with Nicolas Cage in the leading role!
A remake was released in 2006, and it was met with complete and utter disdain. It received a rare F CinemaScore and terrible reviews from critics, who signaled out its unintentional humor. One only needs to look at the memes to see what they mean. "NO, NOT THE BEES!! AAAAHHHH!!!:
5 Day Of The Dead - 13%
Everyone remembers Dawn of the Dead. It's an absolute classic. And its remake was actually pretty darned good! That certainly can't be said for 2008's Day of the Dead. This was a remake of George A. Romero's often forgotten masterpiece, but it shared very little in common with the source material.
Despite a decent director in Steve Miner, Day of the Dead was dead on arrival. It's the perfect representation of a "so bad it's good" horror movie, and it is borderline disrespectful to Mr. Romero's creative output.
4 Pulse - 11%
Pulse sounds really good on paper. It was written by horror maestro Wes Craven, it starred the likes of Kristen Bell and Ian Somerhalder, and it served as a remake of the Japanese horror film Kairo (or Pulse). Unfortunately, it was an unmitigated disaster, generating just 11% from critics and 27% from audiences.
The movie was heavily panned for its cliche scares and lack of an emotional core - something which made the original Pulse such a success. Mindless jump scares over a good story. What else is new?
3 The Stepfather- 11%
The Stepfather is a cult classic. Released back in 1987, The Stepfather didn't gain much traction but was universally revered. Today, it's mostly known for Terry Quinn, who later made a name for himself on Lost. They decided to remake the movie in 2009, and it was...utterly abysmal.
Critics bemoaned its lack of social commentary, and many criticized it for being yet another cheap and predictable slasher-fest. They certainly remade the concept, but they failed to capture the essence of the story. The Stepfather is about more than just some crazy guy wielding a knife. And that's what the remake turned it into.
2 The Fog - 4%
The Fog is a different kind of bad. It was a remake of John Carpenter's cult classic from 1980 starring the iconic mother-daughter duo of Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh. This remake didn't have as good a cast, but it was still relatively solid, containing the likes of Selma Blair, Tom Welling, and Lost's Maggie Grace. Unfortunately, the movie was absolutely tarnished upon release, and many critics compared it unfavorably to John Carpenter's original.
And that's saying something, considering his movie wasn't very well received upon release, either!
1 One Missed Call - 0%
If you thought it couldn't get any worse than The Fog, then think again! One Missed Call was yet another entry in the "J-horror remake" genre that was sweeping in the nation in the 2000s thanks to movies like The Grudge and The Ring.
But unlike the others, this was a special kind of terrible. It received the Mouldy Tomato Award, signifying the worst-reviewed movie of the year. It was also the second lowest-rated movie of the entire decade, behind only a movie called Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. Yeah, that's how bad it is.
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