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The Worst Remake:

 'Psycho' (1998)

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It's okay - and rather cute - when a bunch of 12 year olds decide to do a shot-by-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

But what on earth could have possessed award-winning Indie director Gus Van Sant to direct a shot-by-shot, color remake of Alfred Hitchcock's seminal black and white horror film Psycho?

 

This cinematic exercise ranks as the worst remake of all time.

 

RUNNER UP:

 'Godzilla' (1998)

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Toho Studios wisely forbade the Hollywood remake of Godzilla from using anything that remotely looked like their Japanese monster.

 

Fans of Japan's Godzilla (known as Gojira there) hated the design for the American Godzilla so much that they called it "GINO" - Godzilla in Name Only.

 

The planned sequels to the American Godzilla were scrapped when the film tanked.

 

 

Best Remake:

 

BEST: The Thing (1982)

Original: The Thing From Another World (1951)

John Carpenter’s cult classic closely resembled Howard Hawks’ Cold War-era masterpiece, but gruesome special effects helped add a welcome dose of horror to the original’s eerie paranoia.

I love to imagine the terrified moviegoer who mistakenly wandered into The Thing instead of E.T., which ironically opened to wider acclaim two weeks earlier.

 

Runner Up:

 

 

 

BEST: Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Original: Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Director Zack Snyder turned George A. Romero’s fun but low-tech frightfest into a glossy Hollywood thrill-ride that delivered even more chills than the original.

(Plus, Retro-Jeremy can no longer listen to Johnny Cash’s "The Man Comes Around” without craving brains.)