Movie remakes that should never have been or shouldn't be made.

by shopgirl1293 | created - 17 Mar 2011 | updated - 28 Mar 2020 | Public

I'm sure most of you would agree that the movies that have been made like 5, 10, 20, so on shouldn't have been made or shouldn't be made. I think it's stupid, it just makes me think that they are running out of ideas. Movies are always being thought of but now they are remaking the classic movies.

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1. Halloween (2007)

R | 109 min | Horror

47 Metascore

After being committed for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution and immediately returns to Haddonfield to find his baby sister, Laurie.

Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Brad Dourif

Votes: 130,557 | Gross: $58.27M

I have to admit that Rob Zombie is pretty awesome, I haven't seen many of his films or even heard his music, but I just think that Halloween should have just been left alone, although we did learn why Michael Meyers became what was, a brutal killer.

2. Halloween II (2009)

R | 105 min | Horror

35 Metascore

Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.

Director: Rob Zombie | Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie

Votes: 59,779 | Gross: $33.39M

3. Friday the 13th (2009)

R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

34 Metascore

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Amanda Righetti, Derek Mears, Danielle Panabaker

Votes: 116,881 | Gross: $65.00M

I love Jared Padelicki, he was pretty much the reason why I went to see this in the theaters. But the movie was horrible, besides all the killing and blood, there was just way too much sex and nudity, it was like a horror slash porno.

4. Prom Night (I) (2008)

PG-13 | 88 min | Horror

17 Metascore

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup, Dana Davis

Votes: 38,156 | Gross: $43.87M

Should I really say. I haven't seen it but from what I've heard is that it sucked.

5. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

R | 98 min | Horror

38 Metascore

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

Director: Marcus Nispel | Stars: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Andrew Bryniarski, Erica Leerhsen

Votes: 152,346 | Gross: $80.57M

I actually didn't mind this. It was exactly like the original from what I remember. I saw it for the first time like 10-11 years ago, I was like 14 at the time, I didn't find it scary one bit, but I found this one to be kind of.

6. The Last House on the Left (2009)

R | 110 min | Horror, Thriller

42 Metascore

After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.

Director: Dennis Iliadis | Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Bowen

Votes: 100,341 | Gross: $32.75M

never seen the original, but still they should have just left it cause I saw this one and I found it to be incredibly boring and I had wanted to see it so bad.

7. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

35 Metascore

The spectre of a disfigured man haunts the children of the parents who murdered him, stalking and killing them in their dreams.

Director: Samuel Bayer | Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy

Votes: 107,428 | Gross: $63.08M

I love the original, I love it. They should have never made this cause it is so boring. I've only seen part of it and I could tell that it would not be good plus I've heard from a lot of people that it wasn't.

8. The Crow (2024)

Action, Crime, Fantasy | Completed

Soulmates Eric Draven and Shelly Webster are brutally murdered. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Eric sets out to seek revenge, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.

Director: Rupert Sanders | Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Danny Huston, Jordan Bolger, Laura Birn

I can't believe they are going to remake this. I think The Crow is awesome, no one can ever replace Brandon Lee. He will always be The Crow.

9. Total Recall (I) (2012)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

43 Metascore

A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.

Director: Len Wiseman | Stars: Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cranston, Kate Beckinsale

Votes: 266,291 | Gross: $58.88M

Really, how stupid can people be? Why remake it, it won't be better, remakes usually aren't.

10. Poltergeist (2015)

PG-13 | 93 min | Horror, Thriller

47 Metascore

A family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces must come together to rescue their youngest daughter after the apparitions take her captive.

Director: Gil Kenan | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements, Saxon Sharbino

Votes: 61,058 | Gross: $47.43M

Again, what the HELL? I am so sick of this.

11. Carrie (2002 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.

Director: David Carson | Stars: Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, Rena Sofer, Kandyse McClure

Votes: 11,459

I know they made it into a tv movie, never saw it, never will.

12. Weird Science (1985)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

46 Metascore

Two high-school nerds use a computer program to literally create the perfect woman, who promptly turns their lives upside-down.

Director: John Hughes | Stars: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton

Votes: 97,370 | Gross: $23.83M

I don't know if this is going to be remade but I read some where that it might, I don't know.

13. The Karate Kid (2010)

PG | 140 min | Action, Drama, Family

61 Metascore

Work causes a single mother to move to China with her young son; in his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master.

Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith, Taraji P. Henson, Wenwen Han

Votes: 205,412 | Gross: $176.59M

14. The Stepfather (2009)

PG-13 | 101 min | Mystery, Thriller

33 Metascore

Michael Harding (Penn Badgely) returns home from military school to find his mother Susan (Sela Ward) happily in love and living with her new boyfriend David (Dylan Walsh). As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there to help.

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Amber Heard

Votes: 38,673 | Gross: $29.06M

I haven't seen either but still remake of a classic horror movie.

15. The Exorcist (1973)

R | 122 min | Horror

83 Metascore

When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 454,740 | Gross: $232.91M

I know a lot of people thought this was more funny than scary, which I find it more disturbing than funny. I can't understand how it's more funny. Anyways, this better not be remade, it's been like 46 years since this was made hopefully it will be just left alone.

16. The Godfather (1972)

R | 175 min | Crime, Drama

100 Metascore

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

Votes: 2,011,287 | Gross: $134.97M

This movie is a real classic and it's ancient. Never seen any of them cause they are all so freakin long but I know that they are very good, so hopefully this will never be remade along with the the 2nd and 3rd.

17. Blade Runner (1982)

R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

84 Metascore

A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos

Votes: 822,762 | Gross: $32.87M

18. Ghostbusters (1984)

PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

71 Metascore

Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis

Votes: 449,744 | Gross: $238.63M

I know it has a sequel, which was really stupid and a 3rd is in the making but I heard they may remake this one, they better not.

19. The Terminator (1984)

R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

84 Metascore

A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield

Votes: 923,756 | Gross: $38.40M

It hasn't been remade yet, but there have been 4 terrible sequels, not including T2.

20. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure

86 Metascore

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies

Votes: 1,036,559 | Gross: $248.16M

21. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

PG | 102 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

92 Metascore

Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.

Directors: Victor Fleming, King Vidor | Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr

Votes: 428,456 | Gross: $2.08M

22. Jaws (1975)

PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

87 Metascore

When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary

Votes: 659,168 | Gross: $260.00M

I read on imdb that they were thinking of it, remaking this. Why bother?

23. Alien (1979)

R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

89 Metascore

The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 949,927 | Gross: $78.90M



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