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Remakes SUCK!

Have you noticed how there’s always a horror remake coming out? Always. Currently, you can see the remake of The Last House on the Left. But remakes are doomed to be pale versions of the original, and so in comparison, they suck.


Four Reasons Remakes Suck:

1) Additional, Unnecessary Crap: In the 2007 remake of Halloween, we see more of Michael Myers childhood. We see his family life; we see…stuff that just doesn’t help us fear Michael Myers. The great thing about the original Michael Myers was he was an unknown man in a featureless mask. We didn’t see his face. We hardly saw his family. He was a mystery, and we’re afraid of what we can’t see. But in the remake we get the white trash family, Michael talking as a child, and the mystery is gone. The fear is gone. Now he’s just a guy.

2) Random Changes: Speaking of Michael Myers’s family, in the original Halloween, we did see his parents ever so briefly. Not a clear shot or anything, but we see enough to get the idea. They seemed to be a typical, middle-class suburban family. In the remake, they are abusive white trash. It was scarier with the Myers family being quiet, “normal”. Now there’s reason for Michael to go crazy and kill people. His family is dysfunctional. He’s picked on at school…and with the logic added, the fear is lost.

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