John Nolte: The 5 Greatest Horror Movie Remakes of All Time
We’re all tired of remakes and reboots and reimaginings… Granted, they are not all bad. Okay, most of them are. In the world of horror, lousy remakes abound, but here are five exceptions.

We’re all tired of remakes and reboots and reimaginings… Granted, they are not all bad. Okay, most of them are. In the world of horror, lousy remakes abound, but here are five exceptions.
Osgood Perkins is a very good director. With The Monkey, he mostly hits what he aims for, which is one grim chuckle after another.
Audition (1999) is one of those classic, must-see horror movies I’d heard about and finally decided (after only a quarter-century) to pull the trigger on.
Hollywood horror maestro John Carpenter believes former President Donald Trump is like one of the mind-control alien creatures in his 1988 movie “They Live.”
The socialist regime of Venezuela launched a brutal campaign against dissidents this weekend, branding their homes to scare them out of continuing to protest and forcing detained individuals to issue heavily edited “apologies” on social media spliced with media from Hollywood horror movies.
“The Exorcist” franchise will be shifting gears by going in a bold, new direction after last year’s sequel-reboot flopped with both critics and audiences alike.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a message to Hamas terrorists who are still fighting the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), hiding underground, or holding Israeli hostages: surrender — now.
Indiewire film critic David Ehrlich has bizarrely blasted “The Exorcist: Believer” for what he is calling its “anti-abortion messaging.”
Road horror takes place on the road, with our protagonists always on the move. Here are nine of my favorite movies that meet that criterion.
RKO left Val Lewton alone to make his movies, and the results saved the studio from bankruptcy and resulted in a run of timeless films that still entertain, provoke, and chill.
Any hope that the new horror movie “They/Them” will portray the pronoun crowd as the monsters they are will be immediately dashed upon reading recent interviews promoting the Blumhouse production. In fact, the movie appears to do the exact opposite of what the title suggests, showering generation woke with even more adoration.
A division of the Walt Disney Co. is set to release a gory cannibal movie about a doctor that dismembers and eats women. Searchlight Pictures — formerly Fox Searchlight — will distribute the indie horror movie “Fresh” through the Disney-owned Hulu, starting March 4.
The list of terrible remakes is endless, so let’s focus on the positive, on the seven greatest horror remakes of all time…
“Doctor Sleep” is visually faithful to Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “The Shining,” but it’s more like a course correction than a sequel, bringing the saga back in like with Stephen King’s original vision.
There’s fleeting suspense, bumps in the night. What’s missing, though, is any sense of an emotional undercurrent, the thing that gave the original a legitimate sense of dread and heartbreak.