8 Movie Remakes That Were Completely Unnecessary

We live in an age of the remake. That every film you've ever loved is going to be remade soon is just a fact of life now, and the studio heads pulling the strings couldn't care less how much you complain. That's because they know that, at the end of the day, there's a good chance you'll complain your way into watching the remake of that movie you adore - if only to see how bad it is - and further line their pockets regardless.

Brogan Morris

Published: Jan 19, 2016 01:51 pm

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6) Let Me In

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Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In is a modern classic of the horror genre, with a fresh angle on the vampire mythos that combines an icy realism with goth-inflected legend. So when an American remake was announced, fans reacted with predictable outrage: why remake something that’s already flawless just because the original requires English-speaking viewers to read subtitles?

Turns out the fans needn’t have worried – not because the film isn’t actually half bad (Cloverfield and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves is a much better filmmaker than a cash-in remake deserved), but because Let Me In tanked. People weren’t missing much they couldn’t already get in the Swedish-language version anyway: it’s not quite shot-for-shot like Van Sant’s Psycho, but the story and scene order of Let Me In is near enough the same as Let the Right One In.

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