Hollywood seems to be devoid of originality and creativity when it comes to filmmaking these days. For every new and original movie that opens at the mega-plex each weekend, a remake is waiting in the wings. While some movie remakes offer a chance for a whole new generation of moviegoers to experience a classic film, other remakes are nothing more than flimsy attempts for the studios to cash in and line their pockets with box office gold.
Every horror movie made in the last twenty years has been remade. From The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to A Nightmare on Elm Street, the current studios simply add 3-D and remarket these tired tales to adolescent kids willing to fork mover 10 dollars for a movie they were not born to see the first time around. Why not just rent the original? There are exceptions, of course. The Coen brother-s retelling of True Grit was an exceptional piece of storytelling and cinematography; it stayed honest to the original John Wayne version while also bringing something artistically new to the remake.
The worst remake, however, has got to be Psycho. It is a shot for shot remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic. How unoriginal.