5 Horror Movies That Need Remakes

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While it's tempting to want to see remakes of old favorite films, there should definitely be a good reason to make a new version. Maybe a character needs to be updated and more diverse. Maybe the themes are timeless so another film makes sense. Or maybe the movie is so celebrated and beloved that it's a good financial idea to give it another go.

There have been countless remakes of popular horror movies with mixed results. While House On Haunted Hill (1999) is a lot of fun, Poltergeist (2015) doesn't live up to the original. There are a few horror movies from the '90s and 2000s that could definitely use remakes and it would be interesting to see how filmmakers would tell these stories today.

5 Best Horror Movie Remakes

A few years ago, there was talk of a reboot of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and according to Digital Spy, it has been several years since there have been any updates. The plan was to make Buffy more diverse, and so it seems like that could be achieved with a movie. This would also work since fans have a lot of thoughts about the Buffy TV series, and not everyone was excited about a reboot. Making a new film seems like a good idea since it could be its own thing.

The 1992 film is too cheesy to be enjoyable, as there's often a fine line, and while Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson) does fight vampires just like Sarah Michelle Gellar's character does in the TV series, the film is nowhere as good as the show. Some people say the '90s was a bad decade for horror, and while that's debatable, the Buffy movie is definitely disappointing.

The Faculty is a '90s horror movie that holds up and the premise seems like it would work even better today. The movie is both a fun story with science-fiction elements and a discussion