Remake?

I think Hollywood needs to try to use more creativity and stop remaking movies. The remakes seem to get worse and worse. Plus... why do we have to have remakes anyway? I enjoy films being of their own time. People that only want a new version are missing the beauty of these films. I'm not saying that no movies are valuable in modern times. I just feel sadly that the creativity in writing the plots are more poor in many films today.

I have enjoyed special effects at times as much as anyone else, I admit that honestly, but I also have given up on most modern horror films due to the all effects weak plot premise. Part of the magic in the older ones I think has to do with the makers having to be more creative. They didn't have all the computerized effects, but they knew how to light a horror movie and set a mood better during the low budget days. It seems like more things were thought out in many movies. They built suspense and made you wait and become more and more interested in a horror movie as it progressed. Modern special effects have made many viewers feel that they must see constant effects, and very very soon.

Please understand that I grew up watching what someone else called the Golden Era of horror films. I'm not trying to talk badly about modern horror films. I realize that we all have our own opinions. I just thought someone else might understand some of my thoughts on here.

You know what? I'd actually hate Hell Night to be remade today. I mean, look
at all the 70s/80s horror films that been remade recently like... The Fog, The hills have eyes, Amityville Horror, etc... they all suck compared to the originals.

What makes Hell Night a great movie is that it is so atmospheric, like the old
black and white gothic horror movies of the 60s, The Hammer Horror's films, and the Roger Corman Edgar Allan Poe movies such as House of Usher, Pit and the pendulum, etc.

Like so many others have said, they don't make movies like this anymore. Any
movie with a haunted manor or castle, flickering torches, dark tunnels, creepy
gardens is worth a watch. Somethimes they are bad, but every once in a while you will discover a good movie like Hell Night. i Bet this would have been a great movie to watch at a drive-in.

Ashley Irons

It had lousy acting yes, but I think it had great atmosphere. Sure it was cheesy and cliched, but it was still pretty terrifying.

The only redeeming value of the movie was the gorgeous Linda Blair.

Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried

Remakes should not be done and if done do the same story as the original story off the original film.

I have bought the original version of the Fog 2 disc addition and I compared it to the remake I noticed the remake was a load of rubbish and nothing like the original it was over the top and boring.

At least with the original it had something about it with the characters and the atmosphere as well as the story plot.

As for the remake it had nothing to it my vote goes to the original films.

let's hope not .. need someone better than him to do it ...

Uh... No This movie should not be remade I mean look around these days a lot of films are being remade which is total *beep* I

Uhm, no, to answer your question. The new audience, if consisting of youths and not older viewers wanting a retro experience, would not have the same enjoyment by renting it as we older ones did when we first saw Hell Night, and it's just a matter of generational differences. Hell Night would be considered tame by today's youth and most just would not enjoy it as much as a new version, even if they did enjoy it as it is.

It doesn't have to have crappy CGI, annoying top 40 somgs or CW stars to be remade and turn out fine for young people and older ones too. But it could be sour if it's remade by a group of imbeciles who can't see past a dollar sign. Yet it could also have no CGI or limited but good CGI, and well-done music or good modern songs, and no CW teen-fodder actors. I think your fears are valid, but not necessarily a certainty.

I always liked watching the old-time Universal horror films, but they come from my folks' time, and I will always prefer to see a Hammer version over any of them. For example, Karloff's Mummy bored me as a kid but Christopher Lee's was fabulously frightening. And at the time of the Hammer remakes, there was a similar outcry about excessive violence and pandering to the youth market in those films vs the Universal series, and how it was silly to redo films already done well.



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The Eyes of the City are Mine! Mother Pressman / Anguish (1987)

No more remakes!