Original vs. Remake

Maybe it's been a too long since I saw the original but I remember it being much better. First of all I thought the remake got too carried away with it's gore. The original at least new it was scarier and more dramatic if you imply, rather than directly show. In the remake there are scenes where they show gore, for the sake of gore. Such as showing the knife wounds close up. Whenever there is a knife wound the director, had to have the camera close up, for literally each one.

In the original most of the stabbings were not directly shown. They showed looks on characters faces, and you saw blood on hands and clothes, but not close up fetish style like the remake. The remake showed the brains blow up in the microwave, and caused more of an eye roll, at least in me, than actually scaring me. In the original the director knew, we did not need to see the chainsaw enter the guy's head. Just hearing it while seeing the dad's face was enough.

Same with biting the penis off. No gore at all, but in the remake they showed gore close up, in all the stabbings, amputations, etc. When the dad paralyzed Krug, they showed the close up scalpel go in and everything.

Even in the dad's opening scene, he is in an operating room, and they show lots of blood on a patient. The bad guys aren't even in this scene, and there is no danger and they still feel they need to show blood, just cause they can.

Same with the villain getting his nose stitched up. They put the camera close up, when they could have just implied it easily. Not even a sequence of horror is happening here, and you still have to put the camera in every type of cut going into a body.

This is why I prefer the original cause it did not have such a fetish for the violence. The only time they really put the camera up close to the wounds was the intestine scene. But this was not to show gore for the sake of gore. They were trying to show how sick Sadie was.

I also thought that the villains, particularly Sadie and Krug, were portrayed much more evil and menacingly in the original. Krug is a sadist who wanted to humiliate the girls and bring them down psychologically first. Where as in the remake he was just pissed off, cause they wanted to escape. Not bad, but more of a stereotypical pissed off movie bad guy, compared to the original sadist, which most movies do not have as a villain really.

Sadie was also a much better sick psycho in the original. In the remake she was played kind of bimbo-ish by comparison.

So for these reasons I remember the original being better, but it's one of those movies I will watch again, to see if I spot what all the hate is about.

If you will never see the remake, then why are you on this board?