I just saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and it was awful. Just pure shit. Although technically it wasn't itself a remake but a prequel to a remake it made me think - are there any good remakes? Well ofcourse there are but I can only think of two:
The Thing which is a remake of The Thing from Another World. The remake is scary and cool looking while the original is basically just a campy 50's sci-fi matinee flick (well, maybe better than most from that time but still pretty lame and dated.)
The Fly is also far scarier and far less campy than the original.
um...there're been a rash of shitty horror remakes lately.
The first Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake - sacrilegious pop garbage.
Dawn of the Dead - much more urgent and scary than the original but I wouldn't say it was better really. I guess it's not really that shitty now that I think of it.
and a there are a bunch that I saw the original but have yet to see the remake. but I hear they all suck -
Amityville Horror
The Hills Have Eyes
The Fog
House of Wax
When a Stranger Calls
The Wicker Man
So any others? Horror or otherwise that are any good or have completely sullied the name of the original.