[this article may contain some minor spoilers for both versions of Suspiria]
If there’s anything more scrutinized than a remake of a movie that was good to begin with, it’s definitely a remake of a good horror movie. The last decade has given scary movie aficionados much anxiety and concern as they’ve watched countless favorites get a fresh coat of paint with a splash of glitz while sacrificing the quality that made the originals stand out in the first place, reaching a point where the remake craze became joke fodder in the late Wes Craven’s Scream 4 when potential victim Kirby (Hayden Panettiere) is asked to name the “remake of the groundbreaking horror movie” that jump started the craze. And what does she do? She lists practically every classic in a minute, a most damning reflection of the direction the genre had gone in the hands of major studios. Untouched at that time, one of those classics...
If there’s anything more scrutinized than a remake of a movie that was good to begin with, it’s definitely a remake of a good horror movie. The last decade has given scary movie aficionados much anxiety and concern as they’ve watched countless favorites get a fresh coat of paint with a splash of glitz while sacrificing the quality that made the originals stand out in the first place, reaching a point where the remake craze became joke fodder in the late Wes Craven’s Scream 4 when potential victim Kirby (Hayden Panettiere) is asked to name the “remake of the groundbreaking horror movie” that jump started the craze. And what does she do? She lists practically every classic in a minute, a most damning reflection of the direction the genre had gone in the hands of major studios. Untouched at that time, one of those classics...
- 6/6/2018
- by William Coffey
- Age of the Nerd
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