Remakes of Remakes of Remakes, Oh My

So my boyfriend, the horror geek, dragged me to see Rob Zombie's Halloween two weeks ago, and today we randomly started talking about the millions and gazillions of horror film remakes that were made in the last five years. I'm not much of a horror movie buff because I still have nightmares like a five-year-old, which is funny because Steve has pretty much every horror film ever made, autographed posters from George A. Romero (and countless other horror movie greats), checks his Fangoria page every hour and attends horror festivals religiously. Yeah, I was the oddball out in my NYU lacrosse t-shirt at Texas Frightmare with Romero and Troma film creator Lloyd Kaufman (by the way, I LOVE him.) What can I say, Steve just has to put up with my Girls Next Door and Food Network marathons from now on.

Today we talked about how Hollywood is dead and there are no more original ideas for movies anymore. Everything is pretty much remade, and then remade again... and again... and again. House of Wax, Amityville Horror, Dawn of the Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Hills Have Eyes are all remakes. Hollywood is going international, taking horror movies from Japan and Korea and putting an American spin on them. They have already done so with The Ring (Japanese "Ringu") and The Grudge (their "Ju-on.") That's where that creepy little kid came from. Premonition, featuring Sandra Bullock, is a remake of a Japanese film. Even Dark Water with Jennifer Connelly. To no surprise, Hollywood is currently working on remakes of Oldboy, The Eye, and the Korean film Battle Royale. Oh they aren't stopping there, no sir. There are rumors circulating of remaking Poltergeist, Friday the 13th, and Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. George A. Romero's Day of the Dead and The Crazies aren't getting away either, according to Steve's buddies on Fangoria.

This Halloween, I look forward to seeing Trick or Treat (the preview is on my limited edition, Best Buy double disc package with the little Spartan helmet of 300... ooooh yeah). I don't care if all the horror geeks like Steve predict that it will be lame, I just want to see a scary movie that I "haven't seen before," if you know what I'm sayin'.