The Best Horror Movie Remakes
List Rules
Horror film reboots or remakes, including other languages & international versions. No sequels.
The best horror movie remakes can accumulate many things. Whether it strictly be a faithful adaptation that ups the acting and visuals for a more modern age, or a completely different retelling of a classic story. Horror movie remakes often are the most controversial and talked about films in the genre, but they can also produce some of the biggest and best stories horror has to offer.
From terrifying retellings of films like Dawn of the Dead and The Ring, to completely new takes on classics like The Thing and Fright Night, these horror remakes have a little bit of something that every horror fan loves. So be sure to vote up the best horror movie remakes, and check out the best horror movies of all time for even more horror goodness.
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- 1David Foster, Lawrence Turman
- Actors: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, Richard Dysart, Richard Masur
- Released: 1982
- Directed by: John Carpenter
In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings ...more - 2
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Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Seth Grahame-Smith- Actors: Jaeden Martell, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: Andy Muschietti
Seven young outcasts in Derry, Maine, are about to face their worst nightmare -- an ancient, shape-shifting evil that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children. Banding ...more - 3Stuart Cornfeld
- Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: David Cronenberg
When scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) completes his teleportation device, he decides to test its abilities on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a housefly slips in during the process, leading to a ...more - 4Marc Abraham
- Actors: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Zack Snyder
When her husband is attacked by a zombified neighbor, Ana (Sarah Polley) manages to escape, only to realize her entire Milwaukee neighborhood has been overrun by the walking dead. After being ...more - 5Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald
- Actors: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Jane Alexander
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Gore Verbinski
It sounds like just another urban legend -- a videotape filled with nightmarish images leads to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. Newspaper reporter Rachel Keller ...more - 6Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Fuchs, Charles Mulvehill
- Actors: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant
- Released: 1992
- Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. Gary Oldman plays Dracula whose lonely soul is determined to reunite with his lost love, Mina (Winona Ryder). In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of ...more
