The Best Horror Movie Remakes

Updated March 8, 2020 42.0k votes 3.6k voters 92.3k views69 items

List RulesHorror film reboots or remakes, including other languages & international versions. No sequels.

A list of the best horror movie remakes. Are you looking for newer versions of an old horror movie favorite? Browse through this list of the best horror movie remakes to see if a more recent and exciting version of an old favorite horror movie is available to watch. Ranked in order of most popular horror movie remake to least popular, you can easily see which horror movie remakes are considered the best. If your favorite horror movie remake is on the bottom of the list, you can vote for it to get it raised to the top. Then, everyone else can enjoy watching a great horror movie remake based on your voting.

If you don’t see a particularly good horror movie remake listed here, go ahead and add it to the list. You can also copy and paste from this list to make your own favorite list of horror movie remakes. An old-time favorite horror movie is “The Haunting” from the ‘60s. But the newer version with Owen Wilson gives this oldie an exciting twist, and is well worth watching.

So go ahead and browse through the list of horror movie remakes. You may spot a modern version of an old favorite horror movie that you didn’t know existed. Pick out a few new ones, and watch the old version and the remake all in the same night to compare the two versions of horror movies!

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The Thing
Kurt Russell, Keith David
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Directed by: John Carpenter
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Dawn of the Dead
Ving Rhames, Ty Burrell
Released: 2004
Directed by: Zack Snyder
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The Fly
Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum
Released: 1986
Directed by: David Cronenberg
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It
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Released: 2017
Directed by: Andy Muschietti
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The Ring
Naomi Watts, Pauley Perrette
Released: 2002
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Released: 1992
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
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The Hills Have Eyes
Emilie de Ravin, Vinessa Shaw
Released: 2006
Directed by: Alexandre Aja
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Evil Dead
Jane Levy, Jessica Lucas
Released: 2013
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Cape Fear
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Released: 1991
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
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The Crazies
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Released: 2010
Directed by: Breck Eisner
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House on Haunted Hill
Ali Larter, Famke Janssen
Released: 1999
Directed by: William Malone
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jessica Biel, R. Lee Ermey
Released: 2003
Directed by: Marcus Nispel
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Robert Duvall, Jeff Goldblum
Released: 1978
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
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Night of the Living Dead
Tony Todd, Bill Moseley
Released: 1990
Directed by: Tom Savini
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Child's Play
Gabriel Bateman, Aubrey Plaza
Released: 2019
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Thirteen Ghosts
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Released: 2001
Directed by: Steve Beck
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Halloween
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Released: 2007
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Let Me In
Chloë Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins
Released: 2010
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I Spit on Your Grave
Sarah Butler, Andrew Howard
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Dracula
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
Released: 1958
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The Grudge
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Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
Released: 1959
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The Haunting
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Liam Neeson
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