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<\/a><\/p>\nHow do you improve on a movie that spawned an entire genre? That was the question Zack Synder had to answer when he remade George Romero\u2019s zombie classic Dawn of the Dead.<\/i><\/p>\n
Fortunately, Synder had a plan; make the zombies faster than Usain Bolt on a pair of rocketskates. Synder’s running flesh-munchers terrified audiences and breathed new life (death?) into the aging zombie genre.<\/p>\n
The Thing (1982)<\/h3>\n
John Carpenter\u2019s tale of a shape-shifting alien terrorising Kurt Russell and pals in Antarctica is actually a remake of 50s sci-fi classic The Thing from Another World<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The differences between the two are stark. Take the main alien,\u00a0for example. In The Thing from Another World, <\/i>it looks like this<\/strong>:<\/p>\n In the remake, it looks like this<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Yes, that is a man’s head with spider’s legs<\/p><\/div>\n Guess which one gave us nightmares?<\/p>\n Yep, the 80s gangster classic starring everyone\u2019s favourite insane drug lord is actually a remake of a 1932 film of the same name<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are 3 main differences between the 2 films: drugs, sex and violence. What a difference 50 years makes, eh?!<\/p>\n And, of course, there’s Tony himself. In the original, he’s a smooth Italian. In the remake, he’s a crazed Cuban played by Al Pacino and is nuttier than a squirrel’s cheek.<\/p>\n The original The Fly<\/i> is a 50s B-Movie in which a scientist becomes half-fly after accidently jumping in a teleportation pod with a common housefly. You probably know it better as a Treehouse of Horror<\/i> episode from\u00a0The Simpsons<\/em>.<\/p>\n David Cronenberg’s remake, however, poses the question: ‘what would happen if a man\u00a0actually<\/em> merged with a fly? The results, as you can imagine, are suitably gross.<\/p>\n The remake of The Fly<\/i>\u00a0is up there with \u201d\u02dcdodgy fried chicken after a night out\u2019 on the \u201d\u02dctop reasons people are sick\u2019 list and, as such, is one of the best horror films ever (re)made.<\/p>\n An American remake of a Hong Kong crime film (Infernal Affairs<\/em><\/a>)\u00a0sounds like a recipe for disaster \u201d\u201c unless Martin Scorsese happens to be in the director\u2019s chair.<\/p>\n Combining Scorsese\u2019s trademark style with a brilliant cast (Nicholson, Di Caprio, Damon and Wahlberg) and the best gangster-based plot since Goodfellas<\/i>, The Departed<\/i> was the 1st<\/sup> remake to win Best Film at the Oscars.<\/p>\n What remakes do you think deserve more credit? Let us know in the comments, on Facebook<\/a> or on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Scarface<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThe Fly<\/h3>\n
The Departed<\/h3>\n
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