Let me start by saying I love a good action thriller, and there have been many great adaptations of Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” over the years, but this one misses the mark entirely. While this entry tries so hard to be intense and suspenseful it still somehow ends up feeling like…
Tag: Remake
A Game of Death (1945) – Review
By 1945 director Robert Wise had already made a name for himself having helmed such classics as Curse of the Cat People and The Body Snatcher – with 1944’s Mademoiselle Fifi being his one critical failure – and today we will be looking at his fourth feature film, A Game of Death, which was a…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) – Review
Tackling a remake of a much-beloved classic was certainly a daunting task but in 1978 director Philip Kaufman set his sights on helming a remake of the 1950’s classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a film that blended the communist scare and science fiction in a not-too-subtle way, and made his own masterclass in paranoia.
The Fly (1986) – Review
When you think of the term “Body Horror” one filmmaker leaps readily to mind, David Cronenberg. While he’d been dabbling in that arena since his directorial debut with Shivers, which came out way back in 1975, it was in 1986 that he helmed his crowning achievement in this field of horror with his remake of…
Cat People (1982) – Review
Re-making a horror classic is always going to be tricky business as it opens you up for hard comparisons, but the most successful way to tackle such a daunting task is to simply take the general premise of the original and then go off in your own wild and different directions, David Cronenberg’s The Fly…