American remakes of foreign horror movies have been around for years. Can anyone name an instance where the English language remake has been BETTER than the original?
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MichaelKeene
Aug 04, 2017
I agree about The Ring. I honestly never understood the hype around Ringu, and so I'd go so far as to say that The Ring is immensely superior. Ringu is a fine little supernatural drama, but it's not particularly scary, nor is it as nuanced as people like to say.
Funny Games is also pretty great. Hard to say which one is better, but I could definitely see the remake being the superior film. It's at very least technically superior.
But yeah... that's all I could come up with as well. There's been a number of superior remakes to foreign films in other genres (The Departed, for example), but horror is a tough nut to crack.
I agree about The Ring. I honestly never understood the hype around Ringu, and so I'd go so far as to say that The Ring is immensely superior. Ringu is a fine little supernatural drama, but it's not particularly scary, nor is it as nuanced as people like to say.
Funny Games is also pretty great. Hard to say which one is better, but I could definitely see the remake being the superior film. It's at very least technically superior.
But yeah... that's all I could come up with as well. There's been a number of superior remakes to foreign films in other genres (The Departed, for example), but horror is a tough nut to crack.