Most ridiculous attempts at remakes

[The Burgomaster]

Some remakes are good, some are bad, but some just make you say, "who the HELL had the idea for this????"

Examples:

CASABLANCA starring Humphrey Bogart, compared to CABOBLANCO starring Charles Bronson.

KING KONG starring Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong, compared to KING KONG starring Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges and Charles Grodin.

VANISHING POINT starring Barry Newman, compared to VANISHING POINT starring Viggo Mortensen.

THUNDERBALL starring Sean Connery, compared to NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN starring Sean Connery

[Mr_Vindictive]

One of the worst remakes that I have ever seen would have to be The Vanishing.  Spoorloos was a fantastic thriller with extreme amounts of tension dripping off of it.  The Vanishing was crap.  No tension, no thrills, just standard american film.

[George]

Planet of the Apes and Psycho both have to be up there.

[Flangepart]

Remember when they remade It conquored the world into Zontar, thing from Venus? Well you remember it...i'm bitter.......

[The Burgomaster]

Skaboi wrote:

"The Vanishing was crap. No tension, no thrills, just standard american film."

What makes it worse is that the original VANISHING and the U.S. remake were directed by the same person!

[Mr_Vindictive]

I had forgotten all about the fact that it was the same director!

Jesus, that is bad......

[AndyC]

It really says something about Larry Buchanan that he made inferior knock-offs of Roger Corman movies.

[Fearless Freep]

I read Ken's latest review over at Jabootu at about a Larry Buchanan movie and that's what occured to me.  "You mean someone actually made a career of ripping of Roger Corman!?!?"

[Cullen]

It's not like his original stuff was any better.  "It's Alive" and "Curse of the Swamp Creature" were terrible, terrible films, full of pain for the viewers.  Parts of my brain are dedicated to remembering bits and pieces of his films, just to torture me at odd points in the day...

Gah!
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[The Burgomaster]

Cullen wrote:

> It's not like his original stuff was any better.  "It's Alive"
> and "Curse of the Swamp Creature" were terrible, terrible
> films, full of pain for the viewers.  Parts of my brain are
> dedicated to remembering bits and pieces of his films, just to
> torture me at odd points in the day...
>
> Gah!
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>
Ah, yes . . . CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE . . . with all that annoying cigarette smoke and that irritating ceiling fan!

[SkullNinja]

Here is the one that boggled me severely.

Dance of the Damned (1988) was remade as To Sleep with a Vampire (1993). A little close together if you ask me.