25 Movie Remakes that you didn't know you wanted: HORROR

I'm a Pepper...and a werewolf

Let's get one thing straight right off the top...no one is EVER allowed to remake An American Werewolf in London. Don't mess with perfection. Having said that, I could fill an entire list like this with Stephen King movies, but since most of these are all getting remade anyway (most notably The Stand, which will appear on CBS's All Access pay-to-stream service in the next year of so), I limited myself to the one I would most like to see remade (honorable mention: Firestarter). Thanks for joining me this week in this bit of revisionist fun, and thanks for all the comments and debate...Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

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Christine
One of the first Stephen King books I ever read (and one of the only ones to really scare me as a reader), the movie version was a good effort but flawed in several fundamental ways, most notably casting. It's like the people casting movie versions of books never bothered to read the books, although the recent "IT" movies did an outstanding job for the most part. This movie deserves to be worthy of its original material.

Bad doggie...

Wolfen
There's practically zero chance that any of you ever saw this 1981 film starring Albert Finney and Gregory Hines, but let me assure you that the original was a great late-night HBO scare-fest, especially one death scene toward the end that will literally haunt your dreams. An updated version with a new cast and modern effects would be the perfect vehicle for the still-resonant theme of what happens when the upper-class continuously oppresses a disadvantaged minority. Wait, what makes this a horror movie. Dude, it's a psychological thriller about Native American werewolves. Take that, Team Jacob!

That's an Excedrin headache

Scanners
Yes, this is the 1981 David Cronenberg movie where a guy's head explodes, but there's so much more to this weird, creepy, unsettlingly good horror film. It's about a small group of psychically powerful people ("Scanners") who are telepathic and telekinetic, and one of them is trying to organize them into a force to take over the world. Another one tries to stop him. Because it's Cronenberg, it's uber-weird. It's also super low-budget, so an update done right would just be epic. It would also be fun to bring Michael Ironside back this time in the Patrick McGoohan role.

The Lost Boys
Get past all the hype and the MTV gloss, and what do you have? A single mom with two teenage boys moves in with her weird, old beach bum dad in California. The younger son falls in with a bunch of geeky nerds who turn out to be vampire hunters (or so they claim). The older son falls in with a bunch of good-looking motorcyclists who turn out to be vampires. After years of romantic vampires (Twilight) and sexy-cool vampires (The Vampire Diaries), I'm ready for some good, old-fashioned scary-as-hell vampires, and remaking this Eighties film that had more flash than substance (with some memorable moments, for sure) might be just the ticket.

The Hidden
I'll bet cash money that none of you reading this have ever seen this gem from the Eighties. Kyle MacLachlan plays a human body inhabited by an alien being in pursuit of a criminal from his planet, a parasite who moves from one human body to the next in an ongoing spree of indiscriminate theft and murder. Michael Nouri is the human cop who teams up with the alien, eventually coming to believe the unbelievable. A great story that did the best they could with a very low budget, this entertaining sci-fi thriller would be a great big budget remake, especially for an innovative action director like someone from the MCU films.