What is it about horror movies that make them so ripe for remakes -- often baaad remakes? Word is still out on the upcoming redos of My Bloody Valentine (in 3-D!) and Friday the 13th, but there are some horror remakes that got it right, so for every Psycho, we’ve got Dawn of the Dead. Here are the 10 we liked best.
10. The Grudge (2004)
This English-language remake of the 2003 Japanese Ju-On is a keeper. The creepy Japanese setting, in which a young aid (Sarah Michelle Gellar) gets caught up in the mysteries of one seriously haunted house, scared the hell out of audiences. Helmed by the same director of the Japanese original, nothing is lost in the translation.
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