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May 15, 2024 · Ranker Community. Updated May 15, 202482.7K views114 items. Ranked By. 51.6K votes. 3.3K voters. 11 reranks. Voting Rules. Only remade films based on (or copying) earlier movies, including short films and foreign movies. Latest additions: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, The Wages of Fear, Road House. Most divisive: War of the Worlds.
- Ocean’s Eleven
- Fright Night
- The Woman in Black
- The Wicker Man
- The Jungle Book
- True Grit
- Pet Sematary
- Poseidon
- Vanilla Sky
- Village of The Damned
It’s hard to beat a cast quite like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Cesar Romero, and like… ten other amazing people. But at least the Steven Soderberghremake knew exactly what it was up against when it compiled the stellar cast that it did. And boy was that first movie fun for it. Did it matter that the heist was as convoluted as a ch...
This might be a controversial opinion, but we liked the Fright Night remake much more than the original film. For starters, it was directed by Craig Gillespie -- whose other credits include Lars and the Real Girl and I, Tonya. And secondly there’s the crazy amazing cast, which includes Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette, and David Tennant. Oh right, and ...
Not enough people gave this film credit for its sheer creepiness alone -- not to mention that you get to see Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) be relentlessly harassed by a ghost. And not a fun playful ghost like Nearly Headless Nick, but a weird and mean ghost like that pervy Moaning Myrtle. And again -- this is a genuinely creepy film. It’s classic...
Look, we're not going to say that the 2006 version of The Wicker Man is better than the original. All we're going to say is that it features Nicolas Cagejogging around an island village sucker-punching various women while dressed in a full-body bear outfit. It’s up to you to decide what value you place on that. We would even argue that this remake ...
Considering that he’s partially responsible for the success of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, we don’t give Jon Favreau enough credit. He’s very consistently delighted us with the silliness of Elf to the more personal Chef. He also gave us Cowboys & Aliens, which is kinda amazing in a very different way. The Jungle Book is one of the few Dis...
Now that we’ve been reminded that John Wayne was a pretty problematic man, we think it’s safe to say that the 2010 Coen Brothers version of True Grit is officially more watchable than the original. That is assuming you put on the captions in order to understand Jeff Bridges. But while it comes with all kinds of heavy hitters like Josh Brolin and Ma...
We don’t care that it got terrible reviews; we're here to tell you that the new Pet Sematary is a good movie. Better than the original? No, probably not -- but the new ending was just as creepy (if not creepier). It also comes from the directors of Starry Eyes, a film any horror fan should absolutely see. Also, and we know this seems silly, but the...
Presented as yet another disaster movie, what strikes us about Poseidon is how surprisingly harrowing the struggle for survival plays out. It’s flat-out dark as our protagonists commit acts of sacrifice in order to escape their claustrophobic surroundings. There’s even a drowning sequence that will crush your heart. Seriously, it’s dark. And what a...
If you’ve had the pleasure of seeing the original Open Your Eyes you already know that Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky is not the superior of the two movies. That said, it did a lot of things right -- including casting Kurt Russell and Jason Lee. Also, Cameron Diazis downright chilling in this version… like the literal stuff of nightmares. And finally,...
The rules are simple: if you’re John Carpenter you are allowed to remake any film you want. We don’t care which. Shawshank Redemption? Do it, John. Sliding Doors? Weird choice, but sure. On the other hand, you should not -- under any circumstance -- remake a Carpenter film. There’s just no good reason to do it. But again, for John there’s no wrong ...
- Floating Weeds (1959) Film. The original: A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) It’s always interesting when directors remake their own film, but for the legendary Yasujiro Ozu, whose wistful dramas already so closely resemble each other, revisiting the plots of his previous work was never much of a radical idea.
- His Girl Friday (1940) Film. Comedy. The original: The Front Page (1931) Famously, director Howard Hawks gave this tale of dueling reporters a sex change, swapping the gender of ace reporter Hildy Johnson from male to female and casting Rosalind Russell against Cary Grant.
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Film. Action and adventure. The original: Yojimbo (1961) It’s impossible to contest the importance of Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, the movie that popularized the spaghetti Western worldwide, launched the big-screen career of Clint Eastwood, and inspired a wave of future filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino.
- Some Like it Hot (1959) Film. Comedy. The original: Fanfare of Love (1935) Some Like it Hot has become synonymous with the singular wit of Billy Wilder, but the classic Marilyn Monroe vehicle was actually the result of a bizarre game of Hollywood telephone.
An aggregate, unranked list of the 200 best movie Remakes. Ever. Period. The titles may change, but the song remains the same. And the titles don't change that often either. We try to avoid reboots (like almost every superhero movie) and new versions of classic stories (Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers, etc.).
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- 'The Thing' (1982) Although acknowledged as a sci-fi classic of its time, 1951’s The Thing From Another World was heavily restricted by its lack of technology of the era.
- 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) When fans think of The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 version directed by Victor Fleming is likely the first movie to come to mind.
- 'Scarface' (1983) Believe it or not, Brian De Palma's iconic 1983 crime movie Scarface wasn't the first iteration of the epic story. It's actually a loose remake of director Howard Hawks' 1983 movie, which has the same title and basic plot.
- 'Dune' (2021) Heralded as a landmark science fiction novel, adapting Frank Herbert’s Dune is a gargantuan task, but it is surprisingly among the movies that have been remade more than once.
Jun 17, 2022 · Nothing is more cringe-worthy as a superfan of a certain movie than to see a Hollywood reboot or remake it in an unsuccessful way—some superfans may even consider successful remakes of their favorite film questionable—but like many things, the film industry is cyclical.
Nov 20, 2018 · 121 Movie Remakes and Reboots Currently in the Works. From Dune to Shrek, behold our list of film reboots and remakes in development... By Simon Brew, Nick Harley | November 20, 2018. | 0.
