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Category Archives: Remake

May 16th, 2013: Desperado (1995)

Leave a comment Posted in Action, Crime, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Remake, Revenge, Sequel Tagged Antonio Banderas, Cheech Marin, Columbia Pictures, Danny Trejo, drug dealers, hit man, knives, mariachi, Mexico, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, triple threat

May 3rd, 2013: Dracula aka The Horror of Dracula (1958)

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Dracula, Gothic Horror, Horror, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, The Original, Vampires Tagged Anthony Hinds, before they were famous, Bram Stoker, Britain, Christopher Lee, freely adapted, Hammer, Jimmy Sangster, Michael Carreras, Michael Gough, Peter Cushing, sunlight kills, Switzerland, Terrence Fisher, vampire hunter

March 25th, 2013: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

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Leave a comment Posted in War Movies, Adaptation, Remake, Event Film, Fantasy, Sequel, Ghost, Monster, Computer Animation, Movie of the Day, Sword and Sorcery, Road Trip, Epic, Based on a Book, Last Stand Tagged Viggo Mortensen, New Line Cinema, Best Picture, Best Director, insanity, cursed objects, Best Film Editing, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Best Visual Effects, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, under siege, mastermind, Brad Dourif, sorcerer, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, John Rhys-Davies, Elijah Wood, Peter Jackson, Best Costume Design, curse, New Zealand, Wing-Nut Productions, prophecy, wizards, Howard Shore, Best Makeup, Bruce Spence, Ian Holm, JRR Tolkien, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Andy Serkis, Liv Tyler, Karl Urban, Fran Walsh, Sean Astin, Best Original Song, Annie Lenox, Best Sound Mixing, Lord of the Rings, orcs, elves, Hobbits, dwarves, self immolation

March 19th, 2013: House of Wax (1953)

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Leave a comment Posted in 3D, Camp, Horror, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Wax Museum Tagged Andre De Toth, before they were famous, burn victim, burning, Can Can dancers, Carolyn Jones, Charles Bronson, cult, fire, gimmick, insanity, juggler, mad artist, musical interlude, mutes, sculptor, Vincent Price, Warner Brothers, wax figure, wax museum

March 11th, 2013: The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Horror, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Remake, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Anthony Hinds, Britain, Christopher Lee, Drive-In, Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster, grave robbing, graveyard, Hammer, Hazel Court, Jimmy Sangster, mad scientist, mad surgeon, Mary Shelley, Michael Carreras, Peter Cushing, reanimation, scientists, Terence Fisher

Nightmare at Noon aka Death Street USA

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Disaster, Horror, Independent, Quick Reviews, Remake, Reviews, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, Western, Zombies Tagged albinos, Bo Hopkins, Brion James, drifter, Drive-In, ex-cop, George Kennedy, Hans Zimmer, helicopter, hitchhiking, intelligent zombies, Kimberly Beck, lawyers, motor home, rip-off, scientists, sheriff, tool using zombies, vigilantes, virus zombies, Wings Hauser, yuppies

February 16th, 2013: The Mummy (1999)

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4 Comments Posted in Action, Adventure, Comedy, Event Film, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Mummy, Period Film, Remake, Romance, Screwball, Slapstick, The Original Tagged "re-imagined", "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", Arnold Vosloo, before they were famous, biblical allusion, Brendan Fraser, buried alive, buried treasure, cult, cult leader, cultists, deserted city, doomed expedition, Egypt, Egyptians, Erick Avari, ethnic stereotype, fire, French Foreign Legion, Great War veteran, Jerry Goldsmith, John Hannah, Jonathan Hyde, Kevin J. O'Connor, Legionnaire, librarian, library, Oded Fehr, Odious Comic Relief, pilots, plague, Rachel Weisz, reincarnation, riverboat, scarab, secret society, sorcerer, Stephen Sommers, storm, thief, Universal Pictures, World War One

Up Tight!

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Crime, Drama, Full Reviews, Independent, Issue Film, Movie of the Day, Remake, Reviews, Tragedy Tagged alcoholic, betrayal, Booker T and the MGs, Civil Rights, Cleveland, Dick Anthony Williams, Frank Silvera, housing project, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Juanita Moore, Jules Dassin, Julian Mayfield, Martin Luther King assassination, Max Julien, militants, paramilitary group, prostitutes, racist cops, racists, Raymond St. Jacques, revolution, revolutionaries, Robert DoQui, Ruby Dee, stilted dialogue, Time is Tight

January 4th, 2013: Blind Fury (1989)

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Buddy Flick, Movie of the Day, Remake, Road Trip Tagged blind, casino, corrupt cops, cult, drug dealers, drugs, ex-husband, ex-wife, homage, Las Vegas, Lisa Blount, master swordsman, Meg Foster, Miami, Nick Cassavetes, Noble Willingham, Phillip Noyce, Randall "Tex" Cobb, remake of a foreign film, Rick Overton, Rutger Hauer, samurai swords, Sho Kusugi, stealth remake, sword cane, Terry O'Quinn, Tri-Star

December 9th, 2012: Bulldog Drummond (1929)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Play, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Remake, Thriller Tagged awful gay stereotypes, Best Actor Nominee, Best Art Direction Nominee, gay sidekick, Great War veteran, Gregg Toland, Joan Bennett, kidnapping, Montagu Love, Pre-Code, Ronald Coleman, Samuel Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn Company, United Artists, veteran, yellow peril

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