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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) vs Tomb Raider (2018): Original vs Remake

Posted 3 years ago

Lara Croft needs no introduction. If you grew up in the 90s, you remember her one-of-a-kind shape racing across your monitor in the Tomb Raider games, one of the earliest blockbuster video game franchises. And, of course, anything that enters...

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Dune (1984) vs Dune (2021): Original vs Remake

Posted 3 years ago

Released in 1965, the novel “Dune”, written by author Frank Herbert is a literary masterpiece that inspired countless projects such as Star Trek and Star Wars. It has long been considered “unfilmable” due to its sprawling mythology, glossary of sci-fi...

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Total Recall (1990) vs Total Recall (2012): Original vs Remake

Posted 3 years ago

In 1990, Arnold Schwarzenegger took a hyper-violent hallucinatory head trip to Mars with the sci-fi action blockbuster Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven. It became an instant classic, and one of Arnie’s biggest hits. More than two decades later, another...

Face-Off: It: Part 2 1990 vs. It: Chapter Two 2019

Posted 5 years ago

When IT: CHAPTER TWO was released into theatres last September, I put together a Face-Off between the first part of the 1990 IT mini-series and the first IT movie – a Face-Off you can read right HERE. Now that IT:...

Original Vs. Remake: The Shining

Posted 5 years ago

A sequel to THE SHINING is something I never really expected to see, but in 2013 Stephen King went ahead and wrote the sequel novel DOCTOR SLEEP, so now we're getting a cinematic adaptation of that book courtesy of director...

Face-Off: It: Part 1 1990 vs. It: Chapter One 2017

Posted 6 years ago

With IT: CHAPTER TWO now in theatres, the horror community is again experiencing some "IT Fever", helping push the film's global box office to $200 million within its first week of release. So while the final battle between the Losers...

Face-Off: Chucky 1988 vs. Chucky 2019

Posted 6 years ago

If you picked up the "Complete 7-Movie Collection" of Chucky movies when it was released a couple years ago (and if you haven't, you can do so at THIS LINK), that complete collection isn't going to be complete for much...

Original Vs. Remake: Hellboy

Posted 6 years ago

Okay, I know there will be some readers who will argue that the new HELLBOY film doesn't count as a remake because it's a different take on the source material, the comic book series created by Mike Mignola. But this...

Original Vs. Remake: Pet Sematary

Posted 6 years ago

Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer's version of the story Stephen King told in his 1983 novel PET SEMATARY will be coming to home video next Tuesday, July 9th, and you can pick up a copy of it at THIS LINK....

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