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

Chris 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,...

Posted 4 years ago

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

Posted 6 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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....

Original Vs. Remake: Suspiria

Posted 7 years ago

A remake of Dario Argento's 1977 classic SUSPIRIA spent some time in development hell, and many fans hoped the project would never emerge from that hell, because how could a remake possibly live up to the unique style Argento brought to...

Original Vs. Remake: Willard

Posted 7 years ago

Director Glen Morgan's 2003 version of the "a boy and his rats" story WILLARD was just released on Blu-ray this week (you can pick up a copy HERE), reaching the format about a year and a half after the first version of...

Original vs Remake: Psycho

Posted 11 years ago

Last week’s was a rather intriguing edition of Original Vs. Remake, with both versions of THE AMITYVILLE HORROR finding support among the horror crowd. Both films are a mixed bag in my opinion, so the fact that our competition ended...

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