@ the Movies/ The Crazies
Zombie-ish movie is just another in a long line of remakes of horror "classics" from the 1970s and '80s BY EMIL TIEDEMANN H ORROR movie remakes are a dime a dozen these days, as Hollywood alum continue to rehatch familiar stories of slash and gore for a new generation of moviegoers. The concept has its highlights, but for the most part these films simply borrow infamous cinematic characters to evoke nostalgia...and ticket sales! In fact, ever since director Marcus Nispel and producer Michael Bay resurrected Tobe Hooper 's 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003, movie studios have been busy ransacking the archives of Hollywood's horror genre, buying up the rights to reimagine the next slasher franchise. Nispel's slick remake opened at No.1 shortly before Halloween of '03 and earned more than ten times its budget, thus inspiring many more similar horror movie treatments over the next seven years. Not too far behind, in 2004, was a retelling of G...