Horror movie remakes are common, but sometimes they manage to be even scarier than the film they're remaking. Horror has been around since the earliest days of cinema, and the nightmarish genre has helped push boundaries onscreen in each successive generation. The best filmmakers are experts at finding out what scares an audience, and exploiting that fear.

Though original horrors arrive yearly, classic stories are irresistible, and remakes bring those tales to new audiences. Other times, a classic horror film could use some modern updating in a remake that makes it more applicable to the current era. Finally, a lot of horror remakes offer filmmakers a chance to improve upon older movies that were almost great.

Whatever the reason, horror is the genre that has seen the most remakes, an

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