Remake was better
I found the remake so much better and more entertaining than the original. Who's with me?
shareWell theres better looking women in the remake so yeah I agree with you to a point but I love the original.
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MovieChat Forums > Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) Discussion > Remake was better
I'm not. The remake was modern horror garbage. Plus Eli Roth produced it, Yuck!
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes
havent seen the remake and as im not a fan ,generally of remakes,i dont think i will
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Anything Eli Roth is behind is garbage. The fact that he claims to have such a love for old school Horror yet backs a remake like this and calls Slither one of the best horror movies ever YET it's a 100% complete ripoff of Night Of The Creeps is pretty damn sad.
Boycott Eli and his *beep* movies. He's the Uwe Boll of horror.
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Hmm HAving seen both -- and liking both -- I cant say that one is really better than the other.
Although, the remake was much funnier, and had RObert Englund, so I have to give an ever so slight edge to the new one.
The remake was one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen. The characters were disgusting, although the director tried to make them seem noble, the acting was bad (except Robert Englund, who was awesome), the humor was base and stupid, and the dialogue was uninspired and dismal. The original was better.
shareI'm currently watching the remake NOW (after finishing the original this morning)...I'm halfway through it & its one of the few remakes I'd say that hold up well & are VERY entertaining.
And yes, the hotter then hot women help A LOT!
Still, considering the original was made on an anorexic budget way back during the infancy of "gore" films (1964), ya gotta give credit where credit is due. it opened MANY doors for films & filmakers to come.
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Recent:
2000 Maniacs (1964): 8/10
976-EVIL: 3/10
Hancock: 7/10
I like them both. Something about a creepy town full of nuts is just fun to watch!
shareWell about the womens hottness comparison. For the 60's those "original" women were pretty hot. Lewis always said Connie Mason was always window dressing for the most part.
For the present the women in 2001 Maniacs were "Modern" hot.
2001 at least didn't try to devlop some worthless plot and make the simple gore and violence comedy into some art film. Though if you thought the original had stereotypical characters the 2001 version had over the top versions. Racism and bigotry galore.
The "drawn and quartered" scene in the original was better executed I thought. In 2001 Maniacs it was too (cheap) digital effects looking even if you got to see all the limbs pulled out in close-up.
For the 60's those "original" women were pretty hot ... For the present the women in 2001 Maniacs were "Modern" hot.
I don't quite understand that. It seems to me that a pretty woman is a pretty woman no matter what the time era. It's not like that there have been advances in beauty.
I wouldn't consider all the women in the original to be among the prettiest women I've ever seen, but they do have a natural sort of quality that I don't often see nowadays.
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