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Which one is scarier this or the remake.....?


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The 1979 original.









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Original is better by leaps and bounds. Remake is stupid, boring garbage. If the types of movies that you like are mindless slasher-fests with bad acting and lack critical thinking then watch the very boring remake. Just to point out, remake is not a slasher-fest but maybe that would have helped that movie.

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This original is better by far. The remake was so dumb because the girl did EVERYTHING you don't do in a situation like that. It was even spoofed in SCREAM and then they do the remake of "When A Stranger Calls" and have the character go and do everything that a person in the present day wouldn't do because we have been inundated with horror movies from the 70s and 80s that follow a formula, so audiences already know the tricks, which made the movie more of a farce than a horror movie. I was actually rooting for the killer in the remake.

This is why it makes it very difficult for newer type horror movies to compete.



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they are equal

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This one has a great opener, but the rest of the movie is just boring. The ending is okay, but by then, it's not even worth it.

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they're both garbage.

"when a stranger calls back" is the one that's sort of OK

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The Remake is scarier and a better movie and actually is a horror movie....FYI I am not saying the remake is good lol. This movie is not good either..But the opening 20 minutes of this movie is the best part, but then the movie goes into a weird story of the killer and it gets rid of all the scaryness and turns into a thriller.

The remake has a few good scenes....Honestly the best of all is Black Christmas and the TV sequel when a stranger calls back.

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