The Thing is about a group of researchers in Antarctica who come across an alien who can assimilate and mic any living organism. The group works to destroy the alien before it can assimilate into society. They are able to blow up the base, but Childs and MacReady do not know if they can trust for it to truly be gone. The Ring is a movie about a videotape that will cause someone to die soon after they watch it. A girl who can burn mental images haunts the tapes, but after she is liberated it seems to stop. However, it was found out that making another video and showing it was the only way to stop being haunted. Let Me In is a movie about a vampire named Abby and her romance with a boy named Owen. After Abby’s friend Thomas dies, she kills a detective and has to leave town and own follows suit.
I personally enjoyed Let Me In because it was a cute love story that also had horror involved. My favorite part of the film was when Abby killed Kenny and Jimmy, Owen’s bullies. I also enjoyed seeing them leave town together, but I just wonder how a 12-year old is going to be able to survive without his parents.
I really liked the idea of the uncanny child and how it relates to The Ring. Samara is this mysterious figure who causes the deaths of all who watch the videotapes. She draws the adults of the movie in and they have a near-obsession with trying to figure out the secret behind this tape. Jessica Balanzategui writes, “Samara is deconstruction with a vengeance’: this uncanny child is a frightening embodiment of, an icon for, the postmodern child who simultaneously contaminates the processes of growing up and progress, challenging adult epistemological structures and narratives wholesale” (267) Anybody watching the videos has to feel her pain, and her pain is essentially what leads Rachel on this quest to figure out who she is and her backstory. Due to the fact that Samara, had unsettled business left on the Earth, has made Rachel also feel like there is something more and something left to uncover. And it intensifies when Rachel realizes that even though she liberated Samara’s body, Samara is never truly going to be at peace because she wants the most people as possible to suffer with her.
Personally, I think it is really difficult to make a good horror movie remake. There is so much that goes into making a good horror movie and making a remake of it is tricky because you don’t want to use the same tricks or the same scary scene, but you also want the story to hold true to the original. I also think that why should someone remake a horror movie when you could just come up with a new idea and make an even scarier movie. I just feel like a remake loses its shock value and does not truly bring anything new to the table.