DISQUS

Nate · 1 year ago

I love the 1956 version. It is Hitchcock's most underrated masterpiece

howard green · 1 year ago

The 1956 version is a neglected masterpiece. The tension that builds during the Albert Hall
sequence is masterfully created.

Robert B. · 1 year ago

I don't think we would have felt the same back then because there was no home video. It had been 22 years since the first film, and there was a whole new generation who would never see the first one (unless a theater decided to do a run of a 22 year old not very popular movie... which isn't very likely).

Nowadays, with home theater systems and DVDs of most major films available... it is pretty un-original to "re-make" a film. I guess studios don't think film goers will go to see "Friday the 13th: Part XXX." So they have to "re-make" the first one, and re-call it "Friday the 13th" (instead of "Friday the 13th: The next Generation"). Which of course leaves them open to making sequals with their slightly altered "mythology. "Meh... At least they aren't renaming it and trying to release it as something new.

Remember "A Perfect Murder" in 1998. Having read nothing about it prior to seeing it, I spent the whole time in the theater saying... "I've seen this before" (for those that don't know, it is a remake of "Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder").