15 Reboots Worse Than the Original Movies
by
Joal Ryan, for Metacritic
– July 5, 2016
As the Melissa McCarthy-led Ghostbusters may attest, it's not easy being a reboot. Here's a look at 15 reboots, from the mere misfires to the flat-out flops (based on Metascores) that failed to match the acclaim or impact of their predecessors.
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photo by Shout! Factory
Arriving after okay-to-awful sequels, Rob Zombie's 2007 crack at Michael Myers' origin story proved popular with audiences. But critics judged it lacking in scares compared with John Carpenter's 1978 classic.
“This latest unsuccessful stab at Carpenter's masterwork just proves that the original Halloween is as unbeatable as its masked leading man.” —Steven Hyden, The A.V. Club
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