But you didn't explain why you think their better. I am just asking that's all. I mean this is a message board for conversations.
Well, I think they're better because the film makers put more emphasis on building suspense rather than using cheap gimmics to ilicit a quick start.
Halloween (1978): Only 5 deaths in the whole movie, including Judith Myers and the tow truck driver. After Michael escapes from Smiths Grove Sanitarium, we only get to see 3 deaths (the mechanic wasn't shown, only the aftermath). When Michael killed Annie, he had plenty of opportunities to do so. While she was making popcorn. While she was washing her clothes. While she was stuck in the laundryroom window. While she was walking to and from the Doyle house. But he didn't. He waited until she got in the car to go pick up Paul. He could've killed Lynda and Bob while they were making out on the couch (he was right there watching them), but he didn't. He could've killed them while they were upstairs making love (he walked right past the bedroom), but he didn't. He could've just come right up to Bob or Lynda and slashed their throats, but he didn't. He stalked each of them seperately and killed them each in his own time. That made it so much scarier.
Halloween (remake): I couldn't even keep track of the bodycount in this movie. Most of them were simply Michael jumping out of nowhere and killing them in the most violent and brutal way imaginable. He just walks up to Annie and Paul and attacks them with a knife. No waiting and watching whatsoever. The only part of the movie I liked was the deaths of Bob and Lynda, because they were kept more or less the same as in the original. RZ had his own twist to them, but in essence they were the same scenes.
Friday The 13th (1980): Mrs. Voorhees spends most of the movie just watching the camp counselors. There's the 2 deaths right at the beginning (according to the F13 comics those were the two counselors who were supposed to be watching Jason the day he drowned), then the camp cook Annie, but for the most part we really didn't see much. I mean, the first time you ever saw the original did you really expect Kevin Bacon to get stabbed from underneath the bed? And you didn't really know when the girl in the bathroom would get it until you saw the silhouette of the ax rising up behind her (you knew she was going to get it in the bathroom, just not when or how). And waiting until the very end to reveal that Mrs Voorhees was the killer was brilliant (admit it, first time you ever watched the movie you thought the killer was a man).
Friday The 13th (Remake): They didn't even attempt to recreate any of the classic scenes from the original. Even if they had, Jason would've just walked up to them and killed them. The Kevin Bacon scene? That would've been handled more like the bedroom scene in Freddy vs Jason. The bathroom scene? Jason would've just kicked in the stall door and put the ax through her face.
Today's film makers are confusing quantity with quality, which is what hurts the remakes. If they'd stay true to the spirit of the originals, they'd have better quality movies.
