Best Remakes of Foreign Fright Flicks
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Best Remakes of Foreign Fright Flicks

Hollywood's pillaging of overseas horror movies has produced some notorious stinkers. But there are good remakes out there as well -- weigh in by ranking the ones on this list.

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1 The Ring
Ringu introduced J-horror to the international market, while the remake recast the story in American terms. 131 289
2 Last House on the Left
Wes Craven's original was actually a reworking of Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring, yielding something both classy and nasty. 81 267
3 The Grudge
Takashi Shimuzu raided his own Ju-on and turned the best bits into a new movie with American actors in Tokyo. 32 266
4 Quarantine
Almost a scene-for-scene remake of the Spanish zombie-plague picture [REC], reset in LA. 30 244
5 Funny Games
German Michael Haneke remade his own anti-horror movie to wag his finger at American audiences. -41 199
6 The Vanishing
Dutch director Gerges Sluizer's remake of his Spoorlos is less bleak than the original. -52 176
7 Dark Water
Argentine director Walter Salles made a Japanese ghost story into an American one by refashioning it in NYC. -53 195
8 Nightwatch
Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal redid his thriller Nattvagen in English, this time with LA locales and Ewan McGregor. -68 172
9 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
This 2008 remake combines the classic expressionist sets with new actors, plus sound. It's the best of both worlds. -77 165
10 Reflections of Murder
This TV remake of the French Diabolique is way better than a more recent Sharon Stone version. -88 154