Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s - Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used to?

Author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more “disturbing”, and thus better than the remakes. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema.