Night of the living terror: or how new horror threatens old horror

Abstract

During the 1970s and 1980s, a new type of horror movies born in United States and marked a milestone in the genre by impressing a young generation of film lovers. Today, the big producers take advantage of the cult status of some of these films to remake them, adjusting to new parameters of current terror. However,the changes that the so-called remakes make to the original screenplays, reveal differences between these works in terms of cinematographic resources.