Seems like Hollywood is remaking any horror movie they can get their hands on. Can you blame them? During this economic struggle why gamble on something original - something untested when you can borrow a good idea, update it, dress it up a bit and yet invest little into its budget and turn a profit. This makes perfect financial sense, however, if you’re a horror movie buff there’s a good chance you might be angry or at least tired of seeing old classics remade with the absence of the original care and art from the past.

Follow up:

New collectibles, figures, replica props, masks, posters, comics, etc . . . are popping up (both licensed and custom) all over due to favorite characters and ideas being resurrected by Hollywood. I have to admit, every time I see a new remake collectible pop up I can’t download the pics fast enough and my eyes rapidly search for a release date of the new ‘have to have’ flavor of the day. When it comes down to it horror remakes are good for business, as far as us collectors are concerned.




In all honesty, eventually the remake era will come to an end. When will it end? I personally think it will halt when audiences stop purchasing tickets however many younger viewers out there often don’t even realize a remake is a remake so I think we’ve got a while longer before this slows down. In the mean time, a new generation of collectors are surfacing because of this. They’re willing to pay for that new replica prop or mask they just saw in the film and are fueling sales. Still, some ‘older’ collectors who’ve been around the block a few times often find this annoying and rightfully so. They’ve spent the time, research and dedication to this hobby that the new kids often know little about nor appreciate (yet). We all know how we look back on the original films but how will this generation look back on the remakes? (which for all purposes, are original to them) Will they look upon them in the next 20-30 years with the same passion as we did? That same passion that led to horror collecting.



Now, I’m not saying there is a landslide of remake collectibles out there nor are they carrying the collecting community (as if it needed a crutch) but I think their introduction to the newer fans has led these people to the vast offers of the horror collecting community. Sort of like Wanka Candy. Children would rush to the store to buy the new goodies but then when they are let into the factory their eyes are opened to a much larger world. (How I compared horror collecting to Willy Wanka is even beyond me. I guess this makes tenured collectors Oompa Lumpas? LOL)

I believe over the past few years we’ve seen a massive change in the horror collecting hobby. It’s not so underground as we use to think of it and maybe remakes are one of the major causes for bringing it to the surface. Is this good or bad for us collectors? You’ll have to answer that.


If nothing else, horror remakes have been a great walk down memory lane. Rather if you think the remake was needed and turned a once ok movie into a great movie or if remakes just reaffirm your love of the original, they’ve inducted fresh, new collectors and have contributed new life to the horror collecting community

Dashape out.