Enough With The Asian Remakes!

I just got back from seeing Mirrors, the newest remake of an Asian horror movie. Thanks to the combination of Alexandre Aja in the director's chair and Kiefer Sutherland in the starring role, it actually had potential. But to tell you the truth, they need to just cut it out with these movies. Seriously, Mirrors is one big letdown.

I can't say that the movie totally sucked. Aja did a good job, the music is great, and there are some genuinely spooky parts. But outside of that, Mirrors wasn't all that impressive. There was at least one gaping plot hole, silly acting, bad CGI, and the general feeling that there was nothing positive being added to a genre that just seems to be getting dumber with every new movie. Long story short, I'm going to give it three out of five on the Sutton Scale. That sounds about right, considering I liked about half of it.

But seriously, it seems to me like every one of these remakes of Asian horror movies are starting to become the same thing. Just take some random, harmless inanimate object and turn it into a malevolent force of evil, and you've got yourself a remake of an Asian horror movie. There's been VHS tapes, water, cameras, cell phones, the Internet, mirrors, and even the human eye. The Grudge is, as far as I can tell, the only exception. Sure, not all of them are bad, but the good ones seem like they're few and far between. Somebody just needs to put a moratorium on the genre until they can come up with something really awesome.

Please, Hollywood, do it for my sanity.