80s Horror Movies That Need To Be Remade

Ken Russell's 1980 psychological chiller Altered States is practically begging for a remake, given the amount of dabbling human beings have been doing with their consciousness since the movie was released. The flick tells the tale of a psychology professor (played by William Hurt in his first movie role) who experiments with sensory deprivation and finds his body and mind undergoing horrific devolution. The original is creepy and horrifying, but it's also sometimes hamstrung by the hokey visual effects. We'd love to see what a creature shop with real oomph could do with it.

If you've never seen Society, Brian Yuzna's 1989 directoral debut, get yourself to your local purveyor of weird videos ASAP. This grim body horror flick is gasping for a remake in these recession-wary times. Ordinary teen Bill Whitney seems to have it all - he's rich, popular and doing well in school. But somehow, he just doesn't fit in. As he tries to get to the bottom of the matter, he finds out that things are way, way weirder than he ever imagined. A classic tale of the rich feeding on the poor and in these times, a remake would be totally sweet.

1982's exploitation cheapie The Beast Within was remarkably terrifying for the time. The plot is a slow burner, but it's a good one. When a young couple's car breaks down in rural Mississippi, the woman is brutally raped by a mysterious assailant, who is never caught. Fast forward seventeen years into the future and the spawn of that union is entering puberty and becoming violently ill as a result of a defective pituitary gland. The family returns to the scene of the crime to track down the rapist and take him in for examination, but things quickly go very, very wrong. It's an unusual and very Lovecraftian setup that could work well with today's genetically-obsessive culture.

Sandor Stern's terrifyingly weird 1989 slasher Pin is one of the most unique concepts the horror genre has ever seen. A doctor uses a life-sized medical dummy to explain facts about the human body to his two children. Unfortunately, one of those children is a schizophrenic and his relationship with the dummy - who he names Pin - is just a little unhealthy. There are plenty of movies where inanimate objects are terrifying, but Pin takes it to a whole new level. A remake would be great to bring this awesome flick to the world's attention.