Chancey289
Fake Geek Girl.
-Evil Dead (personally my favorite remake ever because as a massive Evil Dead fan it's everything Evil Dead should be without being a shallow carbon copy of the original)when is a movie remake ever as good as the original
-John Carpenter's The Thing
-Ocean's Eleven
-The Fly
-True Grit
-The Departed
-Scarface
-Little Shop of Horrors
-Invasion of the Body Snatchers
-Cape Fear
-Dawn of the Dead
-The Karate Kid
-The Ring
and more.
This mindset that all remakes are bad is pretty hackneyed at this point because some are not only as good but even better than the originals.
I agree about Poltergeist though, it doesn't look very good. If you want to remake one of the most influential horror films of all time, you'd be better off making it significantly different from the original to stand on its own, not rehash it.