Reanimated: The Contemporary American Horror Remake

Reanimated offers a new perspective on twenty—first century American horror film remakes. Counter to the critical dismissal of genre remakes as derivative rip—offs, Mee approaches the films as intertextual adaptations which have both drawn from and helped to shape horror since 2000. Covering films from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) to Candyman (2021), and identifying distinct cycles, production strategies and patterns of reception, this book illustrates the importance of the remake to ...