Movies that you wish could be remade (but won't) with better production quality

Watched The Poughkeepsie Tapes this weekend finally. It was on Prime for the longest but just left. You can watch it on Epix (subscription) or Paramount+, I think. I held off because it has a reputation for being seriously disturbing, so I assumed gory. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it wasn't gory and certainly isn't the "torture porn" that I thought it was.

So for a brief review, it's about a series of tapes that a serial killer made during his rampage. The presentation is in the typical murder porn/crime TV style, with "interviews" with FBI agents, family of victims, etc. Throughout, they show some parts of the tapes. It was really good for what it was and not particularly gory at all. They describe gory things with words, but not much is on screen. Very uncomfortable and unsettling imagery, but not particularly gross. Definitely worth a watch and will likely make you feel something along the way.

To show the creepiness, it's the movie where this famous gif comes from:



So while I do recommend watching it if you want a chilling/scary movie (especially if you want that without gore), there is a lot lacking in the movie. The acting is absolutely atrocious, even for a found footage movie. The fact that they try to turn the FF from more of a retelling to a mockumentary (there are interviews with the FBI and others involved in the investigation), it opens up the door for lots of bad acting that can't be masked like most bad acting in FF is.

That's why, although I'm typically against remakes, I would support a remake of this movie with an actual budget. You could do a little more with the "found footage" part, but primarily you could avoid community theater-level acting that takes away from the experience of being a part of the story (which is really important for a creepy movie like this). It made me start to think about what other movies could deserve a bigger budget remake. I feel a lot of movies in this discussion will be horror movies or possibly comedies, because both lend themselves to low budgets.