Gimme the remake. The middle part of the original had boring filler that completely diluted the tension. The remake kept the tension throughout and stayed with the original legend. The remake was much more creative and suspense even though it had a smaller setting.
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It's actually even worse than the original, if that's even possible,

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The new is better for me, their not even the same Genre of film ultimately, with the Remake the entire film is like the 1st 20 minutes of this.
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Definitely the 1979 original. Was disappointed for the 2006 remake.

the 2006 film was really BORING
the 1979 classic is WAY better.

It's half and half.
For one thing, the first twenty minutes of the original is ten times better than the remake as a whole. However, the remake at least keeps to the story and doesn't unnecessarily expand to over a decade.
It's like, you don't even have to watch the film, just the first twenty minutes and you're done.
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Her going "crackers" in the hospital wasn't supposed to be scary..
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Indeeeed, they had more balls to do horrible things in movies back then. Because as we've said, in the remake, the kids don't dieis that scary? The babysitter fights off the killer, and goes crackers in the hospital, that's not scary.

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it's hard to compare them because in the second one you already know the caller is in the house. in the first, that was the shock moment. i thought 2006 was entertaining, but there was less suspense due to that.
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1979. Once it had been done before - where is the suspense? Besides in 1979 I really had not seen anything like it. The suspense was incredible at the time. Unfortunatly, I guess I have seen too many plots and become jaded at bit.
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it's hard to say. the 1979 original does have a great opening. I saw it for the firs time right before i saw the remake in theaters and i think the opening still holds up as a nice suspenseful piece of filmmaking. that being said, even though the middle section is an interesting character study of the villain, it is insanely boring. I thought it just dragged and went nowhere and then we are treated to a visceral final 10 minutes. in the end it would make a better short film than feature film.
The remake is well made and shot well and does attempt to build suspense but it falls short as well. stretching the first 20 minutes of the original into a 90 minute film didn't quite work because there isn't enough meat to the story. I real say from the strangers reveal in the rafters up until she runs out into the arms of the police officer are very well done. if the whole film had maintained that tension it would've been great. i also hated the cliche ending in the hospital as well

I didn't watch the original, but I love remake. It has very good action and new Jill Roberts was amazing. Of coure, I'm going to watch original, but I don't expect too much of it.

umm actually in the 2006 version a babysitter gets killed in the first five minutes along with the children and later it is implied that there were even more before that. and the stranger(2006) can easily kill people without others hearing it is a HUGE house.

No babysitter gets killed in either film.

And not scary at all. The whole movie didn't make sense, there's a guy killing babysitters so little miss irresponsible is going to be babysitting, what bright parents she has. in the movie this guy kills one babysitter, one dumb bimbo, and a deaf housekeepernone of that applies to me, he doesn't kill the kids, Jill survives and we know she'll survive, and at the end of it all she goes nutso in the hospital, it's a bad movie.

the original was great.the 2006 version was pretty much unwatchable.

There's no doubt in my mind that the original is better, the sequel to the original is even better. What a waste.

This is hard because I love both films..
WASC 1979 is more chilling so I will go with the 1979 movie..more scarier.
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I prefer the original by far, but the remake wasn't as bad as I was expecting. If I'd expected it to be good I'd have been disappointed but I thought it would be as terrible as The Amityville Horror remake so I was pleasantly surprised when it wasn't.
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