did you see the movie asylum a.k.a. the house of crazies, and have you seen the remake?

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and is the new one a remake or just a knockoff of the name?

Answer 1

...this is one of my favorite films, culled from the fine folks at the old Amicus Studios, which during their heyday, was Hammer Film's number one competitor; all the stories are pretty cool, but my personal favorite was the first story, where the guy chopped up his wife, wrapped up the pieces, placed them in the freezer...and the parts came to life...

...I, myself, was alomost fooled into thinking that "Asylum" had been remade recently; regrettably, that has not happened, and the recent film titles that have bore the name, are not associated with the original film, in any way, shape or form...

...however, if you want to check out a contemporary (...and substantially bloodier) take on "Asylum", and all the other Amicus-produced horror anthologies, might I suggest that you seek out the low-budget, but very well-done horror shocker, from 2001, and called "Cradle of Fear"...