“The 1978 remake of Body Snatchers was one of the few excellent remakes in movie history.”
Agree, and I thought the 1993 remake was really good too. There’s a particularly creepy scene in this version where one of the pod people denounces an impostor (a real human trying to pass as a pod person) that is scarier than the 1978 depiction of same.
I thought “I am Legend” was an improvement over “The Omega Man.” The Omega Man seemed pretty scary when I saw it as a kid, but I just watched it again, and now the zombies seem comically stupid to me as they are wearing monk-like robes and jumping down on people to attack them.
Some films need no remake though. I can’t imagine an improved version of The Thing (1982, stars Kurt Russell).
I preferred the original version "The Last Man on Earth", 1964, starring Vincent Price; which was much closer to the orignal novella by Robert Bloch.