No genre has more remakes than horror. And a lot of times, these remakes turn out to be surprisingly good: just look at John Carpenter's "The Thing" as the prime example. Still, horror fans can be picky and protective about remakes of the titles they consider to be classic, and you can't really blame them — for every "The Thing" there's an absolute dud like the remake of "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

In 1968, George A. Romero changed movies forever with "Night of the Living Dead." A low-budget affair, Romero's film about zombies trapping a group of desperate people in a farmhouse would become iconic and immensely influential. It also accidentally ended up in the public domain because someone forgot to include a copyright notice. Because of this, a horde of unofficial remakes of Romero's

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