What gives this movie its power is its structure.
It's not one linear adventure with the same network of characters, we get a collection of overlapping story lines in non-chronological order.
This set up means that characters come and go and disappear and reappear again so anyone could get killed off at anytime. No one has plot armour. Admittedly we don't get as much time to develop a relationship with them but movies rarely give us this in the first place.
Unfortunately the whole handling of the actual terror feels totally risible. Worth the ride though.
I have not seen the remake but I hoped they kept the best stuff and lost the worst aspects of this movie.
It's not one linear adventure with the same network of characters, we get a collection of overlapping story lines in non-chronological order.
This set up means that characters come and go and disappear and reappear again so anyone could get killed off at anytime. No one has plot armour. Admittedly we don't get as much time to develop a relationship with them but movies rarely give us this in the first place.
Unfortunately the whole handling of the actual terror feels totally risible. Worth the ride though.
I have not seen the remake but I hoped they kept the best stuff and lost the worst aspects of this movie.