We’ve tried, but we just can’t take it anymore!

This afternoon I had the pleasure (said with a lot of sarcasm) to watch the 2006 remake of Kairo or Pulse.  Now I am a huge horror movie fan and can even tolerate a remake here and there, but that movie was a joke.  I saw the original and loved it (it is in my top 25 movies).  The movie was about loneliness and isolation.  It was as if Wes Craven and Ray Wright watched the original without subtitles or on mute and made up what they thought was going on.  I have to give them credit, they did keep some of the key visual elements of the original but I think they missed the mark when it came to translating the plot over.  Pulse was scary because it was depressing, by the time the movie was over you felt as if a part of your soul had been sucked out.  It left you with a feeling of loneliness.  The hack remake only frustrated and angered me.  I find that remakes of Japanese films tend to cross over the worst in America mainstream cinema.  Is that because the rather complicated plot lines of most films, or the through that Americans lack the attention span to follow a long complicated story masked as a horror movie?  If you are going to make a remake of a foreign movie for the love to god don’t make a mockery of the film.  If it is going to be a mockery at least apologize to the fans of the original.