The Bible in film religious epics produced as vehicles for its biggest stars. "Samson and Delilah" was the biggest moneymaking movie of 1949 and is considered the picture that sparked the biblical-epic film craze of the 1950s. It was followed by two of 1951’s biggest box-office hits, "Quo Vadis" and "David and Bathsheba". Charlton Heston starred in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur". According to author Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, in the 1950s and 1960s, during the era of the production code, "the most acceptable cinematic path for movies to incorporate sex and violence was the biblical epic". Basing a film on the Bible
The Remake is "a relatively well-crafted slasher flick" that despite its basic premise was worth a watch because "it takes a stand against horror remakes and I am very appreciative that someone took the time to make a movie like this". Wildside Cinema found "The Remake" mildly entertaining, even if it did "serve up a few tired clichés as well as giving in to some of the very stereotypes this film was attempting to dispel (i.e. horror is all about T&A)". The Remake The Remake is a 2006 horror film directed by Tommy Brunswick, and written by Todd Brunswick and Dwayne Roszkowski.