I was very aware watching Disturbia that it was pretty much a Rear Window knockoff, but on the other hand I thought it was a pretty good Rear Window knockoff. Going into the imdb forums you'll see alot of flack going to the new When a Stranger Calls, but i never did see the original. I have nothing to really hate on about, except the movies soundtrack scares the bejesus out of me. It was good to me, ill have to watch the original sometime. Also may the great deities bless Casa Video in Tucson, iv gotten to see so many things that you wont find in Blockbuster or Hollywood video.
As far as the Political correctness of movies as Easycure puts it...ill agree. Movies are too pussy nowadays to push the boundaries, or as it were to be more real. When I was at the video store I overheard some chick talking to her boyfriend about how horror movies are nothing but torture porn, it was funny because he corrected her and was like "actually, that type of thing has been going on since the 60's" obviously she hasn't seen alot of horror movies, maybe nothing outside that Japanese pg13 fest the Ring cast upon us. Though I'll have to say no movie has ever frightened me psychologically as the Ring has.
also, there is alot of hate in the Resident Evil film series, the fact is the series isnt bad at all, its just that its tied to a great video game series very loosely. If they redid the trilogy and removed all resident evil references and called it Alice in Zombieland than nobody would complain.