Last year Hollywood had a makeover of Vampires in 30 Days of Night (based on the Steve Niles comic book.) Mind you, Anne Rice had done a makeover of them years before that with Interview With A Vampire. And Near Dark. And Lost Boys.

Frankenstein gets a makeover once in awhile as well. But he never quite struck the same chord of popularity as vampires did. A current makeover of Frankenstein occurs in the Leisure paperback Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo.

Zombies got a retooling in the Dawn of the Dead remake. No longer were they the shambling, lumbering creatures. They were fast. And Brian Keene turned them a different direction by making them smart in his Rising novel series (also a Leisure mass market. And I just posted a review of his Rising collection ) 28 Days Later gave us a non zombie retooling.

So my blog here is really a question about the future of horror. What creatures do you think need to be revised? Who needs to be given a new shot at the big time? Or who needs to be rolled back to a previous version that was better than the more recent revamping? Come talk to us about it on the forum