Well, I think Wickerman is the winner, but I think the Wizard of Oz was a pretty good remake, if it counts.
Hey remakes can sometimes be better than the original - as Maholoth mentioned above, the '39 “Wizard of Oz” was a remake; so was the John Huston version of the Maltese Falcon. People will argue this, but the 70’s remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” was better than the original.
But this is about bad remakes…guess I’d have to say “Wicker Man”(?).
The stage version is terrific in its own right, but in a very different way than the movie. Maybe as good as the movie, but on a much different plane.
None of the Halloween movies were remade. The franchise was rebooted with a completely different first movie that didn’t even resemble the plot of the original. Then the rebooted franchise spawned its own unique sequel.
Reboots have become all the rage in horror movies nowadays because of the success of, uh, I forget offhand and I’m running out of edit time. (Dawn of the Dead, maybe?) Anyway, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes; everything’s getting rebooted.
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Sargeant Bilko with Steve Martin
The Out of Towners with Steve Martin
Father of the Bride with Steve Martin
(actually I haven’t seen it - maybe it’s good. I just wanted to participate)
Actually, this version was pretty good. And Martin Short as the effeminate wedding planner was hilarious!
I was thinking this. I don’t know if it’s the worst remake ever, but it sucks.
It’s better than the original, actually. Not a great movie, but decent.
It’s hard to argue with some of these – Sleuth (I don’t care that Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay, and that everyone thinks he’s a far superior playwright – Anthony Schaffer’s play and screenplay and infinitely more quotable, and enjoyable), The Wicker Man, the 1976 King Kong, Psycho, tha abysmal, pointless, and humorless remake of Charade. There are plenty of others – like the insipid remake of The Day of the Jackal, all of Larry Buchanan’s Grade-Z TV remakes of 1950s monster films that were already grade D, like Attack of the the Eye Creatures, Creature of Destruction, and Zontar, the Thing from Venys – but my candidate for the worst remake is
The Day the Earth Stood Still. It managed to dumb down one of the best and most intelligent science fiction films ever made. And its CGI Gort was far, far worse and more unrealistic-looking than the non-CGI one in the original! Way to go!!
True. They’re different, but both good, and that’s the way to do a successful remake.
In any case, the worst I can think of is the David Hartman made for TV remake of Miracle on 34th Street. Deadly dull, and they made a fatal mistake. In the original, a centerpiece is the courtroom scene, and what makes that work so well is showing the reaction from the courtroom audience; some of the funniest moments involve people worrying about how the press and gallery will react. In the remake, someone realized that a hearing like that would take place behind closed doors, so it was about as funny as watching a sanity hearing.
The 1994 remake was also bad, but not at the level of the TV movie.
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t come up to the level of suckititude of King Kong or The Wicker Man, but the 2008 remake of The Women deserves a dishonourable mention. When a 1939 movie is fresher than the 2008 remake, something is seriously wrong.
The 1995 version of The Scarlet Letter.
That wasn’t a remake of a movie, but a big-screen adaptation of a TV series. And it was actually pretty good. The (first) wedding scene alone is worth the price of admission.
Sgt. Bilko is sitting around with his motor-pool crew and says, "What time is it? “Noon.” “Noon on Saturday . . . I think there was someplace I was supposed to be today . . .” Jumpcut to his girlfriend in a wedding dress standing alone at the altar of a packed church. Comedy gold! 
Pamela Anderson starred in a movie called Barb Wire.
It’s a remake of Casablanca.
The Stepford Wives and The Manchurian Candidate were both very bad. (although the Glen Close Feak Out at the end of Stepford Wives is really good)
The Prisoner (OK, I know it’s TV. It’s still terrible)
James Cameron’s remake of A Night to Remember as Titanic.
Is this true? Because if it is, we have a winner!
There are some really bad stinkers that I hadn’t thought of in this thread - but the first one that came to my mind was the Miracle on 34th Street remakes (mentioned earlier.)
One of the more bizarre remakes was Cruel Intentions 2. The original Cruel Intentions was released in 1999. It was popular and some people decided to make a TV series based on it. They remade the movie in 2000 as a pilot for the TV series with the actors who would presumedly star in the series. But the TV series was never produced so they released the movie on direct-to-video. So they ended up having a movie which was remade with a less famous cast within a year of its release.
I second **Rollerball **and The Day the Earth Stood Still. Especially Rollerball; I managed to get all of 15 minutes into it before going 
and ejecting it from the DVD. Had to pay Netflix an extra $10 just for them to accept the return.
I can’t argue with any of the previous cases, but for me personally I was more than a little offended when the wonderful The Getaway (1972) was redone as The Getaway (1994) for several reasons.
The original, after Bullitt, was my favorite McQueen, and except for The Wild Bunch, my favorite Peckinpah.
The remake, in spite of the Kim Basinger eye candy, lacked almost every aspect of the original that made the first one so entertaining.