This is the way to do a remake

Rating: Null/10 (26 June 2007)

First, let me say I do not think Disturbia was the best thing since sliced bread. Don't get me wrong, I think it is a well rounded thriller. But, I think this is the proper way to remake a film.
I am so tired of seeing classics being revamped and thrown together haphazardly and have the same title (the Fog, the Hitcher, Psycho, etc...) as the unforgettable original, for the hope of name recognition sealing the box office for them. This film had an obvious influence in Rear Window, but they made it their own at the same time. This is a pretty basic plot, and anyone who thinks that this is a ripoff of Rear Window, well your right, but you know what... so was Rear Window itself.
Rear Window was based on a story by the great pulp storyteller Cornell Woolrich, and this story was first adapted into a film in 1949 in The Window (a pretty good film noir in it's own right) a good 13 years before Hitchcock made the unforgettable Rear Window.
Every filmmaker is a thief, the good ones embrace it . Even one of the most original voices in film history: Stanley Kubrick is admittedly guilty of being influenced. Kubrick told Jack Nicholson on the set of the Shining (thirty years ago) "Every shot has already been done. Our job is to do it a little bit better."
This film had an influence and made its own film from it. In my opinion, a far more admirable feat than a blatant ripoff remake like so many that have been dumped in our theaters the last five years. Although Woolrich deserve some kind of credit that he did not get.
This is the way to do it. Make it your own.