Are Remakes Out of Control? Part One

After watching the trailer for Lussier's My Bloody Valentine, I am convinced that there are just too many remakes of horror films coming out. It's not the fact that I have only found a few horror remakes that have worked in the last few years i.e. Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Aja's The Hills Have Eyes, or Zombie's Halloween, but it's the fact that studios are trying to remake anything that had any significance in original.
I'm holding out hope that Nispel's Friday the 13th remake is going to blow my mind, but after seeing such guilty classics of mine such as, April Fool's Day, Hellraiser, The Brood, and yes, Evil Dead being remade or soon to be released, I'm not holding my breath. What does it take for studios to pull out of the remake sect of the genre? Have they lost all sense of creativity or are they completely out of ideas.
One director, Rob Zombie, has at least done something that has moved away from the predictable horror film, but at the same time, has kept sacred why people love horror films. Zombie's films have a throwback ilk to them reminding audiences of horror directing icons such as Craven, Cronenberg, Carpenter, and Romero. His first two films: House of a 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects were successful, in part to a sort of homage to horror films of the seventies and eighties like Craven's The Last House on the Left and Cunningham's Friday the 13th.
One film, in particular, has changed my mind over the last few years and should be considered separate from the original and that is Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead. The only aspect that is tied to the original is that most of the film takes place in a shopping mall. Romero's film was a social commentary on materialism where as Snyder's film was a social commentary on human interaction. I was completely disappointed in the film because I was such a huge fan of the original, but I felt there was a lack of substance to the film. I have changed my mind on both fronts. I'll also add that Snyder's film isn't the first remake that has gone in a completely different direction than the original: Carpenter's The Thing. Carpenter took the short story the orginal and his film was adapted from and made it his own. Another film worth mentioning is the countless remakes of Invasion of the Body Snatchers which is not very hard to adapt to the times it's filmed in.
Coming Soon: Part Two