A remake is a film that has the same story, and often the same title, as a film that was made earlier. In the course of film history, remakes have generally been considered inferior to the earlier versions, by film critics and cinema-goers alike, but there have been memorable exceptions to that generalization.
Village of the Damned (John Carpenter; US, 1995) (original film: Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla; UK, 1960), based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham)