THE FACT ABOUT HORROR MOVIES THAT NO ONE IS SUGGESTING

 Kaufman’s ’70s remake is funnier and a lot more self-mindful. Whilst the original movie was (depending on who you suspect) an evaluation of either McCarthyist conformity or encroaching communism, the remake usually takes matters into weirder, far more oblique territory, lampooning the fallout within the ’60s great with its lentils-and-beans