Spielberg Accused Of Ripping Of Hitchcock

View the full article

Almost everything in movies is a copy of something else. But they didn't use the same names or anything, therefore I could claim any story is ripping off an earlier one. But then why does the media need protecting anyway?

Article's a bit misleading: it's not Hitchcock's estate, but those who own the rights to the original short story for which Hitchcock bought the rights that are involved in the dispute.

You gotta be kidding me.

I don't know the legal status of the story, but I will say, upon seeing the trailer for this film I assumed it to be a deliberate modernized remake.

Yeah I had always assumed this was a legit remake. Maybe the lawyers for Spielberg forgot to cover all the bases before the project was green-lighted. At any rate, I didn't see it as a "rip-off" but rather a remake. Many remakes often suck (like The Fog, The Haunting), but I thought Disturbia was decent. Not great, but decent.