Which horror remake do you prefer The Blob (1988) or The Fly (1986)?

It's fair to call Carpenter's version of "The Thing" a remake. In fact, it's a remake of the very best kind because it was a superb film that was significantly different from the original. The Thing (1982) is also impressive because the 1951 film was a classic in its own right, even if dated. Carpenter was competing with a much loved film, at least by moviegoers of his generation or older. The original Howard Hawks version strayed a long ways from the Campbell novella, but obviously there were many elements in common (the space ship in the ice, the alien buried for hundreds of thousands of years, the arctic setting). Therefore, in my view, the 1951 version certainly qualifies as a movie adaptation of Campbell's "Who Goes There?" Because the '82 film shares the same source material, I'd say it qualifies as a remake. It's probably just a matter of semantics. I can see the validity of your point of view as well.