It made people see cocaine drug inducing crap and weird stunts but it wasn't at all what I call phobia. Batman was probably the only one I ever got the distinction of his bat phobia coming out, and that's not much evidence considering he still suffered from "Bat freak outs" in his dreams/nightmares.
I remember in the old cartoon show when Scarecrow gassed people and you saw a guy afraid of spiders, afraid of heights, like actual clinical fears that people suffered from and I liked that alot better then just seeing a bunch of freaky stuff from this drug. Most of it was just super imposing or blurry images of faces.
In fact, most of the fears most powerful effects came from if people were looking at Scarecrow or Batman because they had scary masks. Otherwise, the gas really didn't do anything else but slightly distort reality to make things look freaky where as his old gas actually made a person's personal fear come to life.
It was still a cool effect none the less. Like I said though, sometimes remakes can pay off and others don't. Invasion of the Body snatchers for example. The Invasion I heard sucked, but the 80s one with Donald Sutherland was also a remake and I saw that one and thought it was absolutely fantastic.
Those alien screams, the haunting music, I heard many people say it surpassed the original black and white one. In opinions of course.
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