Here are 10 stories that belong to everybody, stories that still have plenty of juice in them — even if their earlier incarnations left something to be desired.

Embryo (1976)
Rock Hudson starred as a scientist who was able to accelerate the human gestational process from months to days, yielding the hotness that was Barbara Carrera. Of course, it all went bad, and she started killing pregnant women to steal their fetuses. But for a beat, there, it had the DNA of a genetic thriller.