Scrap, more like it.

Rating: 2/10 (11 July 2011)

I landed on this little piece of obliviousness on a lazy summer night several years ago while I was flipping by the usual crap-show TV networks dump on us on an daily basis. I'm a very restless kind of guy by nature and virtue of my sign (not that I believe in astrology, but Sagittariuses never believe it) and couldn't go through the whole movie uninterrupted by a snack, a beer and an occasional pee. So I decided to watch it thoroughly not long ago and make up my mind what all the hype was about. I got seriously disappointed. Having enjoyed some of Wes Craven's works, including the original Nightmare on Elm Street(and the only one of the sequels worth watching twice), I expected the 'this movie resuscitated the dying horror genre' marketing strategy to live up to the hype. But to no avail. First off, let me get this straight: the 'horror genre' never died or has been sent to the ICU. Not since Halloween and Alien gave it a definitive boost, drove a spike into the heart of the 'B Movie' stigma and catapulted sci-fi and horror to their rightful heights. So I never bought the flat out lie that sells this mediocre movie and franchise as 'new flesh in the dark heart of cinema'. There's nothing new, nothing original, nothing worth wasting 1 hour and a half and the only heritage this movie may have spawned was a hundred miles of expensive film rolls in the form of 'I know what you did last summer' and a dumbing down of horror movie standards proudly carried over by the cult followers of bad taste.
2/10 for the effort.