Hollywood has once again ruined the horror genre...

Rating: 1/10 (7 April 2006)

Remember when the Dawn of the Dead remake came into theaters and everyone realized the importance and influence of the first film, but also enjoyed the remake for it's fresh take on the zombie genre and extreme violence? Yeah...this ain't one of those movies. The horror genre is a genre of originality. RARE is the time when a remake will not only pay homage to it's predecessor, but can reinvent the film in itself. The Hills Have Eyes is a horror classic...not only for Wes Craven, but for horror fans such as myself.
This remake is so boring, so devoid of any life that I quickly remembered that Hollywood has done this to us before. The Fog remake...no. An American Werewolf in Paris...hardly worth the effort. The Amityville Horror...Ryan Reynolds is NOT frightening. Need I go on? The movie rests too much on setting up the scare that by the time you get to that point, you realize that you just missed it because the film is setting up the scare again. The family in this film complain and whine and fight and hate and ridicule each other like so many families do on road trips.
Oh yeah...how can I stress this enough that just because you make a horror film and put weak, formulaic chin-rock on the soundtrack, the film will NOT be scarier. (Resident Evil...I'm looking at you right now). And the mutants in the hills...the worst make-up since "Monster-In-Law". Cheap, ineffective, and one of the mutants looks like Sloth from the Goonies.
Yeah...I should have just stayed home and watched "The Goonies".