Interesting...?

Rating: 7/10 (23 August 2006)

After a day of contemplating it i still don't really know if I liked it or not... I was definitely disturbed, and surprisingly a little sympathetic, a trait that rarely accompanies a horror movie, but I still don't know if i really liked it.
The beginning to me didn't actually seem like the beginning of a horror movie... It kinda seemed like a comedy or a drama, where a stereotypical family gets stranded in the dessert and is forced to work together under comical circumstances to survive.
It kinda had trouble deciding which route to take for the basic plot, they had so many options I can't blame them. I think the directors and writers decided to go everywhere when it came to that. Family dog dies, father is burned alive while the family watches, teenage daughter is raped and no one saves her, mother and wife is raped and murdered, the mother of the family dies, and the baby is taken.
WHAT MORE CAN POSSIBLY HAPPEN??? This scene shocked me, disgusted me, make me sympathetic, angry, and even a little teary eyed. But unfortunately in comparison the rest of the movie didn't quite stack up to the intensity of that one scene.
I'm slightly torn, I liked the general idea of the movie, but it seemed like some of it was lost in the translation. It's slightly jumpy and I assumed the mutants had a REASON to kill them, unfortunately I was mistaken and there was no real reason for anything.
Overall I think I liked it, and if you are a gore fan, and not too interested in the overall plot, I would recommend this movie for you. I also give this movie the award for the first ever horror movie to completely confuse the hell out of me.