p u

Rating: 5/10 (2 August 2006)

I cannot express how disappointed in this film I was. I was expecting a nice remake of a classic thriller/horror film and what I saw -- was a mess.
The story is simple: A family on some kind of a motel 6 funded vacation gets steered the wrong way where another set of families that was effected by nuclear blasts and decades of radiation and fallout gets to hunt them.
Let me point out something nice about the film that does warrant a look: Yes, the best part of the film was the cinematography direction which kept your attention. I must admit, it was very stylish, updated, urgent -- just done very well. But to me, that does not make a complete film.
The Acting: not the best.
The Horror: Predictable.
The Fright: None.
The Make-up: Shoddy. Come - On it's 2006! None of those folks had any scare potential! There wasn't any imagination whatsoever with how those folks up there looked. I saw scarier things on that gosh-awful film of Johnny Knocksville's "The Ringer".
The Story: Well, a good one, it's been done before so... I was seriously hoping the update would help. It didn't.
Gore: Benign.
Violence: (stay with me here) not violent in a horrific kinda way. I'm tired of the same old/same old - The cute coed getting raped by the guy with three teeth, poor old dad being burned or hung, poor old mom being eaten, etc., etc., etc.
The Characters: Well, here we go. I didn't care if any of them lived or died - none of them held my interest for long. That's what made me completely loose interest in this film.
To be honest, I kept wondering WHY this film needed to be remade at all. Portfolios so that everyone involved could get another film? Probably.
But as far as a fright/horror fest. Not really. This remake could have sat on the shelf a bit longer until someone else came along to resurrect it and scare the pants off of everyone.