Degrading Actions, Rapes and Gore

Rating: 5/10 (10 April 2006)

One stormy night my boyfriend and I decided to go see this because after seeing the preview about nine-hundred times, the idea of seeing it was pounded into our brains. I'm a huge horror movie fan. Part of me really enjoyed the movie..even the stereotypical horror movies can scare even the hardest critic in the theaters due to the volume of the movie and the atmosphere.
For a lover of horror movies, I embody one strange quality..I hate the sound of people enduring prolonged pain. The scene in which the father is burnt to death made me cringe and is the most memorable scene in my mind from the film. All the while the husband is being burned and most of the family is watching, the younger daughter is being brutally attacked and raped in the motor home. The combination of these two components was way too much. It crossed a line and made the movie seem desperate to make the audience want to vomit and increase the shock value.
I also have to add that I despised the fact that one person had the power to rise against and kill all of the enemies to the stranded family. The ending, honestly, also outraged me. I hope to God that there is never a sequel made...this movie already pushed the grotesque envelope and this is being said from a horror movie fan.
I have yet to see the original. I hope that it was made in a more "classy" horrific way...if that even makes sense.