One of the better remakes

Rating: 9/10 (17 November 2015)

Traveling through the New Mexico desert, a family finds the area home to a group of deformed mountain-men hunting in the area and must find a way to escape from the ravenous, blood-thirsty psychos.
Overall this was quite the enjoyable effort that works better than the original. Among its great points is the rather hyped up amount of tension and suspense this one generates which makes it a far more enjoyable effort. The early scenes of the group out amongst the endless desert dunes under the blazing sunlight or the quick glimpses of them running around the cliffs while the victims are all completely unaware of their presence rare quite chilling, and even other tactics employed here as the glinting metal in the distance, strange grunting or being seen through the binoculars really let this one be known someone' watching them. All of this desert set-up perfectly allows the intense horror action to have a much bigger impact here as those are among the film's best here with the utterly impactful and dynamic van attack sequence. This is exceptionally fun here with a slew of utterly dark and morbid antics from the attempted rape and baby-theft to killing off the mothers all the while the others are distracted by their blazing companion outside, and all together the chaos, action and brutal activity create a spectacular highlight scene. There's a lot more fun here in the last half following up on the attack with plenty of tense stalking through the hills and tunnels before getting to the abandoned town as the walk-through here is just utterly chilling waiting for something to occur within the set-up of the dolls laid out in the town before the big action scenes through the brutal brawling in the house and the final fight in the hills where the brutality comes into even greater degrees where there's plenty of graphic bloodletting and frantic action that makes for plenty of good times here that really makes this so fun with the frantic pace making for quite the exiting time. Along with the creepy and utterly deformed look of the creatures and the truly brutal kills that are far more graphic and bloody than expected, all of these efforts manages to hold off the film's one real flaw here. The fact that this one spoon-feeds us the back-story of their genetic mutation history a second time here after doing so for the very of beginning of this one tends to really drag the film down in a crucial part of the film and lowers their mystique quite a bit by making them rather bland and nondescript during their time here. Overall, this issue is all that hold this one back.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Rape, animal violence and constant children-in-jeopardy.