Derrrrrr Derrrrrr!

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2008)

A more graphic take on Wes Craven's original, Switchblade Romance director Alexander Aja takes fear of the unknown to the extreme while keeping with Craven's original aesthetic of the deconstruction of the nuclear family played out against, well, a nuclear backdrop! First blood to the mutated cannibals, but those city folk sure are driven by their primal instincts to avenge monstrous creatures that society turned into savages. Watching the contrasting families, all with their own defining characteristics which the narrative builds upon, go tooth and nail at each other, momentum swinging either way, gives the film its core. All in all it is great late night fun slasher fare with insane lashings of violence and foul play driven by a dirty metal riff.
7/10