Over all good, but too stereotypical *spoilers*

Rating: 8/10 (12 March 2006)

This movie has the potential to be a fantastic horror film. The basic story line is very original (not counting the old version) and the violence comes in truck loads. It's been a while since I've seen a movie with this amount of gore that didn't look like a cartoon. I am a gore freak, so that's the main reason why I saw this movie in the first place. When Doug axes the weirdo in the wheelchair guy's house, I almost clapped, it was so good. This is not a movie where all the gore is computer animated.
The only real problem I had with this movie is the stupidity of the characters. It's like they put every single horror movie stereotype and crammed them in to one movie with times 50 gore. Doug is beating the crap out of Lizard with a gun. No, he's not shooting him, he's just beating him with it. Then, Doug drops the gun right next to the guy thinking he's dead and walks away. Obviously, Lizard takes the gun! That scene is in about every horror movie known to man, but Aja still has to put the scene in to follow the crowd. I know characters in horror films are supposed to be somewhat dumb, but this movie is almost too much. Aja found every single random thing he could put in the film without losing the actual plot and threw it in the movie. Honestly, film makers need to make some new stereotypes to put into films, so audiences wont know what's going to happen every single step of the way.
Other than that, though, great movie for twisted, strange people such as me.