And I Thought Hostel Was Bad

Rating: 2/10 (24 November 2006)

Less than 2 minutes into the film (no kidding!), 4 people are brutally murdered by an axe-wielding mutant dude. Well, we can't have our audience getting bored, can we.
Then, the obligatory shady "lookout antagonist" is introduced, who lures unsuspecting travelers into the claws of the psychotic killer family. Apparently, Hollywood's use of this clichéd character was not limited to just The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (and sequels/remakes), House of 1000 Corpses, and many others. They just can't help themselves.
Ironically, the next 45 minutes are horribly boring. In fact, they contribute to what I call "negative character development", which actually made me hope for the deaths of the characters  especially the young daughter, who was a real wench. Also, pointless jump scares are added in here and there. You know, typical Hollywood stuff.
Then comes the pointless and gratuitous gore: some mutant dude bites the head off of a bird and drinks its blood; some mutant dude shoots the grandmother in the chest, and then shoots the mother in the head (who somehow lives long enough to scream at her husband before she dies  cuing up another pointless jump scare); dismemberment; lots of axes to various heads; etc. At one point, a mutant dude is raping the teenage daughter, while another mutant dude is "milking" another woman while pointing a gun at her babies head. Now that's great cinema (sarcasm).
One thing that particularly annoyed me was that the family of victims was armed to the teeth! They had a magnum and an automatic pistol at the beginning of the film, yet whenever these firearms would have come in handy, they wasted bullets like they were candy, blinding shooting into the desert. At one point the teenage son chases the unarmed mutant dudes in the desert and stops to fire at them from 50 yards away, instead of catching up to them and killing them point blank. So stupid!
The film continues to morph into some sort of perverted action movie, with the would-be victims wielding axes like pro-lumberjacks! Stay away from this one, and most Hollywood horror for that matter.