There are RULES to Making a Good Horror Film

Rating: 2/10 (13 March 2012)

The ONLY reason this movie deserves two stars, is because of just how entertaining it was to watch the baby's father stab some mutant in the head with the American flag. That's it. No other reason.
There are a few reasons this movie is not a good horror movie. A lot of people have mentioned about how the villainous mutant freaks are unrealistic, and thus not scary or anything else for that matter except for disturbing, and I definitely have to agree with that.
The thing that REALLY ruined this movie though, was the scripting. Every single one of the characters were completely ignorant to everything going on around them, and made just plain stupid decisions. If you are stranded in the middle of the desert, and your dog runs off, do you chase after it for more than a mile off of the main road, when you know there are dangerous animals around? When you SEE that your dog is dead and gutted, do you say nothing to your family until it is too late, not ONLY that, but run after your other dog who runs away too, and then run outside to an OBVIOUS fake barking person's voice and letting your family be attacked while you prove your own stupidity? This is NOT realistic! And this is only one person's mistakes! Don't get me started on the Brother in law who has no peripheral vision and runs past his sister in law being raped right across the room from him, and can't tell when a burning man is crispy enough that it doesn't matter anymore and he needs to give up and help the family. ...you don't stab a man in the leg who has a gun, UNLESS you have someone ready to take him out the second that you do. This movie just keeps playing on the character's stupidity to make this a 'scary' movie, which it is absolutely not in the slightest. And I think the worst part was seeing the ex cop shooting blindly into the night because he 'heard voices', and then got into his car without checking his back seat. HOW STUPID DOES THE DIRECTOR OF THIS FILM THINK WE ARE?!
To make a movie scary, you need intelligent characters who are -just- dumb enough to fall for a few things. You can't just let them be complete morons. They need to be relate-able, otherwise you never feel anything about them dying or their plight. This film was a piece of garbage. Not really worth anyone's time, although if you put up with the ridiculousness of it all, it may be a decent time passer.