A sad remake

Rating: 5/10 (16 March 2006)

Where do I begin? I'm not going to go all out and bash this movie, even though it should be bashed, a lot, with an axe through the head.
If you have never seen the original movie, do not read further. I am biased.
The first half of the movie is almost exactly the same as the original. B U T ....the original has the 'air' in its telling....and that mostly makes it more effective. The cell phone thing and the son-in-law could have been LEFT OUT. It does nothing for the story. I think they included it to show that that guy was a smart person, but not an effective person.
I don't even know where to start with the problems.
Acting is worse than anything you have seen. It is like watching bad 12 year old actors in a high school play. REALLY bad. Normal 12 year olds can do this better. See Youtube.com.
The script is more than horrid. There is not a human alive that can write a worse script, I think. I could have written this on the shitter in about 5 minutes. I am being 100% honest. I could not write this stuff if I tried. Is this People Magazine? My problems with this movie lie in the character development, the subsequent reactions, and the eventual outcome. It plays like a Bruce Campbell show...and you think it is kind of funny. There is some gore, but not to an extreme.
Don't listen to me specifically. Read all of the reviews. But, if you know me...you know what I'm saying. I guarantee you won't like this movie if you are a horror fan.
I would put this on the same plain as Wolf Creek. If you liked that pile, you may like this. Wolf Creek had some actors that could act, though.