Didn't really enjoy this film...

Rating: 4/10 (25 June 2006)

I just finished watching this movie for the first time and have to say that I didn't really expect much out of it. And that's about what I got.
Some of the acting was alright, and it was certainly gory. But a lot of the film just didn't go together too well and was shaky. The dialogue was pretty horrendous (my favorite being when Bobby says "that's so random") to the point where it added humor to the movie. And the plot wasn't amazing by any stretch.
But I expected this from Craven. Knowing that the great Robert Burns was involved in the original along with Craven, I expected some awesome messed up gore. And there was some. However, the digital age showed itself a bit too much in this film; the deaths were way too overdone and extreme. Not in a gore sense, as I'm a man who likes his gory horror films, but in a computer graphics were really only made to go so far and if you make it look too fake it looks almost cheesy sort of way. It made me yearn for the claymation of the evil dead series or the classic CGI-less shots of TCM and the Nightmare series.
It certainly tried to step out of the realm of the average horror movie. And compared to recent stuff like Wrong Turn and Nine Lives, it was amazing. They just don't make horror films like they used to I guess.