One of the least ambitious remakes ever made.

Rating: 4/10 (9 June 2017)

Note for note remake of the 1977 film, as a family gets lost, stranded in the middle of the desert, preyed upon by mutant killers.
Expectedly colour-saturated, high contrast horror film follows the original film so closely, and even uses strikingly similar dialogue, that it becomes entirely predictable, and it reduces the plot merely to gross- out torture-porn.
The film unwisely reverses the cautionary gas station attendant and turns him into another generic ambusher, telling this family to take some unmarked dirt path, instead of staying " on the main road ", leading them straight to the killers' traps.
The killers from the original film were terrifying, with hardly any make- up effects, and they were actual characters, with personalities, and oddly likable quirks ( as demonstrated by some of their one-liners directed at each other ) , but here, the killers are just gross looking, and they have none of the personality or presence of the original's killers, having been reduced to generic, CGI, cardboard cutout killers.
Oddly enough, the Nevada desert locations in the original film were haunting, prehistoric, unearthly looking, but the Ouarzazate desert landscape in this film looks like just that: a desert. Completely lacking the atmosphere in setting.
This remake does have its moments, just not enough of them. Best scene: Doug ( whose character endures enough injuries to kill several people ) discovering the nuclear blast crater.