Tries hard

Rating: 6/10 (24 April 2007)

Aja had a really wonderful scary film before he did this (although his previous project had one major flaw, at least that's what I think, but more on that subject on that films IMDb site later), so they gave him this project. A remake of a Wes Craven horror flick from the 70s, that is considered a classic. Sounds like he had to lose everything, but couldn't gain anything? So why did he do the remake then after all that?
Because he tried to bring it to the new millennium and changed a few things. Some of the changes are good, others aren't. One of the changes is the back story of the ... let's call them bad guys, another the dynamic in the family (main characters). All in all good things, but if you have seen the original, you can't shake the feeling off, that something is missing or that this isn't original enough (that's how I felt), plus there are characters (the guy at the gas station), who just didn't make sense at all ... Anyway, not bad but neither a classic!