Depressingly unoriginal horror

Rating: 1/10 (5 September 2006)

A major letdown after director Aja's superb Switchblade Romance (Haute Tension), this remake of Wes Craven's 70's original is a Halloween punch-bowl full of turds.
I love horror movies and unlike a number of people that have left negative comments about this film on IMDb, I am most certainly not grossed out by the 'sickening' gore-fest on offer in this horror(less)show. In fact, I feel it could have been gorier, then it would have distracted me from the fact that the entire production was made up of no-mark characters wandering about a hackneyed plot peppered with clichéd music/sound effects and 'scary moments' that are telegraphed with letters the size of mount Rushmore.
Major studio horror film making at its worst.