Alexandre Aja is the new horror king!!

Rating: 10/10 (10 March 2006)

I got to tell you I remember seeing the original in a drive-in with my sister when I was 8 years old. Its scared the crap out of me, having seen my share of horror movies since then I look at the original as lame. So when I heard they were doing a remake I thought they couldn't make it any worse. Not in my wildest gory wet dreams could I have imagined that they would surpass the original, hell this is probably the best remake these jaded eyes have seen since the Texas Chainsaw remake. I was blown away!! Yes, there are some slow parts but its called creating tension. Aja and his parter Levasseur re-wrote Craven's mediocre (sorry Wes but after Red Eye I lost all respect I have for you) and created something truly dread inducing, and disturbing at the same time. Big props to KNB effects, the mutant makeup is Oscar worthy and the gore...ah yes the glorious gore. How Aja gets a R-rating I don't know but he is truly the new master of horror. Carpenter and Craven can safely retire the genre is is great hands.