Eat them up

Rating: 6/10 (3 November 2009)

Sick remake of old cult horror classic about a family stranded in the desert, at war with a family of bizarre killers. The gore quotient is satisfying, and the production values are first-rate. Shot in Morocco, of all places. Ted Levine of MONK fame plays the dad, and the cast is peppered with several other familiar faces. The only problem with this remake, we've seen this story played out in so many movies over the years, most recently WRONG TURN and, to a lesser extent, the remake of HOUSE OF WAX. So it becomes more difficult to offer up something new or different by way of shock or scares. The final battle between human and a really ugly, really big bad boy is a winner, however.