A worthy remake!

Rating: 10/10 (21 May 2008)

In the New Mexican desert, a family is taking a vacation to California until their tires bust out leaving them stranded. They decide to camp for the night to fix it, unfortunately a clan of mutant killer hillbilly hermits terrorize them into a night and day of hell.
Surprisingly terrific remake of the 1977 cult Wes Craven masterpiece! this movie is a nice and grim delight from director Alexandre Aja ("High Tension")and producer Wes Craven. Starring Ted Levine ("Silence of the Lambs"), Kathleen Quinlan, Vaness Shaw and Billy Draco, this is an over the top and gory as hell re-imagining that stays true to the classic and manages to keep some good scares, good tension and graphic violence that made the original a cult fave. This remake also explains how the mutants started off, this is one of the better remakes of the horror genre in the 2000's with "Dawn of the Dead" and "The Ring", although "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was quite decent.
But i think this movie stands as the best of the remake crop now, a must see even for fans of the genre.