Horror Fans Are In For A Treat

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2010)

Horror films aren't much to get excited about these days as far as I'm concerned, but this one you'll definitely raise some heart rates. It actually raised mine, which isn't often. This movie plays off the radiation and A-bomb scares of those 50s and 60s sci-fi cult films, but it's the new millenia so get ready for something much more gruesome. The plot, as far as the setting, is predictable enough, somehow a family is trapped in the lone deserts of New Mexico, far from any reliable cell phone signals and civilization. The mutant people have decided to continue to live in these harsh conditions and have taken a liking to the taste of human flesh, although their sex drive apparently hasn't changed ( a disturbing part of the film I must say).
The plot is interesting enough and you'll find yourself entertained. These mutants are basically a very mentally wrong group of people who definitely have some issues to work out. After ran-sacking their trailer and killing some damsels in distress, the a**holes even take the guy's baby daughter!! Oh hell no!! Time to get those f*ckers!! And so the father sets out to get his child back, with his trusted dog and bat. Meanwhile, the kiddies somehow manage to make a sophisticated trap that involves trip wires and an exploding trailer (How????). As a lover of sci-fi flicks, I'm usually not one to put a movie on blast for its realism, but when the kid had a gun with multiple rounds it seemed kind of overdone. Back at the mutant village, the dad is forced to confront a barrage of freaks and by the end of the movie is practically dead, taking more damage than I think a human can survive. But with a little help from a mutant who looks like red riding hood (the deformed version of course), he kills the remaining freaks in a blood bath. That's what you guys get!! I personally was rooting for the guy the whole movie and in the end it appears to be a happy climax..... Do I smell a sequel???