Too disturbing for my taste...

Rating: 3/10 (10 June 2010)

After I viewed this flick yesterday I really wanted to express my feelings about it because it's been weighing on my mind since.
First of all. At the beginning we see a happy normal American family, and it was then that I had a bad feeling about the rest of the movie, you know... usually there are just a couple of teenagers or young adults that you don't care about as much and of course you know that your watching a horror movie and you expect them to die, but this was a little over the line...not to mention that there is a baby involved..yes a baby!
Because it's just a normal family, you can relate to them and therefore you care for them 100 times more then for some stoned teenagers on vacation who sometimes even deserve the upcoming terrible events.
I really didn't want to see any of the family members die, but I kept watching it because I knew it was a movie and not based on real events and so on...
However!
Enough is enough when some of the family members (mom, son and son-in law) have to see the father tied up and burned alive to the ground while a deformed mutant brutally rapes the sister and the other holds the baby at gunpoint! Oh and by the way, the deformed rapist also starts to suck on the older sister's breast who recently had the baby in the movie with the son-in law...What's up with that??
I mean is this what horror movies are all about today?? Being over the top sadistic and shocking? "Hey just add enough blood and we can get an R rating and call it a horror movie" I thought real horror movies were all about scaring people, not making them full of disgust and hatred for the bad guys...You are supposed to be scared of the bad guy, not hate him.
OK I know it's probably really hard to scare people, but it's definitely possible without so much cruelty and pointless violence against good people.
Another thing...If the mutants were in contact with the gas station owner, which I assume from the point that he calls for Ruby (one of the mutants) Why didn't those dumb-asses just eat off his food supplies?? That would have saved them a lot of blood and killings! And if he didn't have enough food supplies, why wasn't he then killing and eating off those people too? Makes no sense at all.
Anyway, there are some good things about this movie too, surprisingly. For example the film manages to make you hate the mutants so badly that you jump out of excitement when they are being killed one by one. Also, the beginning was a bit scary, with a few classic jump-scares. But after the unnecessary and brutal terrible events that happened to the family the movie completely went down-hill.
Many horror movies are better than this one, and for good reasons. In my opinion it's just another mentally disturbing movie like hostel and Wolf Creek (although Wolf Creek is a bit better) etc. etc. It's certainly not for everyone... Even worse, not for every horror fan, Which I consider myself to be!