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Horror 98 min R
Rotten Tomatoes37%Metacritic38IMDb
What you know about fear...doesn't even come close.
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
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Bleak, unpretentious, resolved and plot-driven.
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Producer Michael Bay steered this remake of the infamous 1970's horror flick, without bringing in anything new. When I first saw the trailer for this version of the story, I thought it looked a lot like a hurried sequel to the contemporary silly release "Wrong Turn." Five youths on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert pick up a young hitchhiker who commits suicide in the back of their van. Looking for help, and a little common sense, they stumble upon a weird family and their chainsaw wielding offspring. Much violence and such ensues. While the first TCM was not perfect, I eventually learned to love the shaky camera, lousy sound, and cheap look. One reason that film worked for me was the fact that much of the horror took place in blinding daylight, the cast was hot and uncomfortable, and it showed. In this version, even with the original's director of photography, most of the shots are too calculated. The horrors in the dark are not all that horrifying. This might be the rantings of a jaded horror film fan, but I never got the same feeling of unease as I did in the first film. Much of the original's story has been changed as film makers tried to keep the audience guessing by not d
Read the whole review on TMDBClearly this is not as good as this can get, but with this particular iteration, this is what we got. It is nowhere near as frightening as the original, and a lot of that is probably due to the characters not being relatable, which is why you don't feel any tension, and without tension, the "scary" is just bland noise and screeching. If the characters had built a connection with the audience that might have been different, but that wasn't to be here. This is techically proficient, and looks good enough, but it isn't a horrormovie worthy a franchise like this. This is lower tier, for sure.
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