Synopsis: Five friends are on a van, on their way to a concert, when they almost run over a young woman walking aimlessly on the road. They stop to help her, and this is the beginning of a series of ghastly occurrences wherein they will meet a family of freaks and murderers.
Appraisal: While not completely bad as a horror and suspense film, still there are several things that don't seem to be right in this remake of a 1974 horror classic. The approach here is less extreme than in the other film, and the dark humor is largely absent. This is bad because the film verges into obnoxiousness in more than one occasion, and it seems misplaced because there isn't a context of caricature like there was in the first film. It doesn't always fare too well in the suspense department either, with many set-pieces that operate in a somewhat disjointed way. I guess the film will work better for those who haven't seen the earlier version.
Rating: 40
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