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The lucky ones die first!
A remake of Wes Craven's infamous 1976 splatter fest about how a stranded family are preyed upon by a family of inbred mutants.
"The road is here right? It exists. It's got to go somewhere."
A family are travelling across the desert and after getting some directions from a dodgy gas station attendant, they wind up stranded in the middle of nowhere. The family: angry father Bob, placating mother Ethel (Kathleen Quinlan - 'Family Law'), spoilt daughter Brenda (Emilie De Ravin - 'Lost', 'Roswell'), snotty son Bobby, good daughter Lynn, her husband Doug (Aaron Stanford - 'Traveler', 'XMen2', 'XMen III') and their baby daughter moan about their plight as 'California Deamin' plays ominously on the soundtrack.
Soon another family show up, a collection of inbred murderous cannibal hillbillies mutated by atomic weapons testing. Soon a vicious battle for survival erupts. this is a suitably tense horror film, while it is not as savagely raw as the original, it is suitably nasty, bloody and vicious. The ominous tension building is very well done and if you ever wanted to see Claire from 'Lost' killing a cannibal hillbilly with a pickaxe or a blood drenched Will Traveler from 'Traveler' axing mutants to death this is for you.
This is an okay film. A far better remake then the unnecessary 'Omen' and 'Halloween' remakes.
P-Con VI March 27th/28th/29th 2009
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