10 Films That Took Themselves Way Too Seriously

Using the same script as Eli Roth’s 2003 movie, but with enough changes to make it “contemporary”, this remake is so flat and dispiriting that you’ll be convinced you’re watching a cheap knock-off from The Asylum. Characters you couldn’t care less about wander through a narrative that’s been nipped and tucked to remove all the racial and homophobic slurs, and in the process the filmmakers have somehow excised whatever charm the original possessed.

Numbing in its soullessness, all this dull rehash does is prove that attempting to sanitize extreme horror is a really bad idea. We get the same story about a group of college graduates that encounter a flesh-eating virus at a mountain cabin, but the filmmakers do nothing with it except change the ways in which certain characters die.

Whatever your opinion of Roth’s film, it at least had verve and personality, but this retread appears to have been slapped together by people who’ve never seen it. After a while, its by-the-numbers approach achieves something the original never did – it becomes boring.