Using the same script as Eli Roths 2003 movie, but with enough changes to make it contemporary, this remake is so flat and dispiriting that youll be convinced youre watching a cheap knock-off from The Asylum. Characters you couldnt care less about wander through a narrative thats 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 boring 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 Roths film, it at least had verve and personality, but this retread appears to have been slapped together by people whove never seen it. After a while, its by-the-numbers approach achieves something the original never did it becomes boring. Which other films belong on this list? Share your picks below in the comments thread.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
