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Director: Alexandre Aja

Release Date: 10 March 2006

Tagline: The lucky ones die first.

Main Cast:

Aaron Stanford … Doug Bukowski

Kathleen Quinlan … Ethel Carter

Vinessa Shaw … Lynn Carter

Emilie de Ravin … Brenda Carter

Dan Byrd … Bobby Carter

I don’t usually like remakes of classic films (I can’t see the point and they are almost without exception, inferior), but I really liked this one! It also makes a change to see a horror remake retain its C18 status and not watered down to get the teenage audience (C15).

As is the norm with horror films of this type the plot is very basic (no time should be wasted before getting down to the nitty gritty of torturing and axing people to death!). A family are going on a caravan trip and are crossing the rather barren countryside of New Mexico. Needless to say, they have to stop at one of those run down petrol ’stations’ in the middle of nowhere* where they come across a creepy man who recommends a short cut…

THHE is very, very brutal, gory and disturbing. The scene in the caravan with the three women and the baby is deeply unpleasant and quite difficult to watch.

Great stuff!

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* I swear, if I ever find myself travelling across America, I’ll never stop to fill up at one of these places as they all seem to house deranged murderers!