Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly
Trash, but always just a little creepier than you expect.
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| 60 |
Film.com
The effects never really get ahead of the characters or the script's layered personality.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
Low-budget, high-camp.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The kind of horror movie that's not a bit scary and quite a bit gross.
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| 41 |
Mr. Showbiz
Aims low and cheats on an ending, but meanwhile it's a bottom-shelf hoot.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
For horror fans in a forgiving mood, it's an adequate fear fix.
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| 40 |
Variety
Still nothing but a gussied-up B movie.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Contains too little of the original's campy spirit and too many whistles, bells, explosions and screams.
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| 38 |
USA Today
Fun for less than 30 of the 80-minute running time.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
It's all a bit of overkill.
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| 25 |
New York Post
Slow-moving, yawn-inducing remake.
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| 20 |
Newsweek
Jane Hogan
Everyone in the film is either annoying or unpleasant.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
Soon enough, it becomes clear how much this movie disrespects both the audience and the genre.
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| 10 |
The New York Times
All the special effects in the world cannot compensate for an inability to generate tension, establish and sustain pace or create any character whose survival is worth rooting for.
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| 0 |
TNT RoughCut
Todd Doogan
Lucky for you, it won't cost a thing to get up and walk out at any point after the credits.
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| 0 |
San Francisco Examiner
If your name's on the marquee, chances are your agent's already dead.
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| 0 |
Salon.com
Sarah Beach
I would rather feed Jesse Helms a rancid peanut butter sandwich, and then have him slowly lick my face off, than sit through House on Haunted Hill again.
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