Unhinged

This is an unfortunate remake of the 1982 version of the film, which is superior to this one, but the original is so technically flawed, it's tedious to watch. This remake at least has good production quality to make it pleasing on the eyes and ears. The similar but different twist ending fell flat with me, but where this film really went wrong is how tame it was. I don't recall anything daring, exploitive, or risky (not even nudity that I recall), so it was quite a let-down. Easy to watch, but nothing to see. I did like the mask/dress concoction for the unknown baddie. That really could have been taken to many more levels to make this a pretty creepy flick, but that was an opportunity missed.

Don't bother. Missed chances to do something different. Lame and tame "kill" scenes, literally you see nothing. Acting was unconvincing. And the plot, seriously? Don't bother, skip it or prepare to be seriously underwhelmed. You've been warned.

Having not seen the original to this remake, I can't remark on it's merits in that direction. However on it's own, it falls quite flat. The protagonists are "classically" horror movie stupid to a quite appalling and intensely frustrating degree and the dialogue wasn't much better. I mean, what bride waits until several days before the wedding to decide on and tell the girl who she wants to be her maid of honor? And at one point, after the you know what hits the fan, one character literally is in the clear and has the chance to call the police, but instead decides to listen to a voicemail. The conceit that they are stranded with no contact to the outside world is certainly not helped by that scene.The acting itself is decent and though the actresses do try valiantly, none of them are able to keep up a reliable American (USA) accent. The gore, the little there is, is decent. Perhaps with a better script (that didn't rely so heavily on the characters being profoundly stupid) this movie could have been a pretty good low budget horror movie, but as is I suggest taking a pass.

It seems the writers lack any kind of realistic human behaviour in their writing, pieced together very poorly.

No back history to the characters, took me 30 minutes to figure out if the cast were American pretending to live in England???

The cinematic quality is good, but they severely need someone to link their writing/plot to make any sense at all.

Four hot "American" girls travel across the English countryside only to be offered refuge by a strange spinster when they run into difficulties. Three of these actresses are English, the other an Aussie, none of them can do a convincing American accent so right from the off things are bad. The voice of the killer sounds like a demon from some cheesy 80's horror movie & there are many plot holes, it's pretty dumb at times. On the plus side the musical score is pretty creepy, there's some girl on girl action (brief) and a bit of torture porn thrown in. Overall it's a poor remake of a film that wasn't very good in the first place, but seek out the original instead.