I was thrilled to see Camille Keaton reprising her iconic role as Jennifer Hills, but this movie misses the mark on so many levels. I won’t spoil anything, but I’ll say that usually I appreciate when a movie takes a path I don’t want it to go, because they’re thinking outside the box, but this time I am seriously not happy with the directions they take. The acting was out of line. I kept trying to think, “Maybe this is how people act in small towns like this.” But I don’t think they do. There were some throwbacks to the original, but the timeline makes no sense. The original dropped in 1978, everyone here is way too young to be who they say they are. Maybe it’s supposed to take place 15 years ago, but they never say. There are some scenes with blood-curdling screams, but no one hears them like when the Hills get kidnapped outside the restaurant where they clearly showed people eating outside. I don’t buy that. The deaths were not satisfactory. They did not feel earned, and there was no payoff. One guy gets shot in the nuts, and he doesn’t fall over or anything. He just looked down at it and back up and asks why she would do that. In the original, the director takes the time to show what the young men put Hills through. It gets uncomfortable, but that’s because we’re supposed to get behind Hills and be satisfied when she takes them out. Here, they knock her out, and only one of the men puts himself inside her. I’m so disappointed with this. The liked seeing Camille Keaton again. She and Jamie Bernadette did fine work with what they were given. It was also shot really well. It looks like the seventies style of the original, but that’s not enough to save this film.Read full review
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Really enjoyed the picture. My...how time passes.
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a great movie
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Is good
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