A lame movie

Even though this movie had a rather lame reputation, since I always had a weak spot for Wes Craven, I thought I should check it out. Indeed, Wes Craven was a pretty cool director and he has made some awesome movies. However, this was definitely not one of them... Apparently, I read somewhere that the production was a mess and you could see it on the screen. Indeed, Craven spent more than 2 years on this movie, shooting, re-shooting, and re-shooting again with a different script and a really different cast. Eventually, the end-result was seriously weak with a really lame story, some lame dialogues and some lame special effects. It was even supposed to be R rated but, once again, the Weinstein brothers changed their mind and went for a PG-13, ruining even more the whole thing even more. You might wonder if the original version might not have worked better but we’ll never know, I’m afraid. For Wes Craven, the blow on his career was huge and the only films he would manage to make afterwards would be the rather weak ‘Scream 4’ and the even more underwhelming ‘My Soul to Take’ which was just really sad. To conclude, the whole thing is rather disastrous and you should probably avoid it.