This is just an uneccessary and frustrating prequel. The story itself works in my opinion, but it never manage to create the same scares as the first two films.
First, a lot of the action happens at daytime, which just isn't as scary as nighttime up on the mountain. It also looses some of its appeal when they exhange the winter setting to spring/summer/fall in the woods.
The characters are mostly terrible. No character development and insanely stupid and illogical, which we see in all the movies. The lead girl is probably the best part, but the overall writing makes it impossible for any character to win because they constantly do the most illogical or stupid thing they can do, which often gets them killed our caught by the killer. So many times they could have escaped, but since it's a horror movie the writers just wouldn't let them. The ending is probably the worst offender...
A dissappointing ending to an otherwise pretty good horror film series.
First, a lot of the action happens at daytime, which just isn't as scary as nighttime up on the mountain. It also looses some of its appeal when they exhange the winter setting to spring/summer/fall in the woods.
The characters are mostly terrible. No character development and insanely stupid and illogical, which we see in all the movies. The lead girl is probably the best part, but the overall writing makes it impossible for any character to win because they constantly do the most illogical or stupid thing they can do, which often gets them killed our caught by the killer. So many times they could have escaped, but since it's a horror movie the writers just wouldn't let them. The ending is probably the worst offender...
A dissappointing ending to an otherwise pretty good horror film series.