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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorIt'll get your blood pumping, before it starts spilling down your forehead.
- 80Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichIt still works its way under your skin and, by the time the highly disturbed Frank’s casualties come back to haunt him en masse, cuts sanguinely to the heart.
- 75Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezIts audio-visual overload testifies to a group of filmmakers' belief that some films are made to be remade.
- 60Total FilmJamie GrahamTotal FilmJamie GrahamThe scuzz-chic visuals, sleaze-synth score and deep-cutting gore are effective, and shooting from the killer’s POV proves a valid USP. But Wood, despite giving his all, cannot match Joe Spinell’s unhinged turn in the original: nightmares in a damaged brain indeed.
- 60VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonThis merciless work of anti-entertainment is arguably admirable for being as disturbingly disgusting as it wants to be.
- Slasher-movie fans, however, need not be put off by the stylized camera work and arty patina: this is down and dirty genre filmmaking, and the various slaughters, excruciatingly detailed scalpings and other atrocities are no less gruesome because of the highfalutin approach.
- 60Village VoiceChris PackhamVillage VoiceChris PackhamKhalfoun makes the audience privy to Frank's memories, migraines, and jarring hallucinations of his mother's recalled abuses.
- 0New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis poor man’s Norman Bates, though, doesn’t make us wonder what makes him tick; he makes us want to shut our eyes.