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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: That it escaped the straight-to-video bin suggests that Hollywood's contempt for today's youth audience has reached a new level. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It is nearly as tense and nasty as the original and, to be fair, features far better acting, most notably by Jessica Biel, who is compelling even when she isn't about to burst out of her wet T-shirt. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... a bloody good time of a B-movie. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: An effectively scary slasher film. Read more
Dave Kehr, New York Times: Rather than exhilaration, this bilious film offers only entrapment and despair. It's about as much fun as sitting in on an autopsy. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: 'Inspired by a true story' presumably adds to the sordid thrills; maybe we should look forward to entertainments about Nazis torturing children. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Completely watchable, but brings virtually nothing new to the horror/gore table. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: This is easily the most gruesome, most pointless, episode of Scooby Doo ever. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: The remake moves faster and sounds louder, but comes off as callous rather than creepy. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: It's just as guilty as Blair Witch 2 for smothering bare-bones fright with ladles of gore. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A remake that turns every kill into an opportunity for overkill. Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: One gets the feeling the movie is little more than product meant to entice the unsuspecting -- neither new nor improved, merely the same wine in a different bottle. Read more
Ron Stringer, L.A. Weekly: Sheer simplicity of the idea gets overwhelmed by, of all things, production values. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Just as humorless as the original, but it's also slicker, glossier and resoundingly artificial. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: It's so caught up in concept and layout that it frequently forgets to push the jolt buttons. Read more
Bob Campbell, Newark Star-Ledger: Does convey the sense of being caught in a nightmare. A stupid person's nightmare. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: For the new generation of slasher fan, the remake is a true gross-out with plenty of satisfying frights. For the rest of us, it's one more chapter in a neverending story. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The new Massacre lowers the bar much the way the original 'dead teenager' horror flick did way back in 1974, and makes a mockery of that industry self-policing rubber stamp known as the ratings board. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: There's nothing extraordinary or groundbreaking here, but the film delivers with enough consistency to warrant a qualified recommendation for those seeking a few extra scares at this time of the year. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A contemptible film: Vile, ugly and brutal. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Unlike movies such as Seven, there isn't enough style in the new The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to justify the bloodbath, and it's riddled with too much been-there-done-that to endure as a classic. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Drowns in red rivers of excess. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Gruesome enough; what it lacks is a distinctive revolting personality of its own. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Next to this redundant, pointless and witless retread, the classic status of Tobe Hooper's original version is officially beyond dispute. Read more
Time Out: The best one can say is that his version is not slavishly in thrall to Hooper's: boring, fright-free and pointless, maybe, but not craven. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: An initially promising, but quickly disappointing retread of Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel's hugely influential horror classic. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: An overproduced, video-director remake, slick and grue-marinated and loud as a sonic boom. Read more