After watching this movie, I still don’t really get it. It started off promisingly enough – a peek into police files where we are brought back to the summer of 1973 where a horrible and gory crime was committed.

Then the film goes back to the tale of 5 young Americans who are on their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert and that’s when the gore and flying innards begin.

I’m all for spilled blood and guts if the movie warrants it but this 2003 remake seems all about terrorising viewers with tasteless and tacky scenes … one thing’s for sure, it’s not subtle in the least.

What ultimately makes this a not-too-scary horror movie is the fact that you really don’t fall for the characters who are about to die. Stoned, sexed up, sweaty looking teenagers who do a good deed (pick up a hitchhiker) only to be hacked to death? Errr … okay, I suppose.

Jessica Biel did a pretty good job but other than that, I wouldn’t recommend this movie to anyone.