Hacking away at post-Scream smart-arsery, Eli Roth's bloody nasty debut pilfers from past classics but plays its scares straight. Kids-in-peril-in-the-woods is the well-worn format, but the characters are barbed and believable, while the fetid, flesh-eating virus attacking them is the most original slasher villain in years. The third act falls apart under the weight of references and a comic copper subplot which has wandered in from Porky's (or The Last House On The Left) but, as eye-watering exploitation goes, there are scenes that stick.
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