When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
Horror without suspense is like sex without love: you can appreciate the technicalities, but ultimately there's no reason to care.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
15 Sep 2007
rotten:
It's just not that scary (even the gory sequences are predictable and boring). And it certainly isn't clever or funny.
– Jonathan Perry,
Boston Globe,
15 Sep 2007
rotten:
Green's efforts to strike a balance between knowing humour and no-holds-barred horror are stymied by an erratic tone: a slow, talky build-up gives way to a soggy middle section and a messy, all-stops-out finale.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
5 Oct 2007
rotten:
Anyone feeding into this nostalgia is yearning for a kind of warm and fuzzy horror that's wholly irrelevant today.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
6 Oct 2007
rotten:
Lacking the satirical bite of the first Scream... this is mere pastiche that doesn't even wink at what it is pointlessly xeroxing from the past.