When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
What was dreadful and trance-like in the original feels here like nothing-much-at-all sandwiched between some stock horror jolts.
– Keith Phipps,
AV Club,
17 Aug 2006
rotten:
The remake begins with the same premise and appropriates the most striking visuals, grafting them onto a more explicable but equally dull George Romero-style doomsday scenario.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
17 Aug 2006
rotten:
It would have been a lot scarier if the film's college kids, haunted by comrades who stare back at them from cyber-hell, looked like they had lives worth saving.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Aug 2006
rotten:
A handful of creepy visuals can't make up for a mountain of shortcomings.
– Randy Cordova,
Arizona Republic,
19 Aug 2006
rotten:
As the ghosts suck the life out of their victims, the audience suffers the same fate.