Castle Freak (1995)

I kinda liked Castle Freak. It's not the best of Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs, but it's got atmosphere, a great location, and a good tone of partial silliness and partial creepiness, like a lot of the best of Stuart Gordon's work.

But I fucking hated the remake. I don't think I could really come up with much of anything nice to say about it. If I recall correctly it ends with a rather ambitious and larger idea that is a little ballsy, but everything that comes before is atrocious. It's seriously one of the cheapest looking, most amateurish, poorly shot, poorly acted, poorly written, poorly conceived, lamest movies I remember seeing in the last few years. I thought it was fucking terrible all around... and there's a really oddly pornographic sex scene which is pretty uncomfortable for such a shitty little lame movie.

It fucking sucks.

The location was good though. They didn't know how to use it, but it does have that.

I thought the victims in the original movie were far more likeable. They were mostly Douchebags in the Reboot. I give them credit for giving the Freak a new design and trying something different with the ending.