The filmmaker's red herrings prove depressingly incapable of hiding the real fiend's identity.

| Original Score: C | Apr 21, 2011

There's some malarkey about each kid having inherited one of the maniac's personalities, though Craven never does much with that except to point the finger of suspicion at junior.

| Jan 5, 2011

This utterly mediocre forget-me-now could've been crafted by any faceless serial director at all.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Oct 15, 2010

A thrill-free snooze that will certainly rank as one of the least -- if not the least -- effective entries in Craven's nearly 40-year canon of cinematic shockers.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 15, 2010

That Craven is earnestly trying to make an on-the-level, snark-free horror flick signals a welcome sea change in his career.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2010

There are plenty of formulaic boo! moments, yet Craven intelligently treats Bug's otherworldly issues like hormonal growing pains that must be tamed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2010

What sinks it is Craven's simplistic, ham-fisted writing and inert direction.

| Original Score: D- | Oct 11, 2010

The worst horror movie Wes Craven's made perhaps ever.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 10, 2010

It's good, theoretically at least, to have Craven back. But why come back for this?

| Original Score: D+ | Oct 8, 2010

A thoroughly dreary, by-the-numbers exercise.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 8, 2010

Wes Craven's first new movie in five years is a brainless, joyless, and yes, you might even say, soulless teen slasher.

| Original Score: D- | Oct 8, 2010

It's your money that's at greater stake with this subpar horror entry in barely noticeable 3D.

| Oct 8, 2010

This dumb, derivative teen slasher movie would be uninspiring coming from any writer-director, let alone one with several genre classics under his belt.

Full Review | Oct 8, 2010

The picture is directed with such a loose, slack hand that you'd think Craven had never directed a slasher-thriller before: I didn't jump once; I never even felt vaguely scared or creeped out.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 8, 2010

So poorly executed it doesnt even come close to being a horror film or a thriller; its an unintentional comedy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 8, 2010