Vicious and efficient updating of the 1972 controversial graphic shocker of the same name. Garret Dillahunt, Michael Bowen, Josh Coxx, Dennis Iliadis, 2009.

Energetically directed by Dennis Iliadis from a new script by Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye, Disturbia), this remake of horror cinema's seminal tale of bloody revenge has been described by Stephen King as "the best horror movie of the new century".