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I've never seen the original.


Should I spend the $2 renting this on redbox? I'm really not hard to please with horror movies. The last one I rented was The Green Inferno and I LOVED it.

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The original is an award winning film with an imdb score of 7.1 & the remake has been universally panned by film fans and critics, scoring only 3.9 on imdb.

If you haven't seen the original why would you choose to watch the remake over it? I am just curious.

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Yes you should. It's not as good as the original but still very worth watching.

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The original is trash. The first act is decent, but it falls apart after that.

But if you loved TGI then you either love torture porn or you have a low bar for genre films. Either way, you'd probably like both of these. The original starts stronger, but ends poorly with a long stretch of dull, pointless torture. This one starts measurably worse, but the last act isn't nearly as dull and has a more satisfying conclusion.

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