This is unusual - I like the remake more than the original. I haven't seen the original for a long time, but I didn't like it enough to watch it over and over again. Its interesting to watch because its Wes Craven's first movie, and its unusual to see a movie that bleak and depressing. Even compared to Saw and Hostel, it is hard to watch for the brutality.
In the original, two girls run into a gang of psychos. They take the girls out into the woods where they torture and kill them. When they leave the woods, they stop at a house because their car has broken down. Surprise, this is where one of the girls lives. The parents are worried about their missing daughter, they figure out that this gang has killer her, and they take their revenge.
The remake makes a big change to the story (spoiler alert): the daughter survives and makes it home. This makes the story a bit different. Instead of the parents just being out for revenge, when they kill the criminals, they are doing it to protect their daughter, who is lying on the coffee table close to death.
The movie works as a good horror movie and as a revenge fantasy. There are several scenes that make the audience cheer as the parents are dispatching the gang members. They do tone down the torture of the girls but what happens to them is bad enough, so its probably a good thing they cut it down. Although there is a part of me that thinks "they wimped out. The filmmakers didn't have the balls that Wes Craven did."
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