Blumhouse's cheap-but-not-so-cheerful update of the lower-league horror hit turns out to be an underpowered re-imagining of the less-than-significant original. This unsubtle update inevitably plays up the girl power/puberty angle in a very generic teen movie manner with a less interesting and more irritating central cast this time around. The film does its best to balance issues of female empowerment and notions of masculinity, and one particular scene that addresses sexuality stands out in its sincere playing, but overall this film's simplistic skewing to a young teen (girl) audience reduces the impact of its weightier ambitions. It all leads to a rather underwhelming final showdown that concludes this unnecessary and rather uninteresting revival.
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