carpenters thing is one of my favorite movies of all time, so i was kinda biased and sure this new one going to suck. but it didn't. of course it wasn't better and i think could live happily without this, but still it was cool. cast was good n cgi tentacles looked good. it wasn't as creepy as carpenters, but i think they still did pretty good job. then i didn't like that they jacked some scenes straight or changed a lil bit from carpenters movie, but in the end it was solid prequel with lots of cool shit. 7/10