Audiences will start playing the 'Who's Next' game as people run, scream and die, and the whole thing loses the power that this horrific creation once had over cinema.

It's neither as bad as it could have been, nor as interesting as it should have been, and the final desultory reaction is a decidedly minor one.

Gross and sadistic but never scary.

It's fine (for a prequel). Appropriately mean and grimy for a TCM film, although the callbacks to the 74 original and 03 remake wind up feeling a little desperate