True horror, like original humor, is hard. It needs actors who face fear-fest implausibilities with earnest conviction and a director who artfully regurgitates the genre's inevitable clichés. Jeepers ...

If there's any group of people who deserve to be munched like bonbons by a maniacal "bat from hell," a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobic high school athletes would get my vote. The bloodthirsty ...