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Judge #1's verdict -

I give him a C+.

I was uncomfortable reading the things being done to Sarah. Not my kind of movie. And my OCD had a problem with the spelling and grammar.

Judge #2's verdict -

Pretty good choice for a remake, and you adapted it well. There are some holes, however, that would need to be addressed in a rewrite:
The killer smashes the window, and then goes around to smash open the door. Why? Why not just come in through the window?
In the rape scene you say the killer rips off Sarah's pajamas, and then immediately afterwards you say the bracelet falls in her shirt pocket. Did he rip off her clothes or not?
You take pains to mention she knows the layout of the house very well, and then she falls down the basement stairs. This one is not so bad as she could be in a state of panic at that point.

The revelation of the killer's backstory is a bit much. I'd like to see some forshadowing here. Perhaps Sarah is haunted by images of the boy that she inadvertantly killed. That way it's not completely out of the blue who the killer is.

You do have several terrifying set pieces that would be very effective- the murders, the discovery of the bodies, the shootout at the gas station. The story just needs to be tightened up.

GRADE: B

Judge #3's verdict -

B-.

Seems like it's riffed on well enough. I don't know how interesting or how much room to move around the original had as I have not seen it, but it was an okay choice and it certainly feels like the sort of thing Aja would be involved in. The perspiration's here but I'm not sure about the inspiration.

Overall Grade - B-