Wait, so we're supposed to ignore the fact that #3 was never made, and that no one cares about moving forward with the prequel started with Prometheus (not that it was stellar, but cmon).
This is a 100% train wreck.
You see this a lot with horror movies.
Remember Halloween's H2O retconned #3-6 into non-existence (actually #4 erased #3 before that.)
I watched Texas Chainsaw last night. It politely asked you to forget about #2-4 as well as the reboots, while it acted as a direct sequel to the original.
Lets not forget New Nightmare. That was terrible
Great opening, but got bogged down in boring cliches, instead of breaking down the 4th wall like Craven did in Scream. Take away the supernatural and gore, this could play on Lifetime as your typical mom and child in jeopardy tv movie.