(CNN) A horror version of “Fantasy Island,” frankly, sounds more interesting than a conventional reboot, which explains why Sony would hand the keys to Blumhouse, the reigning maestro of that genre, and let them run with it.
A frantic woman races through the jungle as the movie begins, serving notice that this isn’t grandma’s “Fantasy Island,” the escapist TV show that premiered in 1978.
Their fantasy, he explains, will be “as real as you make it,” in a locale where “anything and everything is possible.”
The movie exhibits promise at first too, if only because it’s hard to anticipate where all this is going, in a “The Twilight Zone” kind of way.
The lesson appears to involve being careful what you wish for — a tried-and-true wrinkle of such fare.
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