This movie fails because of one change

I was really enjoying this movie until the end. After the daughter was resurrected the movie crumbled. Having the daughter getting killed instead of Gage was an interesting shift from the novel, but having her converse with her father and mother after she rose from the dead 100% castrated the horror element. It did the worst thing possible you can do in a horror movie; it personified the evil, brought it into intimacy, hence nullifying the mystery of it and effectively robbing it of all its potency. After that point it became at best a generic slasher flick where the mystery of what caused the resurrection was relegated to nothing more than utility, and at worst a comedy.

"Hey kiddo, I see brushing your hair here that you have some staples in the back of your head. Don't let the kids at school tease you about them, they're only there to hold your brains in your skull, they're just immature, sweetheart. See you at the bus stop after school."

I mean, come the **** on. It's too bad really as the movie was doing really well up until the end, but the original movie is superior because for all its cheese and corniness, at least it kept the barrier between the mysterious evil of the dead and the malevolence that gave rise to it contrasted against the naive but hopeless hopes of the living in taking desperate measures to recover what was forever and irrecoverably lost. Here it doesn't, and the film fails because of it.