i think the inclusion of horses in general was just a horrible idea on the screenplay writer, i mean the original went fine without them and in fact was a better movie without them
that's exactly why i hate the inclusion of them, in the movie they killed off a horse and expected you to be creeped out by it when it was one of the most useless plot devices in the script. and it's just that one line "i don't know but i think it has something to do with.....horses" that was it for me, at the moment when i heard those words, i just labled the movie as crap, just a horribly written, horribly dumbed down version of its classic predecessor