Feeling Evil after a Dead experience

Rating: 4/10 (5 April 2013)

After seeing The Cabin In the Woods and hearing about The Evil Dead being remade, like most fans of THE Evil Dead, I was pretty excited. Surely, the screenwriters would dig deep into the bowels of their creativity and give us something fresh like what Josh Wheadon and Drew Goddard did for The Cabin in the Woods. Nope.
Evil Dead got bad from the time it was established that Mia's drug problem was the back drop for the trip to the cabin. That's waay too serious of a topic to be the set up for a movie like The Evil Dead which never took itself serious and in not taking itself serious, the audience was able to believe the absurdity and laugh at it.
Yes, THE Evil Dead was hilarious, remember? The humor came out of the situation, watching Ash and Scott trying to kill the demons was hilarious. The demons themselves were hilarious. Evil Dead....not one chuckle. And don't give me this crap about "dark" humor. Humor means you laugh, period. Whether it's dark or light, funny means you laughed. But there's blood...a whooole lot of blood. Note to producers/director- blood does not equal scary. Screenwriters-who am I rooting for in this poor excuse for a remake? I wanted Mia to die and her brother to kill her, for real, and survive. Maybe that's just me thinking David was going to take the Ash role and end up fighting off the demons...maybe wind up in a portal to another time a place. Oh wait, that's another movie.