weak, uninteresting.....has many problems

Rating: 4/10 (2 July 2013)

evil dead 2013 is a very unremarkable film. first of all, what was said about there being no cgi is a lie. there are at least 4 scenes that use cgi (the opening scene when the girl burns, the scene where the blonde girl gets her arm infected, and the scene where her arm gets shot and she bleeds.....). the direction is not bad but it's not in any way fresh or different from what we're seeing in other horror films today.what really kills this film is the script (characters are very uninteresting and sometimes very stupid), and the acting ( particularly the main lead is uncharismatic). no real scary scenes. the usual attempts of jump scares that don't work and are many times predictable. maybe it would have been better not to associate this with the evil dead title. the ending is also weak. gory but weak. also this film is not really that gory. Japanese films had more gore in the late 60's. Italian films were gorier in the 70's. and American films were gorier in the 80's. granted it's gorier than anything that has been made lately, but if you compare it with some old Giallo and slasher films it's not that much. no idea why Sam Raimi did not direct this. I'm all for letting new directors make remakes, but evil dead means a great deal to the horror community and it was too much of a risk to let a newcomer direct this. overall a nice try, and a pretty standard horror film, nothing special here.