Just stupid

Rating: 3/10 (5 July 2018)

I watched the original, "The Evil Dead", not long after it came out on video in the early 80s. It was low budget and, while the story was pretty basic, at least it made sense, thus:

No-one had a choice. All events were unavoidable once the book had been read out loud.

The "hero", Ash, isn't injured by an entry wound at all - he just gets lots of blood and guts dumped on him and hit by a poker. Hence he is never possessed.

Nobody makes any really (and I mean really) stupid decisions.

Nobody who is possessed can be retrieved.

In this version all four of those rules are broken, most of them multiple times.
This film goes for over-the-top gore, but in so doing it just loses any fright power it might have had. The more understated original is far more frightening.
I'm giving it 3 stars - two more than it deserves - because at least they tried to make the ending somewhat different to the original.