Raining Blood!

Rating: 9/10 (24 April 2013)

The awaited remake of Sam Raimi's THE EVIL DEAD arrived with a sentence, written all over the poster: "the most terrifying film you will ever experience". While it's not, since there are things like MARTYRS (Pascal Laugier, 2008 – the most "terrifying" film of the new millennium in my opinion), the gore fest that Fede Alvarez offers is one of the most satisfying horror movies in recent memory.
Just like Eli Roth came with his "godfathers" Quentin Tarantino and Peter Jackson, the young Uruguayan Alvarez arrived with the backup of Raimi and Bruce Campbell and without many experience (EVIL DEAD is his very first feature film). Alvarez ain't the disappointment that Eli Roth was with CABIN FEVER and HOSTEL, and without a doubt his next project (it seems it will be EVIL DEAD 2) looks instantly attractive.
The elements of the plot change – the sister of the hypothetically "new Ash" (turns to be played by an actor who's too "juvenile") suffers of a severe drug addiction. It all starts with her new attempt of getting sober inside a cabin in the woods, certainly. The transition feels natural and it all works: the friends of the girl, just like his brother, think the supernatural changes she's having (you know what type of changes) are just effects of the abstinence. Obviously, we know what it means to have those scenes with the camera quickly moving through the woods.
Part of that fun vulgarity of the original is present here too; there are some moments of pure black humor ready to be appreciated by fans of Raimi. The characters suffer and suffer again and from our point of view it all looks really f****** painful; it's a movie with enough mutilations. When I watched it on the big screen some people left the theater, so the deal is quite simple: if you like bloody movies, EVIL DEAD will not disappoint you for the lack of gore. It's fast, entertaining, and has an emblematic climax with blood literally everywhere, obscenities, and the classic chainsaw!
*Watched it on 02 April, 2013