An Honest Review

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2016)

Well, the remade the infamous tree rape didn't this.
No, let's not complain about that.
You sit down and watch the original Evil Dead and you got an extremely cheap movie that was trying so hard to be a real horror movie that it could only fail in the most hysterical of ways.
They learned from their mistakes. Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness were horrible movies with no real budget, but this time they didn't try to be real movies. They tried to be hysterical movies and they won. They were cheap and funny and developed an enormous cult following because of it.
Then Hollywood turned around and remade it. They upped the budget. They turned it into a real horror movie. They made it serious.
And the people that loved the original walked out utterly confused. How is this the Evil Dead? There's nothing funny about it. It's an actual horror movie? What the heck? Instant hatred.
But, a lot of people that weren't familiar with the originals loved it. They watched it coming in fresh and it delivered, well, a horror movie.
How on earth did that happen? How did Hollywood look at three beloved films and figure that the best way to remake them was to take away what everyone loves about them? The world may never know, but that doesn't make the movie good. It makes it an utter failure.