A remake that isn't a remake.

Rating: 7/10 (20 December 2015)

It's funny: this movie is a remake from the original Evil Dead from 1981, but it also isn't a remake.
The original Evil Dead trilogy are classics. We can't touch that. Classics are "unreviewable". When a movie falls into that cult territory, you can't review it anymore: it's a classic. Same situation would be to review Mr. Romero's "of the Dead" series. They are all classics, with their faults, but they are classics. At least, they are watchable at its finest.
I first was introduced to this movie as it being a remake from the original Evil Dead (1981 - "ED-81", for short); and I watched it expecting that. Oh, boy...
When it ended, I was like: "what the... did I just watch!?". It's a mess! Iconical character Ash was absent, though David is the modern impersonation of Ash; the plot is similar to the original ED-81 with some modifications; remarkable scenes from ED-81 was absent as well. Basically, I'd go on saying that they remade the ED-81 focusing only on the gore and graphical part and, at the end, they put some dark humor onto it and thought it was OK. I was in shock!
Then I did some digging. I found out that this is, indeed, a "remake" of the ED-81, but it's also a new entry to the Evil Dead series! It's as if they used the same plot with some slight modifications from the ED-81, but the events happens canonical to the Evil Dead series, meaning that, though the things happening to the characters from this movie are pretty much the same that happened to the ones in ED-81, this is a whole new event that's happening, adding to the series storyline. Whoah..!
Funny, right? Why not make a whole new movie instead!? Money is the answer. They knew people who are familiar to the series would go crazy to watch this.
Overall, I think the movie was OK. It's kinda confusing to figure what they were thinking: they entered a serious road, focusing on the horror aspect, but then, at the end, they went down the dark comedy section, similar to the ED-81 take -- but you can't forget this isn't just a remake, it's like this is Evil Dead 3 (Army of Darkness is a different approach). Messy... messy...
Newcomers will get entertained, I think. It's the same old horror stuff. Veterans might get kinda mad, I don't know. I think they could've done a whole brand new entry to the series, not a "remake" of the ED-81 but also adding to the series storyline. That's convoluted.
Watch it at your own risk.