But where was He Who Must Not Be Named?

Rating: 7/10 (22 April 2013)

Back in 1981, when the original EVIL DEAD was unearthed in a Tennessee cabin, there was no Tom Riddle, let alone Voldemort. But now that we live in a post-V world, it seemingly is incumbent upon any film director who undertakes a remaking of a horror classic about evil spirits to do so in the contemporary context. Nobody in their right mind would do a shot-for-shot remake of a beloved scream fest such as, say, PSYCHO, without extensive updating to reflect how the world has evolved on the scary front in the decades since the original first saw the light of the silver screen (which often is perforated with holes even nowadays, because the sound had to come THROUGH the screen from two giant loudspeakers mounted directly BEHIND the white space in the late 1920s). Just think what a thrill it could have been if one of the characters in the EVIL DEAD remake was interrupted halfway through the act of cutting her own tongue in half by Voldemort knocking on her door, and she couldn't even call out "Come in!" because of her tongue trauma.