Possibly the worst horror remake I've ever seen. I bow my head down in shame

Rating: 2/10 (30 April 2013)

When I first read in Empire that The Evil Dead was going to be remade I thought "Oh for god's sake, why bother remake an absolute classic?". I'm a huge fan of the original trilogy. If you haven't seen them, I highly recommend you see them. I absolutely love them. I then heard that Raimi and Campbell were involved so I thought that was a bit of a step up.
Saw the trailers and then was set in two minds, both saying yes and no. So my curiosity got the better of me and I saw it. I literally bowed my head down in shame and was outraged of how bad this was.
The story of course is great cause of the original but how it was portrayed just laughable. OK, the beginning scene was OK and it had potential of being an average remake. It also had some character development which was nice to see at first and the acting actually wasn't bad. But then the disaster began.
The script writing went down the drain of when we see how ridiculously stupid the characters were. Through out the situations where one of the characters was possessed and was going to attack, what did the survivors do? Cowered down like utter sissies and put their arms up to protect themselves. Surely you would try and run away or even attack back? Also, when the Mya was back to normal (somehow? who knows it was never explained) she was running away from a car that was about to fall on her, what does she do? she turns round to look, now surely you would keep running. This at the end just got ridiculously annoying. The worst was the fact that as the main character was about to burn the cabin down with his possessed sister in the basement, he stops and says he couldn't do it cause she was singing a lullaby that their mother used to sing to them. He opens up the basement and goes down to see her. Why?!. Also when he buries her alive, he then decides to dig out again and try and bring her back to life, using a heart resuscitator that he somehow created. How do these characters live while they are so stupid? I do not know. I just couldn't wait for them to die to be honest.
There were also some very unnecessary visuals that was just thrown in just to make the film more visual. One was when through out the tree rape scene (which I thought was much more shocking in the original) there was a vision of the girl who was possessed at the beginning, throwing up blood. Also we see her again of when Mya was having a shower we see her again. Also we see of when we see another character washing her self, her reflection is of herself as a horrific demon. Seriously enough visuals, leave some of it to the imagination.
The end, the beginning scene was never explained. Also when the cabin was in flames, the book of the dead somehow got out the cabin and ended up on the floor. What? At the end I just prayed for the movie to be finished as soon as possible.
I cannot believe how bad this movie was. If I was Sam Raimi (who I'm a huge fan of) and looked at the script, I would of felt offended and asked what are you doing to my movie. I think Raimi and Campbell were just so desperate to get back to the times where the made the original cause they felt they had such a good time making it, by remaking it.
Please do not bother with this awful waste of film reel. If you've seen the original, please stick with the original. If you've seen this and loved it, hey everyone's different, like it by all means.