Gore > Scare?

Rating: 6/10 (19 April 2013)

Kids in their twenties in a cabin in the middle of the woods to help their friend get through heroine withdrawals. There is the obvious stoner, the dumb girl, the hot girl, the troubled girl, and the strong, older brother. Here we go, this is the review for Cabin in the Woods, oh wait I already reviewed Cabin in the Woods, oh wait this is Evil Dead, oh wait, their almost the same movie. Evil Dead is a remake and Ii starts out like every horror movie ever. I hate horror movies today because they follow the exact same formula but at least the second half was mainly different and changed it up a bit. Evil Dead has a basic storyline, isn't scary at all, but it very disturbing with a lot of blood and gore, but it was enjoyable.
It's obvious that a evil spirit or demon is present in a house, or in this case cabin, the obvious answer is to leave. I give Evil Dead the benefit of the dead because they stay for the main character who is struggling with heroine withdrawals so when she acts nuts it makes sense that they stay. How would they know she was possessed by a demon? Then when they finally realize what they have done it's too late, so touché Evil Dead. This still follows the stereotypical cliché horror movie. They find an evil book and of course they read it even though it says not to read it in blood on one of the pages. That's our story to the movie, basic, you know who will live and who will die, but at least it's still entertaining to see how.
I was hoping that the atmosphere of a movie theatre would boost the scare factor while saw this movie, but it didn't. I cringed at the gore and jumped at most of the jump scares but that's not scary. Jump scares are the worst form of a scare in a movie, especially in horror movies because you expect it. So if you are concerned about being scared then you have nothing to lose with this one. However, if you have a weak stomach and don't like blood and gore you may want to reconsider. The gore is intense with arms being cut off, chainsaws, it rains blood, ya real blood, and I laughed, nail guns, shotguns, crowbars, third degree burns, and the poor girl even gets raped by a tree, I did not laugh. That probably crossed a line. There is a few things a movie should never do, one is murder kids, that's just a no no. The second is definitely getting raped by a tree, that's beyond unnecessary. Other than the tree the most disturbing image was when the girl licks the knife and cuts her tongue in half. It was hard to watch.
Other than that the gore was awesome and made the movie that much better. There was one character, whose name I'm forgetting because the characters were so forgettable, but he suffered the most. He got a needle in the eyelid, nails in the arm, he got stabbed, anything bad really happened to him. He was probably my favorite character because well I don't even know why, but he was. He made me laugh along with the gore. I'm not sure why but there were a lot of scenes where I just laughed and laughed. Especially when she talks with a weird whisper to her brother saying they need to leave because there was a demon or something there with them. I couldn't help it, I just laughed. The scene when they discover the cats hanging in the basement, laughed. The chainsaw, laughed. I probably laughed too much for a horror movie but I was entertained.
The acting is usually awful in these types of movies but Evil Dead wasn't as bad as I expected. Characters are usually irrelevant and are just there to look pretty, be dumb, or die in a sadistic way. Now these characters existed but the relationship between the brother and the possessed sister was interesting. They have a dark and troubled past and it shows a little characterization in them and I liked it. It sucked me into the story a little bit and I even felt a little sympathy for them, but only a little.
The character I hated the most was the black girl, no not because she was black, but because she was so obnoxious. I hated everything about her character and I was counting the minutes until she died. I could not wait until the demon tore her to shreds. When it happened, I could not have been happier. The demon was interesting because it possessed the body and made them kill themselves which I thought was neat. I don't want to spoil it but when it's all said and done you will probably clap because it was so awesome and fulfilling.
Overall, Evil Dead was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. It wasn't as scary as I wanted it to be but I didn't feel like I wasted my money either. I loved the gore, loved the demon, and thought the deaths were sadistic but fun to watch. I laughed more than I should have but that's not a bad thing either. I thought it was funnier than most of Adam Sandler's movies recently. I hated the acting, but I had low expectations, didn't really get into the characters, the story was bland and predictable, but it's a horror movie and for a horror movie it was good. For a movie overall it wasn't but I can't compare a horror to a comedy or to a drama. All movies should be judged based on their genre and for this genre it passes. Evil Dead gets The WillyT Recommendation. Go see and be disturbed by all the blood in this movie.