The Sacramento Evil Dead

Rating: 8/10 (18 March 2013)

As a loyal Evil Dead fan I was a little disappointed with some of the alterations to the Original's most acclaimed scenes. But once again Rami's signature blunt absurdity gave this movie a clever wit of its own. The frustrating stupidity of the characters that can obviously only end badly somehow manages to nicely spark a natural curiosity to see the next sudden scare. The new Evil Dead is extremely gory, definitely scary and very creepy. The well done graphic images are hard to forget and likely to give nightmares. As far as horror movies go I think the new rendition stands on its own merit. And it had to at the advanced screening in Sacramento when the studio surprised the excited fans by announcing that they would be giving away special Evil Dead t-shirts for the premier. But then when they brought them out silently walked past those fans all the way to the back of the line and began handing them to people just arriving and then each person starting from the back of the line.