Groovy Enough I guess

Rating: 6/10 (9 February 2020)

The original Evil Dead (1981) is to this day one of the scariest demonic possession horror movies I have ever seen it gave me nightmares as a teenager and now as an adult really made me appreciate just how unique the movie was and still is almost 40 years later with great makeup and practical effects that you just don't get in horror movies today so when I heard Evil Dead was getting a remake I went to see it on day one and honestly I was a little disappointed by it.
The movie follows a girl named Mia (Jane Levy) who has come to her family cabin in the woods with her brother David (Shiloh Fernandez) his girlfriend and her best friends as she attempts to go cold turkey and beat her addiction to Heroin when they arrive at the cabin they discover that someone has broken in and trashed the place and they discover a room in the basement full of dead cats and ritual items mainly a book titled the book of the dead a passage is read from the book awakening a demon within the woods Mia begins to go crazy hearing voices and steals the groups car but crashes it into a nearby swamp where she is chased by the demon she is then possessed and begins harming herself and the others as one by one they each get taken over by the demon and attack each other aswell as harming themselves by severing limbs cutting themselves and even burning there own skin with hot water now they must try and survive the night and kill the possessed each other.
I recently rewatched the movie on Blu Ray and honestly it isn't a bad movie by any means in a lot of ways it's actually pretty good especially when compared to most horror movie remakes like Friday the 13th and Halloween if you forget it's meant to be an Evil Dead remake then actually it's pretty enjoyable but if you try and compare it to the original it's just not gunna meet your expectations.
The makeup effects are pretty good and there is an absolute ton of blood used throughout the movie especially in the movies decapitation scenes and climax but sadly most of the gore is CGI based which let's it down a little but it's to be expected in modern day horror movies.
I recommend this movie to any horror movie fan especially if you enjoy movies heavy on the gore and doesn't go overboard with it's jump scares if you have never seen the original Evil Dead (1981) then I highly recommend watching that first as it is a far better movie but in the case of this remake just enjoy it for what it is an hour and a half of gore and screams.