The irony lies in its production budget

Rating: 3/10 (9 May 2013)

Just as I'd expected EVIL DEAD turned out to be just another typical remake of today. Seriously, Hollywood needs to learn its lesson of not cashing in from originals.
I was gingerly anticipating to see this new "reboot", if you will, as I knew remakes don't usually make it good on the screen these days. And people these days are far more preoccupied with their mobile devices to be even remotely interested in watching movies anymore.
That said, on with my thoughts about how the new EVIL DEAD was. For a start, I'm not making any comparisons to the original 1981 Sam Raimi's version. Although the effects and makeup in that latter version were filthy cheap, not to mention extremely cheesy by today's standards, somehow 1981 EVIL DEAD gave a far more superior spooky atmosphere than this latest one.
In the original EVIL DEAD, the audience are treated immediately with an aura of evil as soon as the film started. There was no studio logo introduction. We started off with evil's POV running through the woods as if sensing its victims.
The 2013 one, however, wasted the audience's time by attempting to build a story around it and that tremendously slows down the pacing which I could certainly feel.
However, credits still have to be given to the effort of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell (the director and protagonist of the original film) in that I could see remnants of their 1981 film in this one. One of these includes the pendant that the protagonists in both versions gave to their lover (1981) and sister (2013).
I wouldn't go any further in elaborating how much I prefer the original version than this new one. But sufficed to say that this 2013 relied too much on its goriest and gruesome tortures. Even the "possessions" looked cheap. The irony is that the so-called "makeups" looked far cheaper than the cheap 1981 version, if that makes any sense at all.
To be honest, I was sitting in the theater constantly thinking how many of these (pardon my tone) idiots ever saw the original.
In short, I'd say this 2013 EVIL DEAD looked like the gorefests of the SAW franchise and 1972 THE EXORCIST (times 5) with the makeup effects of Hollywood's THE RING.
To quote Sidney Prescott from SCREAM 4, "Don't f**k with the original". Giving a vote of 3 out of 10 is as generous as I could get.