What a waste of a potentially good movie

Rating: 2/10 (30 June 2013)

It's challenging to find words to describe this disaster called Evil Dead. It was evil to endure the movie and the storyline was dead within about 10 minutes of the movie. I suppose that's how the name "Evil Dead" materialized. It was not remotely close to the original cult classic. The director obviously struggled with connecting the Book of the Dead with the rest of the movie so he pulled out a red Papermate ink pen and provided the audience with English-written inscriptions of what was about to happen. How clever? I would have preferred instructions to leave the theater. So many concepts of horror and mystery were quickly destroyed by the director's use of in-your-face predictable scenes. Plots would begin to take form, but then almost instantly removed leaving the audience asking themselves, "WTF?" If poor acting, poorly executed script, overdone corn syrup gore, and predictable climaxes is your thing, this movie is for you.