i really wanted to like this

Rating: 1/10 (10 April 2013)

I was skeptical when I heard they were going to remake one of my favorite horror movies of all time. When I saw it, I came into it with a very optimistic hope that all by skepticism would die once I saw the final product. What I got was nothing like the original film. Which can be good sometimes, but not this time. The direction made me feel that the director had just been handed the script with no understanding of what the original Evil Dead was about. The remake of Dawn of the Dead was good, and in fact you could tell the writer and director truly loved the original material. Like he'd taken cliff notes after a quick viewing. They treated it with respect and made something different, but that could also stand on its own two feet. The actors were just awful. They were boring and generic. The lead woman was probably my favorite, and in my opinion she carried the movie. The direction was horrendous. It was shot way too dark, and suffered from many of the stereotypical film techniques of today's horror. This was a completely different movie with references to evil dead crammed into the movie. It was all too bland and BORING! My thought on it was why even call this an evil dead move? Without the cabin and chainsaw it's just another generic horror film. The props on the set were probably the only connection to the original.