'Simply astounding!', 'Near perfect experience.. ' - It's good but I wouldn't go that far.

Rating: 6/10 (18 August 2014)

When I first saw a lot of these reviews of the Evil Dead remake, I was very excited.
I've seen both Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, along with Army of Darkness (with Army of Darkness actually being my favourite) and although they're all fun and I think highly of them, I wasn't going to kick up a fuss about a remake ruining my childhood, like some people are prone to.
But to call this 'a near perfect experience', or 'simply astounding' is a little daft. It's a good, very solid, incredibly gory horror but it does little different from other, similar genre movies and can't exactly be called entirely original.
On the whole, I'd recommend for fans of horror, provided you had a strong stomach but I wouldn't mislead anybody by inferring this is a stone-cold classic and you just have to see it.
There are many better and will be more to come too but if you lower your expectations you won't come away disappointed.