Not bad but lacked the intrigue of the original.

Rating: 6/10 (11 May 2013)

Hmmm, where to start, this film isn't really even a remake, not in my book. It has a few references if you know where to look and it tries to have the suspenseful and foreboding atmosphere of the original but lets go of the scares too quickly and plunges straight into a gorefest. I'm not saying it's a bad film, it just doesn't have the imagination of the original. It has the blood and gore down, there are some real nice wince inducing moments, but the real horror isn't in the gore it's in the other elements which make a truly frightening horror film. The psychological fear of the unknown menace, keeping the original characters isolated in the woods is gone. However this is replaced by gore and bodily punishment, of which the characters seem to shrug off with relative ease, lessening the horror and desensitizing the audience to the carnage on screen. All in all a good but not great horror film. It had the shock factor but not enough of the "originals" terror. Maybe the director tried a little too hard to out-do instead of re-do and missed a few of the important aspects which made "The Evil Dead" a cult classic.