Fails to put Groovy in the evil dead movie

Rating: 5/10 (20 April 2013)

I was never a huge fan of the original Evil dead, however I admired how a movie can be made so well on such a low budget, and of course it made our video nasty list in the UK in the mid 80's. I did find Evil dead 2 extremely funny and a lot of gory fun at the cinema a few years back but did not have hugely high expectations for this. Its a remake that does throw in a couple of interesting changes from the original though, the book being indestructible for one thing (reminded me of the excellent Fri13th TV show - the antique shop) and the explanation of why 4 young people would stay in a cabin in the middle of a forest, which was to cold turkey off drugs. Apart from that adds little else. The film also throws in lots of gore and buckets and buckets of blood at the screen and although I did not hate it the film, I did not love it either. Watch for a extra scene after the end credits. Definitely going to cancel my cabin holiday now lol. Compared to the original I would favour this one very slightly.
A generous 5 out of 10, it did the best it could. Not bad but Definitely not groovy!