Sorry, but simply not scary. See the original first and compare for yourself.

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2013)

First off, horror movies are supposed to scare you, whether a remake or a new movie. Evil Dead fails to scare because it fails to create tension or terror, two things the original was able too do throughout. Where the original kept you in the dark as too who the demon or demons are, the remake not only gives that up, but also gives you the graphic novel approach as to what's about to happen via the Necronomicon (book of the dead.) The pluses to this remake are the effects, although mostly CGI, still very gruesome and able to make you cringe, and if you're into gore, this has an abundance, the most I've seen since Saw or Hostel. Also for a major release it pushes the envelope when it comes to language, not the amount, but the content. A sad fact about horror movies today are too many effects, because they take away our own imaginations, because they can vividly show us how scary something is they never set us up so our own imaginations can takeover. Now before you say I'm just ripping this because it's a remake or I'm not the target audience of 16 to 25's this movie is aimed at, not so, I liked Rob Zombies, Halloween and Gore Verbinski's The Ring not too mention others. I remember thinking while watching the original Evil Dead that, if I were Ash I would have killed myself long before the end of the movie. Where the original was non-stop terror and tension, the remake felt robotic and didn't even seem to upset the characters it was happening to. The even sadder point is this, as far as new horror movies go, this movie is probably a 9, but with the classics and cult favorites like the original Evil Dead to compare this movie too, at best it's a 5. One final thing the original Evil Dead didn't feel the need too do.....the happy ending.........