I'm Happy With it.

Rating: 9/10 (16 April 2013)

I've been a fan of the series for a long time, my original introduction when I was not even a teenager, and having not only owned the movies but generally showing everyone I befriend the entire trilogy has become a near constant activity for me.
When I saw the trailers for this, I was excited. But having been excited about movies before and having been failed, I realized it'd be best to set my expectations realistically. There was three ways this could go. They where either going to botch it, do better then the original (but never recognized as such due to blind fandoms), or not even match what the original content was at all.
I found upon hitting the movie, that I was utterly wrong. It certainly was not botched. It certainly not better. But most of all, and most important. It was very much striking the original content, if not expanding on it without loosing the idea. This movie, was in fact Evil Dead.
Yeah there will be people who will complain about the gore. Honestly it was less gory then the original, but without loosing the right amount of gore feel that the original had. There was in fact, fear, for the first time in forever in me when watching this. Even if it was for a moment, having watched mostly horror movies as a child when other kids watched Disney. Though likely what deeper aspects of this movie, the parts that make it scary but require one to analyze or simply think about the ramifications upon a human's psyche, will be lost to the common viewer.
The way the characters reactions matched, maybe not to how the original was as much as the original trilogy gives it a big feel for being truly evil dead and I feel somewhat there was a nod to the comics with some of the lore.
What makes this great for those who are hardcore fans, is that the lore that gets explained are things that really are the why did this work and what was that things of the last trilogy, and they did so without it being ridiculous, as well as pseudo explaining how things like the book making it from one to two and still being intact.
The movie didn't disappoint, which is a lot more then most new movies, and remakes have done in the last five years. In my opinion this is one of the better horror films of the last decade. But most, will be too critical to actually notice the little things about it. So for those who still haven't seen it, just go in with a perceptive eye and a willingness to take it in, rather then a readiness to jump.