A very well done remake

Rating: 9/10 (7 April 2013)

I feel like this remake holds in the same regards as the Nightmare on Elm Street and Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes which were surprisingly great re-dos. Though many people will tell you these updates weren't as impactful as the originals, let's face it. Those originals were what introduced the grit and gore in such a new fantastic and scary way that people had never seen before. At this day in age it's all pretty well been done, and for horror lovers like us we've pretty well seen it all. So to say it isn't as groundbreaking as the original makes sense but really how much more groundbreaking can it be anymore? This new version of Evil Dead still embodies the same feel as the original without adding all the extra campy comedy. There were some very impressive and intensive scenes. Special effects in the gore department left me cringing in pain at parts and the whole raining blood scene left me seeing red for awhile. You don't see many scenes like that in horror movies. Also, this movie still provided those cheap jumps when things fall or pop up out of no where. Overall I was very enveloped in the story. That said I do wish some of the characters where a bit more developed instead of being there one minute and dead the next, but too much back story would have taken away from the point of the movie, demonic goodness. Also, anyone saying or acting like this movie was an insult to Sam Raimi and the original better take a look at the producers list. Both Raimi and Bruce Campbell produced and even hand picked the director for this new version. So if you are one of those people saying that, you've basically said you hate a Sam Raimi movie/envisioning and can't entirely be a true Raimi fan. So all in all, while not a groundbreaking movie that will start a new age in horror, it still achieved at bringing old school scares in with today's better special effects. The story was clever, with a very new and surprising twist at the end. I hope they do not make a sequel to this however, unless they can pull it off as well as this.