Like it or not, it is very good in it's genre.

Rating: 8/10 (5 August 2013)

Yes this is a horror movie and yes this is a gory horror movie. But no, it is not the bad B or even C movie that you might think it is.
The opening sequence is just as expected, girl chased, girl caught while hiding, girl turns out to be a demon and gets burned by her daddy and a bunch of weird looking locals to free her soul. So far, so good. After the titles we seem to dive into a typical youngsters-in-an-abandoned- cabin movie. Well, wasn't The Evil Dead one of the first in this particular genre? But surprisingly enough, this time the kids are not there to have sex and drink bear and doing all sorts of crazy stuff. No, one of them wants to stop using drugs and chose the cabin of her family to go cold turkey. Brother wants to help but is kind of a stranger to his sister and friends nowadays for which they blame him. So no fun here.
The pace of the movie is fast and they managed to keep it up until the very end. But there is still room for some character development (that fits this genre) and some friendship and sibling drama. The fact that the first possession is actually the person going cold turkey makes it believable that they force her to stay there to get through it. But we know it's not the drugs and that's what makes it very tense. I do remember most of the original The Evil Dead (1981), and it is for the biggest part a remake (apart from the differences in the story in the second half) but this feels like a totally different movie.
When the demon manifests and spreads, it gets really nasty, be ready for some big scares and gore from here. It's hard to say what is the scariest or most brutal, but unlike most horror movies where you halfway through get used to the blood and gore this one kept me shocked and jumping until the end. It is a brutal film with a lot of gore but still they managed to put the drama in it. Although you will always know this movie cannot end well and going cold turkey from possession is a whole other ballgame then from drugs.
I am a horror fan and have seen a lot of this kind of movies and this one stands out from a lot of rubbish that comes in cinemas and on DVD these days. If you like this genre, you will love this movie. Don't watch it if you are not into horror and gore because it is MEANT to be disgusting.