Naturom Demonto

Rating: 6/10 (10 December 2013)

*Spoiler Alert!*
WARNING! - Evil Dead is not for the squeamish (like me).
But, if you're an enthusiastic fan of really/truly hardcore horror & gore - And, if lots & lots of splattering blood, and severed limbs, and burning flesh, and abominations from hell and, yes, even a horrifying and nicely staged scene involving a chainsaw (Yep. That's right, folks, a chainsaw), gleefully thrown in for good measure, is what gets you all wet & wild & wanting more and more, then, yes, this Evil Dead reboot (coming 30 years later) will most certainly satisfy you to its very last drop.
And, if Evil Dead doesn't get those insatiable, horror-hungry juices of yours flowing at full force, then I don't know what the hell would. I really don't.
Without wasting any time at all with the usual fluff & stuff, Evil Dead dove right in and certainly delivered a real monster-of-a-wallop with its relentless depiction of gut-churning, scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs horror.
Well, hey, what the heck did you expect?
Not being much of a fan of the horror & gore genre, I honestly couldn't say that I liked this Evil Dead remake a whole lot, but, then again, I wouldn't say that I hated it, either.
This film's terror-ifically graphic visual effects literally stunned me silly and came pretty close to putting me into a really dangerous state of heart-stopping shock.
Yes. Evil Dead's "cabin-in-the-woods" scenario was painfully predictable (Well, what did I expect?) - And, yes, its characters were just there to be annihilated in the most hideous fashion imaginable (Well, what did I expect?) - And, yes, the dialog was just plain dumb to the 10th power (Well, what did I expect?)....
But, with all of that s-h-i-t aside, I think that this slightly above-average remake was something of a triumph in its re-telling of horror-run-amok in terms of keeping in pace with today's standards of in-your-face, down-your-throat, and up-your-ass terror.
What more can I say?
*"Cute" trivia note* -
There are 5 principal characters in the story. Their names are David, Eric, Mia, Olivia, & Natalie. If you take the initial of each of these names, in the order that I've listed them, they spell out the word (Are you ready for this?) "DEMON". (My-oh-my, now, ain't that cute?)
*"Serious" trivia note* -
The original, 1981 version of Evil Dead had a very modest budget of about $375,000.
This remake's budget was a whopping $17 million. Let's face it, folks, for what it delivered in its upgraded gore, I certainly don't think that anything in this whole, wide world justifies spending that much dough in order to gross people out. Do you?