Feast on this....

Rating: 2/10 (20 July 2013)

David, his drug addicted sister sister Mia, and his friends Eric, Olivia and Natalie travel to an isolated cabin that belonged to his parents.
Mia has joined because wants to kick drugs, and Olivia, who is a nurse, promises to help Mia in her cold turkey 'programme'.
They discover a hidden basement with the Book of the Dead, and Eric reads it and unintentionally summons an evil force.
Mia, Olivia and Natalie are possessed by evil and Eric reads the book in vain, to learn how to destroy the demon.....
Was it ever going to be a good idea, remaking one of the most famous horror movies of the last forty years? Well in all fairness, you know what the answer is to it, its of course no.
Before I had seen the film, I thought the implementation of going to the cottage to help someone kick a drug habit was sound, and my expectations raised a little.
But low and behold, on seeing the movie, its nothing more than a generic horror movie with over the top gore, which is so 2006, and silly characters who really do deserve to get their just desserts.
They are stupid and are the same characters you see in every single horror film released. If you see a book wrapped in barbed wire stating not to touch it, let alone read it, you would leave it wouldn't you, so in my opinion, they had it coming.
After that, its just death after death, with silly jump scares, that have no effect, up until the silly ending.
This has to be the running point for horror remakes, Raimi and Campbell were involved, and to see their original vision more or less get annihilated for a new generation, must crush them.
That or the fact that they are getting a huge wedge.
Really, its a pitiful movie, devoid of any thrills, shocks, or laughs, which the original delivered in droves..