Pointless and Joyless

Rating: 1/10 (21 April 2013)

In 1983 I had one of the best movie going experiences of my life, when I saw The Evil Dead in a packed house. The audience "participated" in the screening: people talking to the screen, imitating the demons (perfectly), and turning the movie into a party. The original had humor and was actually scary in parts. This remake commits the unpardonable sin of removing all of the humor. This is an Evil Dead movie: the friggin' humor MUST be there. Someone made the idea to make this film straight and actually inject dramatic elements to the story, like one of the characters kicking heroin. So no humor and depressing drama plus nauseating gore (that I did expect) equals crappy movie experience. I can imagine only a perverted sicko would enjoy this horrible movie. The gore just keeps coming and coming...and they keep throwing the depressing stuff at you at the same time. Then the ending...ah the wonderful surprise ending. I was told to stay with it until the end of the credits for a surprise. The surprise is Bruce Campbell...saying,"Groovy!" Talk about adding insult to injury. What an out of place thing to do. So a big F U to him and his buddies for co-producing this crap. They've made millions already. I hope they're happy with it: I'll never watch anything by them again.