Evil Dead - without the cheese

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2015)

Don't get me wrong, with Bruce Campbell, stop motion animation, and Sam Raimi's hyperactive camera style, the original Evil Dead is one of my favourites from the golden age of horror. This remake at first suckers you into thinking your going to get some tame re-hash (like the Crazies remake) before rubbing your face in a vomit inducing pile of gore.
Just like the first one, five folks head out to a cabin in the woods, only this time it's to help junky Mia get off the skag. Mia thinks something's up in the cabin, but no one believes her as she's going through withdrawal. Really though, the fault lies in the geeky guy who rather naively opens a book bound by barbed wire, ignores the 'don't read this' warning, and opens some gateway that lets a demon through that starts possessing the youngsters (starting with Mia).
This is when the film really takes off, and tries to up the original in the gore stakes. People cut their own faces off, get stabbed repeatedly in the face with syringes, cut their own limbs off and use all the last toilet paper without replacing it with a new roll. There's gallons of blood here and like the original, people do stupid things for stupid reasons, and there's aspects of the film you'll be scratching your head at.
On the other hand, you can't go wrong with a horror film that goes all out in the horror stakes. Gave me the dry bowk, as they say in Glasgow.