Actually surprised by how well this captures the spirit of the original

Rating: 7/10 (27 April 2013)

...i have to admit i fell in love with Sam Raimi with the first film of his I saw, "Army of Darkness" (saw it at a 2nd run theatre in Warren, Michigan way back in the day!) When i found out this was actually the 3rd in a trilogy, i immediately set out finding the first 2 parts to watch them. Boy was i surprised to discover that the original EVIL DEAD would be one of the most sadistic roller-coaster rides of horror that I would ever experience...
Now i was someone who, upon hearing about a remake, had the immediate reaction of "SACRILEGE!" It seemed like such an insanely bad idea. The original is one of those iconic flicks in horror history. Why remake it?
I put off seeing it for the first 4 weekends of it's release, but when I needed an excuse to get out to the movies this weekend, it was the only one on the docket i was remotely interested in, so in I went.
And gosh-darnit if i didn't have a darned similar experience to the one i had the first time i watched EVIL DEAD. The violence on screen was deliciously stomach-churning at times, exactly as the original film had made me feel.
It was lacking in the kinetic, comicbook style of Raimi's original, instead opting for the darker, grainier look of the modern horror film, but the violence was unrelenting. Just when you thought it couldn't get worse in a scene, it always managed to. That's how the original finale of Raimi's classic made me feel. It was like "Gore upon gore upon gore".
This won't replace Raimi's classic, but it did a much better job of capturing the feel of the original then I ever thought it would or could.