Give me a break!

Rating: 8/10 (1 September 2013)

I don't understand all the negativity toward this one. It's all Sam Raimi this, Bruce Campbell that, come the heck on...Plain and simple: If you want to see the Evil Dead from 1981, rent that one again. If you want to see a modern offshoot that re-imagines the film (This does NOT mean that it does it as good or better than the original!!!!) then this is worth seeing. So what if it has cliché moments here and there? ALL new horror films seem to draw from the same bag of tricks (The Conjuring being the most successful so far) so the techniques here should come as no surprise. Gore, check. A few jump-scares, check. Depth in writing, not really. But, hey, it is what it is. I expected much less when I rented this and quite honestly, it could have been much, much worse. THERE IS NO ASH AND NO BRUCE CAMPBELL. SO FREAKIN' WHAT?!? Take it for what it is or stop your whining people. It's not an award-winner. It's good old gory horror fun. Take it or leave it. And by the way...if the only negatives you have are based off the original, get over it. This didn't claim to be a scene-by-scene remake, and I'm sure that even if it was and even if the almighty Bruce Campbell was the lead actor you would still have some sort of bone to pick. Enjoy the original and the new Evil Dead as two separate entries in the same catalog and you will be much better off. Cheers.