Very Impressive

Rating: 9/10 (26 April 2013)

I saw this without seeing the original. (After which I did see the original, but that is a different review for a different day). This movie starts out with a scene that totally sets up the tone, which also gives us a wonderful sneak peak at what to come, the beginning being the scene where you first see the demon, and they can shut off the "evil demon routine" and be the real person. I really enjoyed that, i loved how they played that up in the movie, which gives a great moral fight with some characters. Then we see the characters we are supposed to like, but really the only character I cared about was Mia, the main girl (which i thought was really well played by Jane Levy) and for his credit the main guy David wasn't bad either. The filmmakers also give really great updates from the original that in my opinion improve on it. I won't spoil it here though, however its really good. I also really wanna touch on the gore, the movie uses practical effects so much that it becomes a love letter to people who grew up with "no CGI" it gives us so much of what we loved in the original with great references and also a lot of BLOOD, i loved the BLOOD, but its so bloody. LIKE WOW that was a lot of blood. In the end this movie hearkens back to the old days, gives us a horror character that you care about, (Which i didn't say before but that is still impressive especially for a remake to even have one character to root for) and a lot of blood (i cannot state that enough this was so bloody) I personally had a lot of fun with this movie, and is a movie i will be buying when released on blu-ray. It deserves to be next to Cabin in the Woods, The Evil Dead, and Evil Dead 2. Well done guys, well done.