Utterly pointless mono-colour remake.

Rating: Null/10 (28 January 2014)

Doing a remake of a classic horror flick that anyone can download hence every horror fan must have already seen is not far from pointless. The destroyed bridge, the happy-go-lucky severed hand, the tree-rape: it's all here – again. The predictability of ED makes it a rather joyless experience, making one long to see the originals again.
It's fantasy, sure, but there must be an ounce of logic even in a demonic horror tale. Shiloh gets shot in the shoulder, and yet how does this affect him? Not at all, apparently. He gets bashed, beaten and pulverized repeatedly but this only seems to temporarily stop him. In other words, ironically, he exhibits the same kind of supernatural powers as the demons. If the good guys are invincible and have a few extra gallons of blood in their bodies then I believe it is the duty of the filmmakers to inform us of this, because it can't simply be assumed off-hand. From what I'd seen here, Shiloh must have lost around 150 gallons of blood – with no medical staff around to re-fuel him, mind you.
During her first attack, Mia makes the entire house shake, and then speaks in a deep, demonic voice. Despite of this very OBVIOUS supernatural occurrence (that would turn Richard Dawkins into a believer instantly), the others still insist she's having withdrawal symptoms. The blond nerd dabbles in witchcraft but fails to tell his friends a single, solitary detail about what he'd done or read in it, or how it relates to Mia's behavior – until very late in the game. That's just plain stupid, and reveals the writer's opinion of his viewers' intelligence. Admittedly, most movie-goers are buffoons.
That whole brother-sister family-history back-story is extremely uninteresting, yet it keeps popping up throughout the movie, as if anybody who'd bought a ticket to watch an "Evil Dead" remake actually gives three flying dungs.
Not to mention the horrible modern look of ED, a visual equivalent of borsht, just one dark green tone for the duration; that's all modern horror films ever give us. Don't these modern directors know that a horror or sci-fi tale can also be told in NATURAL colours? Get the original.