Fairly good movie, although lacking flair as the original.

Rating: 9/10 (11 February 2014)

I ended up watching this film with my family, specifically my mother and father, and although we all thought that this film was okay, my parents, myself included, thought it still didn't hold a candle to the original Evil Dead.
The film is darker than the original, but is lacking the humor of the 1981 version. The change to a female heroine was refreshing, but Jane Levy still didn't hold up as the Ash we all love today.
One particular dislike I have is that of the amount of gore in this movie. The film just went and made a scene, and splashed an absurd amount of blood on the screen just for the sake of it, which withdrew me from the experience during most of the film.
The slight homages to the 1981 version are still nice, like Mia sitting on the hood of Ash's old car in the first couple of minutes, and the credits scene with Ash's signature saying.
Overall, the film is different from the original, I still thought it was fairly good.