I liked it, but did expect more.

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2013)

EVIL DEAD
I was looking forward to this film so much... I hate the way everything is being remade at the moment... but seeing as Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell were both involved in this, I thought it was going to amazing! It was very good... but I was still disappointed.
The movie is about a group of people that go into a cabin in the woods to help their friend get off of drugs... she is going cold turkey. They discover in the cellar a load of dead animals and a book that is wrapped up in barb wire. One of them opens the book and starts to read it, which then lets in the demons that take over their bodies and goes on a massive killing spree.
I really liked the idea of them going there to help their friend... it makes a change. In most horror films, they always end up in the cabin in the woods just for a holiday or a trip out etc... finally a different excuse to be shacked up in the middle of nowhere.
There was so much gore in this film... and I loved it. The ways that the murders happened were really well done and some where very inventive... but unfortunately, most of the ways they happen have been seen before. It seems the guys making it wanted to scare the audience with shock value other than being actually scary. You saw everything (almost). There was no mystery or moment that had me on the edge of my seat wondering if they will get out alive. It was pure violence.
The other way this film might have scared some people was the jump scares... there seemed to be a lot of them. So many times in the film, there were things jumping out or loud noises right in the middle of a quiet period of the movie... they were put there to make everyone jump. It's a shame, because this is a cheap way of scaring someone and I am not a huge fan of it in horror films. I like it to happen once in a movie... but when it happens so many times it loses the effect. This film did not make me jump once. I was expecting most of them to come.
The acting was actually quite good... I have never heard of any of the actors in this film, which is a very good thing for a horror. I always find it to be more believable when you don't have a familiar face on the screen. That way you have no idea if they will survive or not. We all know that if there was a horror film starring Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp, the likely hood of either of them dying is very slim. Although it is possible as we found out from Scream... poor Drew Barrymore.
The whole cast was great... not one bad actor among them. I hope their careers take off now from this.
The make up and special effects were very good. I can't fault it at all... everyone looked really freaky and scary. I really liked they way they looked when they were possessed.
All in all this film was really good... But I guess I was just expecting it to be a bit more mystery and was hoping I would have to use my imagination more. Sometimes that can be more scary than seeing everything.
I will give this film 7 out of 10. But I was expecting to give it a higher mark before I went to see it.
Maybe it would have been slightly better if Sam Raimi directed it.
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