Average Horror Movie

Rating: 5/10 (6 July 2013)

I saw the original Evil Dead over thirty years ago and I don't remember much about it. Sam Raimi went on to much bigger things afterwards, so my review is based on the remake. It all begins with a girl being abducted and then burned like Joan of Arc to somehow save the world from evil spirits. Flash ahead and three college age girls and two boys arrive at a cabin in the woods for very dubious reasons, other than a brother and sister are there for the girl to rehab from a bad drug overdose. Of course bad things happen to the former junkie, including possession looking something like Linda Blair's in the Exorcist. We get a human skin bound book of the dead which will bring forth the bad spirits, and the usual severed body limbs, with a nail gun and chain saw put to interesting use. I have seen better and I have seen worse horror movies, and Evil Dead is a very average 5/10.