Remakes.........Evil Dead

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2014)

First off I hate remakes. Second off, Hollywood would rather do a remake than gamble on an original idea... I could name some great films that bombed like Pacific Rim, Kick Ass, etc...
So remaking classics are inevitable. With that in mind, this generation of horror fans are accustomed to gore... not the gore of the 70's and 80's but the gore of the Hostel's, the Saw's, the Human Centipede's. There has been a remake that I enjoyed and that was the Hills have Eyes, but Alexandre Aja is insanely good. The other thing to add here, we've gone to the point in films where there's nothing original... the comparisons to the Conjuring and Poltergeist are ridiculous (that's another discussion).
Now a classic that shouldn't have been touched. Evil Dead. I watched Evil Dead countless amounts of times, and purchased the DVD's countless amounts of times as well. Initially I was hesitant with watching the Evil Dead remake. My friend convenience me to watch it from a press screening. And then all of the reviews came out and they were mostly positive... so I went.
The remake is different. It's gritty, it's violent, it has a simple plot similar to the original. There's no humour in the movie, but it's fun in the haunted house / gore aspect. There are a lot of references to the original like the car, specific scenes, camera work, etc... They were able to remove the camp from the original (which I believe is mainly due to budget constraints - $10 k vs $10 million).
Overall a great tribute to the original. Compare this to all other horror film remakes and the recent release of horror in the last 10 years, and Evil Dead would be on top or near the top of the list.