Another remake falls on its face

Rating: 4/10 (1 August 2013)

Now let me start off saying that the Evil Dead remake is by no means a bad film, in fact if you had called it something else all together and not made it part of the Evil Dead franchise then it might have been somewhat watchable. Sadly this is a remake of a cult movie with a huge following and I can confidently say that a tiny tiny tiny percentage of them will have been happy that this was made. Making matters worse Bruce Campbell not starring as Ash was......the final nail in the coffin.
But lets pretend that its not Evil Dead, lets imagine its just another horror movie and look at it with neutral eyes and what do we have? Oh yeah....just another horror movie.
Production looks great, the Deadites look.....o....k....I guess. And the story is, again rather generic and very predictable.
Again I'm putting aside the fact it doesn't feel like an Evil Dead movie and instead just focusing on the movie itself as an individual, a movie that has been hyped to hell and given rave reviews by damn near every magazine and horror site. But even with neutral eyes I cannot claim this to be anything more than your average kids getting killed off one by one horror flick and without giving anything away I can tell you that it has some absurd scenes that will have you yelling at your television and performing a face palm or two.
The creators tried, I'll give them that. But this is a prime example of how some movies just need to be left the hell alone, if the original reaches the cult status it has with its legion of fans then back away and consider making a sequel NOT a remake that's just going to anger people. Speaking of which get both Sam and Ted Raimi, get Bruce Campbell and make us a real evil dead film please :)