Great Gory Fun

Rating: 9/10 (17 April 2013)

As a huge fan of the original, I was extremely satisfied with how Evil Dead turned out. Everything about it paid great homage to the cult classic. I was nervous that it would shy away from the camp and cheese that made the original so unique, but the film wasn't afraid to pile on the over the top gore along with surprisingly scary elements that, to me, were not present in the original. The only problem is that the end comes about a little too abrupt and tries to seem a little to bigger than it really is. And although the action is some of the most fun I've had in a movie theater all year, it comes in a little to late in the film. There is too much build up behind characters I didn't necessarily care about. But as soon as they start to be teared apart, you remember what the original was all about, and what its like to have fun in a horror movie again. GRADE: A-