2013, Refe Alvarez, 92 mins.
A group of teens have problems with the occult in a remote cabin.
Now this is just rather sad. Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and
Robert Tapert return to the scene of their first triumph and comprehensively screw
it up. We’re used to appalling remakes of classic horror films of course but
Evil Dead gets everything so comprehensively wrong that it should act as some
kind of negative example. It contains endless bloodletting and lots of lengthy
set-ups but no scares, no imagination and, most disastrously of all, no sense
of humour. There’s an air of almost pious solemnity here which reminds one of
the lesser religious epics of the 1950s. Add to this the most annoyingly dim
set of characters this side of an Eighties slasher movie and an
over-enthusiastic score reminiscent of The Omen and you have a disaster. Only a
climactic dismemberment captures the EC comic book style of the original.
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