This movie is disgusting. I know from the trailers it was going to be more horror than comedy compared to the original Evil Dead movie, but this movie upped the gore factor to eleven and broke the knob.
I'm not going to complain too much about the visuals of the movie. It is actually the kind of stuff I like. Practical effects done with surprisingly high levels of competence. Very little CGI effects were used in this movie. The problem was that it was just too much. At one point it literally rained blood. And that was one of the more tame visuals.
I'd say the part that really bothered me was that this movie said it was a re-make of the original Evil Dead and it just wasn't. The characters are different, the tone is different, and the ending is different. While I don't want to complain that it's different, I think it would've benefitted from a different title. Instead of being a "re-make" have it be a sequel. Nobody calls Army of Darkness "Evil Dead 3", but it's still part of the franchise.
There are other times in the movie where it tried to have "a moment". It tries to get us to care about the characters but by the time they get to them it's just too late. It's a little hard to go from zombies vomiting concentrated evil to a 'good-bye my love' scene.
If you are going to see this movie, bring a barf bag. I'm not kidding. Blood flows like water all over the place. It's just non-stop. It really takes away from the pace of the movie because we as the audience are constantly trying to digest the latest blood soaked scene. The movie will never let you breathe and honestly it takes away from the fun of horror movies. It doesn't take the time to set up the scenes. Just as soon as one bloody scene is finished, it will flip to the next page of the Necronomicon and now we are doing that bloody scene. By the time it got to the climax, I was spent. I wasn't interested anymore. Just a little note to the director of Evil Dead: The audience can become desensitized. Pace yourself.
Bottom line: if you are an Evil Dead fan, this isn't for you.
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