The current reboot feels uncreative. Watching the new film just made me miss Bruce Campbell's chin and shots of Raimi running insane through the woods.

| May 10, 2016

Using the very latest Cern-tested atom interferometry, we can reveal that Evil Dead is precisely, exactly - in the coldest atomic terms -the film that you were expecting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2013

Happy days for those who love this sort of thing. But Raimi's effort, perhaps because we hadn't seen the plot before, was infinitely more scary.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 19, 2013

A full-bloodedly grisly and macabre film that zaps over a few scares.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2013

Anonymous, forgettable and doesn't hold a candle to the brilliant original.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2013

I was left clamping my hand to my open jaw, not so much in terror, more in shocked hilarity at how grand the guignol was willing to go.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2013

Despite much old-school splatter, it's seldom frightening and oddly unfunny.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2013

At its best, manages to recapture the original's hardcore nastiness. It could certainly do with laughing at itself a bit more, though.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 15, 2013

An effectively relentless gore-fest.

| Apr 15, 2013

Five years from now, will you want to watch this bloody $14 million extravaganza or Raimi's shoestring original, which was Amateur Hour elevated to pop art? Evil Dead just bleeds money.

| Apr 8, 2013

A stylish and worthy homage: inventive even as it is derivative, never quite jokey but never taking itself too seriously, and clocking in at an entirely appropriate 91 minutes. Any longer would be unmerciful; any shorter, ungenerous.

| Apr 5, 2013

Though it never channels the raw DIY energy of the original Evil Dead series -- what big-budget version could? -- this polished, clever remake remains true to the spirit of the original, which was at once viscerally terrifying and weirdly lighthearted.

| Apr 5, 2013

A gore fest that's just effective enough to whet fans' appetite for a sequel, even as it kills everyone else's appetite for dinner.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2013

There isn't much to do here except turn the gore up to 11; if you've ever wondered what it would be like to jam a chainsaw into someone's mouth (and who hasn't?), this will give you a good working idea.

| Apr 5, 2013

That hope for a creative spark has allowed audiences to overlook the notable flaws of Alvarez's film. I get it. I want to love it too. But there are times where it's so hard to do so.

| Original Score: 3.0/5.0 | Apr 5, 2013

Sure, this is a higher-budget re-tread. But a remake shouldn't exist simply to ramp up the graphic violence, even if special effects have improved immeasurably in the past 30 years.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 5, 2013

So long as you grit your teeth and keep your eyes on the screen, it's an enjoyable, if almost academic, exercise in bad taste.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 5, 2013

Raimi set the bar high, and if Alvarez can't quite rise to his level, he overcompensates by drowning everything in blood. It's overkill, but in this case that's not such a bad thing.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 5, 2013

What this "Evil Dead" gets most right is its tone, paying homage yet staking its own territory; it's scary without being downbeat, fun without being too jokey.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 4, 2013

The new "Evil Dead" has none of the first movie's handmade charm or hilarity, intentional or otherwise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2013