Once again five young adults come out to a cabin in the woods. They are there for Mia (Jane Levy), who has sworn to kick her drug addiction and this remote location will serve as the "perfect" place for her to ride out the withdrawals. Her brother David (Shilo Fernandez) hasn't been always there for her and is making attempt to make up for it. This is all before they find "the book". Next thing you know reading the ancient language inscribed in the pages begins and all hell breaks looks. Possession, tree rape, demons, the whole shebang.
The remake succesds in some ares but fails in others. In production of the film, practical effects were given a priority. So the gore has a sick pleasure in it. Problem is it sometimes becomes all to obvious when they touched up those effects with CGI. Yet still when the blood flies is just as disturbing as before. There are several callbacks to the original film, and for the most part (it's always hard with today's horror genre) finds ways to show love for what inspired this adaptation. However the film does have it's faults. The supporting characters don't add too much to the film, just bodies in the way. You'll still see characters behaving stupidly (it's almost a horror movie requirement now). What it comes down to is the era of horror films we live in, so many of them just feel the same. Even in Mama, which I enjoyed greatly, still can't escape all the cliche scares. There are still very good horror movies out there (Ti West is doing some fine work), it's just the average movie becomes so forgettable. In the end Evil Dead is a decent remake, has some scares, a lot of blood, but just isn't anything special in the now classic franchise.
**1/2 out of ****
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