[Sculpt]

Evil Dead 2013

Just saw this a few nights ago with a buddy of mine. We're fans of the original two films. I'll keep this brief. I'll start with my buddy's summary: he said he'll do horrible things so he can go to hell and torture Rami for eternity for letting this film be made. He didn't like it.

We peppered the movie with a lot of "I'm your brother", "Where's my needle?" and "Momma's gonna bye you a mocking bird." We had to entertain ourselves with comments, ala MST2K style, because the film dialogue and logic was lacking. Classic case was Eric, the educated guy with glasses, is studying the book, after serious, deadly, mysterious things are occurring to these kids, and he declares to the others, something like, "I think this book raises demons." To which the Olivia, the brown actress, responds, "Shut up, Eric!". That pretty much sums up the film for me. Any hint of something smart, interesting, logical, funny or good, and the film instead goes dumb, numb or boring -- 'cool teen dumb'. I thought it failed at building characters, developing the story, building suspense and mood, music, logic, humor, etc. It was so painfully less at everything that the original two were.