Because let's be honest, the sort of campy, light hearted horror fare of the 80s just can't work today. Fede Alvarez doesn't seem like he hates the originals and wants to replace them. Evil Dead is what the film needed to be in 2013.
It's a genuinely terrifying movie at times. It's a movie so absurd because of the situation the buckets of blood, the shocking violence. It's a movie that elicits laughs not through comedy but through discomfort and fear. And yet, every time I watch this with people, they're amazed by this movie. This is an almost joyless, intense, brutal film. There is no Ash, there is no absurdist humor, there are no crazy camera angles.I get it. The Good: The common criticism of 2013's Evil Dead is that it lacks the humor and heart of the original films (this is a bit of revisionist history, since Sam Raimi's original was not really a horror comedy, as people tend to remember).
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